US exports to foreign countries. US imports from Brazil. Inspected in US. Packaged in US label gets slapped on it. Same with other commodities. Corn and soybean in particular.
This is all nothing new. I was yelling about this years ago. It does need to change. I haven't bought beef in the store for many many years. Grew my own. Now buy from local, small herd cattle growers.
Not true, actually. These lovely folks seem to have gotten some regs changed such that if meat is in some ways handled (cut, packaged, whatever) in the USA then it can be labeled "Product of the USA" or something to that effect (am going on memory here), so then they are producing pork in China, shipping it to the USA and packaging it and the packaging does not say "Made in China" and on the contrary says "Product of the USA".
This does not add up to your meat is being imported.
It's domestic meat. Being processed at US based plants.
The plants are owned by foreign companies but what they are describing is the domestic supply chain
US exports to foreign countries. US imports from Brazil. Inspected in US. Packaged in US label gets slapped on it. Same with other commodities. Corn and soybean in particular.
This is all nothing new. I was yelling about this years ago. It does need to change. I haven't bought beef in the store for many many years. Grew my own. Now buy from local, small herd cattle growers.
Not true, actually. These lovely folks seem to have gotten some regs changed such that if meat is in some ways handled (cut, packaged, whatever) in the USA then it can be labeled "Product of the USA" or something to that effect (am going on memory here), so then they are producing pork in China, shipping it to the USA and packaging it and the packaging does not say "Made in China" and on the contrary says "Product of the USA".