Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New profile posts
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Forums
Cattle Boards
Cattle Sales
Why Prices Are Down
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support CattleToday:
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Tim/South" data-source="post: 1375935" data-attributes="member: 17986"><p>None of us cow/calf producers would have liked COOL the way it was written. We have used and depended on cattle from Mexico and Canada for 100 years. U.S. stocker operations have grazed Mexican calves since the west was won. At some point those calves should have more rights than an illegal immigrant. All of our calves would have had to been permanently marked to identify them as U.S. born. The explanation to me was we needed to micro chip our calves so they could be traced each step of the way to slaughter. Feeder yearlings from Canada and stocker calves from Mexico could not co-mingle with U.S. born calves.</p><p>The label should should have been North American beef.</p><p>COOL was designed to intentionally fail and allow cheaper fresh beef imports.</p><p>Congress defunded the enforcement branch of the USDA on November18, 2011.</p><p>U.S. meat packers began closing slaughter facilities. It is cheaper to import beef than pay union wages to process them.</p><p>It is illegal to import fresh beef from Brazil. They have Foot and Mouth Disease, which is an airborne disease.</p><p>Brazil (JBS) is now allowed to import 250 tons of fresh beef into the U.S. each month. Next year the number increases to 2,500 tons a month.</p><p>Since COOL was repealed and the USDA unable to enforce current laws, the American people will never know where their beef was raised and processed. Until recently all Brazil could export to us was canned beef.</p><p></p><p>The other side of the coin is that the meat packing industry controls the raising of pork and chicken. They profit from the farm to the store. Much more profit for them in pork and chicken. Our kids were raised on chicken fingers and we did not see this coming.</p><p>Not so with beef. The only way to price control is to import cheaper beef, reduce U.S. slaughter numbers and make fat cattle back up on the feed lots.</p><p>We are currently processing around 600,000 a week. That is probably close to our capicity. We would need to reopen slaughter facilities to get back to the 650,000 weeks of old.</p><p>Packers are sending the trimmings from U.S. beef to their over seas facilities and mixing in the grind to add flavor. Some claim this makes at least part of the beef U.S.</p><p></p><p>We were set up from day one with the way COOL was worded.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tim/South, post: 1375935, member: 17986"] None of us cow/calf producers would have liked COOL the way it was written. We have used and depended on cattle from Mexico and Canada for 100 years. U.S. stocker operations have grazed Mexican calves since the west was won. At some point those calves should have more rights than an illegal immigrant. All of our calves would have had to been permanently marked to identify them as U.S. born. The explanation to me was we needed to micro chip our calves so they could be traced each step of the way to slaughter. Feeder yearlings from Canada and stocker calves from Mexico could not co-mingle with U.S. born calves. The label should should have been North American beef. COOL was designed to intentionally fail and allow cheaper fresh beef imports. Congress defunded the enforcement branch of the USDA on November18, 2011. U.S. meat packers began closing slaughter facilities. It is cheaper to import beef than pay union wages to process them. It is illegal to import fresh beef from Brazil. They have Foot and Mouth Disease, which is an airborne disease. Brazil (JBS) is now allowed to import 250 tons of fresh beef into the U.S. each month. Next year the number increases to 2,500 tons a month. Since COOL was repealed and the USDA unable to enforce current laws, the American people will never know where their beef was raised and processed. Until recently all Brazil could export to us was canned beef. The other side of the coin is that the meat packing industry controls the raising of pork and chicken. They profit from the farm to the store. Much more profit for them in pork and chicken. Our kids were raised on chicken fingers and we did not see this coming. Not so with beef. The only way to price control is to import cheaper beef, reduce U.S. slaughter numbers and make fat cattle back up on the feed lots. We are currently processing around 600,000 a week. That is probably close to our capicity. We would need to reopen slaughter facilities to get back to the 650,000 weeks of old. Packers are sending the trimmings from U.S. beef to their over seas facilities and mixing in the grind to add flavor. Some claim this makes at least part of the beef U.S. We were set up from day one with the way COOL was worded. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Cattle Boards
Cattle Sales
Why Prices Are Down
Top