{"id":661771,"date":"2026-09-02T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=661771"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:25:18","slug":"want-american-beef-trumps-tariff-move-makes-reading-the-label-more-important-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=661771","title":{"rendered":"Want American beef? Trump\u2019s tariff move makes reading the label more important"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An effort at tackling supermarket affordability has left transparency-hungry consumers seeking out the truth on where their beef was sourced.<\/p>\n

Americans concerned with national sovereignty have steadfastly rallied behind President Donald Trump and his administration and efforts to deport illegal aliens. The same could not be said for the chief executive\u2019s beef deal set to import millions of pounds of ground meat, prompting explainers on how to determine whether or not the cattle was American.<\/p>\n

Last month, Trump announced that over 90 days, some 300,000 metric tons of ground beef would be imported without tariff under the agreement it be sold 25% below market price. To help consumers concerned about untraceable meat raised in unknown conditions, the New York Post published<\/a> some pointers on what to look for at the grocery store.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans should check the \u2018Product of USA\u2019 or \u2018Made in the USA\u2019 labels, as this means the item is exclusively from animals born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the US. Shoppers may also see \u2018Born, Raised, and Harvested in the USA\u2019 or \u2018American Grassfed Association (AGA) Certified,’\u201d detailed the Post\u2019s senior consumer reporter, Aurielle Weiss. \u201cThese labels signal if the beef is imported or blended and should have the country of origin listed in small print next to or near the nutrition label or ingredient list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her report noted that the U.S. Department of Agriculture allows ground meat sourced from multiple countries to be \u201ccommingled,\u201d and further detailed that \u201cpacked\u201d or \u201cprocessed\u201d allows for origin outside the country, as do inspection and grading stickers.<\/p>\n

\u201cLabels or stickers with a \u2018USDA Prime\/Choice\/Select\u2019 also don\u2019t have anything to do with the meat\u2019s country of origin,\u201d explained Weiss.<\/p>\n

Consumers aren\u2019t alone in voicing concern with the president\u2019s plan as U.S. Cattlemen\u2019s Association President Justin Tupper expressed doubt<\/a> about the potential for it to bring down prices at the same time he contended, \u201cit\u2019s not gonna help the ranchers to increase their herds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, initial questioning on the plan found even Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins unable to answer the question as to where the beef would be imported from: \u201cI am not privy to talk about that. I think the conversations are still going on, and that\u2019s [U.S. Trade Representative] Ambassador [Jamieson] Greer who\u2019s finalizing what exactly that looks like, and I think the president\u2019s involved in that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

As frustrated as the beef import deal made many, there was comparable support late last week when Trump put the meat processing cartel on notice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lauding ranchers and farmers, the president called out the monopoly in processing as he wrote on Truth Social, \u201cRanchers and Farmers have always been a number one priority for me. They work very hard, are smart, efficient, and immaculately CLEAN, but for years I have heard that they have had a tremendous problem with the Big Processors, who many say are a nasty Monopoly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are, essentially, 4 of them, a very non competitive number, and they make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers, and I can\u2019t let that happen, can I?\u201d continued Trump, who announced plans to \u201cbreak this powerful monopoly\u201d and make it permissible for the ranchers and farmers to process the meat themselves.<\/p>\n

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An effort at tackling supermarket affordability has left transparency-hungry consumers seeking out the truth on where their beef was sourced. Americans concerned with national sovereignty have steadfastly rallied behind President Donald Trump and his administration and efforts to deport illegal aliens. The same could not be said for the chief executive\u2019s beef deal set to… Continue reading Want American beef? Trump\u2019s tariff move makes reading the label more important<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=661771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/661757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}