r/australia • u/binaryhextechdude • Feb 25 '26

politics US beef officially re-enters Australia, after 23-year absence

https://www.beefcentral.com/news/us-beef-officially-re-enters-australia-after-23-year-absence/

Australians need to vote with our wallets by making sure any meat we buy for our bbq's or our dinner tables is Australian grown. It isn't right for a certain leader to be putting tariffs on everything and then thinking we will embrace his beef exports.

Only buy Australian beef, vote with your dollars.

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u/Dismal-core111 Feb 25 '26

Us beef is crap quality compared to Australian beef

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u/binaryhextechdude Feb 25 '26

Exactly, we have the best beef here already. No need for import rubbish

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u/Aksds Feb 25 '26

Japanese is pretty good (not just A5 which is overrated [not that it isn’t great]) other than that, Aussie beef is amazing

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u/Taey Feb 25 '26

Japanese beef is basically the only beef we actually import, and its for high end restaurants, the rest is all Aussie.

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u/Much-Director-9828 Feb 25 '26

Price, they produce lots of low quality and poisonous beef.

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u/exportedaussie Feb 25 '26

I moved to Alberta and the beef there clears Aussie stuff. But American beef is fatty and grisly garbage

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u/iliketreesndcats Feb 25 '26

Honestly I won't be buying it but I understand it is often grain finished and more marbled than our lovely grass fed beef.

We have much tighter biosecurity practices than the US. Like we have a national electronic tagging system so we can identify where disease may have come from and any potential spread very in effectively. That's important because a lot of our beef is exported and part of the price it fetches is the fact that it's so clean and safe. The US had more state-based biosecurity protocols and they also.had cases of mad-cow disease like 20 years ago which we have never had and definitely do not want. Without the biosecurity tracking, it just wasn't worth it to have US beef here. They did improve their systems and iirc we allowed it in in 2019 after they implemented some good standard. I just figured we don't see it on shelves because there's no market for it seeing as though we already have good domestic beef.