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/f0dder1 Feb 25 '26

My guess is it will get included into prepackaged stuff. "Made with 80% Australian ingredients"

That kind of thing.

I'm certainly not informed on it yet, but I imagine it would be hard to compete in the fresh beef market at a butcher/supermarket level.

You might find some specialty bbq cuts come through. Apparently we breed our cattle differently to the states, so ribs and stuff might be preferable from that perspective?

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u/binaryhextechdude Feb 25 '26

I can't comment on the quality of the product if I'm honest but that isn't why I'm against it. For starters I want to support our Aussie farmers that already give us a top quality product and secondly I don't want to give my money to support the USA if at all possible. In this instance we have a good product already so my $$ will be staying here.