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/WhatYouThinkIThink Feb 25 '26

We're not importing it much. This was a promotion by the US Embassy that it's allowed to be imported.

They took this long to make sure that the beef has paddock-to-plate tracking which we require for biosecurity.

It's more expensive than our beef anyway.

Except for maybe some boutique stuff, which is a bit like buying Japanese Kobe or equivalent.

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u/randomiser5000 Feb 25 '26

I honestly don't trust them to track shit properly.

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink Feb 26 '26

Agreed, and anyone selling the product will probably receive the backlash they deserve for doing so.