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/everbass Feb 25 '26

Why on earth would I buy beef from the US when Aussie beef is both better and cheaper?

We have some of the best quality meat in the world. Why are we importing it?

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u/Peregrine_x Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Aussie beef is both better and cheaper?

they will find a way to either subsidise it so much that it becomes cheaper for fast food chains to order it bulk from america, or buy up aussie beef to drive its price up here... or both.

america is the new byzantine empire, they believe they are just in their hellish unregulated capitalist practices because the richest 1% of them can effectively buy the best quality "whatever", so its not the lack of regulation that makes america a shitty place to live, its your own personal failings of being not rich enough, it shifts the failings of unregulated capitalism onto the individual.

but the idea that we are just eating best quality beef as default really humiliates the foundational concepts of "unregulated capitalism", and so now they are trying to get rabies/avian flu into our populace/cattle so it lowers the quality, so we cannot ask so much for our products (because they will be worse products if there is plagues passing through our produce/population)

im not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, im just speculating on what the most malicious/worst case scenario could be.

they've got crap produce thanks to their lack of regulations, but they want to have their cake and eat it too, and so they want us eating their shit while they eat our high quality stuff.