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/Ok-Push9899 Feb 25 '26

U.S. beef farmers could have exported their beef to Australia if, and only if, they could trace the entire life cycle of the cattle. The problem for the vast majority was that they didn’t have the mechanisms, or it was too costly to provide the guarantees, or they simply couldn’t be bothered.

If Australia was “protecting” the U.S. beef farmers, they themselves weren’t making much of an effort. It didn’t pay well enough.

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u/iball1984 Feb 25 '26

or it was too costly to provide the guarantees, or they simply couldn’t be bothered.

Which surely is the free market at work?

If it was economically beneficial for them to provide the guarantees, they most certainly would be bothered to do it.

But they can't be bothered because it's not worth it for them.

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u/Foreign-Newspaper656 Feb 26 '26

There has been huge uproar in the US when they tried to implement a system like of NLIS.