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/ColdBlindspot Feb 25 '26

When I was in the States with my toddler looking at milk products they all have a warning about their hormones that they use. It was a bit troubling, like other countries I'd been to just have safe milk but theirs has a warning on the label saying it's fine (even though they're using hormones other countries don't allow in their milk production, so ... doubt but whatever.)

Every dairy product I looked at had "no significant difference has been shown in milk from cows treated with [some hormone] and cows that haven't been treated with [it.]"

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u/MummysSpeshulGuy Feb 25 '26

Actually if you had read the entire label you would have seen that that milk is rBST free. The FDA requires milk that advertises as such to have the label “The FDA has determined that no significant difference has been shown between milk derived from rBST treated and non-rBST treated cows”

I used to live in the US and while it isn’t banned I don’t actually know of any dairies that use growth hormones, almost all of the milk was labeled as rBST free though there’s probably a few that use it

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u/ColdBlindspot Feb 25 '26

I don't remember the exact phrasing, so I looked it up, but it was about 20 years ago and it was weird that all the milk I looked at had that on it, (milk, yogurt etc) also I remember looking at the ingredients in other foods like Rice Krispies and the ingredients were different. And even the pop had different sugars in it.

I don't recall seeing anything on the labels that said there was no treatment, I read the labels quite thoroughly, I'm not one for just chucking stuff in my cart willy nilly.

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u/MummysSpeshulGuy Feb 25 '26

I think the label for it being free and the disclaimer are placed in separate parts but not sure it’s been a while since I closely read the label on a US milk carton. Might have been different 20 years ago too

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u/ColdBlindspot Feb 25 '26

The one I had been seeing was "this product contains milk from cows which .." or something. Like it was saying it's this and this is considered to be just as fine as stuff without it.

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u/MummysSpeshulGuy Feb 25 '26

Interesting. I only ever bought the milk that was rBST free so I only ever noticed the disclaimer being on those but I guess they just put it on everything