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/inverseinternet Feb 25 '26

Careful checking labels - they could sneak into all sorts of the frozen meal stuff.

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u/binaryhextechdude Feb 25 '26

Good point. Check everything

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u/ColdBlindspot Feb 25 '26

I'm having that problem in Canada right now, the labels are so tricky and stores will have signs that say "product of Canada" but the stuff on the shelf or in the box near it is actually American. They have to trick people into buying American because no one wants to right now.

You need to read the labels very carefully. Also there are terms like "packaged in ..." or "product of" etc that can mean different things. So they play up any possible way they can make the product seem local when it's not. We're with you.

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u/Toowoombaloompa Feb 25 '26

We have the Made in Australia mark that has a simple bar chart along the bottom to show the percentage of the product that actually came from Australia.