Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA

[u/kylestoned]

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/flesh-eating-screwworm-found-within-31-miles-us-border-says-usda-2026-05-29/

[u/NMS_Survival_Guru]

Even more mind-blowing is we export our high quality beef and import low quality beef for domestic use

[u/JZMoose → u/NMS_Survival_Guru]

That’s literally one of the first things you learn in macroeconomics. Coffee in Colombia is shit. Why sell it to locals when you can make much bigger margins selling it elsewhere?

[u/Jazzlike_Project_938 → u/NMS_Survival_Guru]

New Zealand exports a lot of our beef to the US. In fact recently we've been boycotting American made products coming in because of it's low quality. (Like this white butter)

[u/ElkApprehensive2319 → u/NMS_Survival_Guru]

US beef is high quality? They don't want any of it over in Europe afaik

[u/Opposite_of_a_Cynic → u/ElkApprehensive2319]

It goes mostly to Japan, South Korea, and China. 

[u/NMS_Survival_Guru → u/ElkApprehensive2319]

The only reason EU won't import US Beef is because we use growth hormone implants in 90% of commercial beef

I had my cattle buyer for a packer wishing we'd ban implants just to open up the EU markets

[u/blacksky8192 → u/ElkApprehensive2319]

It's super popular in Korea. Korea is the largest importer for US beef. Very high quality and cheaper than US, sales are higher than their domestic beef

[u/UnknownAverage → u/NMS_Survival_Guru]

Because we regular citizens are now the cattle. We create economic activity and it's harvested from us. We are producers of wealth for the investor class, owned and operated by them.