J Boons

For the next 90 days… check your labels. Buy beef marked "Product of USA." 300,000 tons of tariff-free beef is incoming, and nobody will say where it's actually from (best guess is Argentina, not confirmed). Since there's no name on the label, that means no one has to answer for how it was raised or how fast. Why does this matter? The timeline. Ask any real producer what "cheap and fast" means: •Hormones for speed growth •Antibiotics for rushed, crowded conditions •Corn-fed instead of pasture Processed at scale, one pound of "ground beef" can come from a dozen+ cows blended together. None of it traceable. Not hypothetical. A batch already hit US retail in TX and FL last month before completing safety reinspection, meaning it reached shelves without finishing the safety check. Not to mention: China rejected an Argentine shipment for a banned antibiotic, chloramphenicol, as recently as March 2026. Under new 2026 USDA rules, "Product of USA" legally means born, raised, slaughtered, AND processed on American soil. This is the only label that guarantees those standards. Buying American is also how you support American ranchers getting undercut by these imports. Zooming out… this is the real state of beef in America right now: •Untraceable imported meat from unknown conditions •Lab-grown meat, already FDA-cleared, landing on shelves •Domestic ranchers doing it right and getting squeezed from every direction This is what a food system optimizing for cheap and fast over real and transparent looks like. For the next 90 days, and beyond, find a local rancher and buy directly. Vote with your dollars. That's how you actually know what's in your beef, and how you ensure the ranchers and butchers doing this right stay in business.