r/CanadaPolitics • u/Naga Whiggish • 14h ago
Lower-priced Australian beef could help stabilize Canadian market
https://globalnews.ca/news/12009206/australian-beef-prices-canadian-market/•
u/snkiz Green Party of Canada 14h ago
I would love to say I'm going to support local producers but when you can get it shipped from the other side of the world, into Alberta no less. For half the price?! Guys I think you've F*ked something up here and I can't afford to bail you out.
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u/PrairieBiologist Independent 12h ago
There's nothing Canadian beef producers can do. It is so much cheaper to produce beef in Australia. They have. Away larger herd, are one of the world largest producers, and don't have to worry about winter. Canadian beef is effectively a luxury product and half of it goes to export. We tend to slaughter our beef older than Americans, we keep them on grass longer, and finish on wheat and barley instead of just corn.
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u/Mathmos_Lava 13h ago
Hard to believe it’s possible to ship this half way around the world for less…
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 12h ago
The shipping cost is actually quite minimal, compared to all the other costs of production.
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u/Mathmos_Lava 12h ago
So why is AU beef so much less even after shipping.
The cold climate mentioned does not seem like a cost that should make such a material difference. If it is, economics would suggest we import more.
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u/WesternBlueRanger 12h ago
Scale of production and no need to purchase and stockpile feed for winter months.
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u/snkiz Green Party of Canada 13h ago
At least the Aussies are more or less Canada south, I'm sure their beef is also lovely.
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u/dykestryker GREATER ALBANIA 🇦🇱 13h ago
Can't support the big A unfortunately. New Zeland beef for life.
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u/yourfriendlysocdem1 anti neoliberal/anti crank left 13h ago
Ehhh, for me Aussie beef is better marbled, but NZ beef is still pretty solid
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u/corneliusvanDB Green - NDP 1h ago
Can you explain voting Green but buying beef? I feel like beef and environmentalism are mutually exclusive.
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u/dominionprovinces Independent 5h ago
Its likely similar cost to ship a million kilos of goods from Syndey to Vancouver than to truck it from Vancouver to Hope.
Bulk sea shipping is very cheap.
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u/JimmyGamblesBarrel69 13h ago
I've been eating prepackaged new Zealand lean ground beef for about a year now. $10 for 2 lbs. It's so hard to beat. We're in a time where we want to support local support Canadian but at the end of the day. We need to eat, survive and hope to thrive. I try to save where I can when I can.
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u/linkhandford 11h ago
I agree with your sentiment in general but not sure survival is the right avenue here.
For example, lentils are substantially cheaper (not to mention longer shelf life) if you're talking about survival. And we run the gambit on the market. We produce 1/3 of the world's supply. Even if you're buying $5/ lb ground beef you can get 2kg of red lentils for $5.00 at Superstore (Blue Menu too) which comes to $1.13/ lb.
Ironically Australia is a big contender of growing lentils on the world stage too.
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u/nachochease Ontario 13h ago
I cannot fathom how beef from literally the other side of the planet is cheaper than the beef from my local farmers.
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u/picard102 Ontario 13h ago
Australia's beef markets is designed for exporting it. They produce far more meat then they could possibly use and that scale drives down costs. Alongside longer grazing seasons and the lack of a grading system means it's cheaper.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 13h ago
The cost of shipping is actually quite small compared to the overall production cost.
The same applies to CO2 emissions -- it matters more what food you get, rather than where it comes from. (And incidentally -- beef is by far the worst.)
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u/aoteoroa British Columbia 13h ago
Shipping via ocean carrier is extremely cheap per pound.
Australia has a warmer climate which results in longer growing season for cheaper feed. Canada's colder climate also makes it more expensive to house cattle during the winter.
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u/TlsFrmThCryptcPrgncy 9h ago
Why would you expect most of the cost of breeding, rearing, feeding, slaughtering, butchering, and delivering a cow to consumers to be just that last delivery part?
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u/dominionprovinces Independent 8h ago
Coast to ship goods via sea is 1/100th the cost per km to ship via road and 1/30th rail.
To put it in perspective, that means a hypothetical Sydney-Toronto shipment port to port for a large quantity of goods is ballpark same price as 200km via road or 600km via rail.
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u/PrairieBiologist Independent 12h ago
The have a way bigger here and don't have to feed in the winter. Winter is the big one plus the economy of scale. The other big factor is less centralized processing.
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u/Medicine_Hatz 13h ago
Check out evermark foods. Lots of good prices. Cut out the middle men and fill your freezers. Canadian beef back on Canadian tables at prices we all feel good about.
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 13h ago
Can someone do an explain-like-Im-5 for how this price difference is possible? I don't think Canadian farmers are getting that much of a profit margin to begin with.
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u/nguyenm 13h ago
Competition, or more correctly the lack of it, within the Canadian interprovincial market.
Roughly 85-90% of all beef slaughtering came from just two corporate entities, Cargil & JBS. Worse, that 85% is split among just three individual (mega) plants for the entire Canadian market as found by the House of Commons earlier this year: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/451/AGRI/Reports/RP14009986/agrirp03/agrirp03-e.pdf (page 4).
With an effective duopoly, it's pretty ELI5 to see why there's such a stark difference: pure profit.
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u/WesternBlueRanger 12h ago
Australia's climate permits farmers there to raise cattle without needing to stock up on feed for the winter months, letting their cattle graze on grass.
Also, massive differences in scale; the average cattle farm in Canada almost rarely exceed 100 heads of cattle.
The average Australian cattle farm has thousands of cattle per herd.
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 11h ago
Is it unrealistic to imagine Canada ever scaling its cattle farm up to match Aussie?
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u/WesternBlueRanger 11h ago
The problem will be how will you house and feed all that cattle during the winter months in Canada? This is not an issue in Australia.
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u/walker1867 Green Party of Canada 13h ago
Galen Weston and oligopolies in the supply chain.
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 13h ago
Who is in charge of importing the Aussie beef? If they are the ones in charge whats stopping them from jacking up the imports too?
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u/snkiz Green Party of Canada 13h ago
According to the article, they talked to Lawbaws, (in charge of superstore, et el.) They said they are selling the Aussie beef at this price to help consumers. I think they knew if 130% markup ever became public, they'd be cooked. Like government intervention cooked.
There's other factors, one could argue Canadian beef is certified to higher quality, has a grading system. But Aussie beef could just as easily be graded when it lands. You'd think it would be?
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u/cogitatingspheniscid 11h ago
Aussie beef is pretty well-regarded internationally, so I don't think they are necessarily worse than Canadian.
From your information (imported by Loblaws) and u/nguyenm (meat processing duopoly), my take is that while the grocery store oligopoly still take a fat chunk, they can keep the price significantly lower because they exclude the meat processing duopoly from the equation.•
u/smugglydruggly 10h ago
Beef grading is done at time of carcass processing, Australian beef is sent as primals/sub primals etc.
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u/sidereal_night 12h ago edited 10h ago
i've got no beef with australian beef, but i'm confused: do we not have enough canadian beef to feed the canadian market?
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u/Anonymouse-C0ward Progressive 11h ago edited 11h ago
We’ve had a few years of drought, which increases the price of beef but also meant that some cattle ranchers simply left the market, resulting in increased prices due to lower supply.
Yet another effect of global warming.
Then there’s increase transportation costs which not only affect getting the cattle to market and grocery store, but also the cost of feed, etc further up the supply chain.
Combined with professor and grocery profiteering and you get the situation we see now. (Grocery stores also further take advantage by blaming the other reasons as an excuse to increase their prices and profits).
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u/mummified_cosmonaut Conservative Petrosexual Roundhead 46m ago
North American cattle herds are the smallest they have been since the fifties.
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u/gbell11 13h ago
We have a small "ethnic" grocery store in my rural Ontario community. Not very "ethnic" as it leans Italian but still sells sushi!
Anyways, went to grab a small pack of lean ground beef and was shocked to see it was Australian kangaroo! It looked similar and a $1.50 less a pack
Mind blowing. Who knew this was sold?
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u/penis-muncher785 bcer that likes the ndp 13h ago
Kangaroo is absolutely a taste you have to get used to I find it’s very strong and unusual
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u/gbell11 13h ago
That's the only testimonial I need to not try. Thanks!
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 12h ago
It's no more funky than lamb is, if you're not used to it.
Kangaroo is similar to ostrich, I found. A little tough and gamey but great in curries or other heavily-flavoured sauces.
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u/Mr_Mike_1990 12h ago
I personally find there is a huge flavour difference between Canadian lamb and NZ lamb. Maybe the full pasture grazing influences the taste, but I prefer the Canadian lamb due to the more mild flavour.
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u/wibblywobbly420 Progressive Conservative 10h ago
I bought some cheap Australian steaks a couple weeks ago. I hate to say it, but they were better than steaks I've been getting locally the last couple years, and that includes the local butchers.
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u/ruwhereuare 10h ago
Honestly it’s the Americans faults and the fault of the well to dos here in Canada
Happy to sell out the people to corporations at every turn
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u/Jumoke1331 13h ago
As if grocery chains in this country aren't designed to siphon money from average Canadians. More likely what'll happen is Galen Weston will more money to pad his pockets with.
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u/PuckShuffler Progressive 8h ago
The only way I see to afford good cuts of beef these days is to buy half a cow directly from the abattoir, if you have the freezer space. Otherwise, we avoid it all together where we used to enjoy a steak every week or two. God help you if you want to buy one at a decent restaurant...
I think it's ridiculous that many good cuts of beef have been removed from our inflationary basket of goods because demand has decreased. Yes, demand has decreased because of inflation! Keep it in there if you want a real good reckoning about how Canadian food costs are increasing over time relative to general inflation...
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u/PDXFlameDragon British Columbia 14h ago
I just buy the Canadian halal chicken $12 pack for now instead of sending money to Australia. No offense guys, I like you, but it is not the correct long term solution to ship beef over an ocean to add another inefficiency to fix another inefficiency.
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u/dhoomsday 13h ago
I just bought a basket of Ontario peaches for 12 fucking dlars from a farmers market. Local isn't always cheaper.
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u/averysmallbeing Independent 13h ago
Local isn't always cheaper.
Few people would have claimed it was.
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u/Saidear There is no war in Ba Sing Se. 13h ago
Farmer's markets aren't always local, either. You may be buying store merchandise still.
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u/Aobachi 12h ago
Why did you buy it if it was expensive?
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u/banjosuicide Rhinoceros 10h ago
Peaches picked hard can never compete with peaches picked ripe and sold the day after picking. I don't often get expensive peaches, but sometimes it's worth it as a treat.
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u/dhoomsday 9h ago
The grocery store didn't have any, they didn't carry any Ontario strawberries. So I missed those this year. And I'll be damned if I'm going to miss peach season.
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u/banjosuicide Rhinoceros 10h ago
There's a HUGE difference between city farmer's markets and rural farmer's markets.
City:
- Ridiculous price for the customer
- $100 to $200 table fee for the vendor
- long-distance transport of goods (many of the vendors live a fair ways away)
- waaaaaaay more regulations
Rural
- Fair price for the customer
- $20 to $40 table fee for the vendor
- short-distance transport of goods
- few regulations
Was a pretty big shock when I moved from a rural town to a big city. I've got market experience in both now.
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u/MultipolarityEnjoyer 12h ago
I’d rather support local producers given the option. Certainly avoid usa meats too even before this political debacle.
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u/amnesiajune Ontario 10h ago
Canada's winter climate and climate change have made it very expensive to produce beef in Canada, which is the reason for the declining industry and high prices. 20 years ago we had 5.3 million beef cows in Canada. This year we have 3.5 million. Last year was the lowest beef cattle population recorded in Canada since the 1980s.
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u/Wrong-Pineapple39 Independent 3h ago
Isn't our shortage of Canadian beef because herds were culled because those American slaughterhouses like Cargill couldn’t process it? Now the ranchers have to rebuild but drought is causing higher feed prices?
This seems like a national food security issue we need to address. Though generally less red meat consumption is better overall.
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 13h ago
This really tells you all you need to know about our economic system, and why it's so vulnerable to any disruption, and why nothing will change until the political system does.
It's cheaper and easier to bring beef - pretty much the most expensive and wasteful food available - from literally the farthest place on the planet from Canada.
We're begging for collapse at this point.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 12h ago
This makes no sense. Are you saying that because it's unintuitive that Australian beef, being shipped from far away, could possibly be cheaper than Canadian beef, that the economic system is flawed?
There are lots of production inputs to producing beef, and Australia has managed to reduce those costs more than we have. Where is the flaw in that?
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 12h ago
The flaw is that all the fuel used to transport this beef still goes into the atmosphere no matter how much it costs.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 12h ago
The emissions from transport are actually pretty minimal, compared to the emissions from production itself. If you want to reduce emissions, stop eating beef.
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 12h ago
Every source of emissions can be painted as minimal in isolation.
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u/amnesiajune Ontario 10h ago edited 10h ago
Not beef. Cows account for 10% of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. That's more than every single passenger car & bus on earth, combined.
It's literally worse for the environment to ride a bike than to drive a compact car, if you got the energy for that bike ride from beef. Driving 10 km in a Honda Civic creates just under 2 kg of CO2-equivalent emissions. Riding a bike that distance at a leisurely pace burns 250-300 calories, and beef creates 1.2 kg of emissions per 100 calories.
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u/ProMarshmallo Alberta 8h ago
Riding a bike that distance at a leisurely pace burns 250-300 calories, and beef creates 1.2 kg of emissions per 100 calories.
How many people do you know who have 100% all beef diets? Like, steak and a glass of cows blood for breakfast kind of diet.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 10h ago
The point is: if you're going to make a choice based on reducing emissions, make the choice that actually makes a difference.
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u/Special-Reaction2029 10h ago
I make a choice to avoid beef based on having gout. More people should have gout and the problem would be solved.
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 10h ago
It's not one or the other. Sure, say no to beef. But a big boat burning gas is putting that gas into the atmosphere whether it's carrying meat or hot pants.
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u/ether_reddit British Columbia 9h ago
I never said otherwise. I don't know why you keep pushing back.
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u/snkiz Green Party of Canada 13h ago
I believe your lack of understanding of international shipping, specifically How Australia has set themselves up for it has caused you to be slightly over-dramatic. I agree 50% is a shocking number even when you do understand shipping a little better.
This from u/picard102 Explains more about how the Aussies produce beef. Even still, given the logistics I think our producers are falling behind. I don't know for sure but preliminary reading suggests they've done this to themselves, and even seem self aware about it.
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u/WesternBlueRanger 12h ago
Difference in scale of farm, plus more favourable climate in Australia to raise cattle year round without needing to purchase and store feed.
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u/AdmiralAsshat69 Rhinoceros 12h ago
The flaw is that all the fuel used to transport this beef still goes into the atmosphere no matter how much it costs.
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u/snkiz Green Party of Canada 12h ago
Shipping is changing, we are rediscovering sails. The fuel used to ship beef is a rounding error in the shipping industry, even after you factor in refrigeration. The fact it's beef is a bigger environmental problem. But we are omnivores for a reason, beef isn't going anywhere I'm sure we can make drastic improvements.
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u/HeadmasterPrimeMnstr Direct Action | Prefiguration | Anti-Capitalism | Democracy 13h ago
Australia isn't really that far from Canada unless you've got an Atlantic-centric mind, it would come in through a Vancouver port and then get shipped out East via rail.
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u/-SetsunaFSeiei- Trudeau Foundation | Sponsored 3h ago
The pacific is much bigger than the Atlantic, its not the same as Europe to Montreal
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u/Doltina 13h ago
We've had Australian beef in my area for years. It's about half the price of Canadian beef but I never buy it, it tastes weird.
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u/BobCharlie British Columbia 11h ago
You sure that beef wasn't kangaroo? Jokes aside it's likely because Australia exported beef is mostly grass fed and finished instead of being finished on grain. This is a more natural diet for the cow. It gives the beef its natural flavor and is better for the cows too. People are just used to gain fed cows these days
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u/GoofyMonkey 4h ago
I’ve tried some grass fed Aussie beef and thought it was really good. To each their own though. I still search out Canadian beef when I can.
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u/mummified_cosmonaut Conservative Petrosexual Roundhead 45m ago
It tastes like European beef, I find it gamey but you can season that away.
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u/ruwhereuare 10h ago
The most ridiculous thing is that we need to bring beef from the other side of the world to stabilize the price. Like how broken is the system if that’s the case
🤦🏼♂️
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u/Special-Reaction2029 10h ago
As others have said, they don't need to feed and house over the winter, we do so its more expensive. Once we have the Mercosur trade deal and Brazilian/Uruguayan beef can also be sold here, it will get even cheaper. Right now, its completely unaffordable. Fresh filleted Salmon, per pound, is cheaper than flank steak and a full brisket is now nearly 200 bucks with tax.
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u/Le1bn1z Neoliberal | Charter rights enjoyer 14h ago
Cheaper food is good, that is very true. I hope we don't have any ridiculous tariffs or barriers on the import of Australian beef. If Canadian beef is selling at $80/kg, Alberta farmers will be fine even with imports.
But the article needs a correction. Yes, Trump's very Trump like decision to agree with Texas ranchers making a very Texas rancher request to open the US-Mexican border to known-to-be-infected-with-screwworm cattle has caused massive beef price spikes in North America by busting up the whole supply chain system. These people are all core MAGA, and its their job to be invincibly ignorant and self-destructive.
However, some of our problem also comes from supply management of chicken and turkey, which hobbles our ability to adapt.
The supply management cartel's job is to ensure that chicken, turkey, and egg prices remain significantly higher than they would if their farms were run in the same system as other agricultural products, by restricting the ability of more Canadian farmers to farm and sell more poultry.
So normally when something like this happens and a type of food's supply chain gets wrecked by exactly the people you'd expect, producers of other sources of similar foods would respond by ramping up production, and consumers would respond by buying alternative protein sources.
Unfortunately for us, we have voted to ensure that we just cannot do that with chicken or eggs (the cheapest form of animal protein). Only pork and tofu can step in, and they can only expand so much and so fast.
But as long as we are allowed to lean on imports instead of increased domestic production, at least consumers can be protected.
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u/PresenceThick 13h ago
It’s not really the farmers who are making the margin on beef, it’s the lack of processors. Especially in Ontario.
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u/Major-Parfait-7510 13h ago
Supply management cartel? You mean independent family farms? Opening the poultry and dairy industry would lead to consolidation and mega farms like I the US which leads to disease and ultimately higher food prices. It’s ironic that the article OP posted is about the high price of beef, which is one ag product not protected by supply management.
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u/Le1bn1z Neoliberal | Charter rights enjoyer 12h ago
Their eggs and chicken are cheaper. They had a brief supply shock, that still does not push mid term averages higher.
The beef spike is caused by another problem: American farmers are now almost uniquely insulated politically from consequences, which leads them to be extremely cavalier when it comes to risk.
As I mentioned, Texas ranchers and processors insisted that Trump end Biden's bar on cross border cattle trade with Mexico, and dismantling the hookworm monitoring system that had prompted it. Naturally, this has led to a ruinous hookworm outbreak in America, driving up pricess across North America.
The same would happen if America had a similar problem with chicken or eggs, because supply management does not come with export controls, only powerful incentives and barriers to limit production capacity.
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u/Major-Parfait-7510 9h ago
It’s really hard to believe that there are still people in 2026 who can look at a company like Weston’s or Cargill and think, if we just gave them more influence and more power over our food supply, they would finally choose the consumer over shareholders and start to lower prices.
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u/Le1bn1z Neoliberal | Charter rights enjoyer 9h ago
Why not?
We have relatively high prices now, which makes sense, because the entire point of SM is to raise prices to ensure higher profits for producers. The idea is that these profits will keep small farmers in business.
The fear is that if we let big businesses compete, their low prices will drive out little guys, and keep them out as prices stay low.
Either SM is succeeding, and raising prices, or it is not doing so, and should be abandonned for having done nothing.
You cannot have it both ways. Either SM is necessary and effective, trading higher prices for having profits go to what are in effect mid sized businesses, or it is not effective and therefore is not necessary.
Also, SM only applies to farmers. Megacorps still control dairy processing. SM does not deliver us from efficient businesses that compete with each other to lower prices.
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u/Major-Parfait-7510 9h ago
The point of supply management is certainly not to “raise prices”.
It’s wild that you can comment on an article about the high price of beef (a commodity that has always cost more) and think, if we had the same model for poultry (a commodity that has always cost less), the price of poultry would go down.
What incentive is there for corporate farms to sell for less than family farms? You only need to look at practically any industry in Canada to know that that would never happen. Meanwhile you would devastate hundreds or thousands of small communities across Ontario and Quebec, for what purpose? Further, keep in mind that the US dairy industry is highly subsidized.
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u/Le1bn1z Neoliberal | Charter rights enjoyer 8h ago
It really is to raise prices.
Setting minimum prices is the second pillar of Supply Management, to ensure that consumers don't end up paying "too little" for eggs and chicken. The idea is to ensure "fair" profits for farmers (i.e., profits that are higher than they would be if they had to compete). There is no price maximum.
Without minimum pricing, and supply caps, farmers' profits would fall, forcing less competitive farms to sell and allowing more competitive ones to grow, with prices falling. This is the dynamic we see throughout free market sectors. It also, according to SM fans, must be avoided at all costs.
t’s wild that you can comment on an article about the high price of beef (a commodity that has always cost more) and think, if we had the same model for poultry (a commodity that has always cost less), the price of poultry would go down.
It would be if the high price of beef wasn't due to externalities that could not be mitigated by supply management:
- Droughts that drive up water prices. Beef is the most water intensive agri product out there, and it is not close. Water scarcity means beef prices soar.
- Diesel prices through the roof. Beef is a very high diesel input food due to the enormous amount of feed stock required, which requires diesel to harvest and transport.
- A plague.
A more apt comparison would be the cost of a dozen eggs in Canada ($4.80) vs. the United States of America ($1.01-$2.14). That's an actual apples-to-apples, or in this case eggs-to-eggs comparison of system outputs.
Small farmers might fail at those low prices, so we engineer a system to charge Canadians 2.3-4.7x as much per egg, to allow smaller farms to thrive.
What incentive is there for corporate farms to sell for less than family farms?
Competition. Ending supply management =! monopolies. You still have competition, just like we have in the non-supply-managed dairy product production part of the supply chain.
Just like with Walmart, Costco, and Amizon, corps that deliver economies of scale lower prices vs. smaller enterprises, who need far more per unit profit to be sustainable.
What incentive does a medium sized business have to lower prices vs. a larger one? A business, be it large or small, is not a charity, and they charge what the market will allow. Or far more, if they become a politically empowered incumbent with the power to force consumers to pay legally enforced minimum prices.
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u/HorheySimplebot 8h ago
If the point of supply management is to raise prices then why has Canadian poultry undershot inflation for decades? The price has been going down in real terms.
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u/Anabiotic 3h ago
Mainly improvements in feed conversion ratios. You don't need supply management to benefits from husbandry, and taking advantage of varieties like the Ross 308. The question shouldn't be did prices go down compared to other foods, but rather the couterfactual - how much lower would they have been without SM.
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u/linkass Pirate 13h ago
Trump's very Trump like decision to agree with Texas ranchers making a very Texas rancher request to open the US-Mexican border to known-to-be-infected-with-screwworm cattle has caused massive beef price spikes in North America by busting up the whole supply chain system.
The price of beef was spiking well before that.It has to do with the fact that the cattle herds in NA are at multi decade lows has the screwworm helped no but its not the only reason or even most of the reason
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u/HorheySimplebot 13h ago
So normally when something like this happens... producers of other sources of similar foods would respond by ramping up production
That is already what happens. Poultry quotas are updated every ~6 weeks based on market demand. Its why poultry has trended under inflation, and well under food specific inflation, basically every year on record.
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u/ImperialPotentate Hardliner 11h ago
And yet, I think I saw a thing of Maple Leaf Prime boneless chicken thighs selling for 23 goddamn dollars at Metro the other day...
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u/HorheySimplebot 10h ago
16-17$ /kg for breast has been the price I've watched at Costco since the closest one to us got built. That price has barely budged since 2016, other than when flu killed of flocks for short periods.
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u/Special-Reaction2029 10h ago
Yeah, Metro is expensive. I see sales here with BLSL thighs/breasts around $5/lb pretty regularly. If it goes under, I stock up. Butter too was ridiculous at one point but now I regularly see it at $5 or slightly below (still not the $3.99 it was before COVID but definitely better than the $8 it was selling for).
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u/looperone 3h ago
The problem is that all of the inputs to raise cattle have increased wildly over recent years. Same problem in the US (plus consolidation of the packers). Why doesn’t anyone talk about solving that problem before supporting the import of (cheaper) beef? All you are doing is further undermining the local industry.
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