Australian beef farmers say that increases in fast food prices, bio -siciness at risk

The federal government has estimated that an outbreak of the foot and mouth could cost $ 80 billion.

The biosyphicity expert and the professor of Monash University Melodie Mcgeoch has said that the American imports of raw cattle are prohibited due to the risk of diseases or insects that enter Australia, which would cause enormous interruptions to the local industry.

“In biosyphicity, once here, many of these diseases are truly expensive to manage and potentially uprust,” said Mcgeoch.

He said it would be extremely difficult for the United States to overturn the ban, which depends on many factors, including the part of the country was produced beef.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke with the farmers shortly after Trump’s announcement and repeated his previous commitment to maintaining the Australian biosyciness regime.

Previously, Wednesday, he said that any move to weaken the standards would be similar to “cutting the nose out of spite of the face”.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton said that rates “actually would be bad for consumers in the United States”.

“They require our beef meatballs for their market,” Dutton said.

The president of the Federation of Victorian farmers Brett Hosking said that there was a widespread disappointment between the agricultural community, which enjoyed a production relationship with the United States pursuant to the existing free trade agreement.

“It seems that this has been done to a friend,” Hosking said.

However, he said that the increase in taxes would be warned mainly by consumers in the United States, given that the American cattle pack is at the minimum record due to a widespread drought.

The demand for global beef is increasing, the prices are at the top and Hosking has said that Australia can afford to give priority to its protections for diseases.

“We could also find other markets that will have a price similar to the United States, therefore in terms of impact on our Farmgate price, it will barely be evident.”

“Australia produces some of the cleanest, safest and most healthy foods in the world.”

The Victorian manufacturer of cattle Fiona Conroy said that the rates were disappointing but not surprising and argued that “it is not worth compromising the biosiculia standards in response to rates”.

“It is fantastic that the government has identified that we must pursue other markets. There is a growing global question of red meat, so we just have to make sure we are positioned well to draw on this,” Conroy said.

Because the United States need Australian meat

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The Red Meat Advisory Council, a catfish peak body, calculated that the 10 % rate on Australian beef, which goes to 6 billion American hamburgers every year, would cost US consumers $ 600 million per year.

Australian beef exports to the United States were worth 3.3 billion dollars last financial year and most of the sales were for what is known as lean beef meat, the type of meat needed to create a desirable hamburger pie. This is because the cattle shots from American feedlots used for hamburgers are too fat, while the cattle fueled in Australian grass are Magri after spending their lives to wander our vast lands to eat grass.

However, despite the increase in forecast prices for US consumers, experts say that local prices for beef would not be interested.

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