This is so bad
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/white-house-proposes-new-rules-giving-political-appointees-final-say-on-research-grants/

the US imports beef now so we don’t need domestic beef anymore.

wherein the levels were roughly even every year, driven by a surging demand in Asia.

It's for sure getting much more imbalanced recently, though. Much like with the WTI/Sour crude relationship, this has partly been a price/arbitrage thing. Particularly in Asia, consumers will pay top dollar for high-quality cuts from the USA (more than people here will pay, generally). Then we import cheaper cuts, mostly from the global south. Drought has SERIOUSLY affected the size of the US herd over the past couple of years. Of late, we aren't raising anywhere near enough cattle to supply the whole domestic beef market for the cheaper stuff. Makes more economic sense for US "ranchers" to focus on raising fewer, but more valuable, heads, while people at home eat the cheaper stuff from the likes of Mexico, Brazil and Australia.

Call ICE on them. They've got billion$.

Pick yourself up by your bootstraps, you freedom-loving, tax-avoiding, Texas Rancher types! Quit being whiny SOCIALISTS looking for gubmint handouts! Set an example and show everyone how you accomplish everything all by your independent-as-fuck selves!

He's probably infected by it.

On how to continue screwing everyone!

To see how we can help it!

Jus' sayin'

they fucked it up

James Talarico with the rural votes by
focusing in on this issue. Bring back
the eradication funding for all the border
States. Also look to the family farmers
for help supplementing their crop losses this year due to fertilizer costs swings.

The brainworm? Well, Mr. Kennedy, it sounds like you have some new friends to check out. You wouldn't think about, like, *vaccinating,* or maybe *spraying* for them?? Or would you prefer to make them pets?

MON JAN 6, 2025

https://boingboing.net/2025/01/06/maneater-screwworm-that-lays-eggs-in-nostrils-and-open-wounds-headed-towards-texas.html

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department sent out an advisory warning hunters, livestock owners, and outdoorsy folks near the southern border to watch out for a flesh-eating parasite known as the New World Screwworm.

The "man-eating" screwworms, or "devastating pests" as the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls them, are maggots that live off of live tissue in an animal's — and sometimes human's — nostrils, eyes, open wound, or mouth. And the unwelcome critters, which were recently found in a cow in Chiapas, Mexico, are making their way towards Texas, according to CBS.

"Although USDA eradicated NWS from the United States in 1966 using sterile insect technique, there is a constant risk of re-introduction into the United States," said the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

… more at link …

Note the date on that article … this stupid evil cruel incompetent bungling destructive collection of nasty cretins