by Beef News | Aug 21, 2025 | Health, Business, Culture
“U.S. beef producers need to stop whining and just lower prices.” That’s not analysis—it’s exactly the kind of ignorance the meatpackers count on. But behind every overpriced steak is a rigged cartel—and behind every bankrupt ranch is a family trying to survive a...
by Beef News | Aug 19, 2025 | Business, Health, Pharma
While headlines obsess over “reptile venom” conspiracies and viral Ozempic side-effect lawsuits, the real policy bomb sits quietly in Congress. The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act—known as TROA—would for the first time allow Medicare to cover weight-loss drugs like...
by Beef News | Aug 18, 2025 | Business, Dairy, Farm Policy
On August 15, the Associated Press blasted a headline: “Florida Department of Health identifies Keely Farms Dairy as the source of raw milk that sickened 21 people.” Millions read it. No causation had been proven. The farm wasn’t even contacted before the...
by Beef News | Aug 5, 2025 | Policy, Business, JBS
“O LUCRO SUMIU.” “The profit is gone.” That’s not a slogan—it’s a warning. Brazil’s cattle are “worth” $52 on paper—less than half the U.S. price. But local ranchers don’t get that. The export premium? Reserved for China-approved carcasses, controlled by...
by Beef News | Aug 2, 2025 | Business, Cowboy Talk
Republished from Mike Calicrate’s NoBull Concentration and Consolidation has Destroyed the World’s Food Systems In 2000, IBP president and CEO, Robert Peterson said, “Those who fight consolidation in the food industry will not be able to compete in world...
by Beef News | Jul 31, 2025 | Business, JBS, Policy
Pardons for Sale in Brasília In December 2023, Brazil’s Supreme Court suspended a $2 billion corruption fine against JBS’s parent company, J&F Investimentos. Not through trial. Not through public hearing. Through a secret, single-justice decision by Dias...
