by Beef News | Jul 13, 2025 | Beef Maps, Business, Health
A Beef Maps x Beef News Special Report Along the winding bends of the Usumacinta River and through the shadowy jungle trails of Chiapas and Tabasco, a silent but massive cattle laundering operation thrives—tailored for profit and protected by impunity. Every day,...
by Beef News | Jul 11, 2025 | Business, Culture, Farm Policy
The largest meat company in the world isn’t American—and it isn’t clean. It’s JBS , a Brazilian behemoth with a rap sheet that reads like a corporate RICO indictment: bribery, money laundering, price fixing, deforestation, and cartel-linked cattle laundering. Now it’s...
by Beef News | Jul 9, 2025 | Business, Farm Policy, Health
After nearly a year of emergency closures, U.S. cattle ports are beginning to reopen—starting with Douglas, Arizona, with Columbus and Santa Teresa, New Mexico expected next. That means live cattle from Mexico are once again flowing north, tagged, dipped, and...
by Beef News | Jul 7, 2025 | Health, Business, Cowboy Talk
On July 7, 2025, the USDA will reopen the U.S.-Mexico cattle border under a phased biosecurity protocol. The agency insists the move is justified: no northward screwworm spread in eight weeks, a surge in sterile fly deployment, and updated import restrictions that...
by Beef News | Jul 6, 2025 | Business, Labor
Tyson Foods is facing a strike at its Amarillo facility—one of the largest beef processing plants in the country. Teamsters Local 577 has voted 98% in favor of walking out unless demands for higher pay and safer conditions are met. Mainstream headlines are pitching...
by Beef News | Jul 4, 2025 | Culture, Business, Farm Policy
The Douglas’ Home on the TV Show Green Acres “They canceled anything with a tree in it.”—Pat Buttram (actor, Green Acres) on CBS’s sweeping rural purge In 1971, two quiet purges reshaped America. One struck the land. The other struck the airwaves. The first came...
