{"id":3846,"date":"2026-10-22T17:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2026-10-22T17:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:17:54","slug":"trumps-lower-cost-beef-imports-have-arrived-heres-how-to-know-if-youre-purchasing-us-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/?p=3846","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s lower-cost beef imports have arrived \u2013 here\u2019s how to know if you\u2019re purchasing US meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The label on your burger just changed \u2013 and almost nobody noticed.<br \/>\nIn the middle of a historic cattle shortage, the Trump administration quietly opened the door to a flood of cheaper foreign beef. Prices may drop. But the trade\u2011off is buried in fine print most shoppers never read. One word on that package decides if your dinner is truly Ame\u2026 Continues\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>Most shoppers assume a USDA stamp means American cattle, but it doesn\u2019t. Under the temporary change, up to 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings can enter the U.S. at lower tariffs, then be blended into ground beef that looks no different from what you\u2019ve always bought. The only real clues are a few carefully chosen words: \u201cProduct of USA\u201d or \u201cMade in the USA\u201d mean the animals were born, raised, slaughtered, and processed here. Anything less precise may signal imported or mixed\u2011origin meat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>Country-of-origin details often hide near the nutrition panel in tiny print, listing multiple nations when meat is \u201ccommingled.\u201d Labels like \u201cUSDA Prime\u201d or \u201cUSDA Choice\u201d only describe quality, not origin. Even \u201cprocessed in the USA\u201d can mean foreign cattle cut or rewrapped on American soil.<\/p>\n<p>In a time of soaring prices and shrinking herds, the decision now rests with you, your eyesight, and a few quiet words on a crowded label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The label on your burger just changed \u2013 and almost nobody noticed. In the middle of a historic cattle shortage, the Trump administration quietly opened the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nulnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}