Beef Central advises Australian producers and consumers not to get too wound up about US beef imports due solely to the cost and exchange rate.

Senator Malcolm Roberts grills Canberra heads of departments over the safety of beef imports from the US and Mexico, including South American product entering the US through Mexico and possibly ending up in Australian supermarkets.

As it turns out only 150 kg of US meat arrived in Australia in February 2026 after a 23-year absence which was for promotional purposes.

Roberts pointed out biosecurity of Australian livestock could be threatened by importing lumpy skin disease from one of these countries.

Naturally the bureaucrats gave assurances strict monitoring by the USDA and Australian authorities would prevent any incursion of diseases.

From Beef Central

But how likely is it that any US beef trade will take place into Australia at all, given that the US beef herd is at 60-year lows, and US beef prices are at blistering record highs?

Consider the following: In Aussie dollar terms US grainfed cattle are this week $1600 a head more expensive than Australian equivalents, and even with an Australian Angus feeder price at 510c/kg today, US equivalent feeder cattle are currently A$2100 a head more expensive. At the same time, US fed and non-fed slaughter is plummeting to levels not seen in more than a decade.

Given that, there’s only two reasons why even small quantities of US beef will appear in Australia at all.

The first is about symbolism, rather than serious commercial trade. Australia has some of the highest biosecurity standards in the world, and landing even a few containers of US product into Sydney or Brisbane ports potentially has value far beyond the boxes of meat they contain. It adds cache and credibility to the reputation of US beef in world markets in general. Trump’s statement following yesterday’s announcement (published in full below) said it all:  “Now, we are going to sell so much to Australia because this is undeniable and irrefutable proof that US Beef is the Safest and Best in the entire World.”

That comment belies the fact that US chilled beef shelf-life performance is often only a fraction of Australia’s.

The second reason is ‘novelty’ value. It’s almost inevitable that given that US fresh beef has not been seen on these shores for 23 years, a few marketing-savvy steakhouse proprietors across the country will hang out blackboards appealing to diners to “Come in and try an Omaha grainfed steak.”

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10 thought on “Senator Roberts questions safety of US and Mexican beef imports”
  1. Unfortunately some of my associates still believe in the scam known as Covid-19.
    Why would Australia a major meat producing country import meat products from any country?

  2. Under normal circumstances there are only two reasons for Australia to import beef.
    1. To destroy Australian self sufficiency in food.
    2. A means of tampering food supplied.
    A third of course is to substitute at any time for lab meat.

    Roberts should be opposing imported beef, not debating it.

    Note. Why does Australia export beef to New Zealand.

  3. Should Albo and Co. be mandated taste testers of imported meats?

    U.S. prion pork is mRNA jabbed; their lab grown tumor meat and petri-dish fake fish products would go down well in Canberra, forced through a funnel, washed down with a bottle of red.

    Would you trust tumor meat grown in Israel, home to the world’s largest bank of human flesh?

    Buy Australian, farm-grown.

  4. Dianne: I remember reading about the deaths of two African Presidents who died after exposing that tests of fruits came up positive for Covid

  5. Bob , let this sink in ; If the biosecurity mob are saying Covid did enter but your evidence states otherwise ,what credibility does Biosecurity have to prove to us that meat sent from foreign countries is not infected with something that could cause us harm ?

    Biosecurity has a terrible track record throughout the livestock industry when it came to TB eradication .
    Instead of cutting the infection out of the carcass by a government meat inspector on the kill room floor that livestock was shot dead in a paddock either from the ground or by helicopter as the Northern Territory did when they went about eradicating the buffalo by government stock inspectors depriving the state and federal governments of their taxable income stream

  6. The Planned Covid Pandemic, the Virus Misconception, and the Vaccine Scam.
    Mark Keenan – Global Research.
    30 June 2025.

    Excerpt >
    Furthermore, a report from the U.S. Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August 2020 showed that the number of actual deaths that occurred has been significantly misrepresented. The report dropped a “bombshell”, that in 94 percent of the cases of those who, another disease was also at work on the victim and the overwhelming majority of this 6% are aged over 80. The report states: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned,” the CDC stated in its report, under the heading “Comoborbities.” In addition, CDC paid hospitals to register deaths as Covid-19 deaths, up to $39,000 per death

    The book also details the following:

    A German government official leaked a report that Covid-19 is “A Global False Alarm”.
    Testimonies from medical experts that the PCR test is flawed and fraudulent. A peer review by 22 scientists revealed 10 major scientific flaws of the PCR test. A Covid-19 PCR test flaw ruling by the High Court of Portugal: 97% false positives. The pandemic could be dialled up or down at will by adjusting the PCR cycle threshold
    FOI requests show no evidence Covid-19 actually exists – it has never been isolated. 114 medical institutions have no evidence Covid-19 has been isolated anywhere, ever
    Bio-pharma has paid more than $35billion in criminal penalties for falsifying science
    Covid-19 vaccines were not granted regular EU approval – ‘on-trial’ for two years
    Flawed computer models claim vaccine effectiveness – vaccine related deaths were ignored. In-house study trials resulted in numerous serious side-effects and some deaths. Testimonies from numerous doctors and medical experts that the Covid-19 vaccines are dangerous. EU GMO risk evaluations had not been conducted on the Covid-19 DNA-based vaccines
    Huge numbers of adverse reactions/vaccine-induced deaths occurred and were not reported by the mainstream corporate media
    The Covid-19 PCR test is flawed and fraudulent – read about how the flawed PCR test become the standard for Covid-19 testing worldwide. Various medical experts have described how the new and unvalidated Corman Drosten PCR test was controversially approved and fast-tracked into use for worldwide Covid-19 testing. After the Drosten test was exposed as fraudulent, various scientists signed the Corman Drosten retraction letter, calling for the Corman Drosten PCR protocol to be retracted.

    Furthermore, in the UK, the government body, the MHRA knew in advance that Covid-19 vaccines would cause many Adverse Drug Reactions. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) posted a procurement contract notice on the EU EPSD procurement website in 2020. The notice stated:

    Full Article >
    https://www.globalresearch.ca/planned-pandemic-virus-misconception-vaccine-scam/5893237

  7. Neville, you dill, COVID never entered Australia. The alleged virus was never isolated and the PCR test is unreliable, as it produces false positives all the time. As an FYI MP Craig Kelly rang me one night in 2021 and I told him all about the PCR test. This was also the time the young fellow died in Biloela, only for the news to come out later of another false positive. I have FOI replies from both the VIC health people and the Feds attesting to the fact that neither the original nor the Delta had ever been isolated, and that the Omicron was actually a millimetre wave (5G) and not a virus.
    Kelly called me because I had contacted loads of Senators with the research I had done-and form the day the bloody thing was announced.
    I would not be surprised if I know more about the vaxxes, the virus and the masking than your local doctor.
    About the masks:
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scottmorefield/2021/06/15/a-group-of-parents-sent-their-kids-face-masks-to-a-lab-for-analysis-heres-what-they-found-n2591047
    And about Anglesea, which is down the Great Ocean Road from my Geelong:
    https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/victoria-covid-alert-for-anglesea-on-surf-coast-after-case-visited-iga-and-golf-club-c-2993470

  8. That guy Anthony Chisholm looks like he is suffering from extreme anxiety, his career trajectory is under threat, one of these people who, lacking technique or intelligence, immediately resort to using force

  9. Think; Biosecurity failed to stop Covid entering Australia .

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