Nobody Will Say Which Country Is Sending Your Ground Beef

On Friday morning, a post said three hundred thousand metric tons of foreign beef were coming into this country with no tariff. Cattle futures fell before anything had been signed. Then a reporter asked which countries the beef was coming from. He said he didn't want to say. And when that beef reaches the shelf, the package won't say either. It hasn't had to since 2015. So tonight, one question. Where did it come from? It sounds small. It is the most expensive question in American agriculture right now, and almost nobody in this fight is asking it. By the end of this episode you'll know exactly why, and you'll know how to ask it about far more than food. ... ABOUT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF Daily intelligence on the stories that actually move the world, and the patterns that connect them. Structure first. Pattern second. Conclusion yours. We don't tell you what to think. We hand you the architecture so the next time someone runs a play on you, you see it before it lands. New episodes every weekday. ... DON'T MISS AN EPISODE Subscribe and hit the bell. This show moves fast and the patterns build on each other. Missing one means the next one hits different. ... GET THE RECEIPTS Every episode comes with the receipts. Primary sources, the documents behind tonight's claims, the framework we used, a watch list you can check yourself, and a corrected record of every figure that moved between filming and publish. Download tonight's receipts PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xwlxli-UA6EGy-8aPfm9-VBoKsok6XBu/view ... TOPICS COVERED beef imports, ground beef prices, cattle futures, lean beef trimmings, tariff rate quota, country of origin labeling, COOL repeal, mandatory country of origin labeling, American Beef Labeling Act, S. 421, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2016, World Trade Organization, DS384, DS386, Canada, Mexico, retaliation, Product of USA rule, FSIS, USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, cattle inventory, national herd, herd rebuild, 86 million head, smallest herd since 1951, Census of Agriculture, 732,000 cattle operations, ranchers, feedlots, Tyson, Cargill, JBS, National Beef, meatpacking concentration, big four packers, fed cattle, steer and heifer purchases, Department of Justice, antitrust investigation, Brooke Rollins, Todd Blanche, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Colin Woodall, US Cattlemen's Association, R-CALF USA, Bill Bullard, American Farm Bureau Federation, Zippy Duvall, Senator Tim Sheehy, Montana, Senator Deb Fischer, Nebraska, Senator Steve Daines, farm counties, 2024 election, midterms, campaign finance, OpenSecrets, FEC, Argentina, Argentine beef, peso swap, currency swap, Exchange Stabilization Fund, 31 USC 5302, Treasury Department, Scott Bessent, Congressional Research Service, undisclosed terms, presidential proclamation, Ensuring Affordable Beef for the American Consumer, Further Ensuring Affordable Beef for the American Consumer, Federal Register, import reinspection, port of entry, beef recall, Corte Argentino, Class I recall, food safety, supply chain, Bureau of Land Management, BLM, wild horses, mustangs, Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, Bill of Sale, form 4710-023, sale program, adoption program, livestock auction, slaughter, New York Times, Dave Philipps, choice blindness, Lund University, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall, jam study, Magic at the Marketplace, confabulation, post hoc rationalization, behavioral science, media literacy, 2013 horse meat scandal, Tesco, Findus, Silvercrest, Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Food Standards Agency, DNA testing, viral clip, missing context, undated video, provenance, chain of custody, grocery prices, food inflation, Molly Reid, Station One, Intelligence Brief ... #IntelligenceBrief #StationOne #MollyReid #BeefPrices #GroundBeef #BeefImports #CountryOfOriginLabeling #COOL #Ranchers #CattleMarket #CattleFutures #Meatpacking #Antitrust #FoodSupply #FoodSafety #Argentina #Tariffs #TradePolicy #WildHorses #Mustangs #BLM #ChoiceBlindness #BehavioralScience #MediaLiteracy #Propaganda #Persuasion #CriticalThinking #FollowTheMoney #Receipts #GroceryPrices #FarmPolicy #USDA #Provenance #StayExpensive