ARGENTINA OR BRASIL
Outrage as Trump official refuses to name source of U.S. beef: 'Why not?'
Bennito L. Kelty
August 25, 2026
Bennito L. Kelty
August 25, 2026
RAW STORY
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef to enter the U.S. without higher tariffs, which has been met with backlash within the GOP.
Rollins told reporters, "I am not privy to talk about" where the U.S. will be getting its beef, which stirred disbelief and anger about the secrecy.
"Why not?" reacted Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) in a post on X.
"How is the Secretary of Agriculture not willing to talk about where Americans are getting their beef from?" asked journalist Aaron Parnas.
"Why does the Republican Party want to hide from Americans where their meat comes from?" demanded Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the political news network MeidasTouch.
"Why is this a damn secret?" wondered former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. "If we are promoting foreign beef and importing it, don't we have a right to know where it is coming from?"
"The Trump administration refusing to tell us where beef is coming from should convince everyone not to buy it or eat it," cautioned activist and Karoline Leavitt foe Jamie Bonkiewicz.
"It's literally her job to be 'privy' to this information," Missouri congressional candidate Fred Wellman wrote in reaction to Rollins' response.
"The Trump administration is going to flood our markets with foreign beef and they're not going to tell you where it's coming from," warned progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.
"Sounds an awful lot [like] BULLS— to me from an administration that has lied more than 30,000 times during just the first Trump admin," blasted author Don Winslow.
"We're definitely eating horse meat," lamented Jack Cocchiarella, evoking another story where the Trump administration sent wild horses off to the slaughter in countries that eat horse meat.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2026. REUTERS/Evan Vucci
A Trump Cabinet secretary's inability to say from which country the U.S. will import beef is spurring online outrage.
On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins was asked which countries have been in talks with the U.S. about stepping up beef imports. The question came amid Trump's plan to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef to enter the U.S. without higher tariffs, which has been met with backlash within the GOP.
Rollins told reporters, "I am not privy to talk about" where the U.S. will be getting its beef, which stirred disbelief and anger about the secrecy.
"Why not?" reacted Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) in a post on X.
"How is the Secretary of Agriculture not willing to talk about where Americans are getting their beef from?" asked journalist Aaron Parnas.
"Why does the Republican Party want to hide from Americans where their meat comes from?" demanded Ron Filipkowski, the editor-in-chief of the political news network MeidasTouch.
"Why is this a damn secret?" wondered former Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill. "If we are promoting foreign beef and importing it, don't we have a right to know where it is coming from?"
"The Trump administration refusing to tell us where beef is coming from should convince everyone not to buy it or eat it," cautioned activist and Karoline Leavitt foe Jamie Bonkiewicz.
"It's literally her job to be 'privy' to this information," Missouri congressional candidate Fred Wellman wrote in reaction to Rollins' response.
"The Trump administration is going to flood our markets with foreign beef and they're not going to tell you where it's coming from," warned progressive political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen.
"Sounds an awful lot [like] BULLS— to me from an administration that has lied more than 30,000 times during just the first Trump admin," blasted author Don Winslow.
"We're definitely eating horse meat," lamented Jack Cocchiarella, evoking another story where the Trump administration sent wild horses off to the slaughter in countries that eat horse meat.
Matthew Chapman
August 24, 2026
RAW STORY
President Donald Trump's new plan to import hundreds of thousands of tons of beef will spell nothing but disaster, said John Boyd Jr., a cattle and soybean farmer who heads up the National Black Farmers Association, on MS NOW Monday.
"I believe that this is a raw deal," Boyd told anchor Katy Tur, noting that Trump "keeps making the announcement that he loves farmers, he loves cattlemen, and then undermines us with 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef that we don't even know where it's coming from," Boyd noted that there was a significant recall of Argentinian beef imports in the United States.
"There's no guarantee that the American people are going to see any savings in the local grocery stores," said Boyd. "This is more about helping meatpackers, in my opinion. So he put the American farmers last."
Boyd added that, on average, the U.S. is losing 77 farmers and cattlemen every day, with 300 farm foreclosures currently pending, and the administration is doing nothing about it.
As all this is going on, said Boyd, "we have the highest input cost in history due to this president's policies and his war with Iran. High fertilizer, high diesel fuel prices, $5 to $6 a gallon. And we never got over the impact of the president's tariffs. So here you have a ripple effect, in my opinion, for the first time in history for America's farmers going out, losing our farms every day, and the president makes another sour deal and punches the American farmers in the face."
The fact remains, he said, that if Trump really wanted to help farmers, "they would start to invest more money in knowing beginning farmers and cattle farmers; it takes a year to have a calf. So they started. Right now we can make a huge dent in the cattle shortage. And that's the problem. There's a shortage in America."
President Donald Trump's new plan to import hundreds of thousands of tons of beef will spell nothing but disaster, said John Boyd Jr., a cattle and soybean farmer who heads up the National Black Farmers Association, on MS NOW Monday.
"I believe that this is a raw deal," Boyd told anchor Katy Tur, noting that Trump "keeps making the announcement that he loves farmers, he loves cattlemen, and then undermines us with 300,000 metric tons of foreign beef that we don't even know where it's coming from," Boyd noted that there was a significant recall of Argentinian beef imports in the United States.
"There's no guarantee that the American people are going to see any savings in the local grocery stores," said Boyd. "This is more about helping meatpackers, in my opinion. So he put the American farmers last."
Boyd added that, on average, the U.S. is losing 77 farmers and cattlemen every day, with 300 farm foreclosures currently pending, and the administration is doing nothing about it.
As all this is going on, said Boyd, "we have the highest input cost in history due to this president's policies and his war with Iran. High fertilizer, high diesel fuel prices, $5 to $6 a gallon. And we never got over the impact of the president's tariffs. So here you have a ripple effect, in my opinion, for the first time in history for America's farmers going out, losing our farms every day, and the president makes another sour deal and punches the American farmers in the face."
The fact remains, he said, that if Trump really wanted to help farmers, "they would start to invest more money in knowing beginning farmers and cattle farmers; it takes a year to have a calf. So they started. Right now we can make a huge dent in the cattle shortage. And that's the problem. There's a shortage in America."
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