I wonder why there is no R-CALF-type organization headquartered in South Texas with the mission of closing and keeping closed the Mexican border? Maybe no one has thought about it yet. What if NAFTA and CAFTA expands and includes a SAFTA (South American Free Trade Agreement)? Brazil's beef industry is expanding, and an announcement was just made that a co-op in Brazil has signed a deal with "a (unnamed) U.S. packer" to set up a partnership processing plant for cattle.
Texas is about to start construction on the megacorridor which will make traffic of everything easier coming from Mexico. Assuming airplanes and ships are too expensive to haul beef from Brazil, trucks could make their way up to Texas and "southern beef" could have easy access to the U.S., especially if the packers are filing for permits to enter. Has anyone thought about this? Does anyone out there believe that the more the fighting continues over the Canadian border, the more these "other alternatives" will come into play. The packers aren't going to expand just in Canada. They are going south, too.
U.S. producers are going to have to come to grips with the realities of global competition. Why are we worried about it? Don't we have any confidence in our abilities, our facilities and our future? Doom and gloom protectionists will always end up having doom and gloom for dinner instead of a great steak. Whether it's North American, Central American or South American, it's still American. I don't believe the consumer is going to ask which America it came from, do you?
Texas is about to start construction on the megacorridor which will make traffic of everything easier coming from Mexico. Assuming airplanes and ships are too expensive to haul beef from Brazil, trucks could make their way up to Texas and "southern beef" could have easy access to the U.S., especially if the packers are filing for permits to enter. Has anyone thought about this? Does anyone out there believe that the more the fighting continues over the Canadian border, the more these "other alternatives" will come into play. The packers aren't going to expand just in Canada. They are going south, too.
U.S. producers are going to have to come to grips with the realities of global competition. Why are we worried about it? Don't we have any confidence in our abilities, our facilities and our future? Doom and gloom protectionists will always end up having doom and gloom for dinner instead of a great steak. Whether it's North American, Central American or South American, it's still American. I don't believe the consumer is going to ask which America it came from, do you?
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