America’s ‘beef deal’ with the UK are British shoppers scared
Civil servants in Britain are concerned that infected beef from the US will soon be flooded their shelves from the supermarket, RadarOnline.com can report.
However, the same beef is produced on a large scale, and many of us like to eat it every day.
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Where is the beef?
The US ship 13,000 tons of meat abroad.
A new trade agreement that matches the two countries will see 13,000 tonnes of American beef to the VK-Genoeg meat to serve a medium-sized steak for every adult in the country.
However, consumers abroad are afraid that it will infect their stock much more smoother regulated American beef.
A common practice in the US is that farmers raise treats treated with hormone. These cattle are injected with growth hormones to accelerate muscle growth and to shorten the time to slaughter, which increases production efficiency and the costs are reduced.
But practice is linked to worries such as early puberty in children and increased cancer risks.
While the hormone beef is in our shopping boards, Britain has banned it since 1989, when the EU declared it unsafe.
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American meat regulations are not as strict as the UK
According to the United States of the Cattlemen, around 80 percent of all cattle produced in the US comes from animals that stimulates hormones.
These hormones result in more meat per animal and a generally more profitable product for the farmer.
However, an alarming report in the 1970s suggested that Italian school boys developed breast tissue after they reportedly fed meat with hormones.
Similar reports have also linked the product to cause more than normal puberty in girls.
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A ‘steak’ in their future
Farmers in America often pump cattle full of growth hormones to maximize their profit.
The British government said that certification procedures and border controls will be present to ensure that hormone dishes do not enter the UK.
However, the National Farmers’ Union has demanded more details about how exactly those checks would work.
Ian McCubbin, a beef farmer in Surrey, told the BBC that he was worried about the prospect of American beef that entered the country.
“How do we know what they put in it?” he said. “We have spent 50 years building an industry that is strong in the field of environmental benefits and animal welfare.
“The concern is that the US (import of beef) could be of lower quality.”
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British officials promise that there are checks to ensure that meat treated with hormone did not cross the border.
Liz Webster, founder of the Save British Farming group, repeated those fears in a post on X.
She tweeted: “In exchange for tariff lighting on luxury cars, we have opened our doors for our beef and ethanol. But because our border controls hardly function, how we maintain standards, everyone’s gamble is.”
Nevertheless, experts in the US insist that our meat is safe for human consumption and British legislators want to support this and to calm up growing worries.
Darren Jones, principal secretary of the treasury, said: “Companies, whether in the United States or in other parts of the world, know that because of those food production standards, if they try to import meat treated with hormone, for example, that is contrary to the law.
“There are checks on these products at the border, and if people are contrary to the law, there will be consequences for that.”
