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    Brazilian beef to be banned from EU from September

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    1. SoftDrinkReddit on

      amazing this is a decisive victory for Forest conservation and overall Beef standards

    2. HighDeltaVee on

      >The European Commission has confirmed that Brazilian beef and other products will be banned from the EU from 3 September unless Brazil complies with EU rules on antibiotic use in animals throughout their lifetime.

      The latter half of the sentence is rather important.

      If Brazil competes fairly in terms of the EU’s requirements for meat, they can take part in the market. If not, not.

    4. EducationChemical488 on

      Great news & farmers were being vilified for wanting this.

      Level playing field & not eating drug riddled food, a net positive

    6. SouthLeast8143 on

      Mercosur deal is a good deal and not one party in Ireland supported it

    7. GareththeJackal on

      Would you say… we have a beef with the brazilians?

      I’m so sorry.

    8. ProtectionKooky4764 on

      But wasn’t the Brazilian beef found on Irish and  Dutch (I think) shelves tested positive for banned antibiotics and growth hormone, so it’s our food supply chain already and consumed.  The reason given was the consignment was mixed up. Realistically are they going to overhaul their whole antibiotic approach to beef production( they produce 20% of the worlds beef) to meet EU guidelines. 

    10. fensterdj on

      Interesting, last year. Brazil exported a record high of 100,000 tonnes to the EU, worth well over half a billion quid,

      What’s going on here in the wider scale of things, beyond health concerns and who is and isn’t using antibiotics

      Why is the EU punishing Brazil’s economy like this? What kind of power play is being made?

    11. ManFeelings9000 on

      That’ll be Brazilian beef never coming back into the EU then. 

      It’s been well known they’ve been pumping their cattle with God knows how long. 

      Fair play to them, they and the EU big money business counter parts tried to pull a fast one to enrich themselves and they were caught out. 

    12. ClashOfTheAsh on

      What I don’t get is why are we allowing Brazilian beef in our shops up to now?

      There has been multiple incidents of contaminated beef being consumed in the EU and the EU’s own report said that the checks Brazil are supposed to do are ineffective, so why are we allowing it for the last few years at all outside of any Mercosur deal?

    13. ManFeelings9000 on

      You’d nearly swear there’s a few in here almost sour that it’s been caught out and banned. 

      More bothered about Irish farmers with the smart comments. I’d only assume it’s the usual anti Irish farmers whingers. It’s almost like they were licking their lips at the thought of South American beef hopefully destroying the farming industry here. 

    14. geo_gan on

      I hope any meat on shelves is very strictly labelled with country of origin so I can avoid all this toxic South American beef.

    15. MajesticKnob on

      Well well well, it’s not like every farmer called this a few months ago. Same people slating farmers for opposing the deal now crying about antibiotics in their beef. We tried to warn you

    17. qwjmioqjsRandomkeys on

      Lidl and aldi are flooded with Chinese chicken in the freezer section 

    18. BrickMarked on

      Hopefully will move on to the chicken next. I imagine the standards are just as bad there.

    19. EmptyBodybuilder7376 on

      Doesn’t matter, really.

      Europeans can’t afford beef anymore anyway.