If there’s one issue on which a growing number of Americans have doubts, it’s our food supply — and according to Good Ranchers founders Ben and Corey Spell, their doubts are not unfounded.
“It’s getting harder as laws change and different things keep getting passed. It’s really hard for consumers to know who to trust,” Ben said. Allie Beth Stuckey “I can empathize.”
“Most of it comes from Mexico, but as long as it’s been in a feedlot in the U.S. for 90 days, it can be imported,” he continues. “Before, it could only be USDA inspected, but now it can be USDA graded as well.”
The USDA Prime or USDA Choice labels were once limited to meat born and harvested in the United States, but that has since changed.
“Why does it matter to them to be born in the United States?” Stuckey asks.
“Agriculture is the foundation of our country. Farms and ranches are going out of business at an alarming rate,” Ben explains. “They just can’t keep up. Meat prices continue to go up, and ranchers are getting essentially the same prices they got decades ago.”
“As a whole, American ranchers, independent ranchers, can’t keep up with the big conglomerates,” he added.
But this is not the only problem facing America’s meat supply.
Good Ranchers does not sell meat containing the mRNA vaccine, but can’t speak for all other companies.
In 2022, the USDA approved the use of an RNA-based vaccine developed by Merck Animal Health, which will be available on November 1, 2023, and with this new availability, pork products may be treated with this vaccine.
“We’re being accused of fear-mongering, and that’s the last thing we want,” Ben told Stuckey about mRNA vaccines. “If we don’t talk about things, the government is just going to sneak it in and we’ll never know what it was.”
Before mRNA vaccines were legal for use, Ben and Corey publicly pledged not to use them, which is where the accusations of fear-mongering began.
“A lot of people were like, ‘Well, it’s not legal yet,’ and I was like, ‘Not yet,'” Ben recalled. “But if we’re not talking about it and people are not speaking up, then let’s not wait until it’s legal.”
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