do people realize that a *lot* of ground beef in the USA is from Australia? Like 40% of all our ground beef is imported.
https://www.drovers.com/news/ground-beef-paradox-record-demand-meets-shrinking-domestic-supply
edit: found more recent numbers. Originally I was looking at an article that referenced a slightly older Drovers report as a source and it asserted 70% of ground beef was imported. The sourced Drovers article had confusing phrasing so I think the author of that article was mistaken. I went straight to their source and made the same mistake.
https://www.drovers.com/news/ground-beef-paradox-record-demand-meets-shrinking-domestic-supply
edit: found more recent numbers. Originally I was looking at an article that referenced a slightly older Drovers report as a source and it asserted 70% of ground beef was imported. The sourced Drovers article had confusing phrasing so I think the author of that article was mistaken. I went straight to their source and made the same mistake.