the agricultural lobby is pegged to the lowest possible health and welfare standards.

That's what they want us to think.

We can 100% require standards, send investigators, and even collaborate with other countries or coalitions like EU to spread the burden.

Countries that don't meet requirements can face massive tarrifs to equalize the playing field or outright bans.

And the US is the largest consumer of beef, China is catching up and with a low per capital consumption they can make a huge leap if they got cheap unethical meet. But they don't need to import much.

So foreign producers still need the US market, and their citizens already consume as much as us