Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, stated this Tuesday that the US would buy little Argentine beef due to “a foot-and-mouth disease problem.”
The president of the Argentine Rural Society (MRS), Nicolas Pinoresponded to the statements of the Secretary of Agriculture of donald trump, Brooke Rollinsand flatly denied that Argentine meat has a foot-and-mouth problem: “The lady is misinformed,” he noted.
In that sense, he added bluntly: “I don’t know if she is a donkey… ill-informed, surely. If one wants to ignore the health status we have in the Argentina -south of Colorado River free without vaccination, and to the north free with vaccination- that can be a bit confusing“he said in dialogue with Radio Miter.
To make it clear that the problem is not present in the country, he explained that Argentina has not had an outbreak of foot and mouth disease for more than 24 years and assured that there is an active prevention and vaccination campaign recognized internationally.
“We should tell the lady that for more than 20 or 30 years, luckily, We do not have any problem with this disease that does so much damage to livestock.. If it does not exist, it is because we work well, consciously,” added the head of the SRA.
Finally, Pino attributed Rollins’ incorrect statements to an error in information since “sometimes people say things and don’t check it out.” In any case, he acknowledged that “the intention is good” and stressed that “they want to buy more Argentine meat and that is great news.”
To conclude, he said in an ironic tone: “We have to call the lady and give her peace of mind, nothing more.”
The sayings of Brooke Rollins about Argentine meat
Pino’s statements come in response to the clarification of the US official, who said, after Trump announced that the US could import Argentine meat, that any opening must “ensure the health safety of the American rodeo.” “Argentina faces a foot-and-mouth disease problem and at the Department of Agriculture we have to guarantee that our livestock industry is safe,” he pointed out.
He also recalled that there are other challenges, such as the cattle screwworm coming from Mexico, which is why strict import controls are maintained. “We are going to make sure that our livestock industry is protected, but this is a very nuanced and very complex market,” he added.
“I think we will have more information in the next few days, but as part of those twelve million metric tons, It won’t be much that we buy“, said.
Source: Ambito
