Beef Imports Despite the Ban

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is under withering fire from critics for allowing American meat packers to resume imports of ground and other processed beef from Canada last fall, even though weeks earlier it had reaffirmed its ban on these products following the detection of mad cow disease in Canadian cattle.

As a result, more than 33 million pounds of Canadian processed beef entered the United States under a series of undisclosed permits.

This amount, while substantial, represents only a tiny fraction of the beef consumed by Americans. Last year, more than 3 billion pounds of beef were imported.

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