Neil Freiman

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20,768 appearances 116 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard yesterday

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Morning Brew Daily · Would You Only Eat “Made in USA” Beef? & Being a Bridesmaid is Becoming Too Costly · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

Officials are going to review regulations, provide an economic analysis of what could happen should the labeling be enacted, and decide whether to move forward with the issue within 90 days. voice-verified

If it does, it'd mark the next drastic move the White House has taken to make beef less expensive, but ranchers remain wary. voice-verified

Liv, I had no idea some foods require an origin country label while others did not. voice-verified

It's not clear that this does anything economically or for USA ranchers. voice-verified

I mean, there's been a couple of economic analyses. voice-verified

We know the government's about to do another one, but back in 2015, the agriculture department's chief economist found that the economic benefits of putting these country of origin labels on beef would be, quote, insufficient to offset the costs of the requirements. voice-verified

And those are hefty costs. voice-verified

Putting a label on everything as voice-verified

This obviously the cattle doesn't go straight from the ranch to your uh refrigerator. voice-verified

There's many steps along the way, and these labels add up another estimate, put it at eight billion dollars in costs over a decade to the beef and cattle industry. voice-verified

And then when you talk to consumers, they're like, We don't actually care where the beef is from. voice-verified

Maybe they say they do, but actually, when they go purchase one, it doesn't really affect them. voice-verified

On a list of voice-verified

Things that do matter to them, place of origin regularly finishes finishes second to last, only ahead of environmental impact and what people care about when they buy beef. voice-verified

It's much more important to them, whether it's high quality, safe, things like that, rather than whatever country it came from. voice-verified

And we were talking before the show, it's also the the beef, the the ground beef that you buy, it doesn't come from a single place because I know I noted that uh voice-verified

The Trump administration is bringing in 300,000 metric chuns of lean beef trimmings. voice-verified

You can't eat that on your own. voice-verified

Basically, you combine that with the fatty trimmings from I know you're s you're grimacing right now. voice-verified

A lot of people are grimacing. voice-verified

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