The Washington Post reports that the USDA has committed about $5 million of bailout funds to buy 1.8 million pounds of pork products from the Brazilian meatpacker, JBS.
The bailout funds were supposed to help U.S. commodity producers who lost sales because of the tariff disputes with China.
JBS is the biggest meat seller in the U.S. It employs 73,000 people here.
Maybe the USDA thought it was an American company?
Globalization in action…
This is to launch my new memoir: Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. This is a n NYU Fales Library event, in conversation with food consultant, Clark Wolf.
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