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Brooke Rollins: “In America, we consume about 12 million metric tons of beef…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Is that a possibility? Well, the President has mentioned it a couple of times. I think you'll be hearing more about exactly what that looks like right now. In America, we consume about 12 million metric tons of beef. 10 million of that we produce here in America. But the 2 million I'm talking about, we've been offshoring. And there's different parts of that. You know, what McDonald's buys and ground beef versus the actual muscle cuts, which is what a lot of Americans. (08:55–09:04)

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Asserts that the U.S. consumes 12 million metric tons of beef, producing 10 million domestically.

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