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Mike Rounds: “The beef coming into the United States, boxed beef could be…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Washington Post Live Interview with Senator Mike Rounds on Meatpacking, Cybersecurity, and Voting Rights

Published | Video Starts at 05:08

In this particular case, with the pandemic, when they had to shut down because of the COVID 19, we saw significant spikes for consumers in the grocery store. But something else also happened. The beef coming into the United States, boxed beef could be repackaged under existing Department of Ag rules and sold with a voluntary label of product of the USA on it. Now think about that a little bit. You want to talk about false advertising, you can bring boxed beef, that's frozen beef, brought into the United States from other countries. (05:08–05:23)

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Asserts that imported boxed beef can be labeled as a product of the USA.

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