jeremy radachowsky 💚🌱

America spent $800M and 60 years eradicating screwworm. Cartels reseeded it in 2.5 years — 800,000 smuggled cattle a year, fake tags, zero inspections. USDA's answer? $100 million for drones to surveil American cattle. Not the cartels. Us. Read more👇 beefnews.org/sixty-years-cle…

7 confirmed cases of screwworm. Yesterday it was 5. The day before, 3. Two states. All originating from cartel-controlled ranches south of the border. BeefMaps.com has been tracking cartel cattle corridors for over a year. Now screwworm is in Texas. The parasite moved through the same routes the cattle did. InSight Crime confirmed it: outbreak hotspots mirror the smuggling routes. 800,000 head a year smuggled through Mexico with falsified paperwork, no quarantine, no traceability. CJNG doesn't just extort ranchers — they charge 5 pesos per kilo on export animals. They access live herd data through RFID tags. They run regional managers embedded in Mexico's legal export system. Cattle bought for $650 in Central America, resold for $1,500 in Texas. A $1.2 billion shadow market. The parasite isn't the only thing hiding in plain sight. The "Product of USA" rule changed in January. Packers can now only use that label if the animal was born, raised, harvested, AND processed in the US. The old loophole where imported beef got stamped "Product of USA" just for being processed here? Gone. But it's still voluntary. Packers don't have to tell you anything. They can just leave the label off. Imported beef from cartel corridors can sit in your grocery store with zero origin disclosure. MCOOL — mandatory country of origin labeling — would fix that. Every cut, labeled. Born where. Raised where. Slaughtered where. No exceptions. H.R. 5818 is sitting in Congress right now. The screwworm made this urgent. The cartel corridors made it obvious.