In recent weeks, several media outlets have transmitted widespread anxiety and panic to American consumers about a “flesh-eating screwworm” that is allegedly destroying cattle herds and driving up beef prices.
As of June 2026, six cases of New World Screwworm (NWS) were reported in the United States. You read that accurately. 6 CASES IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.
ABC News reported on June 11, 2026:
According to the most recent data from the USDA, six cases of New World screwworm (NWS) have been found among animals in the United States since the beginning of the month, including four cattle, one goat, and a dog.
In a press conference on Monday, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins acknowledged that the goat was the most recent example of New World screwworm infestation.
Based on these few cases of screwworm infection in the United States, the government is doing what it usually does when there is a “deadly disease outbreak,” putting in place a plan of action that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, which will then go into the US economy to stop this “breakout.”
So that’s one of the first things you need to know about the rising cost of beef in the United States. When the Trump administration blocked the border to both immigrants who provide work for these massive cattle enterprises and to Mexican cows crossing, it harmed the US beef supply, leading prices to rise.
Immigrant livestock laborers were detained in Mexico, but they made the best of the situation by processing the cows themselves and importing them into the United States as steaks and hamburgers!
But Mexico was not the only country to benefit from Trump’s initiatives. From the Reuters report:
The rising cost of beef has become an affordability issue for consumers ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, as they also deal with rising fuel prices.
President Donald Trump has attempted to solve the issue by encouraging cattle ranchers to cut their prices, directing the Department of Justice to investigate meatpackers, and permitting low-tariff imports from Argentina. A greater cow herd in the United States, however, would assist to push down prices even further.
U.S. meatpackers are waiting for American cattle producers to grow their herds in order to increase beef output, which can take up to two years.
Producers said Trump’s drive for increased low-tariff beef imports from Argentina made it more difficult to persuade them to rebuild herds.
The measure irritated ranchers, but it did not reduce consumer prices.
The U.S. government is spending approximately $1 billion to combat the Plandemic Screwworm “Outbreak”. While disadvantaged children and orphans eat from trash cans, MAGA…
