The flesh-eating parasite we wiped out 60 years ago is back across the border, and suddenly everyone's a parasitologist. We're taking the spotlight off the grandstanders and Internet experts and putting it back on the ranchers who beat NWS before—and will again. Full episode with Dr. Rich Brazil (40-yr large-animal vet). 👇

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.

New World Screwworm started with drug cartel controlled ranches. USDA and Mexican TIF plants turn a blind eye. If Americans knew where their beef came from, they could CHOOSE not to support those countries. DEMAND MCOOL. BUY LOCAL BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com

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.

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.

Having to collect the herd and inject them every couple of weeks is a real issue.