JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - If you have beef on your grocery list, your bill may have risen recently. President Donald Trump is suggesting the answer could be importing more beef from Argentina.

Local cattle farmers are pushing back on the idea.

“More beef does not mean that you’re going to have a lower price,” explained Gale Martin, a proud cattle farmer.

Gale said he is concerned about the talks of bringing in more beef from Argentina. He also questions the safety of that meat.

“Americans have the safest product out there in our beef,” Martin continued. “We don’t know, with foot-and-mouth disease that has been in Argentina. We’ve been foot-and-mouth disease free since, I believe, 1929. If we get a disease brought into this and then shut our markets down totally, you hadn’t seen what the

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