Republican influencer Tomi Lahren took to social media several times this week to chastise the administration’s move toward importing beef from Argentina, calling it a betrayal of “our American ranchers” and igniting a wave of viral reaction. In one post she wrote: “PLEASE Mr. President, reconsider your plan to import foreign beef from Argentina. Our AMERICAN ranchers don’t deserve this.”

Lahren claimed the threat to U.S. ranchers is dire, arguing: “The meat packers are already undercutting our AMERICAN producers as it is.” Yahoo found critics online, and their argument seems to be that the outrage reveals more about media branding than substance. Beef experts say that Argentina’s beef exports are just a small fraction of U.S. consumption and won’t instantaneously collapse the domestic ra

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