How Lambs Became Conversation Between Super-Power Leaders

NEW YORK CITY, NY – How do two major world leaders at the United Nations (UN) end up talking about lambs?

“That one took me by surprise,” says Chase Adams with the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI).

The U.S. is a heavy lamb importing country with 61 percent of the lambs sold in the country (in 2020) originating from outside the nation.

The world leaders were in town for the 76th UN General Assembly and President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Boris Johnson (UK) that the United States will reopen the import market to British lambs – a market has been closed for more than 30 years following an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow disease).

Ironically, beef imports from the UK were banned in 1996 for the same reason, but it was lifted just over a year ago.
(SOURCE: All Ag News)