I'm sure you were just being facetious in your earlier post, Thomas, as I'm sure you also know that Australia runs some of the largest herds of beef cattle in the world. (So does NZ.) Makes the herds on US ranches look like teeny conglomerates of beef cattle. The USA, btw, imports huge amounts of beef from both Australia and New Zealand. McDonald's hamburgers are largely made from New Zealand beef. The American variety is too fatty for a profitable hamburger. I well recall that some years back, when Congress was debating new import duties on foreign-raised beef, the National Resturant Association lobbied non-stop against this measure, claiming it would either put some American restaurant chains out of business or else raise their prices to a level that would compete with the four-star variety of establishment. (The proposed tariff didn't get passed.) Aussie beef is so famous that there's a small chain of steak-houses in the USA now called The Outback. (I dined at the Outback in Quincy, Massachusetts a couple of years ago and wasn't too impressed. But, then again, the waitperson didn't know for sure whether the steak she was serving was imported or domestic.
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