Скачать или смотреть The Livestock Crisis: Canadian Veterinary Drugs Keep American Meat Industry Alive

American cattle feedlots, hog operations, and chicken facilities depend on a pharmaceutical supply chain they don't control—and most don't even know exists. The antibiotics, vaccines, and anti-parasitic drugs that prevent mass die-offs in crowded industrial livestock conditions come overwhelmingly from Canadian manufacturers in Quebec and Ontario. Without these drugs, disease spreads instantly, animals die by the thousands, and meat production collapses within weeks. The United States allowed its domestic veterinary pharmaceutical capacity to erode over decades, choosing cheap imports over strategic resilience. Now, as Trump's trade wars strain the relationship with Canada and Canadian companies diversify into European and Asian markets, America's $200 billion meat industry faces a vulnerability it cannot quickly fix: one supply disruption away from empty grocery cases and price spikes that would make recent inflation look mild.