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What's the Beef with Screwworm?

Jun 10, 202629 min
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Episode description

After being eradicated in the United States in the ‘60s, screwworm is back—at a time when beef is even more in demand and the American herd is already depleted. How long will consumers be forced to choose between high prices and, ugh, turkey burgers?


Guest: Kevin Draper, New York Times business correspondent covering the agricultural industry.


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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Madeline Ducharme, Patrick Fort, Rob Gunther and Paige Osburn.



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