{"id":235696,"date":"2026-01-09T07:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T07:49:11","slug":"farmers-in-cork-warn-mercosur-deal-could-flood-ireland-with-stinking-rotten-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/235696\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers in Cork warn Mercosur deal could flood Ireland with \u2018stinking rotten meat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Thousands of farmers are due to take part in a peaceful protest over food safety and farm livelihoods\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aerial view of cattle on a farm in Brazil. Photo: Jonne Roriz\/Bloomberg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IB Brazil beef (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Aerial view of cattle on a farm in Brazil. Photo: Jonne Roriz\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the leading organisers of a mass protest, which is expected to see thousands of farmers block the roads around Ireland\u2019s most central town on Saturday, says a new deal between the European Union and a bloc of South American countries could see \u2018stinking rotten meat\u2019 mass-imported into Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins says that Ireland\u2019s food producers are at the end of their tether regarding the agreement, which will see hundreds of thousands of tonnes of beef and poultry exported to Ireland from countries like Argentina and Brazil, profiting from a reduced tariff due to be included in the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of farmers are due to take part in a peaceful protest over food safety and farm livelihoods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[119981,119980,895,61,3928,60,1718,43],"class_list":["post-235696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-agri-business-eu","tag-agri-food","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-ifa","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-galvin","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}