Jun 26, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – The local livestock industry has always had its challenges but there was a time when the livestock farmer could earn a decent living. The cattle rancher braved droughts, floods, rustlers, marauding jaguars and government promises. The poultry farmer rose before dawn, tended his birds, borrowed from the bank, prayed for no outbreak of disease and hoped that the market would reward his efforts.

Today, many of these farmers are discovering that the greatest threat to their existence is not nature, not disease and not even incompetence. It is a truckload of beef and chicken imported – and in some cases smuggled – from Brazil.