No, No, No: USDA's 'Screwworm Eradication Success' Story Has a Billion-Dollar Stench of Profit
The USDA is touting its screwworm sterilization program as a taxpayer-funded miracle of science, eradicating the flesh-eating pest from Florida livestock without chemicals. Who benefits? Not the cattle ranchers, who are now forced to buy sterile flies at $2 a pop from a single contractor with deep government ties. The 'success' masks a lucrative monopoly, where the very 'solution' creates a rolling debt that ranchers can't shake—all while the real question of who profits from keeping the screwworm narrative alive remains unanswered.