I source meat from US ranchers. Here's why Trump's plan to lower beef prices worries me.

Ben Spell is the founder of Good Rancher, Courtesy of Ben Spell Ben Spell cofounded Good Ranchers, an American meat and seafood delivery subscription company.

Spell said beef is too expensive for American families, but importing more meat isn't the solution.

He said Trump's plan highlights the need for country-of-origin laws on meat products.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ben Spell, the founder of Good Ranchers, a meat and seafood delivery subscription company that sources all its products from American ranchers.

This month, President Donald Trump said he would allow up to 300,000 metric tons of beef to be imported into the US with no out-of-quota tariff over the next 90 days.

Trump said he would also allow ranchers and farmers to process their own meat.

The article has been edited for length and clarity.

My wife and I started Good Ranchers in 2018.

Before that, I was a worship pastor and worked at one of the largest churches in Houston.

Around 2015, after a Sunday service, God just put in my heart not to take a salary from the church.

I was like, "Well, what does that mean?" I had this idea to make a meat company.

At the end of 2017, we just had our first baby boy, and I was getting ready for service.

I came out of the bathroom, and I told my wife, "I think God told me to start a meat company," thinking she was going to go, "We just had a baby.

We don't know anything about this." Instead, she said, "If you heard God, then I trust you." I resigned at the end of that year, and in February, I started selling meat out of the back of a refrigerated box truck.