Pretty sure that the Rolling Stones has a whole song about where this “beef” is coming from.
Just read “Tender is the Flesh” . If they start advertising it as special meat, know its people
Wild horses slaughtered = mystery beef.
grade F general purpose meat
now with more horse parts
(only used non diseased parts of diseased animals)
My friend had a great theory that it’s the horses being put to slaughter.
I was just saying this to my wife yesterday!
Can we test the beef to determine what animal it came from?
I read an article today that there was tons of tainted beef that China turned down back in the spring. I forget which country has it. There is speculation that the US has bought it after that country called US to make deal. I will see if I can find the article.
Edit here is an article about it.
No surprise that it’s Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.
Finally, Trump made access to medecin free…
Yeah, if I still lived in the US, I think I’d be ordering the chicken for the time being. Just say “Neigh” to Trump’s mystery meat.
And get salmonella? I think I’d go veggie, better for .e and the planet too.
If you’re looking to avoid salmonella, I have bad news about the veggies in the US.
But I take your point about a vegetarian diet being more sustainable. I’m slowly moving in that direction.
Mystery beef.
Wild horses rounded up and disappeared.
He’s just running the old TESCO special, ain’t he?
China wouldn’t take this tainted beef so ofc the shithead does. Probably pat himself on the back for thinking about the little guy…
Fucking moron. What’s going to be next that we can’t eat? Fruit? Potatoes? Bread???
@switcheroo @inclementimmigrant
‘Illegal Aliens’
And they can’t sell American beef to China anymore because well - you know. Before I went to Sam’s club in Shanghai it was mainly USDA beef. Now there is no American beef at all. Only Australian. Which I prefer anyway. It’s much better quality and less chemicals inside.
BTW China last week rejected a shipment of Argentinan beef because of banned antibiotics so perhaps it will get rerouted to the US. Where the regime clearly does not care about food safety standards anymore.
Basically, American beef is a hard sell outside the US because it is full of things that don’t belong in food in many countries. Of the thousands of beef farmers in the US, there is barely a dozen qualified to deliver beef to the EU. Think about it.
Did China ever buy it?
The reason why people don’t want it is that it doesn’t meet standards, generally with disease prevention.
That’s why we don’t buy it here in Australia. We would if it met our standards but it never does.
And frankly I wouldn’t buy US beef in Australia anyway. Aussie beef is great, probably second only to New Zealand beef to be honest.
Yeah what we do well here is a high grade, standard product.
The quality is very high for the price.
The Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown in the Midwest is going to fuck Republicans…
Not because of the 2-3k workers, not because of the increased price consumers pay.
But all the livestock owners who suddenly have nowhere near to slaughter cattle at scale are fucked. Couple that with flooding the market with Argentinian beef, and a lot of Republican voters are going to stay home for midterms.
They might not admit to themselves they want Republicans to lose majorities, and they’ll likely spend the next two years bitching about Dems. But a lot of them just won’t find the time to vote when they’re getting fucked this blatantly
Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown
That is primarily a consequence of immigration crackdowns. Beef inflation up 9% while cattle is down 9%+
this is an insight I hadn’t considered.
makes intuitive sense but do you have any links or references so people can learn more?
I thought drought was a major factor in beef supply drop but it’s probably multiple things
Meat packing is heavily biased towards foreign born workers. The companies have complained about high labour costs.
Cattle prices are from futures market charts. The typical market price effects from narratives of “high beef demand” and “Cattle shortages” would be higher cattle prices.
The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.
Now, they don’t have the herds to supply the demand, and you can’t just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.
The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.
you can’t just magick more cows into existence.
well maybe YOU can’t
neither can I but if we can find the asshat who can but isn’t…
And if it came from Argentina like everyone is suspecting, it might be contaminated. It’s not like he’d care if it was.
China rejects Argentine beef due to chloramphenicol: investigation and internal consumption crisis
On March 19, the General Administration of Customs of China suspended a shipment of 22 tons of beef from the slaughterhouse ArreBeef in Pérez Millán (Buenos Aires), after detecting the presence of chloramphenicol, an antibiotic banned in Argentine livestock production since 1995 due to its risks to human health.
The measure raised concerns in the agro-export chain and immediately activated diplomatic and technical channels between both countries.
Nice investigative work - this is the first I’ve heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.
This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.
Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:
Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.
There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.
Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.
To be clear, I didn’t do the investigative work. It was linked in the original Raw Story article: https://www.rawstory.com/beef-import-2677774264/
These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)
I’m stocking up on cat food before this shit ends up killing all of our pets.
It’s primarily going to be put in animal food and processed foods.
Frozen pizzas. Tv dinners. Canned soups.
Sold to restaurants from their bulk suppliers. Especially fast food places.
Packaged frozen hamburger patties at grocery stores.
Any type of frozen meals with beef.
The big rolls of frozen hamburger.
It’s going to be hard to avoid it but not impossible.
Avoid any beef you can’t determine where it came from.
The good news is that they’ve slashed the CDC’s capability of tracking food-borne illness.
And stopped testing food for contaminants at all
I’d just become vegetarian if the veggies weren’t also toxic. Republicans really have turned this place into a shit hole
And in this case, literally.
You can cook the vegetables
Idk if this always gets out toxic pesticides. Like the kind that other countries ban that we don’t.
Probably helps with the bacteria outbreaks though.
If you’re not already watching this guy, I recommend you start. He’s pretty good. He says there’s no way Argentina can produce and export 300k tons of beef in 3 months and it almost certainly comes from Brazil. He also explains why.
So don’t eat beef. Or jalapeños. Or lettuce. Or granola. Or blueberries.
Just don’t eat. It’s American roulette. The number of recent recalls due to broken glass contamination in everything from popsicles to bread has also risen, but I can understand not being up to speed when the entire food supply is slowly becoming hazardous to your health.
Definitely avoid Driscolls
The hell happened to granola?
Though, I’m also realizing I don’t really know what granola is… Is it its own plant?
What in the world are these factories doing that they managed to contaminate granola?!
Ah, “organic moringa powder”! They add that after the granola is baked!
And My axe
Its coming from the US where they store huge amounts of frozen beef to keep the price high. I know they did that with pork a few years back.
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