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USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida
- drgo 1mo ago[flagged]
- inigyou 1mo agoThat's the problem. Cows aren't kept in stables.
- popularrecluse 1mo ago[flagged]
- JohnTHaller 1mo agoMeanwhile, the administration is planning to import 661,000,000 lbs of beef to try to reduce record high prices but refuses to say where it will come from.
- ButlerianJihad 1mo agoCows, hopefully
- mech422 1mo agogreen cows ?
- inigyou 1mo agoWould those be the high prices he created by importing millions of invasive foreign screw worm flies?
- testdelacc1 1mo agoOf all the many things he did, I argue that this is the stupidest, most pointless and damaging thing he did. There was no upside to doing it. He went out of his way to destroy a program that had been running successfully out of sheer stupidity. He mainly hurt his voters (cattle farmers in rural areas), not democrats. It hurt him on the biggest issue he ran on - inflation. It was a massive unforced error that he’s been scrambling for months to fix. He could literally have done nothing and it would have been better. Almost all of his other missteps and mistakes can be rationalised - there was some benefit to himself or someone who bribed him or voted for him. But this screwworm thing just perfectly encapsulates him as a person and his presidency as a whole - something works well for 70 years to protect Americans and he destroys it through malicious incompetence. More info about how the program worked - America’s never ending battle against flesh eating worms (2020) - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...
- Loudergood 1mo agoDoge was full of these, just in areas that you don't understand.
- testdelacc1 1mo agoYeah ok, that’s very plausible. I’m limited my by knowledge, so this screwworm thing is the worst, most pointless blunder that I know of.
- atmavatar 1mo agoThat's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes are not a red line for a significant fraction of the voting public.
- swed420 1mo ago> That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands for the intentional mishandling of the pandemic (which has not ended) in the name of propping up our archaic consumption-first economies. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...
- TranquilMarmot 1mo agoNo better time to consider going vegetarian or cutting out red meat, even one day a week can make a huge difference.
- goshx 1mo agoOn an unrelated note, the government is rounding up protected wild horses and sending them to slaughterhouses.
- beloch 1mo agoThe imported beef will most likely come from all the usual suppliers. Australia. New Zealand. Argentina, right after a recall of Argentinian beef. Canada, just as Trump is renaming bodies of water and raising taxes on his own citizens to spite. etc..
- expedition32 1mo agoWait I thought the US was a free market economy? The government doesn't import anything that's what supermarkets do.
- throwaway173738 1mo agoThe government controls imports by tariffs and inspections and so on.
- buildsjets 1mo agoWell, at least we can all enjoy a healthy salad instead.
- inigyou 1mo agoUh, about that...
- mikestorrent 1mo agoIf people would stop putting lettuce in Greek salads we'd be FINE
- sdcfgy 1mo agoThat’s quite possibly the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
- Iolaum 1mo agoWhat? lettuce is not part of the traditional greek salad recipe.
- sdcfgy 1mo agoExactly. It's a travesty that people are putting lettuce in Greek salad.
- jonathanstrange 1mo agoTechnically speaking, you cannot put lettuce in a Greek salad because it will by definition cease to be a Greek salad once lettuce has been added. Edit: Wait a moment. You can put lettuce i a Greek salad. It just happens not to be a Greek salad afterwards. A subtle difference.
- sdcfgy 1mo ago
- frogperson 1mo agocan this administration just do a single thing that isn't evil and self serving? it bogles my mind that every single thing they do is just awful.
- ajross 1mo agoHonestly more than half of this sort of mess is incompetence rather than malice. But... yeah, sigh. Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like.
- guywithahat 1mo ago> Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like You mean reading about beef recalls? Yeah they'll be shocked
- add-sub-mul-div 1mo agoWhich interpretation of your comment do you think makes you look better: that you're pretending not to understand the point being made, or that you truly don't understand the point being made?
- boolol 1mo ago[flagged]
- guywithahat 1mo agoSo you think this comment: > Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like Is appropriate for recalling ~30 cows worth of beef? There is no secret point being made, it's just average things happening while certain people overreact.
- add-sub-mul-div 1mo agoYou're expected to understand at a high level the incompetence and corruption that's being referenced as having led to this. You can disagree with the take, but being ignorant of it doesn't make sense.
- usefulcat 1mo ago"Since Trump’s announcement, Detwiler said, online discussion has fueled confusion about what is happening with beef imports and the recall." Articles like this one aren't exactly helping either.
- Animats 1mo agoThat's only about 50 cows. This isn't a big recall. Total slaughter of cows in Texas is about 1.8 million head per year.
- cosmicgadget 1mo agoYou can get 30k pounds of beef from 50 cows?
- abstractbeliefs 1mo ago30,000 split 50 ways is 800lbs per cow (270kg), seems not unrealistic. Even if you halve the yield to 400lbs then it's only 100 cows
- sehansen 1mo ago800 lbs is 360 kg, but I think you meant 600 lbs per cow. Still seems realistic.
- blooalien 1mo ago> You can get 30k pounds of beef from 50 cows? This article [1] says you get about 500-ish pounds of beef from one cow, so 25,000-ish pounds from 50 cows? They weren't massively far off the mark there. [1]: https://cattledaily.com/how-much-meat-do-you-get-from-one-cow/ https://cattledaily.com/how-much-meat-do-you-get-from-one-co...
- Animats 1mo agoAbout 500 pounds of "take home packaged beef". At the import level it's usually "hanging weight" of a beef carcass before butchering, about 700 pounds. In this case, according to Beef Magazine [1], there had been some preliminary butchering at the sending end , with the take home packages to be made up at the local supermarket, which would result in some midrange weight per cow. More to the point, Beef Magazine reports this as an ordinary inspection failure event. It's a recall because, for some reason, the beef didn't go through USDA incoming inspection, and this wasn't discovered until three months later, long after the beef had been sold, and probably consumed. That's a failure of Customs and Border Protection, which is supposed to make sure that doesn't happen. Beef Magazine says that's an automatic trigger for a Class I recall. It's not a political decision. Unlike the CBS article, the Beef Magazine article names the shipper and gives the lot numbers of the recalled beef. The Beef Magazine author has a degree in agricultural production, teaches Animal and Range Science at Montana State University, and worked their way up from cattle ranch foreman to director of Montana’s Beef Quality Assurance program. He probably knows something about beef. The CBS author has a degree in Law and Public Policy and has given a TED talk. His LinkedIn profile says he is "one of America's leading food safety advocates." I'd go with what Beef Magazine says here. [1] https://www.beefmagazine.com/market-news/argentine-beef-recalled https://www.beefmagazine.com/market-news/argentine-beef-reca...
- King-Aaron 1mo agoJust remember that a big part of project 2025 was to reduce oversight in the food industry to disrupt trust in the system. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/project-2025-plan-for-trump-presidency-has-far-reaching-threats-to-science/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/project-2025-plan...
- Scoundreller 1mo agobig GLP-1 has gone a bit too far
- anevst 1mo agoAm I the only one that finds the ”30 kilo pounds” quite entertaining?
- burnt-resistor 1mo agoSo about this quota* of imported beef of secret origin(s) that won't meet regulations: I guess it will be a gamble which will contain e. coli, s. aureus, salmonella, listeria, or mad cow, given that country of origin (CoO) labeling nor lot codes aren't required for retail, processed food, or restaurant sale for ground beef. It can be produced with absolutely zero standards. * Quota amount of ground beef is 6.7% of yearly consumption: 330k short tons / 660M lbs / 300M kg US ground beef consumption per year: 4.89M short tons / 9.77B lbs / 4.43B kg
- inemesitaffia 1mo agoIt hasn't been inspected
- burnt-resistor 1mo agoSo it could be horse, UK style.
- inemesitaffia 1mo agoDefinitely. I remember that