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USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by testdelacc1 »

athrowaway3z wrote: post #38
testdelacc1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of 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 bee…

Did you just forget about Iran?

I think Iran was an enormous blunder that hurt everyone around the world, and will for a long time. But at least I can see what he was aiming for - the acclaim for winning a war and bringing a long time foe to heel. He was sold an easy war by Netanyanhu and being gullible he was easily convinced.

There was a reasonable, desirable goal he was aiming for.

But this screwworm thing is so stupid simply because there was no upside to it. It just hurt Americans, especially Trump voters. No one benefited other than screwworms now feasting on American cattle.

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by testdelacc1 »

blitzar wrote: post #47
testdelacc1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of 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 bee…

Remember he ended the brutal unsolvable war between Azerbaijan and Albania - when you are operating on that level you get a pass for these minor oversights.

Poor Albania, drawn into a war they didn’t even know they were a part of until Trump mentioned it.

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by testdelacc1 »

Loudergood wrote: post #21
testdelacc1 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of 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 bee…

Doge was full of these, just in areas that you don't understand.

Yeah 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.

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by expedition32 »

JohnTHaller wrote: post #4

Meanwhile, 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.

Wait I thought the US was a free market economy? The government doesn't import anything that's what supermarkets do.

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by kotaKat »

Reason077 wrote: post #13
frogperson wrote: post #7

can 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.

What makes you think this is “evil and self-serving”? It affects a relatively small quantity of specific products from a specific supplier with specific use-by dates. In any case, this is Argentinian beef, not Canadian or something. Isn’t the US administration pretty friendly with the right-wing populist Argentinian government?

So there's some context as well with Argentina beef.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ra...

Argentina's been paying Huawei for 5G gear and services with beef direct to China, who's been selling it via Huawei stores (see https://www.huaweimossel.com/).

Earlier in March a shipment of ~22 tons of beef was rejected by China for having antibiotics in it and was 'contaminated'.

Follow the trail...

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by burnt-resistor »

So 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

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by tacomagick »

sdcfgy wrote: post #50
jonathanstrange wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technically 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.

Salad of Theseus?

Reminds me of the chefs that take a base soup and just change/add a single ingredient to make bunch of other soups just to fill their food schedule quotas for the month since they cannot serve the same soup every day.

Re: USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

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Post by blooalien »

Animats wrote: post #34
blooalien wrote: post #24

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> 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-co...

About 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 repor…

> About 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.

I'm fine with "about 700 pounds", but that's still not too far off from the 30k pounds the original comment stated for around 50 cows (just over a bit instead of under a bit), so it still holds true that their guesstimate isn't all that far off-base.

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