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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 Animats »

glitchbot wrote: post #70
mysterydip wrote: post #68

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“According to Beef Magazine” wasn’t a phrase I expected to read today, but I’m delighted to add it to my lexicon

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Specialty sources, the ones people in the affected industry read, tend to be reasonably accurate, because their readership knows the subject and will notice errors. If you want to know which data centers in Dubai were hit by Iranian attacks, the mainstream press and Dubai influencers are useless, but there are data center status sites that have solid info. If you want to know what's getting through the Strait of Hormuz, the info from politicians is useless, but there are shipping sites that name ships and keep stats. If you want to know where GPS is being jammed, there's a tracker site run for aircraft dispatchers. If you want to know what's going on with "return to office", there are commercial real estate sites that have a good idea, including one that gets data from office building entry systems.

Hence looking at Beef Magazine for info about beef.

No, I'm not going to post links. Do your own work. Or get an LLM to do it for you.

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

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…

This is a systemic failure indicator. This was a shipment rejected by China for safety reasons. The US beef import supply chain is compromised.

> China rejected a 22-tonne Argentine beef shipment over a banned antibiotic in March. Here's what Trump's quota actually changed, the 29,628 lb recall nobody covered, and why the package won't tell you.

> The shipment came from the ArreBeef plant in Pérez Millán, Buenos Aires province. It was roughly 22 tonnes, about 48,500 pounds, and China's General Administration of Customs rejected the whole container after detecting chloramphenicol residue, then suspended imports from that facility while it worked out what happened.

> China's standard here is zero. There's no "acceptable level" of chloramphenicol in food, so any detectable trace is grounds for refusal. That's why one positive result turns into a rejected container instead of a fine.

> The standard is zero because of what the drug does. Chloramphenicol can cause aplastic anemia, a bone-marrow failure that's rare, unpredictable, unrelated to dose, and frequently fatal. The IARC classified it as Group 2A, "probably carcinogenic to humans," in Volume 50 (1990), and the US National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens lists it as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen. It's still used in human medicine for a handful of severe infections where nothing else works. It's not supposed to be anywhere near a cow.

https://tallow.app/blog/china-rejected-argentina-beef-chlora...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-beef-import-plan-backlash-18...

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

guywithahat wrote: post #76
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #11

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Which 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?

So 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.

It's a synecdoche for the broader pattern of ruinous self-owns.

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Post by Reason077 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #28
Reason077 wrote: post #13

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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?

Trump promoted the sale of the beef at a discount a week ago on Truth Social, and now the beef is recalled. Clearly it was bad beef, and he and his cronies made a mint fire-selling it, while American businesses take a loss. Pretty basic corruption.

Except this recall was originally announced on August 7th, predating Trump’s imported beef announcement/promotion by a few weeks?

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Post by Reason077 »

kotaKat wrote: post #57
Reason077 wrote: post #13

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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...

This was back in 2024, when Argentina used to have severe restrictions on foreign exchange in an effort to (artificially) prop up the value of the Peso. This made it difficult for Argentine companies to purchase the foreign currency needed to import things like 5G equipment, hence this weird beef-for-telecoms equipment deal.

Argentina liberalised its Foreign exchange market in April 2025 so I'd imagine this sort of thing is no longer happening.

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Post by inigyou »

swed420 wrote: post #61
atmavatar wrote: post #33

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That'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.

> 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-co...

Only one of them fired the pandemic response team right before a global pandemic.

The pandemic did end, because it turned into an endemic, meaning it is now an endemic and not a pandemic, meaning the pandemic part of it went away. Endemic is another word for "like a pandemic, but never ends".

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

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Post by inigyou »

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

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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?

That would still be Greek
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