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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 swed420 »

atmavatar wrote: post #33
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…

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...

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

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Post by inemesitaffia »

burnt-resistor wrote: post #58

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 ye…

It hasn't been inspected

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

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Post by noir_lord »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #19
inigyou wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would those be the high prices he created by importing millions of invasive foreign screw worm flies?

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…

> He could literally have done nothing and it would have been better.

Struggling to find a policy where that doesn't apply.

If he'd gotten elected and then gone and lived on the golf course for four years it's hard to argue things would be worse on the other side of the pond.

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

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Post by inemesitaffia »

testdelacc1 wrote: post #19
inigyou wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would those be the high prices he created by importing millions of invasive foreign screw worm flies?

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…

The screwworm thing is straight up misinformation end to end.

I remember looking into it when it happened.

It's believed the vector is smuggled cows/beef.

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

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Post by throwaway173738 »

expedition32 wrote: post #56
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.

The government controls imports by tariffs and inspections and so on.

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

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Post by mysterydip »

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…

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

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

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Post by stockresearcher »

tacomagick wrote: post #59
sdcfgy wrote: post #50

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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.

Yeah, North American chefs will generally call the base a mirepoix, but it’s got different names in different languages. It turns out that this soup base concept is remarkably similar across cultures and continents (though the actual vegetables used are based on what’s grown locally).

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

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Post by glitchbot »

mysterydip wrote: post #68
Animats wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

“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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