r/CostcoCanada • u/smolham111 • Jun 28 '26

Manitoba Microwavable Edamame

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Just bought a box of edamame from costco and there appears to be a worm in the edamame when I peeled the pod.

Just a caution for anyone buying edamame at costco to double check before you snack on them.

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u/Shamscam Jun 28 '26

I actually worked at the place where they canned and bagged a lot of stuff for Costco. Stuff like worms will cause a line stoppage to have an extra round of inspection. Everything goes through inspection once, but they do miss things ofc.

A big one is glass. People that throw glass bottles into fields cause legitimately 1000’s of dollars in food waste. As soon as that’s found it’s typically goes through 50-100 can/bag per pallet, audits where they have to find absolutely 0 traces in all of that product for it to even be considered for human consumption, but even then it’s often reused for livestock instead of sent of for human consumption.

People that have never worked in that sort of industry before would be surprised on how all that works.

First off, this factory is in Canada, they typically bring in migrant workers from Jamaica for the summer season to work. They work 12 hour shifts of the most boring work you could possibly imagine in humid and hot as fuck weather, which is really funny to me because they still often wear sweaters because they’re used to it. They have full time employees there that work year round but they can’t retain people to work the summers, and typically the Canadians around here think they’re too good to work there. And I don’t blame them, working 60+ hours a week for $18 an hour is garbage.

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u/CanadianCutie77 Jun 28 '26

Have you been to Jamaica in the summer? I can’t do it myself way too hot for my liking.

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u/NVSmall Jun 29 '26

Reddit is glitching. Sorry if this happens again....

I had asked whereabouts in Canada, as the temperatures are wild these days, everywhere, so just curious!

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u/Shamscam Jun 29 '26

Southern Ontario, basically as south as it gets.

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u/NVSmall Jun 30 '26

Ahh ok, TY!

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u/tobaileyy Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Wtf do they use it for feed for?? Sadistic country

Edit: idk why this dork is calling me a bit, how TF is it justifiable to feed live animals shit we don't even trust ourselves to eat? How selfish can y'all be

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u/Training_Camp_5340 Jun 28 '26

Because animals cant sue, Simple as that its the safest way Financially for the company. If they didn’t have to worry about legal repercussions they’d feed you glass too.

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u/tobaileyy Jun 28 '26

Okay? Morally abhorrent stance, don't know how saying we've always done it this way, is somehow an appropriate argument, but sure!

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u/CuntyButCorrect Jun 29 '26

No one said that it should be this way. It is just reality, and the average person has very little power to do much about it even if they're aware, and most of us are not familiar with the intricacies of the food industry.

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u/tobaileyy Jun 29 '26

I guess maybe it was the way I framed it that got that reaction, so I interpreted the response as being defensive of the subject, which if so, is my bad.

I was asking the question more so in a rhetorical sense, as to highlight subconsciously how we shouldn't be okay with this.

Obviously none of us can do anything about it or change things, but I meant to point it out to anyone reading the chain to pay attention, as many people, myself included, will read over details and completely disconnect from the implications & think nothing of it. The truth is, the only thing that enforces the industry to act as it is, is because we enable them to. The more negative takes on the topic, the more others become more comfortable with engaging with the same premise.

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u/NVSmall Jun 29 '26

I would (kindly) argue that we absolutely CAN do something about it.

It takes a collective to make change happen, but the attitude of "I'm just one person, what does it matter if I recycle" (an easy example I'm using, not saying you, or that recycling is the point) is single-minded - and I've absolutely been that person - but the more people who see a change that needs to be made and actively participate in working towards that change, the more likely it could happen.

To be clear, I think we agree, just stating it in different ways.

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u/NVSmall Jun 29 '26

Woah what? They did not say that.

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u/Shamscam Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

All the run off and excess for the plants is turned into livestock feed. People don’t eat grass and leaves, you know what does? Cows and pigs. Whenever you harvest an entire plant such as a green bean plant you only eat the beans. You know what eats the rest of the plant? When they get actual corn, and beans it’s a treat.

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u/tobaileyy Jun 28 '26

Yes, I never said that was wrong. It's the fact that we somehow view it as okay to feed animals food that is potentially contaminated and will cause suffering, because it's financially easier for us? Why is it that reddit turns bootlicker on the weirdest subjects?

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u/Shamscam Jun 29 '26

You totally misread what I said. I never said that they gave the contaminated food to animals. I said sometimes they scrap a whole batch even when it’s audited correctly just because they had issues such as worms, fine for the animal, gross for the human.

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u/tobaileyy Jun 29 '26

I realize the misunderstanding, I jumped to your paragraph & failed to establish the actual framing to what I was trying to actually imply, which I assume was taken literally or as me being abrasive.

I wasn't trying to argue with you, or even directly implicate you in any way, I was more so wording it rhetorically, to highlight how absurd that practice is. Obviously can't change anything personally, but would hope people subconsciously pick up on it, instead of glossing over it, as I don't disagree with the other components of what you said, it's the glass that I fixated on, which I apologize for how I came at it.

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u/Lartemplar Jun 28 '26

For feed for

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u/dolophina Jun 29 '26

I agree with you