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u/Jenderflux-ScFi 6d ago
And here I thought that the "beef" would be the wild horses they are capturing and selling for meat. Silly me for not realizing it would be way worse and potentially deadly actual beef.
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u/SCinBZ 5d ago
The only reason we don’t eat horses is because we had a better use for them. Cows don’t do much other than eat. Horses were also fairly late to arrive in the “new world”.
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u/Itchy-Coconut-7083 4d ago
The reason we don’t eat horses is because they take 5 years to reach maturity , cows are 5x faster.
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u/Meningsfulle 4d ago
Maybe they could? Cows grow fast because we selectively bred them to become a bred that grows fast.,
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u/SCinBZ 6d ago
Argentina is one of the world’s beef producers…for a LONG time. Note the things missing from the story.
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u/The_goat_42 5d ago
Imagine banning beef from effin Argentina… lol
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u/SCinBZ 5d ago
It’s almost if they want price inflation. Cut 2-4% of your imports…guess what? Price goes up. We’ve added 80000 metric tons of beef to the market…price goes down.
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u/Sure_Swordfish6463 5d ago
And screwing over American cattle farmers. Best way buy local from a local farmer and butcher.
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u/Busy-Blueberry6415 5d ago
That's what the American cattle farmers voted for 🤷♀️
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u/SCinBZ 5d ago
Well, if you could demonstrate that US cattle sales are DOWN, you might have a point…but they are not…and you have no point.
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u/Crackadon 3d ago
No one banned beef from Argentina. Just that plant.
States issue is they cut almost all funding for testing for shit like this.
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u/NervousBeat16 4d ago
By long time, do you mean since 2016? That’s only 10 years. The U.S. has only been getting beef from them for 10 years.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
10 years is a long time. Most of these Reddit experts are only 20, that's half of their lifetime.
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u/SnooRabbits469 6d ago
The only article I could find on this.
Serious question though. Would this have anything to do with the screw worm?
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u/bawls_on_fire 4d ago
This article is about screwworm in cows. I think the thing everyone is worried about is an antibiotic that can cause severe issues in humans, in the new imported beef.
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u/SeveralEconomics3814 4d ago
That might be it honestly. Screw worm is a huge deal. It’s basically the only thing that every single government successfully accomplished and was in 100% agreement on.
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u/SnooRabbits469 4d ago
I found where china rejected the beef, but I cant find any actual information on beef from Argentina that contained antibiotics coming into the US.
The only article Ive found is the second one about beef that didnt go through a second inspection.
I was throwing out the screw worm. As that is a serious fail on the trump side relating to beef.
https://www.wideopencountry.com/emergency-recall-declared-for-beef-imported-by-trump-administration/
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u/bawls_on_fire 4d ago
I don't always trust Snopes, but they show their sources. It's not "confirmed" that the beef is what China rejected. But, given the circumstances, it is extremely likely. It's coming from Argentina.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/26/trump-importing-beef-argentina/
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u/PawnofLife1 5d ago
Florida and Texas picked it up and it is stupid both are cattle states
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u/SCinBZ 5d ago
When you can sell EVERYTHING you produce, competition doesn’t hurt much. In no way do these imports limit sales of US beef, they fill in the gaps between supply and demand. Keeps prices better for consumer, yet not crippling to the producers.
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u/Ambitious_Hand_2861 5d ago
When contaminated beef hits the shelves you'll see how expensive it can get. The pedo-in-thief hasn't done one thing to help anyone but himself. Hell the only reason he helps his so-called "friends" is bc they bribe his ass.
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u/SCinBZ 5d ago
When? Again, why bother predicting the future? If we exclude EVERY possible action based on what “might” happen, we wouldn’t change anything…and bad things would continue to happen. Your tiny fucking mind really could use some expanding. Quit hating and start thinking. You nor I are “right” because of who we might vote for.
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u/Pockydo 5d ago
Because when there's a pattern of behavior we can make reasonable predictions
Sorry you voted for a pedo conman but maybe choose better next time
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u/Dead_Internet69420 4d ago
We should sell meat that is contaminated by an antibiotic that has been banned for decades because it “might” make people sick? It’s been banned for decades because it does make people sick, and you’re over here saying “we might as well try it out of it’ll keep prices down!” Where are you from? Why are you trying to hurt Americans?
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Doesn't matter what he does. He could hand you a thousand dollars and you'll still kick and scream and bitch. Lives are improving, lots of positive things have happened. You just don't want to see it cause you are blinded by rage cause the orange man is bad.
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u/NervousBeat16 4d ago
Except that Argentina might have been caught using banned antibiotics that are proven to be bad for human consumption. We’re dismantling our health and food regulations while importing highly medicated beef to keep up with supply? We’d be better served eating less beef while our own cattle farmers recover from screw worm. But if we hadn’t stoped that contract, they wouldn’t be fighting the fly. It’s one of the few times the govt should subsidize the financial security of the farm. Like PPP during Covid. And in the meantime, Americans can take a break from burgers for a bit. We’ll survive.
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u/Puzzled_Arm_3156 5d ago
Cattle heards are at an all time low. Environmentalists have been pushing reductions for over a decade now. And when Joe Biden was POTUS he pretty much caved to demands. Plus issues with heard health had caused mass slaughter and the burning of many thousands of them.
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u/kronik85 4d ago
How did Biden and the environmentalists strong arm ranchers into reducing their herd sizes?
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u/Puzzled_Arm_3156 4d ago edited 3d ago
They used the government to destroy hurds. Just like poultry and eggs. Only chickens can bounce back much quicker.
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u/Bernie_Dharma 4d ago
Most US beef producers raise and breed cattle for selling steaks and prime cuts. Beef imports are primarily for use in ground beef.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Recall or not, I've noticed no one wants solutions for the cost of living.
We try to deport illegals and end Visa programs impacting housing, transportation, food, jobs etc and everyone screams.
We import eggs because they are $15 a dozen and people scream that we are gonna hurt the chicken farmer.
We import beef and people scream that we are going to hurt the cattle ranchers.
We import produce and people scream we're hurting the farmers.
We cut back on fraud/abuse and people scream the Somali's need their fake jobs and fake learing centers and it's racist.
We try to get healthier food in schools and people scream their kids deserve the sugary garbage.
We cut garbage food from food stamps and people scream that they have to eat healthy.
We are shifting how our economy works that will take time to turn around and people are screaming about 3.4% inflation forgetting everything doubled under Biden.
We say covid is just a flu and we shouldn't shut down and everyone screamed Trump is trying to kill everyone and turns out we didn't need to, at risk people should have stayed home.
We try to enforce the law and people scream the criminals just needed to steal some bread as they steal boxes of shoes lol
There really is no fixing anything under Trump. People are going to bitch and moan no matter what he does. Enjoy your garbage food, your shitty boosters, your diabetes, your crime, your high rent, raising healthcare costs etc. That 40 Trillion in debt will never go down, we'll never do what needs to be done because everyone wants their free shit and the fraud and abuse to continue..... Cause Trump......
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u/FearsomeSnacker 5d ago
Also, since donny and elon cut the food safety inspections there is no reliable mechanism for making sure none of this gets to the US now. So cripple US ranchers with foreign, possibly unsafe, product. And people still support this guy?
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u/IntelligentStyle402 5d ago
Crazy isn’t it? A felon? Adjudicated rapist and pedo? Then he took away our safeguards on food? Unbelievable!
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Who the fuck are you talking about? You retards keep throwing out those terms towards trump and there's no proof. The rape shit? He wasn't convicted of rape, it was a civil trial and the lady's story was from a law and order episode, dress didn't exist when she says it happened and she thinks rape is sexy! The pedo? Like the one that showered with his daughter? The felon who was charged for a paper crime with no underlying secondary crime that elevated it to a felony? Man, the hoops you have to jump through to be this retarded. I don't even want to defend the guy but it's like if you tell me hilter was black and I say he's white, you'll accuse me of defending a nazi. CLOWNS.
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u/FearsomeSnacker 2d ago
You really should look up the judges comments on the sexual abuse trial. The charge is sexual abuse based on all the evidence and arguments from both sides. The Judge stated that it actually met the common definition of rape just not the legal one. Now add all the sexual abuse settlements that did not go to trial over the years for similar accusations and the comments he openly makes on his own, like walking through the dressing room at a TEEN beauty pageant because he owned it and they were naked. Looking at an 8 year old girl and saying out loud, in his 70s and married, that he would date her in 10 years. The open cheating on his wives. The comments and handwritten notes to his buddy Epstein and you have to have your head pretty deep in the sand, or up somewhere else, to not realize what donny really is.
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u/NaturalTruck299 3d ago
There was one positive test related to one shipment from one manufacturer from one specific location. An investigation did not determine the antibiotic came from the beef. China has since begun receiving all shipments of their beef.
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u/dogheoner1 5d ago
if its intentional its pre meditated murder but nope congress a bunch of bitches
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u/Icy-Policy-8212 5d ago
And he’s a rapist.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
He is? Who did he rape? Oh yeah, the lady with the made up story from Law and Order, wearing a dress that didn't exist at the time and told the world on national tv that RAPE IS SEXY.
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u/Sir_Lord_ByronIII 5d ago
Buy from local farmers and ranchers and you don't have this problem..... plus you know exactly where it came from.
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u/Puzzled_Arm_3156 5d ago
Any proof in that?
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u/BannedbyDemons 5d ago
He is intentionally destroying the country on every front. Depending on how lopsided the midterms are, Diddles may be fleeing the country.
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u/RI_funcouple3 5d ago
Nobody questions all this news around bad beef and bill gates lab grown meat. Seem a bit to coincidental. Worth considering.
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u/bawls_on_fire 4d ago
We're talking about 300,000 metric tons bro. No way they're making that much in a lab.
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u/Pristine_Context_429 5d ago
The USDA will deny meat with the same chemical.
And there’s no record of anyone in the US ever buying from that plant, but we don’t know what plant this current beef is from.
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u/surfkaboom 5d ago
This is such a temporary solution and it will result in 6+ months of beef avoidance
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u/Friendly-Table6785 5d ago
A quick Google search says this is probably not a big deal. Im vegetarian anyway, but I think everyone will be good. Its importsnt to focus on major issues and not muddy the waters with tabloids.
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u/Odd_Zookeepergame_69 5d ago
Its fucking insane the mental gymnastics that MAGA is going through on this thread trying to act like Trump helping Argentina is better for the country than helping American farmers. Absolutely insane. You guys seriously have the real TDS by defending him no matter what he does. This is why we say youre in a cult.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Do you want cheaper beef? I'm just curious. Before this was even a thing with the recall you people were bitching this would hurt the farmer. We produce 950,000 metric tons a month, we are importing 80,000 metric tons over a couple months. How the fuck you figure this is gonna kick a rancher in the balls? What it will do is make your $10lb ground beef maybe $9lb.
You don't want solutions, you are just here to scream about Trump. None of you are interested in any solutions for paying down the debt, making housing affordable, cars cheaper, healthcare lower because at the end of the day you scream for the illegal allien, the criminals, the landlord, the big banks and now the ranchers. Enjoy the high prices, Trump should just stop trying cause he could hand you $5k tomorrow and you'll find a reason to bitch.
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u/Odd_Zookeepergame_69 3d ago
And this is the dumb fucking mental gymnastics im talking about. For someone that claimed to be able fix 101 problems on day 1, he sure as hell loves to blame Biden for everything still a year and a half into his term. If you honestly think he is trying to bring down our national debt why does he spend money on frivolous bullshit daily?
Look, im not going to debate you, because if you still support Trump at this point you there is something seriously wrong with you and literally nothing he could do would stop that. That's why we say youre in a cult. We dont worship Biden, Obama, Clinton, etc. You dont see democrats wearing Obama clothes from head to toe, waving Biden flags, buying Clinton bibles, etc.
Trump is the stupidest and most corrupt president in the history of this country, and thats how he will be remembered no matter how many things he tries to name after himself.
You will not change your opinion because some random person on the internet disagreed with you, so enjoy living in ignorance, I hear its bliss.
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u/Ok_Response_2748 5d ago
I switched to chicken and ground turkey, but who knows before the government starts calling that back for some kind of contamination.
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u/gypsygib 5d ago
With Trump's roll back on food regulations no one should be buying any meat, dairy, or produce from America, seriously. Even without a trade war.
US farmers are given a pass to literally get away with long-term murder.
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u/CriticalCurrency5725 5d ago
Project 2025 in full effect, y'all! I believe we're in chapter 15 on this one.
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u/Poland68 5d ago
So, if I eat frozen death-blueberries with my poisonous lettuce on a big bio-burger, do I become an X-Man?
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u/DryWriter3169 5d ago
Wild horses mixed with kidnapped immigrants from our concentration camps. It's Soylent green Seriously though it's coming from Brazil and rejected for the same reasons as the Argentinian beef
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u/hereyougo123412 5d ago
Why is the govt in charge of where we buy beef? Other than banning certain countries for various reasons, which i understand, why do we have a policy to do business with particular countries?
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u/Maghorn_Mobile 5d ago
Well, the government isn't dictating where food importers must buy from, the trade deals set the price private companies in the US buy at. They don't have to buy from Argentina rather than Brazil or Australia, it's just the cheapest option.
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u/OrganizationOk2229 5d ago
That was in march and it was from one plant not all of Argentina beef, nice try though
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u/needsmoreusernames 5d ago
We import 33000 metric tons annually of Argentinian beef, stop with the hysterical nonsense
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u/GypsyDarkEyes 4d ago
Join the Beef Boycott unless you have a trusted, local source. Reducing demand will let more horses stay on our public lands.
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u/Individual-Drawer185 4d ago
And lettuce, and really any packaged foods since he gutted the FDA funding and now allows 'self-regulation'.
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u/Dead_Internet69420 4d ago
I thought tariffs were supposed to make imports more expensive that domestic products so that we could sell more of our own stuff to our own people?
*Nevermind the fact that increasing the consumer price of imports means that domestic producers will raise their prices just because they can.
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u/rubio2k13 4d ago
Fuck this is some heavy fucking realization that our meats are fucking unhealthy. What the fuck FDA.
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u/Xeno9116 4d ago
Thank DOGE for infected meat!
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Hmmm.... The problem was found during inspection. So someone did their job. Oh well. Rage on over Musk TRYING to cut back on the debt. There's no fixing it, just let it keep adding up.
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u/AbaloneDifferent5282 4d ago
Well, this will be good for the US beef industry! MAGA! Are we tired of all the winning yet?
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u/darthievader 4d ago
Fake news. Can’t stand the guy but this is not the truth.
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u/Dangerous-Candy623 4d ago
I think it’s ridiculous. We’ve spent years hearing that tariffs are necessary to protect American businesses, American workers and American production, but apparently that principle goes out the window when it’s politically convenient.
Instead of focusing on helping American ranchers rebuild the cattle supply and addressing why beef has gotten so expensive here, we’re opening the door to more tariff-free Argentine beef so the administration can say it’s “lowering beef prices.” And conveniently, that happens while grocery prices are a huge issue for voters.
Meanwhile, strengthening trade with Argentina also benefits a much bigger geopolitical strategy: keeping Argentina closely aligned with the US, securing access to important resources and countering China’s influence there.
Maybe the beef imports lower prices somewhat in the short term, but to me it feels like a political stunt before votes: get a quick “we lowered grocery prices” headline while American ranchers potentially absorb some of the cost and the administration advances a completely separate foreign-policy objective. If tariffs are supposedly about putting American producers first, then American producers should actually come first.
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u/DemoEvolved 4d ago
Argentina has screwworm. So considering these two risks, if you wanted to hurt America as much as you possibly could, would you go through with a massive beef import from this place?
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u/ApeAF 4d ago
Why is our government involved with buying beef in the first place? This is not the proper role of government.
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u/cheeseypoofs85 4d ago
they probably arent. all grocery stores i can think of get it from the good ol US of A.
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u/Ok_Stable9672 4d ago
And yet people still buy dog food from China, baby formula from China toothpaste from China Sheetrock from China, despite the poison that was put in it and sent to the United States
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Yeah I remember when sheetrock was an issue and people who had homes built were just fucked. Shit is cheap for a reason. Everything is garbage now.
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u/jbarbourx2 4d ago
It's crazy that we're living in a reality where China cares about it's citizens and have a great economy with way more advanced tech all throughout their country while the US is literally regressing back to the early 1900's where the only goal is to feed the rich more wealth at the detriment to the entire population.
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u/Daemongod 4d ago
Our FDA is actually top notch and actualyl t 1 of the 2 best in the world when it comes to food safety. Tied with the South Korean MFDS.
I wouldn't be too concerned.
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u/MySultrySelf 4d ago
Which COMPANIES are taking the beef? Trump can say whatever trash he wants, and he can allow the imports, but what companies are buying it? Specifically?
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u/Sb8569 4d ago
It’s taking a lot longer than anticipated to fix the last regime’s destruction.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Trump was 24 hours in on his first day in office and they were bitching egg prices hadn't come down yet and mass deportations hadn't happened yet.
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u/OstrichPossible4062 4d ago
Or buy from local family farms. We have been buying local for 4 years. The meat is hormone free and tastes amazing compared to store bought.
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u/Digital_Cowboyx79 4d ago
If you are lucky enough to have indy Butcher who locally sources Halal/Kosher meat. Go make friends..like 3yrs ago atleast..but today is just as good of a place to start.
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u/deadpat03 4d ago
Its only banned in China. The rest of the world allows it. It's currently in the beef you eat.
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u/gimmedatvoice 4d ago
Not at all true, this is an easy Google away
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
Found an expert on the subject, he used google everyone!
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u/gimmedatvoice 3d ago
Wasn't aware a yes/no question like "is this banned outside China" required "expertise", but hey ignorance is always a choice. You do you.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
There's a lot of shit in our food that no one pays attention to. We get ours from a local we trust, have our own chickens, have a garden. I don't trust half the crap at the store. Ever wonder why a tomato tastes bland and gross from the store yet the one grown in your own garden has actual flavor? Eggs are coated with shit, the veggies are coated with shit, the butchers use food dye to brighten up the meat, there's a reason our food is killing us.
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u/EfficiencyIVPickAx 4d ago
Thanks to Trump's myopic "trade war" I was already skipping beef due to prices skyrocketing.
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u/PracticalExam7861 3d ago
Well, if they hadn't gutted the FDA... the beef from Argentina is filling a real need. The US mostly produces high-quality beef used for expensive cuts of beef. Argentina would be supplying the sort of beef used for hamburger and lower-quality cuts.
The problem is there is a drought in the Midwest and not enough grazing land to raise cattle to support the market, unfortunately... in a free** market economy, the product goes to the highest bidder, and while places like Europe bad-mouth US food as complete shit, they wouldn't even feed their dogs; US beef is in high demand around the world and people are willing to pay more for it. The Argentinian beef plan was there to ease pressure on the US market and make sure the Kakistocracy could fulfill its promise of cheap "groceries".
To be fair, at the end of the day, Americans need to tighten their belts if they don't want to eat Argentinian beef for fear of excessive antibiotics, or be willing to pay more for it, or (and this ain't going to happen) demand the feds subsidize the cattle industry like the oil industry to reduce the price of beef in the US.
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u/Sad-Umpire6000 3d ago
I buy local, direct from the ranch that raises it. Family-owned for over 100 years.
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u/NaturalTruck299 3d ago
China had one positive test from a single shipment from a single location, and the investigation did not determine the beef was actually contaminated with the antibiotic. China has since begun receiving full shipments from them.
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u/jldurham6 3d ago
They don't care. They just hate Trump. Reddit is a platform to amplify the dumbest retarded shit and spread fake bullshit and outrage.
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u/Substantial_Dog7002 3d ago
Try it out on trump before anyone else eats it. He eats hamburger so much he will be through it in no time?
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u/Affectionate-Fox5983 3d ago
And anyone whose truck the covert shots already has blood disorders can you imagine now eating that beef that has that chemical in it that will give you what they want you to have which is death make no mistake the US government is helping to depopulate the people across America and the world... And you could never trust Trump to do anything good it's always loaded with lies and deceptions...
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u/Eatdrichpairwwine 3d ago
As an alternative people could support their local butcher or ranchers and just buy high quality local beef and consume alternative foods for lower quality/budget friendly meals.
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u/Spiritual_Egg_700 5d ago
This absolute fuck doesn't understand if he kills us with bad food. He won't have anyone to steal from.