Trump’s agriculture secretary refuses to say where foreign beef to lower prices is coming from
(www.the-independent.com)
Could it be that Argentinian beef that couldn't even meet China's food safety standards?
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$25 wild horses.
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The better message is to come out and suggest that families eat a salad once per week.
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Is this "beef" going to be labeled or just mixed into the food supply?
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Argentinian beef was recently turned away from China for being contaminated.
Hmmm......
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There's a really good video linked in one of the other threads that specifies the type of beef being imported(essentially beef sludge used as filler by fast food restaurants) and highlights a couple of other key points.
The two important ones are that Argentina consumes about 70% of its domestically produced beef and would never have this large of a surplus of beef byproduct in a short amount of time AND that the EU is banning Brazilian beef starting September 3rd due to antimicrobial and antibacterial contamination.
So, it's likely that the fast food industry is getting cheap contaminated filler to keep margins high while the politicians can claim a win for grocery prices coming down - even though that won't happen.
I'll link the video if I can find it.
Here's the video https://youtu.be/FB2scx_UmfI
Who did the beef farmers vote for again?
its from Brazil. 100,000 tons of beef mince was rejected by the EU because it tested to contain numerous banned substances deemed dangerous to European citizens. Trump and co think the grey & brown mush is still ok for americans though.
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Wonder where all those wild horses ended up...
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I feel like this is going to end like Soylent Green…
Would be funny if someone with credibility started claiming that they eat the cats and dogs
What is tainted Argentinian beef?
Argentina and some from Brazil
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Zippy Duvall
I ask this in good faith and in earnest search of an honest answer: are you shitting me with that fucken Ringling Bros. ass name?
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...temporarily surge beef imports into the U.S. to ease consumer prices.
In a Truth Social post on Friday, President Trump claimed he had reached a deal to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of meat destined to become ground beef into the U.S. to be sold at reduced prices for the next 90 days without tariffs or quotas. The plan, Trump said, would “substantially lower the price of ground beef for working American families.”
On an entirely-unrelated note, it is 70 days until midterm elections.
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I made the switch to ground turkey, and I suggest you all do the same unless you want to be an FDA recall statistic.
Don't worry, one of his crotch-spawn will start a business with taxpayer money that he used taxpayer money to artificially destroy supply.
Soylent beef.
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Protein-rich, Prion-rich, sounds all the same to me!
Probably not entirely from cows.
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It's coming from a country where his family has stock in said companies.
Well, trump knows a guy, and he's the best beef farmer ever. He knows everything about how to plant beef seeds and line pools. Folks, can you believe it?
Beef recall incoming
WHERE’s THE BEEF (from)?
Soylent green, screwflies, sawdust, all seem equally plausible reasons for the source of this "beef". I ain't touching anything that the Turd in Chief is dishing out.
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Save this bad meat for free Big Macs for you know who.
Sure as fuck won't be Canada.
Just like the last time we imported beef after costs ran high, it will do nothing to reduce the prices you see at the grocery store. The American beef industry focuses on different priorities when growing cattle for sale at grocery stores compared to most other countries. The American beef industry focuses primarily on higher end steaks, not lean trim. The imported beef will almost certainly be used elsewhere in industry, with little to no change to the prices you see as a consumer on the types of beef at the store.
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Ahem...
He won't talk about it because it isn't going to end up happening. TACO
Conspiracy theory: Russia. The beef came from Russia, CIA director escorted Fort Knox gold in payment on that C17 Galaxy heavy lift Globemaster.
CIA director is a fit guy, hes not even heavy, they will claim they took american motorcade. But did anyone else notice there was a Ford E350 super duty in the convoy? It was full of gold surely.
It makes me a little happy every time news like these pop up. The USA is completely fucked and ut was about time. Their power and influence was nowhere near deserved and it was getting really dangerous for the whole world, like a monkey with a nuclear switch.
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What's beef? Beef is when you need two Gats to go to sleep Beef is when your moms ain't safe up in the streets Beef is when I see you Guaranteed to be in I-C-U, one more time What's beef? Beef is when you make your enemies start your Jeep Beef is when you roll no less than thirty deep Beef is when I see you Guaranteed to be in I-C-U, check it
I guess The Independent can’t compose simple English sentences as headlines anymore either
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