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

Animats•about 1 hour ago

That's only about 50 cows. This isn't a big recall.

Total slaughter of cows in Texas is about 1.8 million head per year.

buildsjets•about 1 hour ago

Well, at least we can all enjoy a healthy salad instead.

inigyou•17 minutes ago

Uh, about that...

frogperson•about 1 hour ago

can this administration just do a single thing that isn't evil and self serving? it bogles my mind that every single thing they do is just awful.

Reason077•37 minutes ago

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?

ajross•about 1 hour ago

Honestly more than half of this sort of mess is incompetence rather than malice. But... yeah, sigh. Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like.

guywithahat•about 1 hour ago

> Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like

You mean reading about beef recalls? Yeah they'll be shocked

add-sub-mul-div•about 1 hour ago

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?

usefulcat•about 1 hour ago

"Since Trump’s announcement, Detwiler said, online discussion has fueled confusion about what is happening with beef imports and the recall."

Articles like this one aren't exactly helping either.

drgo•about 2 hours ago

The Stable Genius strikes again

inigyou•16 minutes ago

That's the problem. Cows aren't kept in stables.

JohnTHaller•about 1 hour ago

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.

inigyou•16 minutes ago

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

testdelacc1•2 minutes ago

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 been scrambling for months to fix.

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

Almost all of his other missteps and mistakes can be rationalised - there was some benefit to himself or someone who bribed him or voted for him. But this screwworm thing just perfectly encapsulates him as a person and his presidency as a whole.

More info about how the program worked - America’s never ending battle against flesh eating worms (2020) - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

TranquilMarmot•11 minutes ago

No better time to consider going vegetarian or cutting out red meat, even one day a week can make a huge difference.

ButlerianJihad•about 1 hour ago

Cows, hopefully

mech422•15 minutes ago

green cows ?

popularrecluse•about 1 hour ago

Love it.

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

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