Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows
Pretty sure that the Rolling Stones has a whole song about where this "beef" is coming from.
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I'm stocking up on cat food before this shit ends up killing all of our pets.
It's primarily going to be put in animal food and processed foods.
Frozen pizzas. Tv dinners. Canned soups.
Sold to restaurants from their bulk suppliers. Especially fast food places.
Packaged frozen hamburger patties at grocery stores.
Any type of frozen meals with beef.
The big rolls of frozen hamburger.
It's going to be hard to avoid it but not impossible.
Avoid any beef you can't determine where it came from.
I'd just become vegetarian if the veggies weren't also toxic. Republicans really have turned this place into a shit hole
If you're not already watching this guy, I recommend you start. He's pretty good. He says there's no way Argentina can produce and export 300k tons of beef in 3 months and it almost certainly comes from Brazil. He also explains why.
https://youtu.be/FB2scx_UmfI
The Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown in the Midwest is going to fuck Republicans...
Not because of the 2-3k workers, not because of the increased price consumers pay.
But all the livestock owners who suddenly have nowhere near to slaughter cattle at scale are fucked. Couple that with flooding the market with Argentinian beef, and a lot of Republican voters are going to stay home for midterms.
They might not admit to themselves they want Republicans to lose majorities, and they'll likely spend the next two years bitching about Dems. But a lot of them just won't find the time to vote when they're getting fucked this blatantly
That is primarily a consequence of immigration crackdowns. Beef inflation up 9% while cattle is down 9%+
this is an insight I hadn't considered.
makes intuitive sense but do you have any links or references so people can learn more?
I thought drought was a major factor in beef supply drop but it's probably multiple things
Meat packing is heavily biased towards foreign born workers. The companies have complained about high labour costs.
Cattle prices are from futures market charts. The typical market price effects from narratives of "high beef demand" and "Cattle shortages" would be higher cattle prices.
The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.
Now, they don't have the herds to supply the demand, and you can't just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.
The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.
And if it came from Argentina like everyone is suspecting, it might be contaminated. It's not like he'd care if it was.
China rejects Argentine beef due to chloramphenicol: investigation and internal consumption crisis
https://noticiasambientales.com/animals/china-rejects-argentine-beef-due-to-chloramphenicol-investigation-and-internal-consumption-crisis/#google_vignette
Nice investigative work - this is the first I've heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.
This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.
Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:
Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!
So don't eat beef. Or jalapeños. Or lettuce. Or granola. Or blueberries.