Trump official refuses to say where foreign beef to lower prices is coming from
Ranchers and Republicans alike have pushed back on the beef plan
The Trump administration’s beef deal has met with stiff resistance from ranchers and Republicans, who argue that allowing more imports will do little to change the underlying conditions that have sent beef prices spiking, such as low herd sizes because of drought.
"Despite high beef prices in grocery stores, prices paid to farmers and ranchers for their cattle have fallen sharply over the past two months, and beef packing plants are shutting down across the U.S.,” American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a statement after the plan was announced.
"Further undercutting a fragile recovery by swamping markets with foreign products and attempting to manipulate prices threatens to wipe out any progress that has been made,” he added.
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Soylent beef.
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.
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
Beef recall incoming
He won't talk about it because it isn't going to end up happening. TACO
Argentinian beef was recently turned away from China for being contaminated.
Hmmm......
I feel like this is going to end like Soylent Green…
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?
Honestly, I'm not surprised at all that a good ol' boy farmer from Georgia would have a nickname like that. Dude even looks like I imagined he would.
Compare:
Vincent Mearl "Zippy" Duvall Sr.
Zippy the Pinhead:
Uncanny, ain't it?
Argentina and some from Brazil
Uruguay exports a lot of meat too, do it could be going front there too
Wonder where all those wild horses ended up...
Or all those people who have disappeared from the concentration camps in florida
On an entirely-unrelated note, it is 70 days until midterm elections.
What's the timeline for the Argentinian beef contamination to cause illness?
Quick enough to impact the midterms, or just to make Walmart and Kroger beef cheap and get everyone sick afterwards?
It can happen from short exposure or long term. Aplastic anemia and leukemia.
Well fuck.
The worst part of this is that it'll probably actually work knowing how fascinatingly stupid the Republican voterbase is.
WHERE’s THE BEEF (from)?
I made the switch to ground turkey, and I suggest you all do the same unless you want to be an FDA recall statistic.
Probably not entirely from cows.
Worst it come probably from tinted cow from Argentina which is stuck with a fuck load of beef since it didn’t pass inspection in China
Wellll... it does have some rat in it,
What is tainted Argentinian beef?
For fun: https://youtube.com/shorts/QQz0bMIydco
Trump land is officially over. Now it gets super heavy for all of us, for no other reason than orange man needs to distract distract distract
I guess The Independent can’t compose simple English sentences as headlines anymore either