Pretty sure that the Rolling Stones has a whole song about where this “beef” is coming from.

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    Peak capitalism. Billions of exploited, unidentified animals suffering for profit. Corpse flesh of an unknown species.

    How we treat other creatures seems to be a reflection of how we treat one another as a species.

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    I read an article today that there was tons of tainted beef that China turned down back in the spring. I forget which country has it. There is speculation that the US has bought it after that country called US to make deal. I will see if I can find the article.

    Edit here is an article about it.

    https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/178274/20260825/trump-opens-u-s-to-300-000-tons-of-foreign-beef-as-china-rejects-22-ton-argentine-shipment-over-banned-antibiotic.htm

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      Just don’t eat. It’s American roulette. The number of recent recalls due to broken glass contamination in everything from popsicles to bread has also risen, but I can understand not being up to speed when the entire food supply is slowly becoming hazardous to your health.

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      The hell happened to granola?

      Though, I’m also realizing I don’t really know what granola is… Is it its own plant?

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        impossible, Driscolls has a monopoly in grocery stores. Amazing since Driscoll doesn’t grow a single berry.

        Driscolls is a genetic store house, they contract with farms to make berries year-around. It also gives them plausible deniability on pesticides used in fruits, because legally, they don’t grow the berries.

        We have to go back to eating local berries in season.

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          Fortunately my aunt grows blueberries so I have a steady supply of those (they freeze really well). I need another family member to start growing strawberries and raspberries and I’ll be set.

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    And they can’t sell American beef to China anymore because well - you know. Before I went to Sam’s club in Shanghai it was mainly USDA beef. Now there is no American beef at all. Only Australian. Which I prefer anyway. It’s much better quality and less chemicals inside.

    BTW China last week rejected a shipment of Argentinan beef because of banned antibiotics so perhaps it will get rerouted to the US. Where the regime clearly does not care about food safety standards anymore.

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      Basically, American beef is a hard sell outside the US because it is full of things that don’t belong in food in many countries. Of the thousands of beef farmers in the US, there is barely a dozen qualified to deliver beef to the EU. Think about it.

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        it is full of things that don’t belong in food in many countries

        like shit. US fecal counts are insanely high

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      Did China ever buy it?

      The reason why people don’t want it is that it doesn’t meet standards, generally with disease prevention.

      That’s why we don’t buy it here in Australia. We would if it met our standards but it never does.

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        And frankly I wouldn’t buy US beef in Australia anyway. Aussie beef is great, probably second only to New Zealand beef to be honest.

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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.

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      I’m stocking up on cat food before this shit ends up killing all of our pets.

      you would not believe the stuff they put in cat food.

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        Yeah I know already it’s bad. But at least this problem I can avoid by buying it before it gets in it.

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          In some countries, they feed cats real food, not “cat food”. I lost a cat to intestinal inflammation because I thought I was feeding him properly.

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            I try feeding my cats boiled meat sometimes. If I cut off the fat or something from something I’m cooking for me, I will dice it up and boil it.

            Neither of my cats will eat boiled meat with the exception of my newer cat who was a stray. But even he will only eat canned tuna.

            Not turkey. Not ham. Not beef. No chicken.

            No lunch meat.

            Not even bacon!

            I don’t get why they don’t like the best food for them.
            I can’t give them tuna all the time because of the mercury.

            My older cat likes marshmallows. Weird but it is bone meal based.

            The stray will eat some wet food so he gets some every day. But my older cat won’t touch the stuff.

            🤷

            I offer to them and then put outside for a local oppossom when they decline.

            I don’t like to waste animal products so someone gets it.

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                Might be worth trying. I’ll look into what kinds are safe. I honestly never thought to try that. 👍

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                  Liver, kidneys, heart. Lungs are probably fine too. The thing about organ meat is that it contains a lot of nutrients that aren’t necessarily in muscle meat.

                  Try feeding them raw meat too, instead of boiling it first. That might be what’s causing them to reject it.

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      I’d just become vegetarian if the veggies weren’t also toxic. Republicans really have turned this place into a shit hole

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    I’ve never understood the “it’s not actually beef” conspiracies.

    In what world is it cheaper to farm and other animal in large enough amounts to supply that much ground meat? There is an entire, large scale economy of animal industry dedicated to beef supply that wildly drops the cost per pound of beef, but suddenly someone just found another, cheaper animal to mass farm that beats it?

    Doubtful.

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    He never said it was beef. Just “product for.ground beef” whatever that is… I say neigh, I will pass on Burgers for a bit.

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    Mystery beef.

    Wild horses rounded up and disappeared.

    He’s just running the old TESCO special, ain’t he?

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    Its coming from the US where they store huge amounts of frozen beef to keep the price high. I know they did that with pork a few years back.