Pretty sure that the Rolling Stones has a whole song about where this “beef” is coming from.
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
Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown
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.
you can’t just magick more cows into existence.
well maybe YOU can’t
neither can I but if we can find the asshat who can but isn’t…
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
On March 19, the General Administration of Customs of China suspended a shipment of 22 tons of beef from the slaughterhouse ArreBeef in Pérez Millán (Buenos Aires), after detecting the presence of chloramphenicol, an antibiotic banned in Argentine livestock production since 1995 due to its risks to human health.
The measure raised concerns in the agro-export chain and immediately activated diplomatic and technical channels between both countries.
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:
Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.
There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.
Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.
To be clear, I didn’t do the investigative work. It was linked in the original Raw Story article: https://www.rawstory.com/beef-import-2677774264/
These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)
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
It’s so weird to see this identity crisis in action.
The conservatives are actively screwing them over in every possible way, but they cannot imagine voting for a Democrat. You know, because, well, reasons. The dems are city folk. The dems are for loud-mouthed blue-haired women with nose rings. The dems are gonna take their guns and their gigantic truck (and their manhood). Because dems are for “gender ideology”. Etc.
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
And in this case, literally.
You can cook the vegetables
Well, except for things like lettuce and things like garnish, but…yeah.
I’m so glad I’m a vegetarian when it comes to things like tainted meat, but plenty of vegetarian things can get tainted too, a common one being lettuce.
Ahem,
https://thewoksoflife.com/cooked-lettuce-with-oyster-sauce-garlic/
Cook that lettuce like you hate crapping your pants.
Cook for about 20 seconds, to lightly wilt the lettuce.
Ahem, You’re not gonna treat the contaminated vegetables this short amount of time blanching.
That sounds delicious, thanks. I don’t know if there is any substitute for that crunch in salads and on top of something like an Impossible Burger, though…
Idk if this always gets out toxic pesticides. Like the kind that other countries ban that we don’t.
Probably helps with the bacteria outbreaks though.
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.
Yeah I know already it’s bad. But at least this problem I can avoid by buying it before it gets in it.
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.
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.
Try organ meat, perhaps?
Might be worth trying. I’ll look into what kinds are safe. I honestly never thought to try that. 👍
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.
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.
No surprise that it’s Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.
The president is rotting in an American jail last I checked.
You’re thinking of Venezuela.
Shit, you’re right, my bad. I shouldn’t comment before coffee, lol.
Finally, Trump made access to medecin free…
If it wasn’t contaminated horse assholes they would have said it wasn’t contaminated horse assholes.
They have been selling captured wild horses. I just hadn’t realised they captured quite that many.
China wouldn’t take this tainted beef so ofc the shithead does. Probably pat himself on the back for thinking about the little guy…
Fucking moron. What’s going to be next that we can’t eat? Fruit? Potatoes? Bread???
WILD HORSES, WILD HORSES COULDNT TAKE ME AWAY…
From the conservative dinner table.
Wild, wild horses, shouldn’t be take away.
My friend had a great theory that it’s the horses being put to slaughter.
Pretty easy to test for that using DNA testing.
“I’m so mad I’m putting on my fancy cowboy hat for this interview!” - Screwed over American ranchers
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.
Mystery beef.
Wild horses rounded up and disappeared.
He’s just running the old TESCO special, ain’t he?
Mad cow disease incoming!
Just read “Tender is the Flesh” . If they start advertising it as special meat, know its people
grade F general purpose meat
now with more horse parts
(only used non diseased parts of diseased animals)
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.
