USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida (cbsaustin.com)
50 points by cocacola1 3 hours ago
Animats an 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 an hour ago
Well, at least we can all enjoy a healthy salad instead.
inigyou 17 minutes ago
Uh, about that...
frogperson an 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 an 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 an 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 an hour ago
usefulcat an 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 2 hours ago
The Stable Genius strikes again
inigyou 16 minutes ago
That's the problem. Cows aren't kept in stables.
JohnTHaller an 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 an hour ago
Cows, hopefully
mech422 15 minutes ago
green cows ?
popularrecluse an hour ago
Love it.