YSK : If you are american, don't eat meat you bought recently. Don't buy meat this week. As of TODAY, more than 167,000 pounds of meat are recalled 🚨

But, also Musk.

Inside the FDA After DOGE: Six Former Staffers Describe What Was Lost When the Cuts Came

Six former FDA employees described ongoing drug safety reviews, food inspection coordination, and public health surveillance programs that were disrupted or halted by their departures.

From my perspective, 167k is what they FOUND.

Its like finding a roach in your house.

Per capita my man

Yes but OP wants to spread fear. Be afraid. Please?

Business needs to be completely shut down.

Indeed, but the Orange Turd will pardon them.

Keep dreamin' (we all know they don't get in real trouble]*

Thing is, many of these things grow over time, and - especially with the active gutting of regulatory and oversight bodies - there's a decent chance that the list isn't comprehensive.

It's also one of the reasons why I have avoided US meat products and grabbed stuff with a maple leaf instead, because it wasn't hard to see this coming (and coming and coming)

This recall list is for things the grocery store or restaurants see, not consumer sized cuts. When was the last time you bought 30lbs of menudo mix?

OP doesn't want you to say this. Thank you, though. This is the way.

damn this guy trusts the US government to protect farm customers

The frustrating part is vegetables and even tofu had their own scares this year.

Damn near everything in this shithole is contaminated as of the past year or two so there’s no winning safety-wise by shifting to plant-based, at least on that front.

I have noticed I tend to get sicker when I eat the (properly cooked!) little meat I can lately, though, which I suspect is due to skyrocketed antibiotic use in poultry farming the last decade or two. I also avoid deli meats for similar reasons.

Yes, I’m cherry picking.

and those are "linked" and "may"

Reducing methane production is an easier sell. Crops are less a better return on land use -> food. The better Plant based beef for most uses is better than trash-level burger meat.

Dont upset the planet warmers. They're already upset about AI warming up the planet and using up vast amounts of water.

"the liberals are going to make us eat bugs"

Yeah, but those people are really dumb.

... this is absolutely down to deregulation. You wouldn't be able to put your fake stickers on shit if the FDA guy is there everyday like he's fucking supposed to be.

It's because Star Meat Delivery had assumed the deregulation progress was further along than it actually was and thought Trump's USDA would let them get away with it.

If we had proper regulation, there would not have been 167000lbs of this shit to recall.

This is not 'oh, the regulation works or it doesn't', humans like to do that a lot for some reason, this whole 'it's either one thing or the other'. Nuance and gradients are a real thing. This would not have happened in a robust regulatory environment. The one we have operates on shoe strings.

Edit: 167000lbs at minimum. As another poster pointed out, this is just what was found. Which is like finding a roach in your house.

Speaking only for the top 10% of the income scale. The rest is just voting fodder until they're not needed anymore.

"We" is the wealthy, and they sure are winning so much that I, as a member of the "you" am very, very, past my limit of their winning.

I mean, definitely read the article, 167000 lbs, isn't very much. I imagine that a certain area around north Carolina is affected, but not much more then that.

I think the best advice is to do both: check what meat if affected and whether that might include the meat you're looking at. If you're not sure, maybe skip meat for a change. You can do without.

167 metric tonnes doesnt seem like that much in the grand scheme things, but ultimately that could at worst kill hundreds of people.

Plot twist: this is big veggies trying to get people to stop eating meat.

I would assume officials warning this is a "nationwide" issue means exactly all of the US.

I mean, there's an argument to be made it's good advice regardless of recalls

No, keep it. But disregard it for what it is: bullshit.

As the late great George Carlin told us: it's bullshit, and it's bad for us.

Fuck you, OP.

We had some scares in the past. We learned from our mistakes. The EU actually does a lot of shit right.

And then, on top of that, it was because of fraudulent labels, Not that it was bad, or could be bad, but it just wasn't officially checked.

and then, we don't even know if it's true. It could just be another spin of the week to look like they're cracking down on food safety after they dismantled so much of the food safety infrastructure.

Just make sure you didn’t purchase any yourself or go to restaurants than have

i dont know why it wasted your time, didnt say anything about poultry.

YSK California has the most stringent food safety regulations in the country, going above and beyond what the fed requires. Thank fuck I live here and not somewhere that does the bare minimum required of them (which, rn, is doing nothing at all).

I don't want to like Costco, but they're making it really hard.

I don't like being in there, I don't like shopping in a damn warehouse. I hate the parking lot clusterfuck experience.

I do like that they curate a very good selection and they treat their employees well.

Why can't they just run a normal-scale grocery store?!

Yeah 'cause we know all the fresh veggie product from such brands as Taylor Farms is perfectly safe...

(jk going vegetarian or vegan is an admirable choice even if you do it noncommittally by reducing your animal protein consumption. Every 1 gram of animal protein required ~9g of feed depending on the animal.)

How long until I get my Vegan powers?

That will get you sick or kill you too, I'm afraid.

or vegetarian. or stick to chicken. as per article in what it was recalling.

nah. I'll just continue purchasing meat from my local butcher that sources from local farms.

thanks though.

edit: leave it to vegans to get butthurt over someone ethically sourcing meat from local farms that don't mistreat their livestock. vegan forbid enjoining a succulent Chinese meal if it contains beef that likely had a happy life.

They don't. The old saying rings true: Americans think 100 years is old, and Europeans think 100 miles is far.

Everybody only has their own perception and experience to really go off of, so I don't blame folks for this. It just is the way it is.

in freedom units that equates to 1 “your mom”

The average person in the US eats ~330g of meat per day. multiplied by 350 million people is ~11.5 billion grams, which is around 254 million pounds of meat per day. This recall is about 0.066% of the daily meat consumption in the US.

no

About 668,000 servings, enough to give almost every single person in Washington DC explosive diarrhea.

That's like the amount of lunchmeat my kids went through last week.... /s...mostly

Great context! While the recall shouldn't be ignored, 167k is indeed a teeny tiny amount of beef that only that specific GA market should worry about.

By my cowboy calculations the domestic beef packers produce about 400 million pounds of beef per week. 140m of that is trim for ground beef and another 120m are beef cuts. Rest is organ meat and bones.

Your local Sysco chews through more beef than this in a day.

Fake inspection bug is no joke though. This isn't a case of a reputable supplier that started running before their tardy inspector arrived. This is an unscrupulous rogue actor that likely has 0 concern for product safety.

It would just get more subsidies than it already does.

Honestly I feel like that would just lead to Billionaires buying it up on pennies on the dollar and even worse outcomes.

Like isn't that what Trump and Co are actively doing? Doesn't JD have a company that is actively buying up ranching land?

I don't think we can even buy American meat here if we wanted to. I live in Ontario and I've never seen American beef or pork or chicken.

Omg they were rounding up wild horses recently

They're just gonna make it illegal to publish about food safety and call it a day

Oh, they know. Which is exactly why they want to get rid of the rules that "prevent" (really just put in the absolute bare minimum of standards) companies from actively harming their customers and employees (too badly) to make a quick buck.

Not that I'd buy meat labeled "Made in USA" in the first place.

A half assed vegetarian is better than being a whole ass carnivore

The chicken is cursed.

Yet.

well....not fake exactly... more like unsanctioned use of.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/lswwklyblue.pdf

I would imagine, if there were still any trade agreements, they would require inspection before crossing the border.

Sounds woke tbh

This is the way.

you might be thinking that this is horrific news. massive amounts of pork, beef, and goat are recalled according to the USDA.

but guess what guys! I have great news!

perfect timing, right?!

Samesies

How'd you get out? My wife and I would love to move, but my career isn't exactly in high demand.

Shit's okay in Australia too, we got problems but not openly toxic meat problems.

Paneer. It's easy to make at home, just use some whole milk and lime juice. Save the whey, use it in recipes that call for adding water

Nuts and seeds are good, too.

Grow your own eggs.

Chickens are friggin awesome. I love my girls.

::: spoiler Bilbo Bag-hens approves. :::

Red (split) lentils are pretty simple. Unlike other lentils, they don't need soaking for making them less farty and they cook fairly quickly. Can use them as pseudo-bolognese in tomato sauce, or just with rice and veggies, or cook them until they disintegrate (=dal) and then eat with bread etc..

Smoked tofu is also fairly simple (can just eat as-is with bread or in salad or whatever), but you may need to try a few brands to find one with a nice smoke flavour.

If you can find these in the vegan aisle, they're also worth trying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein
They're often sold as "soy chunks" or "soy strips".
You just cook them in vegetable broth and then you can fry them like meat. Or if you're really gangster, you fry them while they're dry and then put them into the sauce of your dish, so they soak that up.
I recommend these in particular, because they're chewy, which is something you might miss from other meat alternatives.

Pea protein is cheaper than whey protein. Its slightly less optimal in terms of amino acids but not by a huge amount and eating a diverse diet covers that anyway. 5lbs of naked pea protein is like $60 and it’s 76 servings that are each 120 calories and 27g protein per 30g powder. I add it to a lot of stuff like overnight oats and such

Sounds like someone bought a Samsung freezer.

i’ll eat your meat. i’m not worried. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

RTFRA

These items were shipped to A&D Foods, a distributor in Georgia, for further distribution to retail and restaurant locations nationwide.

Well it didn’t stop there, from FSIS

The raw pork, beef, and goat items were produced on various dates prior to September 22, 2026. The products were vacuum-sealed and packed into cardboard boxes for shipment; individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions. The following products, distributed in bulk under the A&D Foods label, are subject to recall

The part that would be of concern to your average consumer is this bit

individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions.

So if that Georgia Distributor, you know, distributes it to a grocery store and they repack it, you won’t be able to tell.

Yeah it should be "check before eating", ideally with details on the supplier, and where it was sold. That's more informative and targeted

I wonder how much legit suicidal ideation has gone up under trump? Its probably gone up globally too. Everyone I know is always tired and hopeless about the future. Even kids are down.

The recall is about improperly labelled beef and pork that says it was USDA inspected. I don't think Canadians have a USDA.

Something tells me OP's motivation for lying about the types of meat and the countries involved is because they're one of those "militant" vegans.

Maybe we could go on longer by adding "or scavenged from the side of the road" as an RFK reference

My meat is 30 years too old for this administration.

--A 42 year old lacto-ovo vegetarian.

Here are the animals that you can still eat without feeling bad:

The recall is about a specific company that falsified inspection labels.

I noticed on some ground chicken had a longer date than the turkey and they were packed near the same time. I just assumed maybe the chicken was shipped frozen so it allowed longer time.

Also had to toss a rack of ribs that still had 4 days and vacuum sealed and my refrigerator is colder than the recommended residential fridge.

It's a bit cruel, but mostly stupid. People getting sick and dying doesn't really help anyone lose weight.

What are we supposed to do? Eat more lettuce? Oops, diarrhea.

The prefer an unhealthy population.