https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/24/us/meat-recall-usda-star-meat-delivery-hnk
Probably applies to Canadians too.
See? I told you so, bro. Industry can regulate itself just fine.
I don’t know why you’re laughing.
167,000 pounds? Is that Joe’s backyard barbeque? He does cook up a lot of burgers…
GOP finding out the hard way why rules exist.
They’re just gonna make it illegal to publish about food safety and call it a day
Sounds like a great time to go vegan. 🖖
nah. I’ll just continue purchasing meat from my local butcher that sources from local farms.
thanks though.
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?
once you go vegan you instantaneously get the power of a smug sense of superiority. though, admittedly, it doesn’t do anything but make you an annoying asshole.
They start the first time you can mention you are vegan in a conversation that isn’t about food or animal products.
I use arch btw.
well, I’m a decade in, and still no powers D:
You have to be more righteous about it
It’s a gradual building process, but some perks happen very quickly. Like your whole body being in distinctly less pain - that can happen in days depending on your inflammation status. Or being super bloated because you started eating way too much fiber way too soon, that can happen in a day.
After a few years you may find your immune system starts to become superhuman. Not even joking, it’s kind of wild how much more resilient I am to sickness these days. Getting sick far less frequently, symptoms consistently becoming laughably mild, and duration is far shorter too.
That will get you sick or kill you too, I’m afraid.
Sounds like a great time to die or get sick.
What if I can’t afford to get sick or die?
Then you’ll get sick and die.
It’s free. But also it costs money. But it totally also doesn’t cost any money.
It’s the cheapest there is!
No seriously, that is the cheapest we got.
As a vegan, uh, no. Lol. Quite the opposite.
Did we already memory hole the diarrhea lettuce?
Don’t forget the killer frozen blueberries.
Under today’s FDA, everybody dies of foodborne illness.
equal opportunity
Officially inspected meat from the US is not good enough for export into the EU. How much worse could uninspected meat be?
We had some scares in the past. We learned from our mistakes. The EU actually does a lot of shit right.
Whatever man I want to die anyway.
This doesn’t seem to include any chicken.
The chicken is cursed.
That’s bad.
But it comes with Froyo?
chicken froyo? that seems bad
Yet.
Or maybe just look at the recall list https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/star-meat-delivery-inc--recalls-raw-pork-beef-and-goat-products-produced-without
Don’t promote this wasteful sensationalism. Maintain sanity.
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?
individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions
The recalled meat could still have ended up in packages for consumers. What they’re saying is that you can’t know since retail stores would have cut up this meat and repackaged it.
Call your butcher.
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)
…where do you grab it from?
Canada no doubt.
You need to set your comfort level where it suits you, sure. However best to go into this informed with the actual available data. I’m not a vegetarian, but excessive meat waste really makes me cringe. Agree for future purposes, as with everything - avoid buying American (US) whenever possible.
And Trump wonders why we don’t want that muck on supermarket shelves over here (UK).
The items were “produced without the benefit of federal inspection, bearing labels with a false USDA mark of inspection,” the USDA said. The products beared the number “EST. 1363,” which does not have a federal grant of inspection, and should be considered misbranded and unsafe to eat, the agency said.
We gotta worry about fake federal labels now??
well…not fake exactly… more like unsanctioned use of.
Idk maybe a hot take, but i think we should retitle posts so it isn’t clickbait.
They faked a label. Executives need to go to prison.
Indeed, but the Orange Turd will pardon them.
Business needs to be completely shut down.
“prison”? did you mean to say “the wall”?
Keep dreamin’ (we all know they don’t get in real trouble]*
“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!’”
- Donald Trump
“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.
Speaking only for the top 10% of the income scale. The rest is just voting fodder until they’re not needed anymore.
Don’t eat A&D meat.
This is not because of deregulation, this is because Star Meat Delivery attempted to avoid inspection by falsely labeling their meat as inspected.
The active regulatory body discovered it, and as it wasn’t inspected, the rule is immediate Class I.
While im all for blaming the GOP on deregulation, deregulation did not enable this. Regulation issued the recall.
… 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.
Intentional lax enforcement is defacto deregulation.
I’ll be honest with you; I’m inclined to look at it the same way as the person you’re replying to and I’ve yet to see any article attributing this to, or outlining how it’s related to, the recent de-regulation.
Perhaps you could source your claim?
“The Jungle” - Upton Sinclair.
Call me sceptical but I doubt a fiction book published ~120 years ago predicted the recall of 167000 pounds of meat in 2026 and then went further to outline how it was directly related to the recent deregulation by the Trump administration.
Perhaps you’d like to be a little more verbose and expand on this comment?
it was in reference to the point that this is not new. yes, you are correct in that it is not a direct source, but instead i took it as a chance to recommend one of my favorite books.
it was in reference to the point that this is not new. yes
What point?
you are correct in that it is not a direct source
Or a source at all.
but instead i took it as a chance to recommend one of my favorite books
Oh…
“Calvin and Hobbes” - Bill Watterson
Am I doing it right?
Fuck off. Comparing the impeccably-researched work of one of the most famous reporters in history, based on his own firsthand experiences in the meatpacking plants and interviewing the workers thereof… To fucking Calvin and Hobbes? That’s the most brain-dead take I’ve seen today, and I’ve been arguing with a guy who thinks it’s reasonable to expect every member of the human race to innately understand how a mind-altering drug will affect them before taking it, solely because people have been using it for thousands of years.
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.
You bold it like that’s some significant number….
The US consumes 76 billion pounds of red meat and poultry per year.
Thsi is more like finding a mosquito in your house.
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.
Trump gave him that power
