More than 167,000 pounds of meat are being recalled across the United States after being produced without proper federal inspection, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
… 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.
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.
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.
That’s the most brain-dead take I’ve seen today, and I’ve been arguing with a guy
Maybe direct your overly aggressive anger at him then?
Fuck off. Comparing the impeccably-researchedwork 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?
I made no comparison. I took the opportunity to recommend one of my favorite books in return.
Now I am sorry you misunderstood, but I personally find your language and communication style to be abusive, so I am going to block you.
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.
Holy red herring. The point isn’t the percentage, the point is that fraud this size got past the system at all. They falsified labels - that’s egregious, planned, and indicates a systemic issue with the company.
And sprinkling in a bit of cherry picking? You’re dividing what 1 single inspection incident caught against the entire country’s consumption of all meat for an entire year. This is apples and oranges, and entirely beside the point - you don’t conflate detection with prevalence. Detection indicates a thing is happening, but doesn’t indicate the entire scope. If you’d like to look at it in a real-world sort of way - this single inspection incident showed that enough beef to feed nearly 3000 people for an entire year had falsified labels. You can always make something seem small if you appeal to a relative scale to suit your argument.
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.
What point?
Or a source at all.
Oh…
“Calvin and Hobbes” - Bill Watterson
Am I doing it right?
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Maybe direct your overly aggressive anger at him then?
I made no comparison. I took the opportunity to recommend one of my favorite books in return.
Now I am sorry you misunderstood, but I personally find your language and communication style to be abusive, so I am going to block you.
I hope you have a pleasant morning/day/evening.
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.
Holy red herring. The point isn’t the percentage, the point is that fraud this size got past the system at all. They falsified labels - that’s egregious, planned, and indicates a systemic issue with the company.
And sprinkling in a bit of cherry picking? You’re dividing what 1 single inspection incident caught against the entire country’s consumption of all meat for an entire year. This is apples and oranges, and entirely beside the point - you don’t conflate detection with prevalence. Detection indicates a thing is happening, but doesn’t indicate the entire scope. If you’d like to look at it in a real-world sort of way - this single inspection incident showed that enough beef to feed nearly 3000 people for an entire year had falsified labels. You can always make something seem small if you appeal to a relative scale to suit your argument.