Americans: "The rest of the world is sooooo unfair to our poor farmers. They refuse to let us sell them anything."
Meanwhile, The Rest of World: "We honestly can't understand why you even eat this shit, let alone expecting us to."
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Is it farmers?
I would think the farmers grow the crops and the ranchers raise the livestock but that the processors and distributors are where food safety gets dropped.
There are probably some farmers/ranchers who try to get away with using unapproved products on their crops/livestock but, again, that should be getting caught at the screening.
Seems like in this case the inspection stamp was faked. Are farmers/ranchers responsible for getting their product inspected and certified or is that elsewhere in the chain?
Now if we’re talking about those complaining about no workers, or expensive diesel/fertilizer/seed/feed etc. then I only have on question for them: who did they vote for?
The farmers are using all kinds of growth hormones, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and GMO that are considered unsafe for human consumption in Canada, Mexico and the EU.
US food standards were a fucking joke before this administration that fired everyone enforcing anything.
You cant even drink the tap water in some places.
The farmers are using all kinds of growth hormones, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and GMO that are considered unsafe for human consumption in Canada, Mexico and the EU.
Sure, but they’re not in the US where they are and where their market is.
US food standards were a fucking joke before this administration that fired everyone enforcing anything.
No, they weren’t. They were not comparable to other similarly developed nations and had a lot of room for improvement, but they weren’t a joke. Not having any standards, which is where America is heading, would be a joke.
For particularly weak food standards you’d want to look at Kenya or Nigeria.
You cant even drink the tap water in some places.
You are correct, though that’s regulated by the Environmental Protection (the irony of using this word in the name!) Agency and is unrelated to food regulation.
No, this would be the butchers.
This isn't to negate your point at all, because I get your meaning. But these days, the butcher is a skilled person who makes final cuts of meat. Often in grocery stores.
The people who slaughter the animals do the initial skinning and halving or quartering of animals. Often they will also make the initial rough (large) cuts that get stamped for inspection approval and then vacuum sealed to be delivered to kitchens or butchers. The people at this step are called meat packers and it's almost always where problems lie. Almost across the board the employees at these places are underpaid, overworked, and it's where the meat has the greatest chance at contamination.
I assume your using butchers to refer to the same businesses I’m calling processors; the commercial plants that slaughter livestock and then process it for distribution to retailers.
The U.S. is the world's largest food exporter.
I know, I love it when people have opinions based on made up shit. Which is sad because there's enough real things that you shouldn't need to.
This is SOCIALISM! We voted SPECIFICALLY to ELIMINATE the USDA so we can EAT this POISONED Meat!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
You mean the wild horse meat that the Trump admin illicitly sold to some guy who had never been in the horse trade before who shipped it to Argentina who sold it to us as “beef”?
Are there any articles with the laid out yet?
"Sorry, we were just confused by this very administration's scheme to import tons of bribery beef!"
Look he got excited because he heard the word teen in Argentina.
167k pounds recalled, what happened to the reat of the 659,833k pounds of mystery meat?
trump: Eliminate the inspection requirement.
poof!
It’s all safe now!
I think I'm only going to buy meat from local ranchers/farmers markets from now on. it's a lot more expensive but mystery meat really grosses me out.
Hey boss, we can save money and be more profitable if we don't do the USDA inspection. CEO: okay!
Bypassing USDA inspection?!