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The US is getting mystery meat from Argentina and the vegetarian companies are leaving no prisoners
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Go away beyondmeat. Potato is talking.
It sounds highly implausible that Argentina would export horse meat as beef to the US. Argentina is a huge beef producer and while they do produce some horse meat it's exported to the EU where there is an actual demand for horse meat and there it's labeled correctly as horse. Why would they export it to the US as mislabeled beef? I have a hard time believing this without evidence. Have I missed something or is this just an unsubstantiated rumour?
Edit: Apparently snopes did an article about this. They found no evidence of it being true https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/26/trump-ground-beef-wild-horses/
Why would they export it to the US as mislabeled beef?
Meat exports are very sensitive and even one small scandal can cause your entire meat exports to be banned all around the globe. It would be far too large of a risk to take even from a strictly economic perspective. In addition to this meat produced for export in Argentina is slaughtered in special export approved slaughterhouses in which the importing country can send inspectors and when it arrives in the importing country it's inspected again. One batch of Argentinian beef recently skipped through import inspection, hence the recall. It was not a failed inspection and nothing has been found to be wrong with the beef.
Keep in mind the US is basically getting rid of a bunch of their food and safety regulations right now. Producers and suppliers basically stopped inspecting a bunch of stuff the same day a bunch of regulations were pulled, and now a bunch of our food is already making people sick.
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Wouldn't all that be a likely reason for the secrecy around where the meat is coming from?
It could be the meat from the national parks wild horses we are paying extortionate rates to be slaughtered and sold back to us
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Nah.
I'll trust a... squints. Threads screenshot of a meme over Snopes.
I mean Argentina has more beef than they know what to do with it. The quality of it is another matter.
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Dude its a joke.
Its funny because it references the mysterious origin of the meat.
Does the EU want the full horse or just specific parts? If only specific parts, what happens to the remaining, unwanted ones?
If you mix the extra bits with regular stuff, you get to sell more regular stuff while getting rid of the extra bits cheaper.
It's rare and quite inefficient to export whole carcasses. So it would be exported as whole fine cuts and as mince. The organs would most probably go to pet food locally. The mince would not reach EU consumers as mince but rather as sausage or salami. In fact the salami I buy says it contains non eu horse meat on the label which is highly likely to be Argentinian horse.
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Horse steak is normally what is eaten, if it is not ground meat for low quality food. Horse steak is very nice, lean meat with great taste.
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'tis this beef, good sir?
Neigh, I say. Neigh
The problem isn't that we're going to get horse beef, the problem is that we're going to get wormy beef. Which I think they should lean into rather than the horse angle. Horse meat is no less healthy than cow meat, but nobody wants to eat worms
Its actually most likely beef that has some levels Chloramphenicol in it from Argentina that was rejected initially by China. Which is far, far more terrifying.
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Well they've already got plenty of ivermectin so maybe that's why they don't care
Chevron also ruins my mood
Beef is made from plants. Cows eat plants.
Aside from that, isn’t the most advanced technique a process of growing the meat biologically using all the ingredients and compounds that would appear in natural meat? Nothing to do with plant substitutes at all?
"I am a machine that converts plants into beef."
-- Cows
You can call anything beef. The question is whether you are lying and if it should be illegal in a sales context.
Yes and yes.
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You know what, they got a point.
I hope Aldi's grass fed beef is safe. And subsidizing Argentina and their failing system, liberated from quality assurance and other pesky democratic things. Understand the food safety laws in the usa and who forced federal action to protect, The People, from greedy companies that literally killed and blinded people.
Check it next time you’re in there. You’re in the clear if they get it from Australia and enjoy.
They have a really good porterhouse steak here.
We're never going back to the time when brands weren't trying to be one of us, are we
No you can't.
Next question.
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