https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/24/us/meat-recall-usda-star-meat-delivery-hnk
Probably applies to Canadians too.
Officially inspected meat from the US is not good enough for export into the EU. How much worse could uninspected meat be?
This doesn’t seem to include any chicken.
Yet.
And Trump wonders why we don’t want that muck on supermarket shelves over here (UK).
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?
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?
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.
Idk maybe a hot take, but i think we should retitle posts so it isn’t clickbait.
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??
“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
Speaking only for the top 10% of the income scale. The rest is just voting fodder until they’re not needed anymore.
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]*
This is not for all of America. RTFA OP.
The FDA link in the article lists the product labels affected. I thinks it’s all labeled “A&D Foods” and has “EST. 1363” on the label. It all went to a distributor in Georgia.
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.
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.
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.
After this, importing foreign meat, and the secretary of agriculture suggesting Americans should eat less beef if they can’t afford it, you’d expect the people who flipped out over just the speculation that Biden would limit beef consumption for all Americans to be livid right now.
“the liberals are going to make us eat bugs”
“Do you know what they call a Cricket Burger in Paris?”
"They don’t call it a Cricket Burger?
"No, they don’t because they wouldn’t eat that shit "
Yeah, but those people are really dumb.
I want off this fucking horrible ride dude…
Samesies
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
Do you have any idea how little 167 thousand pounds of meat is
in freedom units that equates to 1 “your mom”
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.
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
That’s like the amount of lunchmeat my kids went through last week… /s…mostly
Fuck you republicans
this is all on you, from voters to politicians
you really are garbage people, fuck you from the bottom of my heart
