If only I could shop at Costco without having to go near Costco…
In case you are serious, they have a website and mobile app and they deliver most things they have in the warehouse. Some things are only available on the app/website.
I’ve never heard of it. I wouldn’t buy it regardless.
lol @ pushing ethical consumerism in 2026. let me just shop at the place that isn’t actively trying to kill everyone!!!
that’ll make a real difference!!!
What is the alternative ethical option?
Yeah not sure how Costco is supposed to be a good choice.
It’s a less bad choice. That’s the best option most people will have.
I don’t even think that’s true in most cases.
Most people don’t live near a place that sells ethically sourced food.
If one lives near a Costco, then there are almost certainly more ethical options in the same area.
What are some examples? I’d genuinely like to know.
Entirely depends on the local area. I have two Costcos in my area. I also have several farmers’ markets, a co-op, and several grocers that sell fair trade and local products.
Costco is a good, socially responsible corporation, most aren’t.
can’t tell if you and this oop is serious lol
There had to be at least one?
one what?
In its dying palm, the world holds one last flake of hope:
a chip of faded paint,
scraped from the logo of an empire
that outlived its promise.yeah that’s how it feels like.
I’ll pile on. They threw their weight in and fought back against the tariffs also: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5628405/costco-sues-the-trump-administration-over-tariffs
I feel slightly out of touch here, what’s up with this Trump Mystery Meat?
Also, they’ve been rounding up wild horses too so we’ve got that possibility as well as the Argentina tainted beef.
Why would bother with possibly tainted beef if you have horses?
the big orange man wants americans to have government subsidized hamburgers so people think that food costs arent as insane as they are, but he refuses to say where he’s getting it from. the general consensus seems to be that he’s allowing the import of a bunch of meat that was rejected by other countries for failing to meet quality standards. because that’s how you help struggling cattle ranchers, after all.
“We have Russian Mobniks cube at home,”
-said the Americans.
It’s mobik, not mobnik
Word is the mystery meat is all that Argentine beef that was recalled recently.
The meat was rejected by China due to the high amount of neurotoxic antibiotics they detected in it.
So, USA is getting meats that china rejected? Lol the irony
WDYM “that was recalled recently”? How would that work?
Isn’t this meat going to be available long term?
I had thought they didn’t disclose the origin simply because their abatoirs are not compliant with US standards.
Doesn’t need to be available long term, the freedom gas didn’t stay cheap either. Just gotta get it into the news cycle for a bit.
Yeah and turns out everyone involved in that operation is kind of a piece of shit, and the fuel was stolen
Man the fucking Simpsons again! Soon we’re gonna see Trump brand MALK at all schools.
Your bones are disintegrating because you didn’t drink enough MALK.
I don’t get it. Everyone likes rats but no one wants to drink their milk?
An example of how capitalism can work
How is this proof of capitalism?
I might have to go vegetarian if this is the future of meat thanks to Trump.
If you can afford to gamble $25 on the advice of an Internet stranger, do this:
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Buy a 4lb bag of Vital Wheat gluten. (Can be aquired on Anthony’s Goods website.)
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Mix it about 50-50 with water, and just… do stuff with it.
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Example1: Mix 350 grams of gluten powder with 450 grams of water (Optional 5 grams of MSG) and stir it together until it’s a big blob. Pick it up and stretch it in every possible direction and knead the absolute shit out of it. Divide into 7 portions, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 250°F/120°C for about 2 hours. You now have a 50 grams of protein blob for each day of the week, to be sliced and dovided however you wish throughout the day.
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Example2: Get a ripping hot skillet and dump in Some™ gluten powder and Approximately® twice as much water and vigorously stir it with, like, a fork or something like that, and dump some cooking oil on it as an afterthought, and dump some spices in it and boil off all the water to make a fake Taco meat mix. If it sticks, take it off the heat and add a splash of water to unstick it, and it’s okay to jave juicy taco seitan crumbles. You actually cannot fuck this up.
Enjoy.
Eat beans! Vast majority of people are getting too little fiber. Don’t think wheat gluten has any either.
Yes, eat more than one kind of thing, obviously.
Tried extracting gluten from flour before, then found out it doesn’t work with wholemeal flour. Could try it again sometime, got white flour now because it was all I could get hold of.
Will have to see if I like that, that sounds strange but probably better than Trump meat
I’ve made the seitan recipe printed on the back of Bob’s Red Mill brand vital wheat gluten, and it had a taste and texture similar to bologna. It was actually pretty nice cold in a sandwich, and fried up in a pan. If that doesn’t float your boat, there’s about a billion ways to prepare beans, you’re bound to like one of those.
I’m a picky eater (thanks, autism) but I’m sure I will find something that works for me. Thanks for the tips
I’m a fussy autist too, and I absolutely love soya, probably because it’s so bland and umami. I used to make my own soya burgers. Tofu is lovely chopped, mixed with sweetcorn and thyme, wrapped in filo pastry parcels and baked. Apparently you can make tofu at home with lemon juice as the curdling agent. If I ever get my own place, I’d love to try it.
Tempeh looks like brains, and I spent weeks looking at the jar before I plucked up the courage to try it. It turns out it’s really nice just breaded and baked. But the ones jarred in water taste better than the vacuum packed ones, which I’ve found to have more bitterness, even after steaming or boiling.
Making tempeh at home is a lot trickier as it uses fermentation.
Ironically, switching to a plant based diet in 2014 actually expanded the variety of food I ate by A LOT. Before that it was just potatoes and more potatoes, and if my executive dysfunction didn’t get me, maybe a bit of boiled veg.
Seitan is pretty good, my only issue with it in a sando or with noodles is like… you’re basically having wheat with wheat, it’s too much for me. But served with vegetables and sauce, it’s probably my favorite meat replacement
Switch to rye bread and rice noodles and problem solved.
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Come, join us, as we feast on seitan.
My vegan office mate keeps pushing this stuff. She loves it. Apparently it’s entirely wheat gluten or something. I have to keep reminding her that I have Celiac, but you know how vegans are.
Tempeh and TVP are soybean products and also really good.
They’re proteins with a meat-adjacent texture and a blank slate for flavor.
But seitan crisps up soooo good. There is this place near me that has these Korean seitan “boneless ribs” type thing with some wasabi/mustard sauce and my apologies to your sphincter but they would be worth it to try.
Hail Seitan!
The meat comes from Russia I’d wager . The CIA director travelled on the c17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft to deliver Fort Knox as payment.
(I’m being conspiracy sarcastic btw)
If you didn’t say you were being sarcastic, you could probably get bluanon types to run with it.
trump always seems to send the dangerous stuff to racial minority areas beware if you eat beef in one of these areas.
Or Trump Steaks to Sharper Image. Yeah, the mall electronics store.
As much as this is basically an ad, I agree.
Support businesses that don’t take any shit because then you know they actually care about providing a service in addition to making money, as opposed to strictly the latter no holds barred.
Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.
This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don’t really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.
Costco Canada employee here…
Idk if it’s the same in the US, but up here the highest markup on anything is 14% above cost.
I think it is about the same here.
Who would’ve thought that doing the right thing is good for public sentiment.
Even though Costco does a lot of good, they still have just the same amount of bad too. Just because they’re the healthier option doesn’t mean they’re healthy.
This is such a lukewarm thought. They’re a grocery store. Of course they sell unhealthy options. They’re being called out as noteworthy here because they go above and beyond other grocery stores and checking to make sure that the food is actually healthy and not going to give you diseases. Take your “both sides” style argument somewhere else.
I wouldn’t say so, it’s more open to a boarder view headed on the post and comments. I’m down to have a specific topic conversation if you like. And my comment may be playing “both sides” but they’re not progressive enough for my taste.
That’s why I voted Trump. Kamala did a lot of good, but in the end everything is the same so I just voted Trump because nothing matters.
I feel the need to stress that this is a fictitious event.
I wasn’t saying anything like that but I also don’t agree with that statement. Thank you for voting though.
Costco is the Bernie Sanders of retail.
Notice that all the employees there smile and laugh as they work. It’s heartening.
The amount of personal expression allowed is honestly impressive, and I love it. I saw an androgynous person wearing mild BDSM accessories working there and my thoughts were “go you, I’m so glad you’re allowed to be yourself in the workplace.”
Hopefully that kind of stuff can spread and we can get rid of treating workers as soulless drones elsewhere too.
Our local Costco banned rainbows and compared them to swasticas. So I don’t go there anymore.
That was not the Costco and was rather some idiot who was put into a management position. Chances are that if corporate learned of it they’d have something to say.
Yikes… Where is that, so I can avoid the area?
I’ve been around the ones in West Denver mainly and the impression I get is that people can wear largely whatever as long as they’re doing their jobs, I could be wrong though
You should message corporate. They would probably like to hear this. If you got enough people to mention it, it will reverse. Their buisness model depends on customers being happy and keeping/renewing their memberships.
Tried that. A few times. Some people agreed with that. Others were really upset by it. And ultimately nothing was done because the policy was instituted after a Karen complained about an employee wearing a rainbow pin.
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
I haven’t had meat since I heard the laws were relaxed.
Haven’t had a hard time at all. Beans, seitan, impossible meat. It’s all delicious!
Never going back.
I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.
Goya beans
Sadly, it’s more common to get food-borne illness from (uncooked) produce than from meat.
I think the worry isn’t food poisoning or parasites, it’s cancer from the latest imported beef. Or maybe mad-cow. I just remember it was somehow worse than explosive diarrhea.
Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.
Screw worm is a parasitic blowfly that eats by burrowing into living mammal flesh.
chloramphenicol - a banned for use in livestock antibiotic
So, the effects are rare. But China turned away beef that tested positive. Then the US government announced a mystery-origin meat to help lower prices. Maybe it was a false positive and a coincidence on the trade deal timing.
But I remember when mad cow disease was a concern. It was rare too. But also not a good way to die.
I feel like we are living the hypothetical, “if a bowl of skittles has up to 1% of them poisoned, do you eat them because your odds are decent?”
If I was only going to vomit a couple times, maybe if I’m hungry enough. If I’ll die an agonizing death from a poisoned skittle, then no, I’ll ty to find something else.
My daughter started calling Seitan “wheat meat”, and that’s its name now.
You’re right that’s a one way road 😂 It’s forever wheat meat to us now too
