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.
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.
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.
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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.
Goya beans
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