What? lettuce is not part of the traditional greek salad recipe.

So only slightly less dangerous than a standard salad, with the cyclospora lettuce and killer tomatoes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...

> About 500 pounds of "take home packaged beef". At the import level it's usually "hanging weight" of a beef carcass before butchering, about 700 pounds.

I'm fine with "about 700 pounds", but that's still not too far off from the 30k pounds the original comment stated for around 50 cows (just over a bit instead of under a bit), so it still holds true that their guesstimate isn't all that far off-base.

“According to Beef Magazine” wasn’t a phrase I expected to read today, but I’m delighted to add it to my lexicon

This is a systemic failure indicator. This was a shipment rejected by China for safety reasons. The US beef import supply chain is compromised.

> China rejected a 22-tonne Argentine beef shipment over a banned antibiotic in March. Here's what Trump's quota actually changed, the 29,628 lb recall nobody covered, and why the package won't tell you.

> The shipment came from the ArreBeef plant in Pérez Millán, Buenos Aires province. It was roughly 22 tonnes, about 48,500 pounds, and China's General Administration of Customs rejected the whole container after detecting chloramphenicol residue, then suspended imports from that facility while it worked out what happened.

> China's standard here is zero. There's no "acceptable level" of chloramphenicol in food, so any detectable trace is grounds for refusal. That's why one positive result turns into a rejected container instead of a fine.

> The standard is zero because of what the drug does. Chloramphenicol can cause aplastic anemia, a bone-marrow failure that's rare, unpredictable, unrelated to dose, and frequently fatal. The IARC classified it as Group 2A, "probably carcinogenic to humans," in Volume 50 (1990), and the US National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens lists it as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen. It's still used in human medicine for a handful of severe infections where nothing else works. It's not supposed to be anywhere near a cow.

https://tallow.app/blog/china-rejected-argentina-beef-chlora...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-beef-import-plan-backlash-18...

So you think this comment:

> Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like

Is appropriate for recalling ~30 cows worth of beef? There is no secret point being made, it's just average things happening while certain people overreact.

Poor Albania, drawn into a war they didn’t even know they were a part of until Trump mentioned it.

I think Iran was an enormous blunder that hurt everyone around the world, and will for a long time. But at least I can see what he was aiming for - the acclaim for winning a war and bringing a long time foe to heel. He was sold an easy war by Netanyanhu and being gullible he was easily convinced.

There was a reasonable, desirable goal he was aiming for.

But this screwworm thing is so stupid simply because there was no upside to it. It just hurt Americans, especially Trump voters. No one benefited other than screwworms now feasting on American cattle.

> That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic.

Both parties of capital interests have lots of blood on their hands for the intentional mishandling of the pandemic (which has not ended) in the name of propping up our archaic consumption-first economies.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co...

Yeah ok, that’s very plausible. I’m limited my by knowledge, so this screwworm thing is the worst, most pointless blunder that I know of.