https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/24/us/meat-recall-usda-star-meat-delivery-hnk
Probably applies to Canadians too.
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
The internet says the US sells appoximately 200 million pounds of meat a day based on per capital numbers. This is a big number, but drop in the bucket.
That said, they put a false inspection number on it and the recall happened because they got caught. My guess is mis labeling and not being inspected is probably more common than we know.
From my perspective, 167k is what they FOUND.
Its like finding a roach in your house.
i don’t have roaches in my home. we mainly use oils and butters but once in a while get the bong out but its annoying to clean
…sayin’ I’m happy when I’m NOT,
finding roaches in the POT.Whoaaooaaa, all these things I dooo,
they’re waiting for you…
Do you know why they found it? Because they LOOK for that.
It’s an extremely unpopular opinion, and Trump has tried to make our safety nets worse, but the US has pretty good safety nets.
But just like anything else, good safety doesn’t mean nothing ever happens. “Safe” drivers are still involved in accidents. Airplanes are safer than cars but do occasionally crash.
We should always want more safety, but food safety in the US is still pretty damned good.
Tell that to all the people who ate Taco Bell shredded lettuce. US food safety is worse than any developed western country. It was before Trump.
Air traffic control too. Wtf.
Why are so many Americans sharing this cope? Your country is fucked and has been fucking you your whole life. Why gaslight others?
“Airplanes are safer to travel in than cars.” “Tell that to someone who died in a plane crash!”
I’m focused on the fascism and oligarch problem that are fucking me, not on things that are popular but INCORRECT as major problems.
Massive cuts to air traffic control has resulted in accidents killing people.
Massive cuts and underfunding of regulatory bodies has made food more unsafe and deadly. Combined with a legislative environment that also has different pesticides, processes, growth hormones, gmos and other additives deemed unsafe for human consumption in other developed countries.
Massive cuts in foreign aid are leading to outbreaks endangering US food supplies.
With the efforts to neuter regulatory and inspection agencies, it’s surprising they caught this, but who knows how long it’s been going on even just the one company
167k is what wasn’t federally checked. Nothing was found or even tested. Which isn’t great, but it’s not like it is killing people.
Per capita my man
The internet should know I’m a moron.
I used to do it too, the context was correct and we dont write down everything we know. Its normal
Yes but OP wants to spread fear. Be afraid. Please?
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.
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?
Canada no doubt.
Damn. How do you get arms that long?
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.
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?
individual consumer packages may not bear this labeling, as retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions
The recalled meat could still have ended up in packages for consumers. What they’re saying is that you can’t know since retail stores would have cut up this meat and repackaged it.
Call your butcher.
Call walmart about what exactly
They can tell you where meat is sourced and if their meat has been recalled. Im sure Walmart could do this but if not it’s time to find another butcher.
oh, the grocery store and restaurants where I get my food or the other ones?
OP doesn’t want you to say this. Thank you, though. This is the way.
I would if I could, the website gives this error.
Access Denied You don’t have permission to access “http://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/star-meat-delivery-inc--recalls-raw-pork-beef-and-goat-products-produced-without” on this server.
Reference #18.553d117.1790384454.99b1879d
damn this guy trusts the US government to protect farm customers
They faked a label. Executives need to go to prison.
Business needs to be completely shut down.
“prison”? did you mean to say “the wall”?
Great album, it’ll be interesting to hear a bunch of executives try to recreate such a clas- OH MY GOD, WHY WOULDN’T YOU WARN ME??? MY MOUTH WAS OPEN!
I have no clue what you mean by sending people to the wall, but I imagine it involves a human cannon and, well… a wall…
Keep dreamin’ (we all know they don’t get in real trouble]*
Indeed, but the Orange Turd will pardon them.
Don’t want to guit-trip anyone but being critical of what you eat is good for everyone. Eating less meat is good for the planet and your health, even if the meat is not contaminated. If you don’t like CNN you can find very similar content from other sources by using a search engine of your choice.
- Eating more plants linked to lower risk of dementia, even in old age - CNN
- Swapping processed meat for plant-based foods may cut diabetes and heart disease risk, new review finds
- ‘Shift’ to plant-based diets is key to saving world’s wildlife
Yes, I’m cherry picking.
The frustrating part is vegetables and even tofu had their own scares this year.
Got food poisoning this week, probably from cilantro.
I’m pissed. First time I’m my life I’ve ever had it and now I have to boil my pico de gallo or it’ll probably happen again
The great thing about cilantro is that you can wash it with soap and if you leave a little soap on there you won’t taste it
No boil, but wash in (lightly) soapy water with lots of agitation for at least a minute and rinse well. Or use a product designed for that and rinse well.
Yeah, I’d be pissed too. The problem these days is that anything less than an actual cleaning agent isn’t going to dislodge whatever industrial-strength nasty is on the leaves, so you can’t just rinse and call it done anymore.
Not shaming you, I had to learn the hard way too. I wash all produce now, and have for years. When you know, you know, and now unfortunately you know too.
I’m probably going to do both going forward
I know boiling works cus I cooked the beans I made with the water from the contaminated pico the cilantro was in (didn’t know I had a problem at that point).
I’ve been eating the beans still, no problems, so the cooking must’ve helped neutralize it.
Yeah washing your own cilantro is a pain in the ass but it’s worth it.
Obligatory joke about how it’s a bigger pain the ass to not wash it.
Fr though I’ve heard it’s basically impossible to wash the bacteria off veggies if it’s there and cooking is the only safe option. Washing is for dirt and pesticides. So do both.
My grandmother lived in an expat enclave in Taipei in the 60s and was told to dunk absolutely everything from the market in a dilute bleach solution and let it dry.
Same treatment for the odd skin rash. Have the kid take a bath in dilute bleach (I have had this procedure, itchy as fuck but it works).
I guess that’s an option
How do you boil salsa?
The tomatoes are pretty watery, even after pulling out over a cup of water. Plus the lime juice added a bit back.
Basically I just dumped it into a high-rimmed sauce pan, turned on the heat and waited til it was boiling. I gave it ~25 minutes on a light boil, and it smelled a bit less pungent but otherwise looked about the same.
Oh. Yeah, that makes more sense than dumping it in boiling water.
lol I can see how that’d be confusing, and gross sounding
Even fruits too… ugh… 😕
Yeah at this point, the solution is community gardens.
That still means eating less meat - good luck raising a cow in your neighborhood lol
My neighbor has several cows. Next year I’m gonna get one.
Most people live in cities
Sucks to be them I guess.
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Hay not included.
vegetables
So definitely don’t eat Mitch when devouring the rich
*w I n k
Damn near everything in this shithole is contaminated as of the past year or two so there’s no winning safety-wise by shifting to plant-based, at least on that front.
I have noticed I tend to get sicker when I eat the (properly cooked!) little meat I can lately, though, which I suspect is due to skyrocketed antibiotic use in poultry farming the last decade or two. I also avoid deli meats for similar reasons.
Eating less meat is good for the planet and your health, even if the meat is not contaminated.
there’s no winning safety-wise by shifting to plant-based, at least on that front.
And my following paragraph elaborates on meat still being a somewhat worse option
Okay, my bad. I take safety as meaning overall health outcomes not just acute sickness.
I do think it’s useful to consider that fecal contamination of produce is often associated with poor management of waste from the industrial slaughter industry.
It makes sense, the government is contaminated with greedy/corrupt/pervy morons, of course they wouldn’t be able to give any serious thought into their responsibilities. They’re too busy taking bribes or hanging out on Islands or funding genocide.
Anyone with half a brain knew this was going to happen, eventually.
The only question is, was it on purpose or by accident?
I say a combination of both, in that order.
Does fit the Russian agent theory pretty well. Intentional chaos.
Agent Krasnov is his name-o
The only people that hate the American government more than the Russians are rich people.
Dont upset the planet warmers. They’re already upset about AI warming up the planet and using up vast amounts of water.
I’m gonna need you to go into your moldy bathroom, look into your toothpaste splattered mirror…and slap yourself. Three times. Really hard.
Or, just look at yourself and think about what you just said.
I’m sure either option will be equally painful.
Oh? Did I say something wrong?
Don’t feel so bad about being a terrible human. Maybe someday you’ll be better. I hope so. There’s plenty of shitty people out there. Be unique.
Im a terrible human being? For…?
Yes, I’m cherry picking.
and those are “linked” and “may”
Reducing methane production is an easier sell. Crops are less a better return on land use -> food. The better Plant based beef for most uses is better than trash-level burger meat.
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
This is more you should know if your in Georgia. America isn’t so tiny that this small of a recall is remotely fucking close to “if you are American”.
I got very worried for a second. But the post title is nothing but fear mongering and very misleading.
Do people not realize how fucking MASSIVE America is?
yep, it only applies to some weird place east of the miss pissy river
When is meat not recalled in the US?
You guys should probably set up some sort of the government department to keep an eye on this.
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.
This is bad advice, fellow Americans.
Look up where the recalls and violations have happened. Also, look up the cuts of meat.
Big numbers don’t mean all of America. What a stupid suggestion.
I think the best advice is to do both: check what meat if affected and whether that might include the meat you’re looking at. If you’re not sure, maybe skip meat for a change. You can do without.
I mean, definitely read the article, 167000 lbs, isn’t very much. I imagine that a certain area around north Carolina is affected, but not much more then that.
I would assume officials warning this is a “nationwide” issue means exactly all of the US.
There are lot numbers for specific products, it’s not all meat and it’s not distributed evenly across the country.
167 metric tonnes doesnt seem like that much in the grand scheme things, but ultimately that could at worst kill hundreds of people.
It’s only 76 metric tonnes.
Pounds, not even tons.
Plot twist: this is big veggies trying to get people to stop eating meat.
I mean, there’s an argument to be made it’s good advice regardless of recalls
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?
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.
If we had proper regulation, there would 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.
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.
Holy red herring. The point isn’t the percentage, the point is that fraud this size got past the system at all. They falsified labels - that’s egregious, planned, and indicates a systemic issue with the company.
And sprinkling in a bit of cherry picking? You’re dividing what 1 single inspection incident caught against the entire country’s consumption of all meat for an entire year. This is apples and oranges, and entirely beside the point - you don’t conflate detection with prevalence. Detection indicates a thing is happening, but doesn’t indicate the entire scope. If you’d like to look at it in a real-world sort of way - this single inspection incident showed that enough beef to feed nearly 3000 people for an entire year had falsified labels. You can always make something seem small if you appeal to a relative scale to suit your argument.
Idk maybe a hot take, but i think we should retitle posts so it isn’t clickbait.
No, keep it. But disregard it for what it is: bullshit.
As the late great George Carlin told us: it’s bullshit, and it’s bad for us.
Fuck you, OP.
Sounds like a great time to go vegan. 🖖
Yeah 'cause we know all the fresh veggie product from such brands as Taylor Farms is perfectly safe…
(jk going vegetarian or vegan is an admirable choice even if you do it noncommittally by reducing your animal protein consumption. Every 1 gram of animal protein required ~9g of feed depending on the animal.)
You… don’t… need to buy those manufactured food products, either, you realize? Chickpeas and rice, mushrooms, tofu, etc. can all lend you to making your own tasty recipes.
Yeah mostly joking. I actually do like some of the veggie substitutes. I also like tofu. My grocer carries a brand of ultra dense stuff that’s great breaded and fried.
Any advice on how to make tofu flavourful? I’ve been trying to use it but anytime I do, it’s more just kinda there rather than really adding anything to the flavour profile. Ironically, some of the “failures” where it all crumbled into something similar to scrambled eggs might have been one of the times where it did seem to pick up flavour, but while I wouldn’t say the texture was bad that way, I’d like to get more out of it without it falling apart if possible.
Some chefs on shows like culinary class wars put great effort into making tofu for their dishes (one guy even won the whole show with a dish like that), so I feel like there’s gotta be something I’m missing.
Lots of people on YouTube have tons of tips on ways to doctor up the taste and texture of tofu, but personally what I think it comes down to is just eating it regularly enough for it to become an acquired taste. It’s not the best absorber of flavors, sauces and marinades will only penetrate about a millimeter or two. You can get deep flavor infusion with brines, but then you’re eating a lot of sodium too.
People often recommend cutting it into smaller pieces so you’re getting a better sauce to tofu ratio. As you said, crumbling it does increase surface area and help it hold more flavors.
So just keep trying things, and keep eating it, cause eventually you will start to actually enjoy it’s own natural flavor (some brands taste better than others too). I’m at the point now where I keep it as simple as possible. Forget the unnecessary kitchen gear like presses. I take it right out of the package, maybe squeeze a little water out, and then I’ll just smash the thing and crumble it right into whatever I’m cooking.
Ah ok, that sounds consistent with what I’ve been seeing. So if I’m understanding correctly, tofu has a flavour/texture tradeoff (best texture I’ve gotten from it was once when I cut it into like 1cm slices and seared them, managed to get a decent sear on both sides without them sticking to the pan and crumbling. Actually the flavour wasn’t that bad either, that one was more simple so I think it was mostly just the tofu and the sear, plus some olive oil that infused it.
I just realized I haven’t tried marinating it yet and a quick search looks like people are saying good things about that.
I don’t make it often, but if you marinate it in something like half soy, one quarter rice wine vinegar, and one quarter mirin, then bread with corn starch, egg wash, and panko, you can make awesome deep fried tofu bites. This works well with the less dense stuff most stores carry.
That will get you sick or kill you too, I’m afraid.
Sounds like a great time to die or get sick.
What if I can’t afford to get sick or die?
Then you’ll get sick and die.
In that case the government will step in to help you to get sick and die.
It’s free. But also it costs money. But it totally also doesn’t cost any money.
It’s the cheapest there is!
No seriously, that is the cheapest we got.
As a vegan, uh, no. Lol. Quite the opposite.
Did we already memory hole the diarrhea lettuce?
Don’t forget the killer frozen blueberries.
That’s the real danger. It’s a misconception that vegans eat a ton of tasteless nearly nutritionless lettuce but we probably do eat way more berries than others.
If I’m not buying meat, I can afford the berries.
Like half of my freezer is just frozen berries :)
So cook your greens.
Under today’s FDA, everybody dies of foodborne illness.
equal opportunity
How long until I get my Vegan powers?
They start the first time you can mention you are vegan in a conversation that isn’t about food or animal products.
I use arch btw.
Arch is the veg-pescetarian of Linux. If you’re going to act smug, at least install Gentoo or one of the “fully free” distros.
The meme is Arch btw.
I also do CrossFit, do you even lift bro?
It’s a gradual building process, but some perks happen very quickly. Like your whole body being in distinctly less pain - that can happen in days depending on your inflammation status. Or being super bloated because you started eating way too much fiber way too soon, that can happen in a day.
After a few years you may find your immune system starts to become superhuman. Not even joking, it’s kind of wild how much more resilient I am to sickness these days. Getting sick far less frequently, symptoms consistently becoming laughably mild, and duration is far shorter too.
I stopped craving junk food and lost the pudge I’d been carrying most of my life.
🙄
It’s a passive, you just statistically live longer and feel better.
there is education that goes along with it to actually manage nutrients/macros than just ‘go vegan’ and leave it at that
beans are not a protein that every body can digest
That’s why I said statistically. Yeah you can go vegan on oreos and french fries and drag down the stats, but on the whole vegans do better.
It know, not a great superpower.
Personally, I think that stat is going to see some dips soon, with everything being loaded with coconut oil these days.
I don’t think so. The processed vegan meat substitutes are almost as bad for you as the real deal, but they’re also really expensive. After a year or two of that most of us are forced to learn to cook for ourselves from scratch, and once we do that we learn that you can get way tastier / healthier / cheaper meals that way. At least, that was my trajectory.
once you go vegan you instantaneously get the power of a smug sense of superiority. though, admittedly, it doesn’t do anything but make you an annoying asshole.
It sounds like you’re a vegan…
well, I’m a decade in, and still no powers D:
You have to be more righteous about it
i think that is the powers of a vegan. as far as ive ever experienced with them.
It’s milk n’ eeeeeegs, bitch!
nah. I’ll just continue purchasing meat from my local butcher that sources from local farms.
thanks though.
or vegetarian. or stick to chicken. as per article in what it was recalling.
Officially inspected meat from the US is not good enough for export into the EU. How much worse could uninspected meat be?
We had some scares in the past. We learned from our mistakes. The EU actually does a lot of shit right.
YSK Costco does independent testing of their meat.
I don’t want to like Costco, but they’re making it really hard.
I don’t like being in there, I don’t like shopping in a damn warehouse. I hate the parking lot clusterfuck experience.
I do like that they curate a very good selection and they treat their employees well.
Why can’t they just run a normal-scale grocery store?!
Why can’t they just run a normal-scale grocery store?!
It could be argued that if they did, they might suck like the rest of them.
Personally, I hate needing to pay a god damn subscription in order to spend more money buying stuff at their store.
I felt the same way about a search engine, until I realized you’re paying for curation, which is what makes it good.
Except for their own Kirkland Signature brand, they sell the same shit everyone else does but bigger. What curation?
but… it’s bigger
“Why not have them go to 10 and just make 10 louder?”
“…These go to 11.”
Honestly my big Costco gripe is just that the sizes are awkward and big, but they aren’t really selling to businesses anymore… So like why? It would make sense to me if I were buying like cases or something that could be resold. I have a small family, so it’s always an exercise in creativity to use all of the produce and meat before it gets wasted. But if I bought less at a regular grocery store, I would almost always be paying more.
YSK California has the most stringent food safety regulations in the country, going above and beyond what the fed requires. Thank fuck I live here and not somewhere that does the bare minimum required of them (which, rn, is doing nothing at all).
