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[–] 15 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Sadly, it's more common to get food-borne illness from (uncooked) produce than from meat.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

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