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[–] 154 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
  • [–] 95 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (28 children)

    It sounds highly implausible that Argentina would export horse meat as beef to the US. Argentina is a huge beef producer and while they do produce some horse meat it's exported to the EU where there is an actual demand for horse meat and there it's labeled correctly as horse. Why would they export it to the US as mislabeled beef? I have a hard time believing this without evidence. Have I missed something or is this just an unsubstantiated rumour?

    Edit: Apparently snopes did an article about this. They found no evidence of it being true https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/08/26/trump-ground-beef-wild-horses/

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  • [–] 40 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Why would they export it to the US as mislabeled beef?

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  • [–] 33 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Meat exports are very sensitive and even one small scandal can cause your entire meat exports to be banned all around the globe. It would be far too large of a risk to take even from a strictly economic perspective. In addition to this meat produced for export in Argentina is slaughtered in special export approved slaughterhouses in which the importing country can send inspectors and when it arrives in the importing country it's inspected again. One batch of Argentinian beef recently skipped through import inspection, hence the recall. It was not a failed inspection and nothing has been found to be wrong with the beef.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 weeks ago

    Keep in mind the US is basically getting rid of a bunch of their food and safety regulations right now. Producers and suppliers basically stopped inspecting a bunch of stuff the same day a bunch of regulations were pulled, and now a bunch of our food is already making people sick.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    It could be the meat from the national parks wild horses we are paying extortionate rates to be slaughtered and sold back to us

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Does the EU want the full horse or just specific parts? If only specific parts, what happens to the remaining, unwanted ones?

    If you mix the extra bits with regular stuff, you get to sell more regular stuff while getting rid of the extra bits cheaper.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    It's rare and quite inefficient to export whole carcasses. So it would be exported as whole fine cuts and as mince. The organs would most probably go to pet food locally. The mince would not reach EU consumers as mince but rather as sausage or salami. In fact the salami I buy says it contains non eu horse meat on the label which is highly likely to be Argentinian horse.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Is there traditionally horse in salami? Is it good?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah I think it's good! Horse meat is often more expensive than beef so there is a reason they add it. It's kinda like really lean beef but without that beefy savoriness. Most salami is made with pork as the main ingredient but pure pork can often be a bit flat so by adding beef you can get more of a meat flavor in there. But beef often makes the salami taste beefy and savory in a bad way when combined with fatty pork, like a stew or something. Horse ads that meaty flavor without that distinctive beef savoriness. So you get a salami with a strong meat taste that's still very clean on the palate. I really enjoy it. I have seen more than one brand with horse but to be honest it's quite rare outside the top shelf products.

    Is horse traditionally in salami? I don't actually know but I would imagine so. Horse meat taboo is strong in the UK and has been taboo in the UK for apparently hundreds of years and this has spread to other anglo countries. But in the rest of the EU this taboo doesn't really exist.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    In the Netherlands, the kroketten and bitterballen you buy at a restaurant or bar usually contain about 20% of horse meat. Since this is just small bits and pieces, it can be about any part of the animal. In the past it was in a lot more products, but consumption of horse meat is on a decline.

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    [–] 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
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    Beef is made from plants. Cows eat plants.

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    [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    You can call anything beef. The question is whether you are lying and if it should be illegal in a sales context.

    Yes and yes.

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    [–] 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    The problem isn't that we're going to get horse beef, the problem is that we're going to get wormy beef. Which I think they should lean into rather than the horse angle. Horse meat is no less healthy than cow meat, but nobody wants to eat worms

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago

    We're never going back to the time when brands weren't trying to be one of us, are we

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    'tis this beef, good sir?

    Neigh, I say. Neigh

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    [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)
  • No you can't.

    Next question.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    You know what, they got a point.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I hope Aldi's grass fed beef is safe. And subsidizing Argentina and their failing system, liberated from quality assurance and other pesky democratic things. Understand the food safety laws in the usa and who forced federal action to protect, The People, from greedy companies that literally killed and blinded people.

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    [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    Wow, I JUST watched this a few hours ago, too. https://youtu.be/cNnIZXO1E1s

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