• starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    6 小时前

    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

  • Alexfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 小时前

    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.

  • Sour_Kabos@reddthat.comEnglish
    181·
    12 小时前

    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.

  • Barley_Man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    812·
    16 小时前

    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/

    • ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      22·
      3 小时前

      a few years ago, there was a small to medium scandal in europe: beef lasagna with argentinian meat was found to be actually ground horse meat.

      while it was bad to mislabel the meat, to me the bigger tragedy was that they had to throw away all those products. i am sure selling them at a discount would be less of an economic damage for the corporations. at the same time students and not so well off people get a cheaper meal. either way, i really like horse meat - to thet extent that i am quite willing to pay extra for a nice cut.

      • blackberry28@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 小时前

        Pretty sure it was like 10+ years ago, not just a few years. You know what was a few years ago? Covid. Jeez, time does fly.

      • Barley_Man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        3 小时前

        That scandal in the EU was not argentinian horse meat. It was domestic EU horse meat from Romania and Poland. And the whole fraud did not even originate in those countries, it was meat middle men in the Netherlands and France who relabeled, once correctly labeled horse meat, to beef. That’s what makes this whole current rumor so implausible. Mislabeling horse as beef in the import stage would require the inspections both in Argentina and the entry inspection in the US to both fail. It would be far easier for something like this to happen inside the US by US companies than Argentina trying to commit a scam like this.

    • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 小时前

      I mean Argentina has more beef than they know what to do with it. The quality of it is another matter.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        1·
        6 小时前

        Yeah. You can question the quality of beef for export, but Argentina has been a beef exporter for over a century so it has the quantity.

    • im_fine_sandy@nord.pubEnglish
      102·
      10 小时前

      Dude its a joke.

      Its funny because it references the mysterious origin of the meat.

    • decolo@piefed.socialEnglish
      261·
      15 小时前

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

    • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
      5·
      13 小时前

      Its just a meme conflaiting a bunch of horse shit from the idiots running the show.

    • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      16 小时前

      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.

      • YouTalkinToMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 小时前

        Horse steak is normally what is eaten, if it is not ground meat for low quality food. Horse steak is very nice, lean meat with great taste.

      • Barley_Man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        15 小时前

        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.

          • Barley_Man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            9 小时前

            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.

      • zout@fedia.io
        61·
        15 小时前

        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.

  • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10·
    16 小时前

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