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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 189 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Food from the USA is not up to European standards. It's that simple.

Just look at how long it took to ban Red Dye #3. Banned almost completely in Europe in 1994, while in the US it's legal until 2027.

[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just want to piggy back on the red dye thing. The dye was banned in January, and shortly after, in February, a canal in Argentina turned red, which people suspected was from a dye manufacturer dumping into the water way: https://vt.co/news/weird/concerns-raised-after-canal-water-mysteriously-turns-red-like-blood-overnight

I suspect the two events are related.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

That seems unlikely. Demand for these things tends to taper off. It's not like the products using this dye immediately had their formula changed when the law passed. Instead, production of the dye will slow down as those products get a new formula, and they'll continue to use old stock until it's depleted.

Besides, the article points to other likely sources of pollution.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't forget high fructose corn syrup, which is still legal in the US, despite having a conspiracy theorist who hates it in charge of the Department of Health and who could get that ball rolling with a word.

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 16 points 2 weeks ago

Corn subsidies effectively bankroll a number of (Solid Red) US states. That shit's big business, with big lobbyist payrolls, with big lawyers behind them.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago

The corn lobby is nearly as strong as the oil lobby... it aint going nowhere.

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 86 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Eww... We don't need chlorine infused chicken and chemical soaked eggs. No idea what crap they have in their mad cow beef and lobster. Ban it by law, put it into the constitution change all the national anthem to say EU citizens will be protected from US chemical infused meat and eggs. Write it into a huge stone facing US in multiple languages. Make T-shirts too and hats.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Don't american eggs need to be refrigerated and cannot be eaten raw or something ridiculous

[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

They are washed with harsh chemicals, leading to the destruction of the natural protective layer (that protective layer prevents germs like salmonella from entering the egg)

[–] schema@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Apparently, it's to combat salmonella contamination from fecies on the shell.

European countries instead vaccinate their chickens, have higher hygiene and biosecurity standards (with regular inspections) for farms and frequently collect the eggs to avoid any surface contamination without having to wash their eggs.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 weeks ago

No idea what crap they have in their mad cow beef and lobster.

Neither does America: they fired the people who check this.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 71 points 2 weeks ago

Weak unchlorinated meat, unbelievable!

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago

God damn it that's not how people are supposed to speak.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Your beef is corn fed and cows cant digest it, get fucked. Grass fed ftw.

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[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Lutnick’s description of American beef as superior is a common perception and has some evidentiary basis.

“EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality, meaning that the customers cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing,” says a 2022 academic article in Animal: The International Journal of Animal Biosciences.

So according to the NY Post, the apparent absence of complaints in the US is an argument why US beef is better?

[–] Tartufo@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality

In other words: They have no clue and are just guessing. That (parts of) the EU may be following an entirely different trend is completely unimaginable.

My personal anecdotal evidence: Basically everyone I know who eats less beef does so because of pricing, wanting to adopt a healthier/different diet or because they don't want to shut their eyes as much to what "meat production" means for a cow anymore. Then there's the group who just goes along with that because they either don't prepare meals themselves or so they're not the only one not eating at least vegetarian. Not a single one of them does it because they "cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing".

Ofc my anecdotal evidence isn't saying anything about the entire EU either. I merely wanted to showcase how easy it would be to frame the entire thing completely differently.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago (5 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Those evil Europeans like quality. But not American, only real quality.

American animal "farms" are a dirty and unhygienic mess, and the fact that people still eat their products in the US makes people elsewhere cringe in horror. I love to shock Americans with "Mettbrötchen", a crispy roll with raw, minced pork meat. Perfectly safe to eat here. But people who are used to washed.eggs and chlorinated chicken recoil in horror to something like that.

[–] albert180@piefed.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

American animal "farms" are a dirty and unhygienic mess, and the fact that people still eat their products in the US makes people elsewhere cringe in horror.

If someone asked me to describe the animals rolling in and meat out of Tönnies Factories I would use the same words to describe it.

Our meat isn't that much better (still better than in the US, but the prepackaged stuff in the supermarket is still low quality), no reason to be smug here and riding the high horse

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

As an African with access to reasonable traditional cattle farming, I can say that American beef tastes like crap. Looks amazing, but tastes like crap.

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[–] melfie@lemmings.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

It must be nice to walk into a grocery store and buy things without having to read the ingredients of 10 different products to find the one with the fewest unnecessary shitty ingredients that are all banned in the EU. Can’t even buy an apple I don’t have to peel first because the skin is covered in fucking Apeel. Good for the EU rejecting our enshittified American garbage.

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

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[–] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

EU: "I don't want your beef. I hate your beef."
American Beef: sob
Lutnick: "Don't listen to them Beef! You're beautiful no matter what anybody says! You know what EU? I think your beef sucks! Your beef is WEAK!"

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

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[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Trumps words coming out of a sycophants mouth. How stupid do you have to be that trumps way of putting it is better than what you can come up with yourself.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

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[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 18 points 2 weeks ago

I thought this was a joke until I read Lutnick's name

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 17 points 2 weeks ago

"they hate it because its beautiful" makes absolutely no fucking sense. these people need to be laughed at to their face. (among other things)

[–] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even as a Canadian I avoid American meat as much as possible when buying groceries.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've eaten beef all over the world. US beef is nothing special.

[–] snuggledick@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago

It's special in that it's full with antibiotics and growth hormones.

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