• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    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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      16 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.

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      17 hours ago

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

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        16 hours ago

        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.

        • T156@lemmy.world
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          15 hours ago

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

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            15 hours 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.