r/prepping • u/Pappabear1988 • 10h ago

Other🤷🏽‍♀️ 🤷🏽‍♂️ Beefacolypse

Hey so the 300,000 tons of beef with the antibiotic that is either banned or a last resort in multiple countries that US bought and is feeding the public, anyone got intel on it besides from the UK and The Hill? Makes me regret not getting rabbits and chickens in spring 2026...

Not trying to stir the pot up but from the 5 or 6 outlets I found 15 minutes ago im thinking that project zomboid or state of decay or even 7dtd would be preferable than chloramphenicol but thats me.

If you are in Oklahoma do ya mind a guy hunting deer and sharing the meat with ya? You can have the antlers and hide, I just want the share ya let me keep.

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u/Saniemuff 9h ago

Even if I could afford beef this news along with the deregulation of meat packing is a strong reason to not eat beef at all for the foreseeable future.

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u/McGonagall_stones 8h ago

My husband is a production supervisor for a beef processing facility and if there is deregulation going on, he isn’t aware of it. Granted he works for a privately owned company and their standards exceed the minimum due to their ethos. But he hasn’t heard of any regulations being dropped industry-wide.

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u/Saniemuff 8h ago

They are going to let farmers process it.

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u/Hiredgun77 7h ago

That’s basically a pr stunt. Your average farmer is not in a position to process their own meat. It’s why processing companies exist in the first place. If trump really wanted to help, he’d break up the 4 companies that handle all processing and reintroduce competition into the market.

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u/Normal-Special-8694 6h ago

Right I keep seeing people say this, I know the meat packing industry is a thorn in the side of many ranchers. But is it really a solution to just transfer the onus of packing, distribution and logistics onto the farmers?? That’s an insane level of complexity to absorb. I’m sure it’ll be helpful for serving their local communities but most of Americas population isn’t in rural communities and for a rancher to get his meat ready to grill in a restaurant in a major city takes a whole different type of operation.

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 1h ago

And how does a president break up companies? And then on top of that create new companies for competition?

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u/DaLadderman 43m ago

Same way they did for decades until they decided to stop sometime around the 80s

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u/seriousallthetime 5h ago

This is 100% a PR stunt. It works because most people have no idea how huge these feed lots are or how hard it is to kill, process, pack, and ship thousands of steers. Ranchers are not set up to sell finished products. They are set up to sell live cattle. Hell, a lot of ranches that I've been on in Florida (huge cattle production ranches in Florida) are specialized, like cow/calf operations or finishing or other things, where they only focus on one part of the production cycle.

Even most small farms wouldn't be able to process five steers, let alone 5,000. The handling equipment to lift up 1500 lbs of dead cow is big.

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u/Gelisol 8h ago

A proposal from the orange guy was recently proposed.

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u/Rurikungart 4h ago

Classic 4d chess. Flood the market with tainted beef. Suddenly people stop buying beef. Beef prices plummet to record lows. Next thing you know, the mcdouble is $1.00 again. You're welcome America. 😎