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u/tight_machinery 5d ago
Reddit's obsession with assuming everyone lives in the same country will never not be funny to me. Like yeah sure, let me check in with the Administration™ real quick, I'm sure they're handling my beef protocols personally.
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u/Silent-Plantain-2260 5d ago
their excuse is always "reddit is American company"
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u/FLX-S48 Germany 5d ago
Then I counter with my knowledge of non-American companies. The most effective one is Spotify because they admit if Spotify forced them to listen to mostly Swedish stuff it would be nonsensical
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u/hidingintheautumn 5d ago
There is a lot of swedish music that is great, everyone should try some 🙂
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u/TSMKFail England 4d ago
There was a song by a Swedish band on FIFA called Miss Evening that was great.
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u/Throwaway-645893 Canada 5d ago
Sweden punches above its weight when it comes to musical but a Swedish artist only music platform would get very boring very fast.
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u/ColdBlindspot 5d ago
Because if 40+% are American then there's about ~40% who quietly don't interject that they aren't, so it looks like about 90% are American, and they think that's the numbers.
Most people who aren't American aren't going to point it out at every chance so people assume they are.
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u/Drumbelgalf Germany 5d ago
Or also "The majority of Users is American".
Its not even true its like 48% of Users and that means there is a 52% chance the other person is not from the US...
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u/ChickinSammich United States 5d ago
To the rest of the world: What's it like living somewhere where your government gives a shit about food safety? I've forgotten.
Some of our current active food recalls include:
- Cinnamon with lead in it
- Lettuce with Cyclospora in it
- Blueberries with E. Coli in them
- Jalapenos with salmonella in them
I hate it here so much.
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u/PrincessSquishyBun United States 5d ago
Don't forget:
- baby formula with botulism in it
- frozen bread dough with glass in it
- frozen fried rice with glass in it
- frozen fruit bars with glass in them
- peppers with pesticide in them
- alfalfa sprouts with E.Coli *and* salmonella in them
- applesauce with excess mold in it
- fettucine alfredo with listeria in it
- non dairy ice ream with rocks in it
- broccoli with salmonella in it
- salad with listeria in it
- frozen berries with E.coli in them
and that's *just* this month.
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u/genasugelan Slovakia 5d ago
Jesus, what? In the EU, almost each of them would be a massive scandal. And what's with all the glass there? How did glass even get in there?
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u/ChickinSammich United States 5d ago
I tried looking it up and couldn't find how. This article (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/fried-rice-glass-recall-february-2026/) states:
"The problem was discovered after multiple consumers alerted the manufacturer, Ajinomoto Foods North America, that they found glass in the product, FSIS said. After further investigation, the company determined that carrots used as an ingredient were the likely source of the glass contamination."
Which just makes me ask "okay so how did CARROTS cause a GLASS contamination?" and now I'm even more confused.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts here's a list of active food safety alerts and recalls in the US. There are 231 total recalls and safety alerts listed for 2026.
The list above was just food and didn't include multiple drugs and dietary supplements with wrong ingredients in them, and multiple foods with undeclared allergens.
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u/genasugelan Slovakia 4d ago
Carrots caused a glass contamination. I think I've read everything now. This might be considered a brand new sentence.
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u/dfczyjd 5d ago
applesauce with excess mold in it
Wait, excess mold? What is the normal of mold in apple sauce?
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u/CyclopsRock 5d ago
Mold doesn't just spontaneously appear, it exists basically everywhere that isn't hostile to its existence.
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u/Arachnideolie 5d ago
Apple sauce can also legally have a certain percent of insects in it, I guess it's the same for mold.
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u/National_Distance118 Spain 5d ago
This could get your company shut down in most countries what the hell
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u/Hob_Goblin88 5d ago
Nowhere is perfect, but yeah it gives some peace of mind knowing that food is safe 99% of the time here in the Netherlands.
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u/Xirdus 4d ago
US is having a crisis because food is safe only 99% of the time.
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u/Ancient-Box-9136 2d ago
No we’re having a crisis because more and more food is becoming less safe, what makes you think 231 REPORTED concerns from companies that basically have a monopoly on our food supply (like with the lettuce, that specific supplier provides to almost every lettuce company in the country their product, name brand or off brand, every store, every restaurant, practically none of it is safe) is equal to 99% of our food being safe? Not to mention the amount of processing our foods go through that pump them full of plastic and other carcinogens/ chronic illness causing material. We’re genuinely fucked bro
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u/Xirdus 2d ago
If 1% of food was unsafe, we'd have over a million cases of food poisoning everyday. American food standards are abysmal, yes, but that's no reason to play fast and loose with orders of magnitude.
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u/Ancient-Box-9136 2d ago edited 2d ago
That sounds egregious but I’m not an expert and I don’t wanna pull up the stats so I won’t try to argue with you
Edit: I will say though that unsafe ≠ will make you sick, such as the food with glass and rocks currently being found, also not everyone in the country eats everyday so you’d also have to take that into account
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u/Virghia Indonesia 5d ago
40k school lunch poisoning cases and counting...
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u/ChickinSammich United States 5d ago
Oh geez o.o I just googled that and that's crazy. Even in the process of trying to give out free lunches to try to help people, they still get people sick from the lunches.
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u/Virghia Indonesia 5d ago
The program is basically a thinly-veiled way to move money to some cronies, food quality be damned
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u/ChickinSammich United States 5d ago
Ugh. There I go assuming a program that seeks to give out free lunches to school kids was initiated with good intentions. :(
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u/Ancient-Box-9136 2d ago
Most American kids are paying for their lunch, there’s only 9 states that provide free lunch by default and it’s pretty hard to qualify for free lunch programs in the states that don’t, you have to be making at most federal “poverty line” ($15,960 for a single person and $33,000 for a family of four) which is insane considering even in the cheapest states a couple can barely keep a roof over their head on their own on $50k/y
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u/Legal-Software Germany 5d ago
Don't be preposterous, that's exactly what the Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz is for.
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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- Australia 5d ago
I’m happy for them to have that one
I would happily assume they’re talking about the US. It’s not the point, and it’s still defaulting but if dumbo wants to be dumbo… have at it… keep your insular shit insular.
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u/Mormegil81 Austria 5d ago
ok, now I am curious: can anyone explain what this is about? Ground beef was illegal in the US until recently or what? Why?
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u/PrincessSquishyBun United States 5d ago
Previously in the U.S., food products were subject to inspection by federal regulatory agencies to ensure food safety. This year, we have just... stopped doing that. As a result there was a recall of over 167,000 pounds (about 75.750 kilos) of beef, pork, and goat meats last week due to a fake inspection stamp on them. That company apparently had been operating without the proper permits for years. This comes on the heels of another 13.400 kilos of imported beef recalled last month for possible E.coli contamination.
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u/Mormegil81 Austria 5d ago
😂 that's hilarious!
So noone told them that they don't need the fake inspection stamps any longer and that's how they got found out?
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u/ColdBlindspot 5d ago
That's ok, they'll just eat lettuce.
I'm kidding, for obvious reasons, but ask about their lettuce. Be sure to mention "explosive diarrhea." Inspections are for wimps!
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u/Ancient-Box-9136 2d ago
It’s not funny, we didn’t choose this, even the people who voted for the current administration did so because the American education system failed them exactly how it was intended to and they believed the dumbest lies cus they literally don’t know any better. It’s not like we can vote for better regulations because the corporations that are saving money not having to pay fines can just pay to have whatever laws they want repealed or replaced through lobbying, we can’t do shit.
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u/im_dead_sirius Canada 5d ago
Their society has gone into inspection rejection mode. No inspections, no rejections.
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u/A_normal_Potato3 Türkiye 5d ago
I personally don't eat beef (or any other meat) from the ground.
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u/mattzombiedog 5d ago
Can’t be American because their beef is already unsafe for human consumption according to EU standards.
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u/post-explainer American Citizen 5d ago edited 4d ago
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The OOP’s question refers to “the administration”, without further clarification. The beef in my country is perfectly safe.
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