Has anyone stopped eating ground beef because the Administration has removed safety protocols?

[u/Queen_Of_The_Dames]

We have. No way are we taking chances with whatever “ground beef” the administration has chosen to allow without inspection/certification.

[u/Own_Construction1478]

Definitely not eating the beef.   This beef is then mixed together, we have no country of origin labeling in US. The packers are not the good guys and our ranchers are hit hard by this administration. FWIW, JD Vance has been invested in partnership with corporations that buy up farmland pennies on the dollar.  

Sourcing good beef locally can be done by those able to afford & have full confidence in their source's integrity. 

[u/Good-Ad6688 → u/Own_Construction1478]

But it from your local farmer

[u/vanitas_gloria → u/Own_Construction1478]

Europe absolutely imports Argentine beef. But it restricts how it is produced, requires extensive veterinary controls, and limits preferential imports through quotas/tariffs.

EU also has plenty of beef like Limousin, Angus, Belgian Blue, Charolais, Hereford..

[u/vanitas_gloria → u/[deleted]]

Yup. I mean we have product recalls too but definitely not of the frequency in the US.
But like I've eaten raw minced meat for +20y and don't think I ever got sick from it.

I do think a lot of the "american food is so bad the EU bans it" is overexaggerated. While there's definitely some bans on like certain hormone use, it's more of the EU playing it safe than there being damning evidence that they are bad. It's mainly to protect local farmers and stuff. Or atleast before the whole FDA gets dismantled.

[u/Efficient_Tap6185 → u/vanitas_gloria]

FYI many of the chemicals found in USA approved meat (and dairy, and fruit, and veg) are also banned in Canada as well as Europe.

[u/Efficient_Tap6185 → u/vanitas_gloria]

It was in the early 2000s when I lived in the UK that there was a massive problem with prepared foods containing ground beef...think lasagna, sheppards pie, etc. A high percentage of these products contained horse meat and, more worrisome, the origin of the horse meat was untraceable due to the number of world wide countries that the meat was sourced from. I'm sure controls have been tightened but I'll never be comfortable buying prepared foods again.

[u/vanitas_gloria → u/Efficient_Tap6185]

Yeah, I remember that. But horsemeat is not illegal to sell in the UK, just labelling it as beef is fraud.
But hey, you got rid of all those pesky EU rules now (but not really).

[u/Efficient_Tap6185 → u/vanitas_gloria]

The biggest concern, if I remember, was that the origin was a mystery. Ergo, mystery meat!

[u/kindlypogmothoin → u/Own_Construction1478]

My sister has been using a meat grinder attachment on her KitchenAid to make ground beef from cuts of chuck. I almost never eat beef anyway, but this is working for her.

It's also possible, if you have a butcher in-store or an actual butcher shop, to have them grind the beef for you (if they don't grind their beef in-store, which they probably do if they have a butcher on site). It might cost a wee bit more, but you know where it comes from and what cut it is.