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What makes you think this is “evil and self-serving”? It affects a relatively small quantity of specific products from a specific supplier with specific use-by

What makes you think this is “evil and self-serving”? It affects a relatively small quantity of specific products from a specific supplier with specific use-by dates. In any case, this is Argentinian beef, not Canadian or something. Isn’t the US administration pretty friendly with the right-wing populist Argentinian government?

cosmicgadget 20d ago
They are, leads me to wonder if something was found and the limited hangout is a paperwork snafu. Considering the administration is loudly trying to bring beef prices down via imports, it would look doubly bad if tainted beef came from Trump's bff.
conception 20d ago
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-imports-brooke-rollins-b3039094.html https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
0xbadcafebee 20d ago
Trump promoted the sale of the beef at a discount a week ago on Truth Social, and now the beef is recalled. Clearly it was bad beef, and he and his cronies made a mint fire-selling it, while American businesses take a loss. Pretty basic corruption.
- Reason077 19d ago
  Except this recall was originally announced on August 7th, predating Trump’s imported beef announcement/promotion by a few weeks?
kotaKat 20d ago
So there's some context as well with Argentina beef. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/rampant-speculation-of-blacklisted-huawei-becoming-chinas-largest-beef-importer-stems-from-an-odd-payment-method-for-telecom-equipment https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ra... Argentina's been paying Huawei for 5G gear and services with beef direct to China, who's been selling it via Huawei stores (see https://www.huaweimossel.com/ https://www.huaweimossel.com/). Earlier in March a shipment of ~22 tons of beef was rejected by China for having antibiotics in it and was 'contaminated'. Follow the trail...
- Reason077 19d ago
  This was back in 2024, when Argentina used to have severe restrictions on foreign exchange in an effort to (artificially) prop up the value of the Peso. This made it difficult for Argentine companies to purchase the foreign currency needed to import things like 5G equipment, hence this weird beef-for-telecoms equipment deal. Argentina liberalised its Foreign exchange market in April 2025 so I'd imagine this sort of thing is no longer happening.

cosmicgadget 20d ago

They are, leads me to wonder if something was found and the limited hangout is a paperwork snafu. Considering the administration is loudly trying to bring beef prices down via imports, it would look doubly bad if tainted beef came from Trump's bff.

conception 20d ago

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-imports-brooke-rollins-b3039094.html https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

0xbadcafebee 20d ago

Trump promoted the sale of the beef at a discount a week ago on Truth Social, and now the beef is recalled. Clearly it was bad beef, and he and his cronies made a mint fire-selling it, while American businesses take a loss. Pretty basic corruption.

Reason077 19d ago
Except this recall was originally announced on August 7th, predating Trump’s imported beef announcement/promotion by a few weeks?

kotaKat 20d ago

So there's some context as well with Argentina beef. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/rampant-speculation-of-blacklisted-huawei-becoming-chinas-largest-beef-importer-stems-from-an-odd-payment-method-for-telecom-equipment https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ra... Argentina's been paying Huawei for 5G gear and services with beef direct to China, who's been selling it via Huawei stores (see https://www.huaweimossel.com/ https://www.huaweimossel.com/). Earlier in March a shipment of ~22 tons of beef was rejected by China for having antibiotics in it and was 'contaminated'. Follow the trail...

Reason077 19d ago
This was back in 2024, when Argentina used to have severe restrictions on foreign exchange in an effort to (artificially) prop up the value of the Peso. This made it difficult for Argentine companies to purchase the foreign currency needed to import things like 5G equipment, hence this weird beef-for-telecoms equipment deal. Argentina liberalised its Foreign exchange market in April 2025 so I'd imagine this sort of thing is no longer happening.