“The European Union won’t take chicken from America. They won’t take lobsters from America. They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak. It’s unbelievable” Lutnick told FoxNews

It's hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they'll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.

They've been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.

The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you'll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn't fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you'll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn't break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.

Just want to piggy back on the red dye thing. The dye was banned in January, and shortly after, in February, a canal in Argentina turned red, which people suspected was from a dye manufacturer dumping into the water way: https://vt.co/news/weird/concerns-raised-after-canal-water-mysteriously-turns-red-like-blood-overnight

I suspect the two events are related.

Don't forget high fructose corn syrup, which is still legal in the US, despite having a conspiracy theorist who hates it in charge of the Department of Health and who could get that ball rolling with a word.

Who believes this? It's such an obvious lie. It's just a signal to the troops that statements don't need contain logic, right?

But corn fed tastes better

EU consumption of beef has been in decline for 20 years. This may be, at least in part, due to inconsistencies in eating quality

In other words: They have no clue and are just guessing. That (parts of) the EU may be following an entirely different trend is completely unimaginable.

My personal anecdotal evidence: Basically everyone I know who eats less beef does so because of pricing, wanting to adopt a healthier/different diet or because they don't want to shut their eyes as much to what "meat production" means for a cow anymore. Then there's the group who just goes along with that because they either don't prepare meals themselves or so they're not the only one not eating at least vegetarian. Not a single one of them does it because they "cannot be sure of the quality they are purchasing".

Ofc my anecdotal evidence isn't saying anything about the entire EU either. I merely wanted to showcase how easy it would be to frame the entire thing completely differently.

How is the fanta different?

Argentinian beef is top tier. While we do have some great beef in the US, it's all from smaller ranchers that most people don't have access to, and it still doesn't compare to Argentina.

It depends on where it comes from in the US. You're spot on when it comes to basically anything sold in a grocery store. But we have some great cattle that produces great beef. You have to go to high end butchers for it though. Or buy it directly from the ranchers and butcher it yourself.

The best steak I ever had. I watched iit graze in pasture a couple hours before eating it.

In the States, we're told that raw pork puts you in danger of trichinosis. Does your methodology somehow eliminate that threat?

German Farms are like that too. But ours have just a tad more regulations.

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

They do buy our guns - they go crazy for ČZ pistols (made in a little shithole country called Czech Republic)

I had to look up Apeel, but I think it's a good thing actually:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apeel_Sciences

Apeel Sciences is an American food technology company based in Goleta, California. Its edible coating product Apeel or Edipeel can make avocados, citrus and other types of fruit last twice as long as usual by using a tasteless edible coating, and reduces food loss and waste as well as reliance on single-use plastic packaging.

Edipeel is allowed for use on the following fruits in the European Union, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom: avocados, citrus fruit, mangoes, papayas, melons, bananas, pineapples, and pomegranates.

On their website they seem to rightfully point out that E471 (apparently a combo of E422 and E570) is already approved for consumption in the EU, so it doesn't make sense that they're limited to foods where we don't eat the peel. If it's safe and gets the plastic off the cucumbers, I'm for it.

e: Does anyone actually have a source for palladium being used in Edipeel's manufacture? I can't find one. Most of what I'm getting in these searches is that the plants they use to make E471 can contain heavy metals they absorb from their environment, and that the levels are low enough to be considered safe by US regulations. (No clue whether the limit is reasonable.)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

Our food is garbage. It's all engineered to be fast growing, so it has no time to develop flavor and take up natural nutrients. The result is flavorless, empty food.

It’s unbelievable how much better it is overseas compared to US.

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

And antibiotics surely play no role either

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

Honestly asking, what reaction do you think he is looking for?

I can understand (and believe) these assholes are all evil and greedy at a cartoon villain level, but I simply cannot understand what is the goal here. All I see is stupidity running rampant

I worked at a slaughterhouse for about 6 months, in Canada so obviously different. But the only time I saw a cow not unconscious while being drained was when the Orthodox Jews or Muslims stopped by. I didn't watch those twice.

My father insisted I work at one, like he worked at one when he was young. He used a .22, I used a captive bolt gun. Done correctly, the cow should be unconscious. But that industry attracts a certain type of people, so without the government keeping a close eye on the industry I believe the events of that article will happen more.

Spoiler: I see the left doing it all the time as well. Shit, I see vegans trying it too.

It never works.

Canada isn't necessarily great either, and European grocery stores are full of "foods" containing the same cursed ingredients. There's a big difference in volume of crap though, and alternatives are much more accessible than they are in the US.

Maltodextrin

Very common in EU processed foods. We produce it ourselves when breaking down starches in the stomach.

Inverted sugar syrup

Is what you get when you take sugar, any acid, add gentle heat, and wait a while, though the industry uses enzymes instead of acid (it's just easier). Splits up the sucrose into equal parts glucose and fructose which would happen in the stomach, anyway. Equivalent to sugar nutrition-wise, but doesn't crystallise. In the days of ole, sugar bakers would produce it from sugar and cream of tartar (i.e. acid from grapes). Not to be confused with high-fructose corn syrup which is fructose-heavy and thus loads up your liver more than ordinary sugar.

Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids

Are part of our fat metabolism, and get produced during ordinary food preparation. Used as emulsifiers.

corn starch

Is... corn starch? Corn is a quite starchy plant. Take a kernel, remove the yellow shell, grind up the rest. Corn starch is to corn flour what white flour is to whole-grain flour.

Not terribly common over here you usually see potato starch but it's basically the same in function and nutrition.

high fructose syrup

Yeah don't. We're not built to sustain high-fructose diets. In nature only fruit have that kind of nutritional makeup and they're only available during part of the year and precisely at the point where you want to increase your fat storages because it's summer and you're eating for winter. All fructose goes directly to fat storage, we can't use it directly.

Don't get me wrong I'm highly critical of processed foods but your evil list is quite harmless, it's within the range of what you can produce in your own kitchen. Stuff legal in the US but not here is stuff like bromated vegetable oil.