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Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows
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I'm stocking up on cat food before this shit ends up killing all of our pets.
It's primarily going to be put in animal food and processed foods.
Frozen pizzas. Tv dinners. Canned soups.
Sold to restaurants from their bulk suppliers. Especially fast food places.
Packaged frozen hamburger patties at grocery stores.
Any type of frozen meals with beef.
The big rolls of frozen hamburger.
It's going to be hard to avoid it but not impossible.
Avoid any beef you can't determine where it came from.
I'd just become vegetarian if the veggies weren't also toxic. Republicans really have turned this place into a shit hole
And in this case, literally.
You can cook the vegetables
Well, except for things like lettuce and things like garnish, but...yeah.
I'm so glad I'm a vegetarian when it comes to things like tainted meat, but plenty of vegetarian things can get tainted too, a common one being lettuce.
Ahem,
https://thewoksoflife.com/cooked-lettuce-with-oyster-sauce-garlic/
Cook that lettuce like you hate crapping your pants.
Ahem, You're not gonna treat the contaminated vegetables this short amount of time blanching.
That sounds delicious, thanks. I don't know if there is any substitute for that crunch in salads and on top of something like an Impossible Burger, though...
Idk if this always gets out toxic pesticides. Like the kind that other countries ban that we don't.
Probably helps with the bacteria outbreaks though.
The good news is that they've slashed the CDC's capability of tracking food-borne illness.
And stopped testing food for contaminants at all
you would not believe the stuff they put in cat food.
Yeah I know already it's bad. But at least this problem I can avoid by buying it before it gets in it.
In some countries, they feed cats real food, not "cat food". I lost a cat to intestinal inflammation because I thought I was feeding him properly.
I try feeding my cats boiled meat sometimes. If I cut off the fat or something from something I'm cooking for me, I will dice it up and boil it.
Neither of my cats will eat boiled meat with the exception of my newer cat who was a stray. But even he will only eat canned tuna.
Not turkey. Not ham. Not beef. No chicken.
No lunch meat.
Not even bacon!
I don't get why they don't like the best food for them.
I can't give them tuna all the time because of the mercury.
My older cat likes marshmallows. Weird but it is bone meal based.
The stray will eat some wet food so he gets some every day. But my older cat won't touch the stuff.
🤷
I offer to them and then put outside for a local oppossom when they decline.
I don't like to waste animal products so someone gets it.
Try organ meat, perhaps?
Might be worth trying. I'll look into what kinds are safe. I honestly never thought to try that. 👍
Liver, kidneys, heart. Lungs are probably fine too. The thing about organ meat is that it contains a lot of nutrients that aren't necessarily in muscle meat.
Try feeding them raw meat too, instead of boiling it first. That might be what's causing them to reject it.
Idk if it's safe to give them uncooked meat. Parasites. Bacteria.