• PNW clouds@infosec.pub
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    4 days ago

    I think the worry isn’t food poisoning or parasites, it’s cancer from the latest imported beef. Or maybe mad-cow. I just remember it was somehow worse than explosive diarrhea.

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      4 days ago

      Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.

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        chloramphenicol - a banned for use in livestock antibiotic

        So, the effects are rare. But China turned away beef that tested positive. Then the US government announced a mystery-origin meat to help lower prices. Maybe it was a false positive and a coincidence on the trade deal timing.

        But I remember when mad cow disease was a concern. It was rare too. But also not a good way to die.

        I feel like we are living the hypothetical, “if a bowl of skittles has up to 1% of them poisoned, do you eat them because your odds are decent?”

        If I was only going to vomit a couple times, maybe if I’m hungry enough. If I’ll die an agonizing death from a poisoned skittle, then no, I’ll ty to find something else.