With a side helping of E-coli and a garnish of outlawed Argentinian antibiotics…

Just wait until you see what’s in their budget next year…

It is your meaning and purpose if you’re minimizing a fatal risk, one that every western country, including fucking ARGENTINA where this toxic beef comes from, has laws against.

FOR 30 FUCKING YEARS.

Do you really think you’re smarter than the scientific community’s consensus for 30 yeas? When someone takes your shitty advice, and dies because of a bad reaction, will you realize what you’re saying then?

Hell, would you eat a burger with this crap in it?

Take some goddamn responsibility for your words or STFU.

More detail on side effects below. Note the bolded sentence in the first paragraph. If a fatal side effect can occur from topical use, do you really think it’s safe to eat?

The most serious and potentially fatal side effect associated with chloramphenicol is aplastic anemia, a rare condition where the bone marrow fails to produce enough new blood cells. This irreversible condition can occur even after short-term or topical use and may manifest weeks or months after treatment has stopped. Symptoms can include unusual tiredness or weakness, easy bruising, increased risk of infections, and pale skin.

A more common, dose-related, and reversible type of bone marrow suppression can also occur. This suppression typically resolves after the drug is discontinued. Regular blood tests, including complete blood counts, are recommended during treatment to monitor for these changes.

In infants, especially premature babies, chloramphenicol can cause a serious condition known as “Gray Baby Syndrome”. This occurs because young infants have underdeveloped liver enzymes that struggle to metabolize the drug efficiently, leading to its accumulation in the body. Symptoms, which typically appear 2 to 9 days after starting the medication, include vomiting, poor feeding, abdominal distension, hypothermia, irregular respiration, and a distinct ashen-gray skin discoloration. If not promptly addressed by discontinuing the antibiotic, this syndrome can lead to low blood pressure, cardiovascular collapse, and can be fatal.

Less severe, but more common, side effects include gastrointestinal disturbances such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Patients may also experience oral or vaginal thrush due to the disruption of normal bacterial balance. Other reported side effects include headaches, confusion, and peripheral neuropathy, characterized by tingling or numbness in the extremities.

Important Considerations and Administration

Chloramphenicol can be administered orally, intravenously, or topically as eye drops or ointment. Oral administration is well-absorbed, while intravenous injection is often reserved for more serious systemic infections.

Dosage considerations require careful adjustment, particularly in patients with impaired liver or kidney function, as these organs are involved in the drug’s metabolism and excretion. Neonates and children under four years old also require close monitoring and dosage adjustments due to differences in metabolic maturity. Therapeutic plasma levels are generally aimed at 10-20 µg/mL, with levels above 40 µg/mL considered potentially toxic.

Chloramphenicol is contraindicated in newborns, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers. It should also be avoided in individuals with pre-existing bone marrow depression or those with a history of hypersensitivity to the drug. Its use for minor infections, colds, or influenza is not recommended.

Several drug interactions can alter chloramphenicol’s effectiveness or increase its toxicity. It can inhibit the metabolism of drugs like warfarin, phenytoin, and sulfonylureas, potentially leading to increased levels of these medications in the blood. Conversely, drugs such as phenobarbital and rifampicin can decrease chloramphenicol levels. Chloramphenicol can also show antagonistic effects with certain beta-lactam antibiotics, like cephalosporins.

There’s a reason it’s been banned since the 90s for use in livestock, and the reason is BECAUSE IT CAN KILL PEOPLE if not administered by a medical professional.

My question to you is why would you try to minimize the risk? Do you want people to get sick and die?

Goddamn, I’m so sick of this bad faith argument. Fucking Fortune bullshit.

Remove the Social Security Cap on incomes over $184k and this problem goes away. It’s really that fucking simple.

TAX THE FUCKING RICH ALREADY.

“Does he bite?”

The answer is yes.

The beef was tainted with the antibiotic chloramphenicol. This is why China rejected it back in March. Note that Argentina itself bans the use of chloramphenicol.

These are the side effects:

Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.

There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.

Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.

That’s RAPEINT all dressed up purty like…

Already happening:

https://theicelist.org/index.php/ICE_List:Map_of_concentration_camps_and_ICE_facilities

66,000 people are now in ICE custody.

An entire city’s worth of people, the vast majority of whom have committed no crime save being born on the wrong side of the border, have had their lives broken and their future put into stasis.

66,000 families are wondering if their loved ones will ever go free. Wondering if they’re being beaten, starved, raped, or just disappeared. And in many cases, wondering where they are, because ICE has whisked them away and won’t reveal their location.

There is no justification for this cruelty, and there is no justice in a system that allows this inhumanity.

Until we stand up, disband ICE, prosecute and convict their leaders and agents for crimes against humanity, America will never be the land of the free.

Thanks for the additional info!

an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters that led to a federal indictment

…but not a conviction. That’s why they’re pissed - Rose City Antifa fought back against Trurmp 1.0 and successfully defended themselves in court. Now Trump 2.0 is doing everything they can to cripple its infrastructure ahead of the midterms.

Anyone have any detail on what technology in particular pissed them off?

The real power move here would be to grab the domain name and run a free Mastodon instance off of it.

Great. So now the choice is between Nazi and Sugar-free Nazi.

Ohio, once again earning its title as America’s toilet bowl.

50,000 broken lives, punished for the crime of being born on the wrong side of the border.

Sounds like it’s time to send in the bounty hunters.

These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)

Now the virus is the operating system.

Nice investigative work - this is the first I’ve heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.

This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.

Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:

Serious and fatal blood dyscrasias (aplastic anemia, hypoplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and granulocytopenia) are known to occur after the administration of chloramphenicol.

There have been reports of aplastic anemia attributed to chloramphenicol which later terminated in leukemia.

Blood dyscrasias have occurred after both short-term and prolonged therapy with this drug.