> You can get 30k pounds of beef from 50 cows?

This article [1] says you get about 500-ish pounds of beef from one cow, so 25,000-ish pounds from 50 cows? They weren't massively far off the mark there.

[1]: https://cattledaily.com/how-much-meat-do-you-get-from-one-co...

30,000 split 50 ways is 800lbs per cow (270kg), seems not unrealistic.

Even if you halve the yield to 400lbs then it's only 100 cows

If people would stop putting lettuce in Greek salads we'd be FINE

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 of tainted beef came from Trump's bff.

> Our grandkids just aren't going to believe what it was like

You mean reading about beef recalls? Yeah they'll be shocked

Of all the many things he did, I argue that this is the stupidest, most pointless and damaging thing he did. There was no upside to doing it. He went out of his way to destroy a program that had been running successfully out of sheer stupidity. He mainly hurt his voters (cattle farmers in rural areas), not democrats. It hurt him on the biggest issue he ran on - inflation.

It was a massive unforced error that he’s been scrambling for months to fix.

He could literally have done nothing and it would have been better.

Almost all of his other missteps and mistakes can be rationalised - there was some benefit to himself or someone who bribed him or voted for him. But this screwworm thing just perfectly encapsulates him as a person and his presidency as a whole - something works well for 70 years to protect Americans and he destroys it through malicious incompetence.

More info about how the program worked - America’s never ending battle against flesh eating worms (2020) - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

green cows ?