I’ll pile on. They threw their weight in and fought back against the tariffs also: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5628405/costco-sues-the-trump-administration-over-tariffs
Costco is a good, socially responsible corporation, most aren’t.
can’t tell if you and this oop is serious lol
There had to be at least one?
one what?
In its dying palm, the world holds one last flake of hope:
a chip of faded paint,
scraped from the logo of an empire
that outlived its promise.yeah that’s how it feels like.
Costco runs it’s own rigorous food inspection program
Just don’t eat meat, it’s better for everyone that way.
This is the ethically and factually correct approach.
Yes, but i honestly can’t stop myself
Have you heard of the idea of vegan plus bacon? Something like someone said i would go vegan but i just love bacon. And the response was, ok, go vegan plus bacon.
Basically don’t think of it as all or nothing. Being as vegan as you possibly can is better than not trying. Imperfect veganism still makes a difference.
I am working out a diet that is primarily vegan but get to keep chicken for now. Until i figure out something else to replace it. Also sometimes pork, but only sometimes.
If everyone did it there would be far less need for factory farming, harmful inhumane killing of animals and damage to the environment as we would all be eating sustainable and environmentally friendlier foods. Just with some bacon.
This mentality has me and my family eating dramatically less meat than we otherwise would and I hope to continue that slide, I think it’s a great strategy most folks who want to try can use to get started.
As an ethical vegan, I both love and hate this.
I get it. In the end it’s a half measure that allows lots of suffering and may keep folks comfortable with that in a way that a stricter commitment doesn’t risk.
For me it kind of “unlocked” a focus toward harm reduction rather than promises to try hard someday, and allowed us to begin on the path. I’m not sure where we will stop, but we weren’t on it before.
I hope you know I’m not blaming you. I went from “I think vegetarians have a point” to “well, I guess I’m vegetarian now” to “fuck being given dairy at every event, I’ll be vegan now”, so I can’t fault your for reducing over time.
(I could say I then went to “burn-the-abattoirs vegan”, but in truth, burning the slaughterhouses seemed like the obvious moral position once you see what they do in them.)
Anyway, I support your efforts to reduce the pain and suffering.
Just avoid buying it.
Simply avoiding meat is a lot easier than going completely vegan. You have a very good motivator to do so right now too.
Have you tried petting a cow? I eat way less beef after a random cow on the side of the road rolled over so I could rub its belly.
Doesn’t fix this issue though. The lettuce and tofu are contaminated now.
Cook the lettuce, and you should have already been cooking the tofu.
I know you’re joking, but the bacteria itself often isn’t what gets you sick. It’s the waste products of the bacteria that gets you sick. Those don’t cook out.
In the case of the lettuce parasites, cooking does render them safe.
I wasn’t joking, kilt lettuce with potato cubes fried in the bacon fat and crumbles of crispy bacon is amazing.
You can also stirfry it with some garlic, and ginger, salt, and sugar, just make sure you get the oil super hot before you add the lettuce, cook for like 30 seconds, then throw in cornstarch slurry and remove from heat. Maybe fry it with some blanched carrots, bell pepper, w/e.
Theres also soup.
Yeah, I’m not cooking lettuce. I’ll just grow my own lettuce for salad and collard greens for cooking.
You don’t know what you’re missing, cooked lettuce has been a thing in appalachia for ages, and literally the only way lettuce is prepared in China.
If only…
I feel slightly out of touch here, what’s up with this Trump Mystery Meat?
the big orange man wants americans to have government subsidized hamburgers so people think that food costs arent as insane as they are, but he refuses to say where he’s getting it from. the general consensus seems to be that he’s allowing the import of a bunch of meat that was rejected by other countries for failing to meet quality standards. because that’s how you help struggling cattle ranchers, after all.
“We have Russian Mobiks cube at home,”
-said the Americans.
It’s mobik, not mobnik
Thanks. Forgot the spelling at the time.
Word is the mystery meat is all that Argentine beef that was recalled recently.
The meat was rejected by China due to the high amount of neurotoxic antibiotics they detected in it.
So, USA is getting meats that china rejected? Lol the irony
WDYM “that was recalled recently”? How would that work?
Isn’t this meat going to be available long term?
I had thought they didn’t disclose the origin simply because their abatoirs are not compliant with US standards.
Doesn’t need to be available long term, the freedom gas didn’t stay cheap either. Just gotta get it into the news cycle for a bit.
Yeah and turns out everyone involved in that operation is kind of a piece of shit, and the fuel was stolen
Also, they’ve been rounding up wild horses too so we’ve got that possibility as well as the Argentina tainted beef.
Why would bother with possibly tainted beef if you have horses?
I might have to go vegetarian if this is the future of meat thanks to Trump.
Come, join us, as we feast on seitan.
Hail Seitan!
My vegan office mate keeps pushing this stuff. She loves it. Apparently it’s entirely wheat gluten or something. I have to keep reminding her that I have Celiac, but you know how vegans are.
Tempeh and TVP are soybean products and also really good.
They’re proteins with a meat-adjacent texture and a blank slate for flavor.
But seitan crisps up soooo good. There is this place near me that has these Korean seitan “boneless ribs” type thing with some wasabi/mustard sauce and my apologies to your sphincter but they would be worth it to try.
If you can afford to gamble $25 on the advice of an Internet stranger, do this:
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Buy a 4lb bag of Vital Wheat gluten. (Can be aquired on Anthony’s Goods website.)
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Mix it about 50-50 with water, and just… do stuff with it.
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Example1: Mix 350 grams of gluten powder with 450 grams of water (Optional 5 grams of MSG) and stir it together until it’s a big blob. Pick it up and stretch it in every possible direction and knead the absolute shit out of it. Divide into 7 portions, and place on a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 250°F/120°C for about 2 hours. You now have a 50 grams of protein blob for each day of the week, to be sliced and dovided however you wish throughout the day.
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Example2: Get a ripping hot skillet and dump in Some™ gluten powder and Approximately® twice as much water and vigorously stir it with, like, a fork or something like that, and dump some cooking oil on it as an afterthought, and dump some spices in it and boil off all the water to make a fake Taco meat mix. If it sticks, take it off the heat and add a splash of water to unstick it, and it’s okay to jave juicy taco seitan crumbles. You actually cannot fuck this up.
Enjoy.
Eat beans! Vast majority of people are getting too little fiber. Don’t think wheat gluten has any either.
Yes, eat more than one kind of thing, obviously.
Tried extracting gluten from flour before, then found out it doesn’t work with wholemeal flour. Could try it again sometime, got white flour now because it was all I could get hold of.
Definitely use bread flour if you make it yourself. The higher the protein, the better, because the protein is what you’re getting out of it.
To get 4lbs of gluten (dry weight), you’ll need 30lbs of white flour. You’ll get seitan for about half the price if you make it yourself (assuming flour is $0.50 per pound)… but I honestly think it’s so cheap that it’s worth it to buy the pre-processed gluten powder. Also because I’ve tried making it myself from flour, and I just don’t get good results.
4lbs of gluten is 4lbs of pure protein. If you eat 50 grams per day, it’ll last 36 days.
Will have to see if I like that, that sounds strange but probably better than Trump meat
I’ve made the seitan recipe printed on the back of Bob’s Red Mill brand vital wheat gluten, and it had a taste and texture similar to bologna. It was actually pretty nice cold in a sandwich, and fried up in a pan. If that doesn’t float your boat, there’s about a billion ways to prepare beans, you’re bound to like one of those.
I’m a picky eater (thanks, autism) but I’m sure I will find something that works for me. Thanks for the tips
I’m a fussy autist too, and I absolutely love soya, probably because it’s so bland and umami. I used to make my own soya burgers. Tofu is lovely chopped, mixed with sweetcorn and thyme, wrapped in filo pastry parcels and baked. Apparently you can make tofu at home with lemon juice as the curdling agent. If I ever get my own place, I’d love to try it.
Tempeh looks like brains, and I spent weeks looking at the jar before I plucked up the courage to try it. It turns out it’s really nice just breaded and baked. But the ones jarred in water taste better than the vacuum packed ones, which I’ve found to have more bitterness, even after steaming or boiling.
Making tempeh at home is a lot trickier as it uses fermentation.
Ironically, switching to a plant based diet in 2014 actually expanded the variety of food I ate by A LOT. Before that it was just potatoes and more potatoes, and if my executive dysfunction didn’t get me, maybe a bit of boiled veg.
yeah, i’ll certainly see what happens.
Seitan is pretty good, my only issue with it in a sando or with noodles is like… you’re basically having wheat with wheat, it’s too much for me. But served with vegetables and sauce, it’s probably my favorite meat replacement
Switch to rye bread and rice noodles and problem solved.
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Like virtually every other US government body, the corporate capture of the USDA is nearly total, they are little more than a rubber stamp for whatever the meat industry feels is most profitable. It’s been a long, long time since the US led in the world in the safety and cleanliness of our food production.
Costco is the Bernie Sanders of retail.
Notice that all the employees there smile and laugh as they work. It’s heartening.
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
The amount of personal expression allowed is honestly impressive, and I love it. I saw an androgynous person wearing mild BDSM accessories working there and my thoughts were “go you, I’m so glad you’re allowed to be yourself in the workplace.”
Hopefully that kind of stuff can spread and we can get rid of treating workers as soulless drones elsewhere too.
Our local Costco banned rainbows and compared them to swasticas. So I don’t go there anymore.
You should message corporate. They would probably like to hear this. If you got enough people to mention it, it will reverse. Their buisness model depends on customers being happy and keeping/renewing their memberships.
Tried that. A few times. Some people agreed with that. Others were really upset by it. And ultimately nothing was done because the policy was instituted after a Karen complained about an employee wearing a rainbow pin.
That was not the Costco and was rather some idiot who was put into a management position. Chances are that if corporate learned of it they’d have something to say.
Yikes… Where is that, so I can avoid the area?
I’ve been around the ones in West Denver mainly and the impression I get is that people can wear largely whatever as long as they’re doing their jobs, I could be wrong though
North canton ohio
They don’t even welcome me to costco and tell me they love me…
Except for the people who run the hotdog thing, they are miserable. Maybe that’s just my store…
It is the number one reason I keep coming back all these years. There are employees whose tenure rivals my age.
If only I could shop at Costco without having to go near Costco…
In case you are serious, they have a website and mobile app and they deliver most things they have in the warehouse. Some things are only available on the app/website.
As much as this is basically an ad, I agree.
Support businesses that don’t take any shit because then you know they actually care about providing a service in addition to making money, as opposed to strictly the latter no holds barred.
Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.
This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don’t really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.
Costco Canada employee here…
Idk if it’s the same in the US, but up here the highest markup on anything is 14% above cost.
I think it is about the same here.
Who would’ve thought that doing the right thing is good for public sentiment.
Maga meat is deported immigrants. Sounds crazy, but wasn’t long ago they were telling the world Ohioans were “eating the pets.”
He’s had to have eaten at least one child post rape, right? I mean, that’s his modus operandi.
Also, never met a golfer I could tolerate for more than 20 seconds. Mini golf is where the real ones play.
All correct except the golf. You can’t pretend cracking drives ain’t therapeutic.
Sure, so would smashing in some billionaire kneecaps. But we don’t have courses for that.
…Unless, you just do it on golf courses? Hold on, I’m doing my own thing now
That’s why they put a driving range next to the putt, putt.
I got a course with a pirate ship closeish by. It makes me feel like a real adult playing it.
As it should!
I haven’t had meat since I heard the laws were relaxed.
Haven’t had a hard time at all. Beans, seitan, impossible meat. It’s all delicious!
Never going back.
My daughter started calling Seitan “wheat meat”, and that’s its name now.
You’re right that’s a one way road 😂 It’s forever wheat meat to us now too
I wouldn’t be surprised if beans are the next thing in their list of stuff to ruin.
Goya beans
Sadly, it’s more common to get food-borne illness from (uncooked) produce than from meat.
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.
Was it not metal contamination? The cows had screws and worms in them or something.
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.
Screw worm is a parasitic blowfly that eats by burrowing into living mammal flesh.
The meat comes from Russia I’d wager . The CIA director travelled on the c17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft to deliver Fort Knox as payment.
(I’m being conspiracy sarcastic btw)
If you didn’t say you were being sarcastic, you could probably get bluanon types to run with it.
Americans will eat from the scraps left over from the mystery meat cube of bakhmut.
trump always seems to send the dangerous stuff to racial minority areas beware if you eat beef in one of these areas.
Or Trump Steaks to Sharper Image. Yeah, the mall electronics store.
lol @ pushing ethical consumerism in 2026. let me just shop at the place that isn’t actively trying to kill everyone!!!
that’ll make a real difference!!!
What is the alternative ethical option?
Starve, I guess
Yeah not sure how Costco is supposed to be a good choice.
It’s a less bad choice. That’s the best option most people will have.
I don’t even think that’s true in most cases.
Most people don’t live near a place that sells ethically sourced food.
If one lives near a Costco, then there are almost certainly more ethical options in the same area.
What are some examples? I’d genuinely like to know.
Entirely depends on the local area. I have two Costcos in my area. I also have several farmers’ markets, a co-op, and several grocers that sell fair trade and local products.
