UPDATE — 30,000 Ibs of raw, boneless cuts of beef imported from Argentina because they didn’t undergo required inspections upon entering the US

Just a reminder that during all this food fiasco, USDA is threatening staff at all agencies with relocations that are neither necessary nor wanted and will likely result in mass resignations and serious consequences for our food systems and forests.

I look at weekly velocity data as part of my job in F&B, and this week's top movers are an odd set:

• Alani Nu Purple Cotton Candy energy drink
• Cheerios Protein Cookies 'N Cream
• Chosen Foods avocado-oil shortening

Method caveat up front: it's a panel of US stores on a delivery platform, so it's a delivery-channel sample rather than full national retail. Directional at best, and it skews toward whoever shops that way.

What I can't square is that the three point in different directions. Alani Nu is pure flavour novelty with no functional claim doing any work. Cheerios is protein plus a nostalgia dessert flavour, which is the 2026 playbook running exactly to script. Chosen Foods is a swap-in ingredient with almost no impulse component at all.

The Alani Nu one interests me most. Purple cotton candy isn't really a taste story, it's a colour-and-name story, and energy has been leaning hard in that direction for a while. Is anyone seeing flavour novelty outperform functional claims in their own numbers, or is that a delivery-channel artefact?

Genuinely open to being told the panel skew explains all three.

The Better Bakehouse Snack Co. recalled their Donutful Mini Chocolate Dipped Vanilla Cake Donuts (10 pack) because of an undeclared milk allergen. They were distributed to many retailers nationwide & Amazon. This is the list I made of food products recalled and why. I’m updating it as things happen. This is the most current version as of 08/26/26

An old friend who does public service work just launched a new recall tracking service that surfaces alerts not just from federal agencies but all the states, dozens of retailers, manufacturers and growers, along with Canadian, Japanese, and Chinese product safety regulators—catching items before the Feds even notice. Yesterday alone the site found a half dozen recalled items (impacting people in California, Missouri, Georgia, and Alabama) that the feds didn’t even have. It’s mostly free (food, medicine, children’s products) but paid gives you a scanner, access to all consumer categories, email alerts, and News and Signals that helps determine which items may soon be recalled. It’s pretty incredible. I am not a paid spokesman! Just a proud friend trying to get the word out. It’s Recall411.com.

If Trump wants to import more foreign hamburger that pledges to undercut our ranchers by 25%, he and his Trillionaire Wannabes should have to eat it.

Trump and his Administration can be America’s test kitchen after they gutted our USDA by 20,000 people and replaced them with only 4,000 over the last year. 4,000 newbies to manage the foreign imports of another 661,000,000 MILION pounds of hamburger.

Trump is jacking up tariffs to 50% on our Canadian allies. Their will be a big impact especially to border states WHILE relaxing tariffs on “over quota” foreign beef imports to ENABLE them to undercut our ranchers by 25%. This negatively impacts our jobs exports, imports and TAX BASE.

Again, Trump is forgoing tariffs on 661M pounds of beef with the idea they will be undercutting our own ranchers by 25%.

Our ranchers have been buying hay this summer to feed their cattle due to the drought. It’s a bad situation. Hay adds thousands in carrying costs to each head of cattle.

The last thing we need is more Trump “deals”.

Alfalfa sprouts linked to food-poisoning outbreak in 15 states, US officials say

South Korea has stepped up checks of cabbage arriving from China after sellers there were found to be using formaldehyde to keep the brassicas fresh.

Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash - CBC News

WUSA9 compiled a list of food recalls in the U.S. right now.

I don’t want either of these people anywhere children or food.