Given it's collaborative nature and time-travel properties, I can only surmise that this is the Large Hadron Collider of beef products.

Somehow I think the approximately 20 seconds it took me to write that comment is far less than what it took the OP to take the picture, submit it to the site, Consumerist to decide that it was worthy, and then to post it.

I believe Canadian meat must be just that...Canadian, or not at all. They dont import meat. So I been told. Which also explains why their meat is bland and has no taste to it (less cover and spices to flavor ill meat from nations the world over, like we do in the USA)...

But its good after the first week of eating it.

Of course, I blame everything on New Becky.

Grocery freeze ray? It looks rather fresh.

@digitalmatrixio: Isn't there some law against making up the year to which meat is packaged?

@Snaptastic:
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Yes, I do have some work-work to do today. Why, yes, I do have a habit of finding any excuse to procrastinate. What does that have to do with anything?

Side effects of paradox include nausea, bloating, head aches, disappearing from existence, becoming your own grand pa and possible sexual side effects. Do not conduct paradoxes if you are pregnant or might become pregnant.

Catch the ground at around 8-9 am, it's the best (if they actually put it out) since they cut in the morning and a lot of higher quality, mis-cut stuff works it's way in.

Also, even when ground comes in pre-ground, the plant may source from many companies and therefore many countries. Just put all of them on there, instead of tracking each individual shipment and printing labels for each.

Same with pretty much anything... look at your juice, for example. Usually says Product of the USA and Mexico, or even more countries.

DON'T EAT IT - As we learned from Back to the Future, if this beef is really from the past, any interaction with modern day humans could rip the time space continuium and move us to an alternate reality.

Its obvious that its an error on the tag, sometimes those type of things happen. Being human will do that to you. Any person can see that the meat isnt 5 years old. I dont know whats worse, the fact that someone took the time and effort to send this in, or that this site actually put it up.

As for the typeface, I hate it. I know it's "required" info they print, but people with eye problems have trouble reading it (aka ME). If they use it for an ingredients label, heaven help the weak eyed.

(yeah, it's a bit of an obscure reference)

@PsiCop: I love when typefaces take me back to another time and place.

or was it just the red coloring they add...i 4get

I've seen ground meat that looked fresher then that...

I love how everyone just assumes the '04' means 2004 and not 1904 or 3004.

and ditto on the 3 countries thing..

Ground beef should not require the concerted effort of 3 separate nations to prepare.