Regardless of whether folks believe what he said, the overall interview Centro gave was excellent. It had authenticity and verbosity. He was respectful to the press but not obsequious, and with occasional defiance provided the journos a great deal of usable material. I don't mind people being suspicious of him or SH. But to vilify them with total certainty of their guilt is not warranted by the circumstances. Yes, we all know by now of the "strict liability" quasi-legal standard, but as a human being and American, it makes me very uncomfortable to condemn her as a cheat if there exists a reasonable doubt about her guilt. New things that we learned or had confirmed: - SH often went to the truck and usually ordered carne asada. - SH often went to the truck with Centro. (There must be receipts.) - Centro (who was with her that morning at his place) got tested at the same time and his sample was not flagged as positive. - He doesn't say it unequivocally, but it sounded like he didn't order from the truck that night since he had dinner with another teammate. -She was with at least one other friend watching The Bachelorette. Allow me to correct some oft-repeated statements that are false.
Pork that contains nandrolone is not "contaminated". Nandrolone is produced naturally in a normal male pig. It occasionally has a poor smell, but such pork is legal and there is nothing unhealthy about eating it. Chorizo and other sausages, which may contain offal (liver, etc.), is a food that I suspect you have eaten on many occasions and thought was delicious.
It's not unlikely at all. The food truck, like nearly all authentic Mexican restaurants, serves chorizo sausage burritos and another pork offal dish. Chorizo could well have been prepared at a local pork farm and, because of the spices, is well suited for male pig (boar) meat in case there is any taint smell. Such pork could be purchased very easily and inexpensively by the purchaser for the food truck company. In fact, a local pork supplier to Beaverton sells Chorizo:
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/fsis-issues-public-health-alert-raw-ground-chorizo-sausage-products-due-possibleThere is nothing disgusting or unusual about a pork sausage burrito, and a level of 5 ng/ml is a very low amount. The theory is extremely plausible because she ate from the food truck literally 10 hours before the test.
1-2. No one except "Garage Heavy" Dane Miller suggested that farmers were feeding pigs steroids. I hereby bet Dane $10,000 that nandrolone is naturally produced by normal male pigs, and is not, as he suggested in his video, the result of pig farmers dosing their pigs with steroids. As you said, it is illegal to give pigs steroids in the US.
3. There is no need to make up a story that the tainted meat would have had to have been imported. There are (surprise!) male pigs all over the United States, and many of them have not been castrated.
4. Pig offal doesn't get thrown away; every part gets used. If you have ever eaten high-quality sausage, you have literally eaten the intestine through which the pig's poop passed through, as well as liver, and other meat byproducts. I'm sorry no one ever told you how sausage is made.
The FDA has permitted steroids to be given to beef and sheep, not pork. No one from Shelby's camp is suggesting that the steroids were synthetic and fed to the animal she happened to eat.
Centro literally said "Bachelorette" so why are you saying this? It aired on Dec. 14th.
Nearly every authentic Mexican restaurant is going to offer some kind of pork offal dish, mostly likely chorizo sausage. How many restaurants in America serve sausage? You know the saying, "no one wants to know how the sausage gets made." Well, that's a problem in this case.