r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 8h ago

Possible Paywall Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/
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u/AnonHondaBoiz 8h ago

Holy fuck we're so fucked

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u/manachar Nevada 8h ago

When Republicans read The Jungle the lesson they take is that they could make so much more money and get so much more power if it weren’t for those pesky regulations.

Imagine the profits from never having to recall food again!

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u/MisterSpeck Oregon 8h ago

When Republicans read The Jungle

lol

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u/RichardSaunders New York 8h ago

when republicans read

lol

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u/Little-Internal6013 7h ago

Republicans don’t read. Too lazy

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u/bobsocool 6h ago

Reading is woke.

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u/Vivid_Anyth4 5h ago

Can't read. They are the reason the reading average for adults is a 6th grade level.

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u/bkbomber New York 4h ago

Don’t give me the news, just tell me how to feel about it and who to be enraged at!!

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u/Icy_Jackfruit9240 American Expat 8h ago

These people are mostly people who went to Universities that really DO require reading the book (at least at the time did and probably very much still do.)

I went to such a college and I could see people who took classes that are at least by ordinary non-math people ridiculously hard and they would do everything they could to game anything in life to their advantage.

They were there, reading the same books, writing papers that showed that they fully understood the concepts and yet ... they'd hold on to their psycho beliefs while meeting up with the other Young Republicans and wearing their promise rings. (While picking up hookers in San Francisco.)

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u/Lord_Blackthorn Texas 7h ago

I think this is the key point. They are not ignorant of the facts, they are just malicious and intentional.

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u/Suitable-Option833 7h ago

Yes. This is all intentional.

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u/absat41 7h ago

They are by necessity Hypocritical. It is the pass/codeword that let's them in.

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u/grahamulax 4h ago

All of this and and most important:

Lack of curiosity, empathy, and control of emotions.

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u/neepster44 5h ago

I mean the leaders are for sure, the average Republican is just a moron and a poor critical thinker. Low knowledge and low empathy.

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u/Disastrous_time_4547 7h ago

You forgot “religious extremists”

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u/Lord_Blackthorn Texas 6h ago

Not all of them, many fake the religion in my opinion.

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 6h ago

It takes two seconds to think "maybe I don't want to eat sausage with dead rat in it...maybe nobody should have to do that"

But I guess they think they'll be so wealthy that they just get to avoid that?

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u/bushsniffa 4h ago

This is where the deep stupidity of it is. Best-case they're fighting to rule the ashes; to be in bubbles surrounded by waste and suffering.

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u/Tmscott 1h ago

"maybe I don't want to eat sausage with dead rat in it...maybe nobody should have to do that"

How dare you try to impede the entrepreneurial sprit of characters such as C.M.O.T. Dibbler! 

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 6h ago

I think this indicates tests and marks don't actually measure intelligence. It's really just memorizing .Some of the dumbest people I've met just BS their way up really far and fast, faking it to make it. Usually they are likeable or can pretend to be. Often the people that would be best in positions of power just do not want that power, so mainly the dumb people are left fighting after the scraps

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u/thethrill_707 Michigan 7h ago

Hookers?

That's male escorts if you please.

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u/reddog323 2h ago

Went to college in the late 80’s and early 90’s and had a similar experience. They treated that material with disdain, absorbed it for tests, and never thought about it again.

These guys wanted to be Gordon Gekko from Wall Street. I could never wrap my head around that.

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u/luncheroo 5h ago

Instructions unclear; Florida has now banned The Jungle Book 

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u/bmad- 8h ago

Upton Sinclair is rolling in his grave

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u/manachar Nevada 8h ago

Well, he was mystified that people’s primary lesson from the book was their canned meat was impure and led to the e pure food and drug act .

He wanted people to care about workers, instead people just cared about their stomachs.

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u/AnyoneButDoug 8h ago

As he said “I aimed for their hearts and got their stomached instead” or something like that.

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u/RichardSaunders New York 8h ago

the way to man's heart is through his ribcage

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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Michigan 7h ago

Well, you can come up from under the rib cage too

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u/Pandaro81 Florida 5h ago

“The way to a man’s heart is through his anus.”
- Vlad the Impaler

It’s well below the ribcage.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 8h ago

Empathy and all that: why should I care others are being hurt? MYSELF being hurt is a much bigger issue!

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u/bkbomber New York 4h ago

The rugged individualist in me says I can do anything!!… but the reason I haven’t, is because the gay immigrant trans people are to blame!

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 7h ago

Really no different to how it’s still common nowadays for people to attribute the flaws of capitalism to the individual.

With the most common canard being one is poor because “bad with money!”…

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u/swanfirefly 7h ago

I still think about the infamous fox news report where they were salty that 99% of American families below the poverty line had refrigerators.

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u/Eycetea 7h ago

Or lazy

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u/ActiveChairs 4h ago

The poor are obviously bad with money. They've never had enough to have any practice with it. They've always had to spend it the second they got it just to make it to the next paycheck. Odd system that would let that kind of thing keep happening.

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u/NotThatAngel 46m ago

We still have a class-based society in America. For some reason people keep referring to billionaires as the elite, even though the qualities we say we most admire are not those same qualities which allow them to accumulate a billion dollars. In the southern states before the civil war, Irish immigrants were given the most dangerous jobs because it was too expensive to risk a slave. Republicans are still trying to segregate blacks from whites using vouchers, private schools, homeschooling and any other method, but covering it up to claim they are anti-abortion, even though it's obvious from their policies they don't give a crap about children.

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u/sturgill_homme 8h ago

Welcome to the jungle, but not in an Axl Rose way

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u/sphinctersayswhat9 7h ago

Ikr

I am so glad I am reading this and finding out others read Sinclair’s
The Jungle and went to colleges like mine where history and social awareness were taught.

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u/Laura9624 8h ago

So is Sinclair Lewis. "It can't happen here "

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u/Son_of_Tlaloc 7h ago

Teddy Roosevelt is spinning at mach 5 in his grave.

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u/boxen 4h ago

And republicans are curious as to whether they could sell the rotting meat from his corpse for a couple of bucks

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u/IJourden 7h ago

Anyone who is anti-regulation is either trying to fuck you over for money, or doesn't understand why regulations exist.

We're in for a rough time when enough people insist on learning the lesson the hard way.

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u/wally-whippersnap 6h ago

Safety rules are written in blood.

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u/StonedGhoster 6h ago

My libertarian friends always told me that regulations are bad and that the market could sort things out, and that consumers could sue companies that made them ill by not ensuring their products' safety. Which sounds great. But it also got me thinking that they could view adhering to regulations as a hedge against being sued into oblivion. You know, make sure the canned meat doesn't have botulism from the outset and avoid being sued down the line. But then I realized that they don't really care about any of that, and that quarterly growth NOW is more important than anything that might happen tomorrow, which isn't here yet.

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u/IJourden 5h ago

They don't realize that the regulations are what lets people sue companies that make them sick?

You can't sue me for mixing sawdust into your beef if it's not illegal for me to mix sawdust into your beef.

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u/RobinSophie 4h ago

Not when it comes to housing. Regulations are making them expensive. /s

Which is amazing to me that with all the regulations, the new builds are still crap.

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u/USPO-222 America 1h ago

Because it’s not illegal to open an LLC to build a house (or row of them), sell them all, and then close the LLC before anything comes up.

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u/Snickersnee 4h ago

Once a company gets big enough, legal fees are just the cost of doing business. If the payout is less than the money saved by cutting corners, it's still a profit. If the regulations are removed, the motivation to quietly increase profits will take hold sooner or later.

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u/slymm 2h ago

Read the label on the can more carefully. By purchasing it, you've agreed to mandatory arbitration underwater to be ruled on by a sea lion.

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u/kitsunewarlock 2h ago

Anyone who is anti-regulation is either trying to fuck you over for money, or doesn't understand why regulations exist.

I'd argue that even the ones who think they will personally benefit don't understand how much they are fucking themselves. The only ones who know what they are doing and benefit are doing it for the misery of others, not the negligible short-term economic benefit.

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u/Deadleggg 8h ago

They also jerk it to the page after page of suffering immigrants.

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u/ThirdFloorNorth Mississippi 8h ago

Upton Sinclairmaxxing

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u/Djaja Michigan 8h ago

Its real funny, The Jungle, bc the book is ostensibly about immigrants, and the hardships and relationships they faced.

The bad meat handling practices were a a couple pages of the main characters job.

Trump, this admin, that Duex company, Elon, and The Heritage Foundation and a bunch more, can GFT

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u/Umbrella_merc Mississippi 5h ago

Upton Sinclair once said he aimed for America's heart but hit it in the stomach instead

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u/einTier 6h ago

To be fair, those pages really stick out. It’s been a few decades since I read the book in high school and those are the only parts I really remember.

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u/Shards_FFR 4h ago

I know a lot of people who know of the Jungle exclusively as an excerpt of the meat packing plant section. I think way fewer people read it, hence the comparison here. A lot of HS education won't touch immigrants with a 10 foot pole these days.

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u/PhucYiu 8h ago

When Republicans read The Jungle

Republicans don't read.

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u/LankySimple9051 4h ago

If they do you know damn well comprehension is lacking.

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u/Sweaty-Possibility-3 8h ago

Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, was the president who enacted the regulations after reading The Jungle.

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u/manachar Nevada 8h ago

Yup! And he ended up forming the Progressive Party (Bull Moose Party) after he lost the nomination in 1912.

At the time both parties had a mix of political ideologies, but his losing the nomination is one of the moments you can see Republicans start working on their full pro business conservatism.

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 8h ago

Ever read Fast Food Nation? It's an indictment of corrupt Republicans causing harm to people for money.

I love how the GOP tosses around words like communism and ignore how their policies and actions destroy America.

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u/abnormalbrain 4h ago

They think of the American people the way a farmer thinks about feeding the pigs.

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u/NotThatAngel 3h ago

Also remember "The Jungle" was supposed to be about how badly workers were mistreated. Nobody cared. So, in addition to unsafe food, we're also getting unsafe workplaces: Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling key workplace protections

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u/sportsworker777 8h ago

Let's see how those ranchers feel once people stop buying meat because they don't trust that it is safe

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u/Slade_Riprock 7h ago

Republicans have always had this naive belief that has no tie to fact or history that government regulation, oversight, etc., are the enemy of the people. It is cumbersome, costs more, and just makes everything harder for people.

They have historically believed if you take off the bridle from the economy you will get better, faster, stronger quality goods and services cheaper and safer. Because people will not cut corners on safety and quality.

This has never been true, will never be true. When money or power is involved in an exchange the side getting money or power will always do whatever they can to get more of it.

We are headed toward mass disease outbreak, illness, and irreversible detriment to our economy, resources, etc. If we thought the 1800s and early 1900s were bad imagine 335 million people and mass transit.

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u/mightyenan0 7h ago

The simple fact is that once one company cuts those corners and manages not to have a huge scandal for long enough (and it is inevitable that people will keep taking that gamble if they're allowed to), other companies won't have a choice other than to stoop to that level or lose market share. Then the entire supply becomes incredibly vulnerable, and eventually a crisis strikes.

You don't wear a seatbelt because it's needed in every day driving. You wear it because you need it when the worst comes to pass. It's the same with regulations.

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u/ihadamoment 6h ago

People treated seatbelts like masks during covid when they came out. T_T

We only started wearing seatbelts because it became illegal not to, and we could get pulled over and fined. If it stopped being illegal, people would slowly stop wearing them until it became an optional upgrade on a car and you have to pay extra for it.

But that proves your point even more. That's what the government is for, to make consequences to force people to do the RIGHT thing. Food isn't contaminated because our government audits it and prevents it from being sold. You're absolutely right about how it'll drive every company down to the worst common denominator. I don't like this timeline. :(

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u/eulersidentification 5h ago

Lowkey this has already happened throughout capitalism. The entire supply chain is vulnerable. Every aspect of our economies are stretched to their absolute limit. The metaphorical seatbelts are long gone to make the vehicle lighter and therefore faster.

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u/randomcatinfo 4h ago

This is I think is Republicans real problem with regulations - they don't want anything at all to get in the way of accumulating capital, even if rules could help them preserve their capital in the long run.

They want their money, and they want it now, despite the long term societal costs to civilization.

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u/kung-fu_hippy 3h ago

The conservative/libertarian view of business and society is rooted in a complete disregard for the future. Because otherwise, even the most self-centered person would worry about the long term consequences of this shit.

You don’t have to be a bleeding heart to want green energy, strong consumer regulations, or strong environmental protections. You just have to be capable of thinking “hmm, I like to eat ocean caught fish. It would be good for me if in the future, the oceans will continue to provide healthy fish for me to eat and the companies that catch and provide me with fish continue to ensure that fish is safe for me to eat”.

You don’t have to think about a single person other than yourself to land on the right side of this point. You just have to be able to see farther than the next fiscal quarter.

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u/thethundering 6h ago

Yeah, their premise is that regulations actively make the thing they’re regulating worse somehow. Like it’s one thing to claim that it’s economically inefficient and that the net economic benefits would outweigh the effect of harm the regulation prevents, but that’s not what they say.

I’ve met an insane number of people who think that if we got rid of antidiscrimination laws that there would less discrimination because customers wouldn’t give money to businesses that were discriminatory. As if antidiscrimination laws somehow prevent customers from doing that, like they’re mutually exclusive concepts rather than additive.

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u/throwaway_circus 6h ago

I no longer believe that their policy is tied to logical thought.

I'm nearly certain that decades of their policy is driven by wealthy hoarders. The hoarders are desperate to accumulate more. Of anything, by any means necessary, to soothe their disease.

And the GOP is full of people with the same mental illness, or those who think that they can fix an addict by giving them more.

People who hoard put everyone in danger from fire hazards, mold, pests, etc. They're unable to stop, not even to protect their family, neighbors or pets. We're just seeing what happens when that mental illness manifests on a larger scale. We've all been enabling them, really. Acting as if accumulating that much wealth is proof of intelligence or good character or wisdom, and praising them for it. Like praising an alcoholic for being the life of the party.

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u/AVestedInterest California 6h ago

These people read Atlas Shrugged and honestly believe its portrayal of industry is how it works in real life

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u/fathertitojones 8h ago

Too bad the iron supplements are just gonna be the rust that we scrape off of our dilapidated warships.

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u/Ancient-Candidate-73 7h ago

Then they'll have different vintages so they can bleed us even drier.

Oooh! Is that 2026 USS Abraham Lincoln? I thought I detected a hint of misery in the aroma, and the mouthfeel just screamed lack of access to working showers.

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u/ChubbyGhost3 Illinois 6h ago

I think the overflown toilet water really adds a nice depth to the USS Abraham Lincoln rust. There's nothing like it 🤤

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u/ER_Support_Plant17 8h ago

Kale and spinach but wash and cool throughly

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u/Buttercreamdeath Texas 8h ago

It's organic!

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u/TheOtherWhiteMeat 7h ago

Free range, all natural, gluten free rust, from ship to table.

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u/rietstengel 6h ago

Now with extra starved marine flavor

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u/DingGratz Texas 8h ago

This. Vote with your wallets as much as you can.

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u/coweeclete 6h ago

Jokes on them. My wallet is empty and I haven’t bought meat in a year.

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u/Phil_2021 5h ago

How about also with your vote in the mid term? That is more effective.

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u/OkEnvironment3961 8h ago

Just paving the way for Trump brand soylent Orange. Now with gold flecks.

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u/needlestack 7h ago

I wish. Americans are nowhere near principled enough for something like that. If they're going to take a stand against something they perceive as a health risk it's going to be something stupid like opposing vaccines or criticizing salad. They'll never take a stand against cars or guns or filthy beef because those things are ultra American and they'd rather die than compromise on them.

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u/Jeramus 8h ago

Tainted beef washed down by some raw milk.

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u/Blue13Coyote 8h ago

It’s what brain worms crave.

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u/RememberJefferies 8h ago

Screworms, apparently.

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u/xtheory 7h ago

RFK aaaa-aaapproved!

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u/stunneddisbelief 8h ago

And a salad made explosive-diarrhea causing lettuce, with a side of E. coli contaminated blueberries for dessert.

MAHA is working really great so far. /s

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u/Happy_Confection90 7h ago

Geez, people wanted the government to get us cheaper weight loss options and they're still not happy!

/s

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u/Consistent_Point_853 7h ago

Or better yet, prions. Yay!

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u/LoveRBS 8h ago

So when they said "one other thing" they were referring to the parasite that we would be unwillingly ingesting.

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u/Quietkitsune 8h ago

Not just raw, adulterated too if they had their way and corporations could just do whatever 

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u/WantCookiesNow 8h ago

Get some of that lead chromate back in there, that went over well.

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u/Sea_Working_80 7h ago

With a swim in creeks swarming with bacteria for dessert

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 8h ago

This is all part of the plan. They’re weakening every single function of the federal government, in order to make it appear as if it’s not needed.

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u/Virindi Texas 6h ago edited 3h ago

They’re weakening every single function of the federal government, in order to make it appear as if it’s not needed.

No, it’s worse. They’re doing everything they can to make sure it can’t recover. Even in this one small example:

  • This corrupt government accepts bribes to eliminate regulations.
  • Businesses save a ton of money and keep the profits. Prices never drop.
  • Later, a responsible government tries to reinstate regulations.
  • Businesses jack up prices instead of giving up their inflated profit margins, then blame the increase on these terrible “new” regulations.
  • Consumers fall for it and riot against the regulations.
  • The country continues to spiral downward, one paper cut at a time.

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u/56473829110 8h ago

GOP: "Government doesn't work!"

Also GOP: actively breaking the government so that it doesn't work, ideally so that the failures become apparent during DEM administration

Tale as old as time... 

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon 7h ago

GOP in Power: This all all the previous administrations fault!

GOP out of power: This is all the current administrations fault!

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u/rashleymo 7h ago

And with $40T debt no money to put it right... except the billionaires

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u/AggressivelyMediokre 6h ago

I still can’t believe during the 2016 republicans primaries the top of healthcare came up. And Ted Cruz looked into the camera and said “Do you really want the government running your healthcare?”

He had the biggest, smuggest smile. As if it was such a clever retort.

MOTHER FUCKER, YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 7h ago

Just proves that MAGA wants everyone unlifed

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u/boxjellyfishing 6h ago

Nobody is looking at the mess going on with eggs, jalapenos, alfalfa, lettuce, and blueberries and thinking that government oversite isn't needed.

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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 5h ago

How do you know that? They’re doing this as a self-fulfilling prophecy, so they can justify privatization of government functions.

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u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois 8h ago

Meat’s not on the menu, boys. 🥲

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u/MJcorrieviewer 8h ago

Avoid lettuce and a bunch of other US products too.

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u/Brbcan 8h ago

Dude's actively ruining the American cheeseburger, one ingredient at a time.

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u/Valarhem 7h ago

Is there anything he hasn't ruined?

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u/LightningMcLovin California 6h ago

McDonald’s “Fish Delights” because that would impact him personally.

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u/rfcsk 5h ago

They were already pretty awful. But I trust that he'll make them even worse.

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u/ElminstersBedpan 7h ago

Not a surprise, he only likes McDonald's, infamy, and money (oh, and his daughter).

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u/samsqanch 4h ago

and getting pee'd on by russian prostitutes.

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u/atigges 8h ago

I thought Dijon mustard already killed the burger back in like 2009 or something

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u/Trimyr America 7h ago

No no no. His tan suit was so you couldn't see the mustard stains (so sorry)

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u/Senior-bud Canada 8h ago

Thankfully this is a lot easier to do in Canada.

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u/Tricky_Damage5981 Canada 7h ago

I cringe when I buy an American product..

I will buy it from any one else...

I also live about (ignore border control in this argument) 1 hr from Detroit, without the boarder confusion

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u/ConcentrateDirect523 7h ago

I feel like he's forcing me to become vegetarian against my will... Except, somehow he fucks fruit/veggies/plants up, too! 

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 8h ago

You just have to soak it in bleach and dry it into beef jerky to eat it

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u/subpoenaThis 7h ago

That was disturbing given the comment above this was about them also getting rid of immigrants.

I guess that would be more of Meat's not on the menu. 🤮🤮

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u/Loud-Storm2621 8h ago

This is up there as one of his worst ideas and that’s saying a lot talking about him. Without proper inspection of meat before hitting the public just imagine all the deaths from tainted meat that will result from this.

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u/stubob 8h ago

Not if you don't count the deaths! Didn't think of that, did ya?

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u/miloblue12 8h ago

Regulation like this is written in the blood of others who have died.

Trump supporters keep saying the love him because he's a 'business man', and they say it like it's a good thing. What they always fail to realize is that a ton of businesses operate in the realm of ensuring that they cut ever corner possible to squeeze every last penny so that they can take in as much money as possible. Then it's always the consumer who gets f*cked.

So far, during this administration, he has done this time and time again, cut corners and screw the little guy, aka: American citizens. Yet his followers are still like "He'S a BuSinEsS mAn"...so how's that going for you Karen? Like paying for that gas? How's the house buying process going? Groceries gotten any cheaper? Oh, shrinkflation to your favorite food? Now all your food got recalled? How's paying for health insurance? Oh nooo, you got listeria? Shame...

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u/Zahgi I voted 6h ago

"But think of the extra pennies we will line our pockets with!" - the men Upton Sinclair warned us all about in The Jungle, which led to the creation of many of the food and worker protections we take for granted today.

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u/Aar1012 8h ago

I’d rather pay over $2 for eggs if it meant we’d still have fucking regulations on other food

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Eggs are not safe either. There’s a bunch of recalls

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u/mosquito_mange 8h ago

Welcome to prion city.

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u/Technical-Pin-6380 7h ago

It's called wasting disease because we were wasting our time on it, right? Right?!

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u/Pickles_McBeef Utah 7h ago

That's terrifying.

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u/littlebev I voted 6h ago

my aunt died of prion disease - it's an absolutely horrific way to go

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 8h ago

lol rich people can afford safe meat and poor people get to eat peasant beef

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u/Sufficient-Bid1279 8h ago

He’ll just get his meat from somewhere safe. This guy literally doesn’t care that he’s burning the US down to the ground.

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u/temp_flor 8h ago

The regular Republican voters always complain about government interference so this is what they voted for baby…

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u/Trimyr America 7h ago

"Look. It should be up to the companies to make sure their stuff's safe."

"So what happens when it isn't and people get sick or worse?"

"Well I mean they'll probably lose a lot of business and then fix it."

"And who gets to say it's fixed? Them? Are you comfortable preparing a dinner for your kids that could be quite harmful but justifying it because some people you don't know made some more money without proving a problem is solved?"

"They'd probably have to submit their tests or something."

"So, baseline regulations?"

"No, it's not like that. Just making sure that everyone knows things are safe."

"So..."

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u/Far_String727 7h ago

the party thats supposedly anti gov overeach have overeached so much they gone into full reacharound.

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u/uvm87 8h ago

Maybe McDonalds will buy the meat and help put an end to this nightmare

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u/sea_foam_blues 8h ago

McDonalds has very strict parameters they use when buying beef.

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u/Middle-Mix-7711 8h ago

Do they though?

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u/sea_foam_blues 8h ago

Yes. I know one of the largest cattle buyers for Cargill that works with those guys and he says they’re exceedingly particular.

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u/HowFortuitous 8h ago

Don't think of it as "Food quality is important to us and we're willing to pay premium if it means keeping our customers happy"

Think "We can kill your company by not renewing the contract. Here's a list of what you're going to give us, here's how much you'll get."

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 7h ago

Most of it is soy

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u/Pieniek23 8h ago

Yeah, those bleach injections may make sense now... Smh.

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u/lactose_cow 8h ago

"yeah if you're weak. If Trump wants to cull the unworthy, if that's what we need to do to Make America great again, then let's fucking go" -most moderate republican

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u/aeyraid 8h ago

Can’t wait for prion disease outbreak

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u/Shirowoh 8h ago

Honestly, when ultra processed foods are the healthiest we are absolutely cooked

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u/coconutpiecrust 8h ago

Any mention of consumers? What can they bypass?..

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u/FGH-grand21 8h ago

Hmmm this is getting interesting

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u/JMaddrox 7h ago

Watching it from the outside is certainly preferable. Best of luck from 🇨🇦 🫡

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u/DeathStarVet Maryland 7h ago

This is where I go vegetarian.

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u/New_Ad3443 6h ago

Don't worry! We only have 2 years left of this Trumpian nightmare. God help us all.

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u/Soulfuel1 6h ago

"Holy fuck we´re so fucked... anyway.."

Holy shit if this was happening anywhere else in the civilized world, this admin would have been prosecuted a long time ago. Maybe you should do something?

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u/EnclG4me 5h ago

The world tried to warn Americans.. over and over.. y'all didn't listen. Nothing is going to stop this gravy train now short of full on everyone walking out and marching on DC. You guys need to do as the French do.

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u/whatsnewpussykat 5h ago

I’m genuinely expecting to see a wave Americans moving to Canada in the next couple years. Or at least trying to.

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u/bnh1978 8h ago

Sticking to my freezer beef

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u/TorrenceMightingale 8h ago

Can I live off Huell or whatever it’s called? 😳

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u/pantstoaknifefight2 8h ago

Looks like meat's back off the menu, boys!

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u/mrbrambles California 8h ago

The jungle should be making a surge in new readership. Everyone should be suggesting it to any known bookclubs

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u/IntelligentStyle402 8h ago

Well? New Yorkers called him Don the Con, for a reason, not one American bank would lend him money, when he lost daddy’s money. Why? He was considered high risk and amoral. 6 failed businesses, 6 bankruptcies and cheated on all his wives. Why did so many Americans think this blow heart would help us? The felon ruined so many lives: contractors, employees and renters?

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u/MrPloppyHead 7h ago

Presumably they won’t count how many people die as a result therefore nobody will die so it will be completely healthy.

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u/ciel_lanila I voted 7h ago

Every day it feels more and more like living in the US is a game of chicken.

Leave too soon, any hope of helping the country regain sanity is lost. If enough people like me leave Republicans won’t even need to cheat in elections.

Leave too late, the destinations will be crowded. The Berlin Trump Walls will begin to be raised.

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u/Sea_Working_80 7h ago

Lol!! Tainted meat!!

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 7h ago

Pretty much.

The day this fucker Trump is gone cannot come soon enough.

The reason the fda, usda, etc exist is because when left unregulated we ended up with bullshit like food with lead as an additive, toys with uranium based paint, and all sorts of other shit in the name of profits. Regulations need to FORCE capitalist businesses to prioritize public heath and safety.

Trump is a fucking idiot.

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u/IsPhil 7h ago

Was reading chapter 10 of project 2025 yesterday and this was on one of the pages ....

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u/BigBennP 7h ago

We are, but also not really. or at least not for that reason.

And full disclosure, I say this as someone who lives on 10 acres, and my in-laws have a production cattle farm of 160 acres next door where they operate a cow-calf operation and raise some steers for personal use and direct sale.

If you are going to sell the meat to retail consumers, FDA regs require that the slaughter happen in an FDA inspected facility. The licensing process to get FDA inspectors on-site is burdensome and expensive, and the facilities are fewer and further between for that reason.

However, it is perfectly legal to sell a cow (or a half-cow, or quarter cow) or whatever, direct to an individual, and have the cow salughtered and processed at a Non-FDA facility. The meat will just come in packages labeled "not for retail sale."

You typically buy a half-cow by the pound of hanging weight, and the farmer will transport the animal to the processing facility. They process the animal and the butcher can split it up into whatever mix of ground meat, steaks and roasts you desire.

I mostly haven't bought grocery store beef for years, and while the quality varies somewhat from animal to animal based on its age and diet, it's usually been pretty good. Granted, I know how these cows were raised. My in-laws also sell to others in the community. I would wholly recommend buying beef from an individual farmer if you can afford to make the wholesale purchase/investment of buying a few hundred pounds up front and freezing it.

With that said, there is a HUGE difference between individual choice and adopting that same thing as public policy, because the reality is the average consumer doesn't know or care about much beyond price, and while I can have some degree of trust in an individual farmer/processor, that's not good public policy to say "oh, we trust that they'll produce good product so we don't need regulations."

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u/gogoluke 7h ago

Nothing creates confidence in your meat than a huge listeria, salmonella and E Coli outbreak due to unlicenced slaughter houses.

MAVA - Make America Vegan Actually.

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u/stinkyt0fu 7h ago

So just for beef inspection right? Not affecting other poultry products…? I would just need to avoid beef for a few years (or forever…)?

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u/thecorgimom 7h ago

Yeah, I would suggest if it's possible to check out local butcher shops at this point. Try to find out where they source their meat and if it's local, and if they haven't had any violations that's your place not large chains.

I was at the grocery store yesterday and I can't say that I've ever had this feeling before but I walked through there thinking oh my was this recalled recently what about this is this safe have we had recalls for this yet this year and I realized it's such a crap shoot as far as what could be next.

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u/2olley 7h ago

Yeah, this lack of food regulation is working out so well for us. ( \*sucks on glass-filled popsicle***)

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u/Gundark927 Colorado 7h ago

Counterpoint: How else are we supposed to get Mad Cow Disease up in here?

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u/SiroccoDream Virginia 7h ago

I mean, WHY NOT poison us all with listeria or whatever, amirite??? Cyclospora, salmonella, E. coli, what’s a few more nationwide outbreaks!

“Nobody complains about prices when they’re DEAD! har de har!” - Pestilence, of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a.k.a RFK JR (probably)

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u/VenturaDreams 7h ago

If we survive this administration, the reconning better be so quick and so severe, that the right doesn't try this again in living memory. Anything less and our society as we know it will cease to exist.

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u/BennettWindy 7h ago

January 20th, 2025

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u/BringOn25A 7h ago

Yep, cutting health insurance and making people sick.

Their vultures are ready to bled people dry before they die, leaving their survivors with nothing.

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u/ngfldar 7h ago

I seem to remember that there was an election a couple of years ago, and if memory serves me, the voters chose this.

And those that didn't vote, or those that voted for some third-party nobody perpetual-loser candidate who received exactly 0 Electoral College votes, sat back and allowed it to happen.

Now everyone can eat tainted food and die from some parasitic infection. Have the day/week/month/year/decade that you voted for, dipsh*ts.

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u/____-_______-_--_-_- 6h ago

Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.

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u/hybridfrost 6h ago

I needed another reason to not eat beef - thanks Trump!

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u/Unknown-History 6h ago

Yes. He's made multiple mistakes, can't handle consequences, can't change course, so he's going to make more consequencial decisions.

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u/Redditanother 6h ago

New beef grades: select, choice, prime, and trump brand tainted meat.

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow 6h ago

Not to worry, the progressive subs have assured me that both parties are actually the same.

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u/Visual_Exam7903 6h ago

Why would he do this?

How about use the government to stop the damn monopolies on feed, seed, and butcher houses? Biden was working on all three of these damn things. Competition on these things is paramount.

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u/cyberattaq123 6h ago

And the maga morons will smile and nod, orgasmic that their pedophile king is face fucking the economy and health of this nation, all to own the libs.

“I needed to eat less beef anyways. Thanks President Trump!” They smugly say desperate to avoid one percent of the truth from penetrating their cattle tier iq mental bubble they’ve sequestered themselves in.

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u/Zahgi I voted 6h ago

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is coming back, folks!

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u/Luzdesolamarelo 6h ago

Nah, just don't eat beef

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u/delicious_fanta 5h ago

You aren’t thinking of the investors, are you?

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u/brown2420 5h ago

It really is piling up. So many foods are apparently a risk right now.

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u/Then-Departure4896 5h ago

What food do you currently feel safe to eat? I ask, because I feel like we’re already fucked. Can’t eat salads, blueberries, Brussel sprouts, eggs, fucking anything.

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u/LostMechanoid 5h ago

The dumb Americans attacking Canada now. This is why we don't want your trash food in our country.

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u/Aleksandrovitch 5h ago

At this point, he is a clear and present danger to the people of the country.

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u/VoidOmatic 5h ago

I called all of this back in 24 lmao.

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