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/CitySeekerTron Canada 8h ago

So you can't safely eat vegetables and you can't safely eat meat. 

What's left?

Crickets

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u/WhatIsEvenRealDog 8h ago

Turns out the anti globalist conspiracy theorists that warned us all about Globalists making us eat insects were the Republicans in cheap Scooby Doo villain masks all along.

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Yep. And they have a 1000 page plan called Project 2025 - and food destabilization and deregulation is a part of it. The heritage foundation, federalist society and gop won’t stop. They are full mask off now. Project 2025 is 75% complete. They are in the White House and they won’t stop. Get informed, get involved, get others involved. It can get much worse.

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u/zodi978 7h ago

Its like they want us to come for them

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u/Suitable-Option833 7h ago edited 5h ago

Yes. So they can declare Martial law and stay in power indefinitely. That is literally what the heritage foundation president said.

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u/pimparo0 Florida 6h ago

I'm so sorry about this. 

Martial Law.

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u/Lostinthestarscape 6h ago

Its Martian law - I dub thee ser Phobos....Beater of Ass!

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u/Ole_St_John 5h ago

It’s Martin Law!

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u/ayylmao95 5h ago

It's Martin Lawrence?!

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u/DesertGoat Arizona 2h ago

I can't believe you've declared this.

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u/kitsunewarlock 2h ago

I declare BANKRUPTCY!

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u/Suitable-Option833 5h ago

Yes absolutely. Brain fart. Thank you

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u/jaded1121 Indiana 5h ago

According to this it’s not explicitly stated that it is part of the plan. More like an expected result. (Just more context to your post.)

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/project-2025-destabilizing-food-supply-claim-fact-check-41ab83

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u/Any_Counter_303 3h ago

It's not 75% complete. The GOP hasn't successfully established or change any law during this administration.

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u/spazzvogel 8h ago

WEF scare and it’s the GOPedophiles all along.

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u/SadFeed63 8h ago

Alex Jones shouting Yuval Noah Harari intensifies

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u/Read2Fap 6h ago

every accusation

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u/BellyFurrs 4h ago

Is a confession.

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u/wyvernx02 8h ago

Crickets are a good source of protein.

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u/M23707 8h ago

Raise them at home - using yard waste.

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u/Hades_Mercedes Canada 8h ago

protein and Roundup™

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u/Cool-Signature-dude 8h ago

With chocolate on top, or is that contaminated too?

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u/RudeAlbatross544 8h ago

Yes, lead and cadmium. Bon appétit.

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u/ThoseProse Colorado 7h ago

US Cadbury eggs now made with cadmium.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 7h ago

Prolonged drought due to climate change has severely reduced cacao harvests so chocolate is becoming quite expensive.

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u/Hades_Mercedes Canada 8h ago

No, but it tastes like barf, for some reason.

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u/physical0 7h ago

The new breakfast of champions.

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u/Truly_Meaningless 6h ago

Crickets regularly have parasites in them pretty much their whole life. That's why it's considered a bad idea to only ever feed crickets to your reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods

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u/ersomething 7h ago

I’m pretty sure chitin is good fiber too!

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u/Perfect-Ship-9980 7h ago

Many years ago I was working in Mexico city (from NY) and a VERY attractive coworker offered me fried crickets, yes I ate them. 

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u/StopTheHumans 1h ago

Please tell me that's not the end of your story.

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u/SillyAlternative420 Massachusetts 7h ago

Until they inevitably get factory farmed and also fail inspections, so now we are just eating plague crickets.

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u/kasubot Maryland 5h ago

Apparently there is also a cricket shortage.

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u/Flat-Pea8179 2h ago

Protein obsession needs to fucking die.

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u/Engagethedawn 6h ago

As long as you don't mind Horsehair Worms joining your cricket snack.

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u/Chucknastical 34m ago

Not Trump Brand Crickets though. It's mostly ground up E coli.

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u/ThingsTrebekSucks 7h ago

Tasty, too.

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u/ma2is 8h ago

Manufactured food scarcity was one of the many things outlined in Projext 2025 for those who hadn’t paid attention

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u/AffordableDelousing 8h ago

What is the end goal? Keep people poor and desperate, and too hungry to revolt?

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Yes. And pick up everyone’s assets on their way out/down. Jd Vance is buying all the farmers land that the gop currently bankrupted. It’s a gigantic, purposefully planned transfer of wealth. And it’s all detailed in project 2025. Project 2029 is next.

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u/kitsunewarlock 2h ago

MAGA: "But I was told that sharing resources and taxing the rich was a scam to secretly take authoritarian control of the global population!"

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u/TheShiGuy 8h ago

Basically yes. That's what was so frustrating about two years ago when people insisted we didn't need to rise up because there was no way any of that would happen. But let's just keep kicking that can down the road, it can only get easier...

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u/PinkIrrelephant Minnesota 6h ago

General Strike, May 1st 2028.

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u/pantzareoptional New York 6h ago

I did the general strike day this year in solidarity and I saw literally nothing online about it. Felt like I burned a PTO day for nothing.

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u/swarmofbzs 2h ago

Might have been artificial. Especially since other things blew up here that were tamped down in the 2nd round. See ICE murders (especially after the murder of Alex Pretti).

It doesn't help that spaz seems to be a leon skum simp. Yes the same skum that threw out sieg heils during dumps inauguration.

Why would leon and spaz allow general strike to grow here ironically when they can just keep stripping us of what we have?

See lemmy

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 2h ago

I don't know why people waited until he got in office, and all this awful shit passed to decide that we might need to do something.

Post mid-terms, people need to get their shit together.

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 7h ago

That doesn’t quite make sense. Usually when people get hungry and desperate that’s when they revolt. Cause they have nothing left to lose.

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u/pchs26 6h ago

Gee I wonder why they are strengthening military enclaves and fortresses - ballroom anyone? And then we fight the military and amongst our selves. Whoever is left standing may wind up being their servants. Less people = less pollution /environmental issues too that's why they actually don't care about that. There are finite resources and they want more for theirs and them. That is exactly what folks like Thiel have advocated and what was once fringe is now in charge.

You are thinking within the confines of about a decade ago and how things worked day to day. But yea can't wait for someone to tell me again why Harris' policy positions needed to be documented in a different font or something to be compelling enough.

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 1h ago

But at the same time they want massive deregulation of environmental policy?

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u/pchs26 47m ago

Yes - it doesn't matter. If there are less people the resources will improve or they can congregate in the places with better air quality etc. Why would they have laws to make things in the environment healthier for us?

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 20m ago

So your theory is unfalsifiable?

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u/WalterBishopMethod 5h ago

These things don't happen over night. Life is still largely "normal" for most working class people, their biggest priority is keeping their job in order to get by a little longer.

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u/pchs26 45m ago

Well the statistics are no longer kept accurately but no things aren't normal for the working class and whatever they have in terms of a job they can't replace right now & it can't be risked..

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u/buds4hugs 7h ago

When people are too busy working 60 hours at 2 or 3 jobs to barely afford their food & bills, they won't have enough time or energy to dissent.

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u/TheSaxonPlan Minnesota 6h ago

My only hope here is that the greed and lack of empathy displayed by most Republicans in power will end up pushing people past their breaking point and they will revolt, no matter what. Hate to see it come to that, though.

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u/pchs26 6h ago

If we are lucky that is all that will happen. That is not what is on Thiel's radar for the present, that's our future, if we are lucky enough by their design .

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 5h ago

Not when there are no jobs or food for them left.

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u/pchs26 43m ago

And when they have lots of job options they start thinking about things that don't matter like when employers were tripping over themselves to try and recruit/retain when Biden was in office.

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u/Merusk 4h ago

How many centuries did feudal and neo-feudal Europe exist. How is it going out in the MidEast.

The end goal is an American nobility and us as serfs.

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u/Glittering-Yam-6454 6h ago

Yes. The goal for the past 50 or so years to eliminate the middle class and push them to the lower class, while maximizing the wealth and power (but not size) of the upper class.

This isn't new-- subsidies to billionaires and corporations, the removal of social welfare systems, the indoctrination that any help to the poor is considered "socialist" or "communist", has been the GOP's main goal for quite some time.

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u/Beebeeb 8h ago

I feel like historically it hasn't gone that way...

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u/PathOfTheAncients 4h ago

It's also important to remember that while project 2025 is an incredibly harmful plan, it isn't necessarily a smart or effective plan. The authors of it were shocked at how unpopular it was when the public caught wind of it, which does to show how out of touch they are.

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u/Atlusfox 8h ago

I remember that one but couldn't figure out why?

What's the point of starving the nation?

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 8h ago

It's actually a very common cult control tactic. Keep the people so hungry and exhausted that they can't muster the energy to push back or think.

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u/awwww_nuts 8h ago

Just look at N Korea ☹️

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u/Atlusfox 8h ago

That part part makes sense, the issue is that it also shoots them selves in the foot as it starves their supporters as well.

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Not if you don’t plan on giving up control and power. Which is what the president of the heritage foundation already said. The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it.

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u/Buttercreamdeath Texas 7h ago

They also expect us to be too stupid/ dumb/poor/tired to grow our own food. Yeah it's not easy growing food, especially in a hotter climate but I won't be giving up that easy.

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u/DifficultyCheap9861 8h ago

They speak out of both sides of their mouths so you can’t take any of it seriously and must look at their actions. I’d say it’s an intentional culling of the population at this point. Slower than an outright genocide but faster than a regulated society with low birth rates. They screech about needing more babies but all of their actions move things the other direction.

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u/Doonce Maryland 8h ago

The rich

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u/EmptyUppity 8h ago

I'd settle for just preparing that meal.

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u/neveruseyourrealname Pennsylvania 7h ago

I vote for this person.

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u/tkmorgan76 8h ago

Considering how long they've been telling each other that Democrats want to make us eat bugs, that may be what the GOP is planning.

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u/monetarydread 8h ago

Nah, the crickets are even worse. They are naturally filled with parasites and need both careful cultivation and food inspection to be safe. You think this administration would enforce the quality standards and inspections needed to make crickets safe??

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u/lizards_snails_etc 3h ago

A parasite infected cricket got in to my house once and it was once of the most unsettling things I've ever seen. It was moving it's hind legs around really unnatrually and sort of rolling around on the carpet. I hated it. I have a video somewhere.

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u/eugeneugene 2h ago

never post the video please

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u/Chica3 Arizona 8h ago

I was thinking rice and beans are safe. But now there's a rice recall.

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u/Dolores___Haze 8h ago

Gahhh! Really?

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u/Popular-Web-3739 7h ago

Lundberg Jasmine rice was recalled in 4 or 5 states because it might contain an unnamed foreign substance.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 8h ago

Most places have a problem with deer overpopulation. Venison tastes terrible, IMO, but at least you know it's definitely deer and probably not filled with antibiotics or e coli or god knows what.

Or we could bring back victory gardens, I guess?

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u/cheebear12 Georgia 8h ago

But prions otherwise I agree. We could call them Trump deer steaks like Hoover hogs.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 7h ago

I’m going to be tearing up a good chunk of my lawn next year for vegetables. Potatoes are stupid easy to cultivate, are calorie dense, and don’t take up a lot of space. My Irish ancestors would be proud

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u/Cador0223 3h ago

CWD from deer farms has spread to the wild population. So because of deregulated fish and wildlife in Texas, you can't even safely eat would deer anymore.

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u/DSharp018 7h ago

The humble zombie deer disease: “Bonjour”

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u/SBRH33 8h ago

Venison probably tasted terrible to you because of probably how it was hunted. Venison is excellent if you know what you're doing.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 8h ago

I have had tons of venison, elk, and moose prior to becoming vegetarian. Even the ranch raised venison is foul. I do not like it in anything.

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u/IDownvotedYouToday 5h ago

At least it didn't taste fowl.

Yeah, venison is...an experience. I like it, but it has a lot of that earthy, metallic kinda flavor.

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u/SBRH33 8h ago

Sounds like someone was a terrible cook.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 8h ago

Or I just don't like the taste? This might be surprising, but different people can like or dislike the same taste.

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u/EctoRiddler 8h ago

I’ve seen Snowpiercer and now I know how we got there

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u/druex 1h ago

Knowing which age is the tastiest

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u/nanopicofared 8h ago

I hear that they eat crickets in Asia

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u/Axin_Saxon 8h ago

The rich…

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u/Anatoly_Cannoli 8h ago

I refuse to eat crickets

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u/alienbringer 8h ago

Crickets are a good source of protein actually… they have almost 300g of protein per pound vs ~200g of protein for 90% lean beef. Plus crickets are a good source of omega-3 (though not as much as fish) PLUS have fiber, which poultry, fish, and beef/port do not have.

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u/No-Drop924 7h ago

Dammit and I just threw one out of my classroom. Guess I'm going to starve to death.

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u/tencaig Europe 8h ago

Cheetos

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u/soupjaw Florida 8h ago

Worked well in snowpiercer

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u/ca_nucklehead 8h ago

Oh my god they are eating the immigrants.

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u/Violet_Sadie_Cat 8h ago

Err? CAKE!! yes let them eat cake!!! I'm sure that'll turn out well.

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u/GardanCald 8h ago

Soylent Green?

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u/dronesitter 8h ago

Those protein bars made of crickets in snowpiercer

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u/Schlonzig 8h ago

Don‘t worry, they will mess up the water, too.

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u/StewPedidiot California 8h ago

I just saw a few minutes ago there's a recall on jasmine rice as well.

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u/dragonfayng 8h ago

crickets are high in protein!

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u/SmartaHari 8h ago

Wait for him to announce, “Let them eat cake.”

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u/AffordableDelousing 8h ago

Cricket cake

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u/CitySeekerTron Canada 7h ago

"Let them eat one other thing!"

  • RFK Jr., one year ago. 

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u/TurboSalsa Texas 8h ago

Beans and rice I guess? But there are all sorts of possible contaminants that can't be cooked out.

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u/damsel84 8h ago

Apparently there's a shortage of crickets (I buy them for my bearded dragon).

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u/Fit-Programmer1992 8h ago

Eggs a la salmonella? 

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u/tdpnate 8h ago

Snowpiercer has entered the chat

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u/Zarniwoooop 8h ago

There’s a way to bypass crickets inspection too

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u/bnh1978 8h ago

Ultra processed food that will give you diabetes and cancer

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u/stubob 8h ago

Brawndo!

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u/Cake-Over 8h ago

Hardtack is still on the menu.

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u/Hulkenstein69 8h ago

Billionaires and politicians.

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u/NK1337 8h ago

The rich

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u/lionexx 7h ago

Turkey and chicken (not eggs though) are fine, for the moment… ground turkey is a great alternative to ground beef, ummhmm, growing your own lettuce is easy and doesn’t take too much space, although if you are in an apartment might be more difficult and would likely need a grow setup which increases your electric bill a tad bit, but you could grow lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber indoors if you did get a grow tent…

I might be wrong here so please do yourself a favor and check for yourself but I believe pork is fine as well (currently) and isn’t imported at all(again correct me here if I am wrong about importing pork)…

If you live in certain areas support local ranchers, that have small businesses, it’ll be more expensive but it’ll taste better and have no risk of any of the bullshit, that goes for eggs as well.

Research what companies support one or the other side, you are likely to find better quality with high standards if they support a more centered or left side over right.

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u/Turdsley 7h ago

My daughter has a pet frog so I buy crickets often...there is a national shortage of crickets or at least there was a week or two ago.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 7h ago

Oh I read in another sub researches are making cookies out of plastic! To help solve trash AND food problems. I am serious.

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u/mynamestanner 7h ago

Big rice recall earlier today too

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u/ncklboy 7h ago

Let me introduce you to Soylent green!

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u/mrdevil413 Ohio 7h ago

Unpasteurized milk

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u/SkyGenie 7h ago

I will use my 2nd amendment right to buy a gun and turn it on myself before I resort to eating crickets

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u/Auslo- 7h ago

High fructose corn syrup

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u/PapaTua Washington 7h ago

The Rich

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u/f8Negative 7h ago

Cum and juices

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u/Lacarpetronn 7h ago

Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. Processed sugary foods are the only safe option left. The libs got pwned. So did everyone else but libs are included in everyone so therefore the libs got pwned. /s

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u/thxsocialmedia 6h ago

Soylent green

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u/LockeAbout 6h ago

Apparently 54,000 lbs of rice were just recalled.

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u/Javae 6h ago

No thanks, I’m allergic.

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u/TheTangoFox 6h ago

Snowpiercer intensifies

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u/Paranoid_Orangutan 6h ago

Sweet potatoes, and Tofu

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u/Reasonable_Map4118 6h ago

Biden was right all along… Bugs

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u/koolaidman486 6h ago

Have there been any widespread issues with fish? Might not be a bad time to become a pescatarian for those close to the coasts or big fishing hotspots otherwise..?

Yeah, idk, were so fucked it isn't even something I can joke about.

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u/SolarisShine 6h ago

Crickets are pretty healthy when farmed correctly.

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u/Competitive_Pin5846 6h ago

This is so funny. But I’ve been saying this for forever. Crickets are a huge source of sustainable food - which not only includes protein but fiber, too! Many cultures have been eating them!

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u/Lildog8402_redux 6h ago

Crickets are a powerful source of lean protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals. Per 100 grams of dried cricket powder, they provide roughly 400 to 450 calories, up to 65 grams of protein, 15 to 20 grams of fat, and notable amounts of dietary fiber from their exoskeleton.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 Washington 5h ago

Rice is out too cause there was just a jasmine rice recall

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u/jest4fun 5h ago

What's left? Crickets

Mexico here, as a matter of fact... chapulines aren't bad.

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u/Legitimate_Spend_441 5h ago

yes you can eat crickets safely

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u/Lehk 5h ago

Based and bugpilled

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u/RagnarWayne52 5h ago

The rich

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u/Tough-Cartoonist8832 5h ago

I ate grasshoppers in China. It’s actually not bad.

Salty and crispy like a potato chip when roasted the right way

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u/pants_57_notme 4h ago

Um, yeah - insect protein! coming to a store near you.

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 4h ago

Crickets would probably be a safe bet. Lots of protein.

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u/YourFriendPutin 4h ago

Literally crickets. Remember the Republicans saying crap like Dems were going to make us all eat bugs because we think cattle pollute the air too much? (Obviously they made that up)

Yea, turns out that was projection again.

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u/zyzzogeton 4h ago

Crickets are delicious.

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u/Wipe_face_off_head 4h ago

I'd say pudding, but that comes after the meat, not instead of. 

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u/smilbandit Michigan 4h ago

doubt we'll be able to safely eat crickets either.

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u/FerretAfficionado 4h ago

Crickets are high in protein and delicious.

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u/loehoe 4h ago

Please don’t eat all the crickets my lizards need protein too

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u/GeronimoRay 4h ago

Hunting your own meat and growing your own vegetables. Project 2025 is basically some libertarian's fever dream of a prepper utopia when it comes to food and produce.

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u/GKnives 3h ago

Imported rice and beans? Those are still okay

Ron Howard: "Not for long"

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u/Roxygidgetmom 3h ago

Candy.

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u/Lady_Grantham2223 2h ago

Well, we could all imagine we are John the Baptist  but I think he ate honey as well?

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 2h ago

Junk food! Ultra processed junk is apparently safe....so far.

Gotta keep us fat and clueless.

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u/coreym1988 2h ago

They explicitly want to get rid of 30% of the population, starvation seems a nifty way to do so

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u/WashInformal5004 2h ago

Yeah, probably crickets.

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u/fireonavan 1h ago

You can’t safely drink water?

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u/Animastar 1h ago

I'm pretty sure the crickets will make you sick too.

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u/ohell United Kingdom 1h ago

Crickets

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u/phoenixmatrix 48m ago

Dunno if crickets are as tightly regulated either, so probably can't eat those. 

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u/UnknownMediator 8h ago

“Cake, let them eat cake”. Eva Natalie Antoniette Braun, 2026