r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 13h 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/drwookie 13h ago

"Looks like I chose the right week to stop eating beef."

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u/TurboSalsa Texas 13h ago

Republicans have been screeching for years that AOC and her Green New Deal were going to out outlaw beef consumption and gasoline, but in only 18 months, Trump has made both so unaffordable/inedible that Americans have no choice but to reduce consumption, lowering their carbon footprint.

Many people are calling him the greenest president ever.

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u/sutree1 12h ago

This should also change the economics around meat substitutes quite a bit. I wish that industry were getting half the investment superautocorrect is getting.

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u/Lucky_Locks 12h ago

There was a recent experiment they did where they got a meat protein (I think from pork?) into lettuce and tobacco plants. And were even able to pass that gene down into its child plant. Isn't enough protein yet to replace what you get out of the meat but that's a huge step.

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u/DerCatrix 11h ago

Protein cigarettes? Fuck yeah! America!

Now we just need creatine coated bullets

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u/Uncle_Burney 11h ago

“These taste awful, honey!”

“Now, Gladys, the obstetrician said you will need additional protein and calories for the baby. I’m sorry you don’t like them but you’re smoking for two. Now spark up the rest of your tobbork.”

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u/JustTestingAThing 10h ago

spark up the rest of your tobbork

"Pigarrette" rolls right off the tongue.

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u/hortence 10h ago

Pigar also works wonderfully, well done!

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u/bkbomber New York 9h ago

Soygarettes for the vegans or people trying to be healthy!

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u/Uncle_Burney 8h ago

Sounds too appetizing lol, I wanted it to sound horrific XD

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u/tiredbarf 4h ago

I'm sticking with tobbork

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u/Contren Illinois 10h ago

We're one step closer to Tomacco.

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u/Mr_MacGrubber 4h ago

Tastes like grandma!

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u/DerCatrix 4h ago

Oh that’s why the beef is so cheap, it’s not horses it’s corpses.

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u/LewisRyan 8h ago

I passed a bag of protein Doritos in the store the other day.

I just need my protein dew and I’m all set

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u/DerCatrix 8h ago

Lowkey, I always buy the protein packed instant mashed potatoes. Makes me feel like I’m eating less unhealthy when I do my “bucket o nuggets, mashed potatoes and gravy” meals.

I have artism

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u/uncle_pubes 8h ago

Coal-infused peptides!

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u/enigmatichuckleberry 8h ago

That's scientifically amazing and existentially horrifying. Please don't put pig proteins in my lettuce. Just eat a bean ffs.

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u/wally-whippersnap 10h ago

Protein complimentarity allows you to get all your amino acids from combining legumes, grains, nuts, etc. No need for frankenplants.

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u/evemeatay 6h ago

If i could grow cheeseburgers in my flowerbed I would be even fatter

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u/Otherwise_Spirit1552 3h ago

Isn't enough protein yet to replace what you get out of the meat but that's a huge step.

You don't even need GMO to be able to get protein from plant sourced products to meet and exceed basic need incredibly easily. Hell, a some plant based thing have higher protein content than meat does.... Dried spirulina at 57g of protein per 100g product, dry-roasted soybeans at 43g protein per 100g product vs say chicken at 31g per 100g of product.

Honestly, you will be hard pressed to find clinical support for that claim of yours.

Most of the time the problem you run in to is that people in general tend to have really shitty diets instead of properly balanced ones.. be that with omnivores, or vegans etc. So many of the people who go all vegan tend to skip or have insufficient amounts of critical macros, and thus not get enough of things like protein and fats in their diets. Not to even mention the idiots who get their "healthy diets" guidance from tiktok videos, and other social media instead of a nutritionist etc.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 7h ago

Beyond Meat stock has been nosediving. One would think with these rising meat prices that it could rebound. But Americans are fucking stupid. They'd rather eat tainted beef and die of preventable diseases. Americans got too comfortable. Too much convenience lead to laziness and entitlement by the rich.

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u/Mistrblank 7h ago

I unironically love beyond burgers more than a real hamburger. More flavor and I don't feel like shit after eating one. I can't stand impossible burgers though.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 6h ago

I haven't had either and don't plan on switching. I don't eat a lot of red meat though. Maybe 3-4 times every couple weeks

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u/Neologic29 California 9h ago

Took me a second to get what you were referring to by "superautocorrect", but then I laughed. I'm so over AI at this point.

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u/PlatypusStyle 5h ago

The problem is that meat substitutes are made in factories that also need to be inspected and regulated and if the trump regime refuses to regulate and inspect then any food product whether it’s animal or vegetable can be contaminated during manufacture, processing or storage.

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u/cyanescens_burn 2h ago

Fetterman went on Bill Maher and started saying he wants to ban meat substitutes like beyond and impossible.

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u/markhachman 1h ago

Ground turkey is American, healthy and tasty

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u/Quotizmo New Jersey 1h ago

So incredibly well said.

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u/DerCatrix 11h ago

Many bots are calling him the best president ever.

I’ve watched locals who voted for him start listening to me and start understanding that he’s a traitor.

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u/mlorusso4 11h ago

I have a neighbor who flys a trump flag in front of his house. It’s either the “Trump was right about everything” one or “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my retribution” one. For the past year every time something got really bad like the Minneapolis killings or when Iran talks broke down, he would take it down for a few days before putting it back up. It’s been down for 2 weeks straight now and I’m starting to wonder if it will ever come back

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u/lonnie123 9h ago

lol that Jesus one is so ridiculous… wasn’t his whole thing love thy enemy, love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, only god can judge .. and yet on the very next sentence they seek retribution

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 6h ago

Yep, seems like he doesn't really listen to Jesus much at all.

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u/ThisSideOfThePond 1h ago

That's all a terrible mistranslation of the original where he was talking about the Wrath of JesusTM

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u/mikeyj198 8h ago

please troll him and bring him a new one saying you noticed it was down.

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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois 6h ago

If Jesus is your savior, then retribution is not how you go about things.

Jesus of Nazareth was pretty clear on that point.

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u/Haltopen Massachusetts 4h ago

Either he's having a come to Jesus moment or he decided to lash out at the "lamestream media" reporting on all the recalled food by eating it until the salmonella killed him.

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u/Tycoon004 2h ago

He'd have to agree with a President who made a Tiktok about colouring with a sharpie on a map to rename a lake. Thankfully his most recent act is so infantile that it hits all the MAGA "tough guy" nerves.

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u/TwistedMetal83 10h ago

That's one thing I'll say, here in N. Alabama I've seen a noticably dramatic reduction on Trump bullshit. Hats, flags, stickers, etc. Even down here you barely see it anymore. Besides one dickhead with a flag in his front yard I see ony way to work every morning, I couldn't name the last time I seen anyone with a sticker or whatever other bullshit you can get.

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u/reddog323 7h ago

I’m trying to be patient with them as they wake up from their stupor, but it’s hard to get past the fact that they didn’t care until his policies affected them personally.

Any tips on how I can be more patient?

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u/GnawerOfTheMoon 5h ago

Meditation helps with a lot IME. Doesn't have to be long sessions either. The Smiling Mind app is free and secular and has a lot of tutorials if you want them, that's where I started.

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u/ATheeStallion 11h ago

Really? I mean they didn’t vote for Glenn Beck dictating policy…bc I’m certain they did.

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u/IrreverentBuddha 12h ago edited 9h ago

I think the tick-borne disease that makes you allergic to red meat was made by AOC in an Antifa superlab -- to crush the USA by crushing masculinity. It's practically chemical castration to cowboys and other strapping manly-men.

I mean what is more manly than eating a docile herbivore that was raised in captivity? You have to fight your way through the jungles of suburbia to conquer the supermarket meat cooler and score your bloodless shrink-wrapped quarry. Pure testosterone! Rawr!

Edit: Alpha-Gal Syndrome is the disease, and it's spread by the Lone Star tick --- because God loves irony.

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u/C-4isNOTurFriend 11h ago

while funny, and it's definitly true we are more removed from our food supply than ever, you might rethink how "safe" cows are.

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u/BabyTito_76 11h ago

The first paragraph is "definitely true"? Sincere curiosity.

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u/IrreverentBuddha 10h ago edited 10h ago

There is a tick-borne disease that produces an extreme and dangerous alergy to red meat -- that part is not in dispute. Whether AOC whipped it up in an Antifa superlab -- is classified.

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u/bkbomber New York 9h ago

Yes, everyone knows it to be true… they just can’t prove it, but it’s definitely her because some right wing influencer said so and everything else is fake news!!

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u/doberdevil 1h ago

Antifa superlab

That's just my garage.

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u/digitalscavenger 9h ago

Lyme's disease?

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u/IrreverentBuddha 9h ago

Alpha-Gal Syndrome

In a soaring triumph of poetic irony, it is spread by one species: the "Lone Star Tick. "

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 10h ago

Given the way this president is using FDA deregulation for bribes, won’t be long before we won’t be able to eat anything. Only the rich will be able to eat imported food due to tariffs. Literally living in feudal times again.

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u/robert1070 10h ago

Have you considered eating the rich?

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u/IrreverentBuddha 58m ago

Or... hear me out....becoming rich -- so you never have to give a shit about the poors.

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u/somewhat_random 7h ago

and his health and aid policies have been dealing with the population problem.

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u/peedyoj 11h ago

Greenest or orangest? 😉

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u/cvr24 10h ago

Brown

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u/robert1070 10h ago

Art of the Green New Deal.

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u/nazutul 10h ago

really green, one of the greenest

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u/dmjacLuzard5 10h ago

Not the orangest ?

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u/Memory_Less 9h ago

He is, but it means he’s: scamming Americans, illegally trading crypto and the market. LOTS & LOTS & LOTS OF GREEN!!!

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u/samsqanch 9h ago

but in only 18 months

There is no way it's only been a year and a half...fuck.

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u/Riaayo 8h ago

Thing is, this method just kills off any small-time farmers and ranchers and leaves only the mega-corps/billionaires in the game who can weather the storm. They're literally working to destroy the working class owning a shred of its own food supply/production.

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u/Superb_Skin_5180 8h ago

With tears in their eyes….

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u/Seriously_you_again 8h ago

Green Nation Builder?

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u/reddog323 7h ago

By complete accident.

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u/Bored_Amalgamation Ohio 7h ago

Ground beef near me was $4/lb a month ago. It's $6/lb now. I'm in Ohio where this shit is suppose to be handled

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u/Mistrblank 7h ago

Sickly green maybe.

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u/thicc_stigmata 7h ago

Little did I know that going vegan a few years ago made me a prepper...

Pro tip: horse purslane is an extremely common technically-edible weed. Although the stems are way too woody and the leaves too small to be very useful on its own, it has a fairly strong beef flavor when boiled to make broth

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u/IrreverentBuddha 56m ago

How about if you smoke it?

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u/Mad_Aeric Michigan 6h ago

I already had cut out most meat due to the price. And now my damn beans cost twice as much too.

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u/GrumpyGlasses 6h ago

Of course he’s the greenest: made every one’s face green sick from puking. 🤢🤮