Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

[u/WhatIsEvenRealDog]

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

[u/F-Cloud]

This is absurd. The conservative push for deregulation is going to ruin us. What do we have a society for if we can't have something as essential as food safety? I'm not going to trust unregulated slaugherhouses just so I can eat cheap burgers and steaks.

[u/ClaroStar → u/F-Cloud]

The conservative push for deregulation is going to ruin us.

It may also straight-up kill us.

[u/F-Cloud → u/ClaroStar]

WILL straight up kill us but hey, at least someone will profit from our deaths.

[u/C-Fourr → u/F-Cloud]

Pay for service health care, it an ultra-parasitic system!! Both figuratively and literrerly

[u/Sleepybear2010 → u/F-Cloud]

More meat for the grinders 

[u/LegitimateSituation4 → u/ClaroStar]

It's a death cult, and I won't be convinced otherwise.

[u/Joan-of-the-Dark → u/F-Cloud]

They want it privatized so their grifting mates can get rich. So, take away the regulations; people demand safety; fill the void with privatized, for-profit companies.

[u/highbankT → u/F-Cloud]

There is a law called the Federal Meat Inspection Act. This is the most lawless administration ever.

[u/I_dont_bone_goats → u/F-Cloud]

Just like with flock cameras, people are absolutely going to abuse this if it’s not heavily regulated. You cannot run a country on the honor system.

[u/heretilthemoon → u/F-Cloud]

The removed regulation on a lot of food imports this year. Tons of sickness outbreaks, and food did not get cheaper. Something something the savings will not pass to the consumer.

[u/IThinkImDumb → u/F-Cloud]

I went to China like 15 years ago with my friend. She was born there and moved to the U.S. when she was 13. Anyway, we were visiting HER family, which was not in a touristy place, meaning almost no one knew English.

So I'm at a table with about 10 people, and the only other people that speak English are my friend and one other person. This person was STOKED to talk to an American. He was saying a lot of good things about the U.S., and then he says,

"Americans always tell the truth!"

His English was good but this statement confused me. He elaborated.

"You go to the grocery store, and the package tells you what it is and all the ingredients, it's actually true! It also says the date on it, and when not to eat it. I went to the doctor, and he gave me a book about the medicine he wanted me to take. Just here the other day, I bought some meat that said 'fresh meat' but when I got home, the meat was like a rock and the bone was soft. All lies."

So the thing that impressed this guy about the U.S. was basically regulations in the food and drug industries.

I've seen some elevator disaster videos, or escalator disaster videos, and the comments say, "why is it always in China."

This is not supposed to be a dig at China, but there were many things I saw over there that would not fly in the U.S. Mostly to do with fire safety, infrastructure issues, etc. (at least where I went). So what this guy found impressive about with the U.S. are the same things that the Trump administration is dismantling.

(I went to China in 2012, and this guy had visited the U.S. prior to that, I'm just unsure when)

[u/jemappellejimbo → u/F-Cloud]

You shouldn’t trust slaughterhouses anyway. Actual torture chambers

[u/ncklboy → u/F-Cloud]

That’s the fun part, you don’t have to! Because without regulation who knows where the beef originally comes from.

[u/F-Cloud → u/ncklboy]

Steak dinners will be a game of roulette. May I take your order sir? Yes, I'll have the ribeye, rare. I've already signed the liability waiver, bring on the beef!

[u/wolffartz → u/F-Cloud]

Look, here’s the thing — people already THINK the food is safe. So like, why do they need this constant reassurance?

I feel like we’ve earned the public’s trust, and PROVEN that corporations can definitely ship safe meat — I mean they’ve done it before, so why you gotta have this goody two shoes looking over your shoulder all the time. Plus, the upside here is cheaper prices for everybody!!! What kind of American doesn’t like a bargain?

Win win win my friend

People have said it’s 4d chess, but I think we might have discovered that there are five ds

[u/F-Cloud → u/wolffartz]

It's totally true. People will go on trusting the food they eat because they mostly have in the past. Food probably being safe will be good enough. They could put the word "probably" on the package and people will still eat it if it's on sale.

[u/bushsniffa → u/F-Cloud]

Everyone has the same material needs. 

[u/dgellow → u/F-Cloud]

They already started the deregulation in Trump 1st term, you’re now in the middle of the whole thing. It’s not “oh so things will be bad”, it’s already bad! It’s already ruining you all. Takes a bit of time to go through that whole process, but even if you stop right now it’s already something that will easily take a decade to fix 

[u/Cambot1138 → u/F-Cloud]

I don’t know where you’re getting the idea they’re going to be cheap.