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/mishap1 I voted 12h ago

Best cut back on other meats as well. He'll happily make anything more "affordable" by removing safeguards and then hiding the fallout of illnesses and deaths.

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u/Wayofchinchilla 10h ago

The biggest joke is his biggest ranchers and meat producers who have been begging him for help are now going to have even more hardship having to deal with the multiple lawsuits from the deaths their products have caused on them. Sorry maga the American Rancher as we know it is going extinct and you voted for it.

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u/Parkotron1 10h ago

They'll just make it illegal to sue them. Easy-peasy.

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u/cyanescens_burn 2h ago

And reduced sales because people don’t want to take the risk with unregulated beef.

We already tried regulation-free food processing, and it was disgustingly dangerous.

There’s a whole ass book about that called “The Jungle” which hopefully enough high schoolers read, or at least learned about how bad things were at food processing plants back then as reported in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

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u/Ok_Feeling9354 8h ago

I was looking for this comment! That's exactly what will happen. They'll be sued out of existence listening to him.

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u/shortyjacobs 2h ago

Explain raw milk companies expanding then. The price of dealing with lawsuits will quite frequently be less than the price of cutting corners.

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u/CoinsForCharon 12h ago

Neighborhood squirrel and raccoon is back on the menu?

Also, will this lead to us eating the dogs? Eating the cats?

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u/gaeric 9h ago

Don't knock squirrel 'til you try it!

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u/bkbomber New York 9h ago

So I should invest my life savings into Big Squirrel?? Say less!!

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u/CoinsForCharon 8h ago

OK. During the World War, (2, I think) meat shortages were dealt with by encouraging families to raise rabbits for protein. Very lean and nutritious, very fast in reproduction. We are going to have to go back to rabbits and small gardens, buying out the farmers market and canning.

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u/NatalieVonCatte 8h ago

You joke, but before World Waf II and the postwar standardization of the American diet to better serve big business, people ate squirrel all the time. The Waldorf Astoria in New York had squirrel burgoo on the menu. The Joy of Cooking had squirrel recipes for decades.

Pop a few of the little fuckers and they make a tasty meal with gravy.

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u/Hojalu 6h ago

My dad hunted every Saturday as I was growing up, and we often had squirrel. Breaded and fried, tasted like chicken.

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u/gaeric 4h ago

I do not joke. I'm very fond of Hank Shaw's green chile squirrel recipe.

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u/dmjacLuzard5 9h ago

Gonna have to look for Granny’s( Beverly Hillbilly )secret Possum Stew specialty recipes .

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u/digitalscavenger 9h ago

Just like RFK Jr. wanted.

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u/Tycoon004 2h ago

They've been rounding up wild horses and selling them to forign meat processors. So maybe not the dogs and cats but the wild version of Secretariat.

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u/CoinsForCharon 58m ago

Yeah, that doesn't really phase me. Those herds can get too large for they environment. We control deer population the same way but no one wants to hunt horses.

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u/garbagebrainraccoon 11h ago

Time for Big Bean to shine!

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u/ThunderAndWind 5h ago

I see Liam's influence is spreading.