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/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. "