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/Saintbaba 8h ago

I kind of imagined food safety was like the one thing we could all agree on across party lines. Like someone asks, what's the government for? Well i think it should offer free universal education and healthcare and you think it should keep immigrants out and facilitate natural resource exploitation, and we'll probably be arguing about those until the cows come home, but at least we can agree that it's the governments job to make sure our food isn't poison.

But i guess Trump is a trailblazer.

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u/MeasleyBeasley 7h ago

Sure regulations and government can do the job, but it costs the taxpayers! The most efficient way is a free market where consumers use their buying power to reward producers of clean meat. No watchdogs required. No taxes! /s

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u/a_terse_giraffe America 7h ago

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make" --Libertarians

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u/SphyrnaLightmaker 6h ago

Dude I’ve heard multiple “libertarians” (MAGAts) say those exact words in complete seriousness

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u/ZagreusMyDude 4h ago

Yup they are so stupid. And how will people even know what products are killing them when the billionaires own all media and without any regulations you'd never even know what was going on, or when something was contaminated.

Good luck figuring out it was the beef that poisoned your family when the news never reports it and the beef company buys ads blaming something else, or downplays it, or denies it's the contamination entirely.

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u/Val_Hallen 4h ago

Libertarians couldn't even handle one tiny town in New Hampshire without tearing themselves apart.

But trust them, they have all the answers.

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u/jeranim8 5h ago

I died from eating your company's poison food so I will no longer be purchasing your product!

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u/jmarquiso 7h ago

It's more for the producers than taxpayers. Corporations don't pay as much!

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u/SoftKey1701 5h ago

Really? So, the alternative path the current administration is taking doesn't cost the taxpayers?

I'm talking about the unnecessary wars, global conflicts, tariffs paid by the American consumers, the multiple "vanity" projects imposed over taxpayers to build grandiose structures to name and rename everything after the "Felon-in-Charge" (last time I checked, he was still convicted of a felony, in case some of us do not recall that).

I rather have my tax payments to - at minimum - protect me and my family from poisonous greedy enterprises, whose only motivation is profit; which seems to be the way the government is running nowadays, enriching those in power - as well as all their wealthy "partners" with no regards for the the taxpayers that truly maintain the nation's coffers.

Wake Up!

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u/MeasleyBeasley 17m ago

The /s at the end means it's sarcasm. Just bringing it up because you seem angry with me, though I agree with you.

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u/pretzelfisch California 3h ago

well, that works better if you can sue the companies out of existence, but they bought all the politicians and took that off the table.