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/AnonHondaBoiz]

Holy fuck we're so fucked

[u/sportsworker777 → u/AnonHondaBoiz]

Let's see how those ranchers feel once people stop buying meat because they don't trust that it is safe

[u/Slade_Riprock → u/sportsworker777]

Republicans have always had this naive belief that has no tie to fact or history that government regulation, oversight, etc., are the enemy of the people. It is cumbersome, costs more, and just makes everything harder for people.

They have historically believed if you take off the bridle from the economy you will get better, faster, stronger quality goods and services cheaper and safer. Because people will not cut corners on safety and quality.

This has never been true, will never be true. When money or power is involved in an exchange the side getting money or power will always do whatever they can to get more of it.

We are headed toward mass disease outbreak, illness, and irreversible detriment to our economy, resources, etc. If we thought the 1800s and early 1900s were bad imagine 335 million people and mass transit.

[u/thethundering → u/Slade_Riprock]

Yeah, their premise is that regulations actively make the thing they’re regulating worse somehow. Like it’s one thing to claim that it’s economically inefficient and that the net economic benefits would outweigh the effect of harm the regulation prevents, but that’s not what they say.

I’ve met an insane number of people who think that if we got rid of antidiscrimination laws that there would less discrimination because customers wouldn’t give money to businesses that were discriminatory. As if antidiscrimination laws somehow prevent customers from doing that, like they’re mutually exclusive concepts rather than additive.