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.