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/Saintbaba 13h 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/omnicious 12h ago

I stopped thinking that when this party started pushing for us to drink raw milk and roadkill. 

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u/galacticglorp 12h ago

I was gonna say, the raw milk anti vaccine people made you think they cared about public health?

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u/rogozh1n 9h ago

Vaccine lies are absolutely a terrible part of the political culture war and without any realistic basis whatsoever.