President Donald Trump said he is working to allow farmers and ranchers to process their own meat instead of having to use USDA-inspected facilities, a policy that appears to have originated during a conversation Wednesday with conservative radio host Glenn Beck. Posting on his Truth Social website about the plan, Trump called large meat-processing companies “a nasty Monopoly,” saying they “make life miserable for our wonderful Farmers and Ranchers.”
There are thousands of meat-processing businesses in the country, though several large companies are responsible for the majority of meat processing in the United States — a fact Beck raised during a live interview with Trump. The longtime radio host, who owns a ranch, referred to the “meat-processing cartel” and asked Trump to work to cut regulations that require farmers and ranchers selling their meat to use facilities regulated and inspected by the U.S. Agriculture Department for slaughtering and meat processing.
“Help us. Help us,” Beck said, urging Trump to “break the back of those processing plants.”
“This is a very big thing. … You just gave me a very good idea,” Trump responded.
Trump has found himself caught between consumers annoyed at the high cost of meat and ranchers frustrated at his decision to temporarily waive tariffs on imported beef — a still unclear plan he recently announced as prices soar amid cattle shortages.
The president wrote that he is “authorizing legal documents to be drawn in order to allow Farmers and Ranchers to be given the right to PROCESS THEIR OWN FOOD. This should move quickly.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the documents he referenced or which existing food-safety regulations Trump hopes to waive.
The amount of burgers this guy packs away it’s only a matter of time before this bites him in the ass.
Should have happened a loooong time ago …
People used to think I was crazy when I stopped eating meat. Basically vegan now and I’ve been completely vindicated.
Unfortunately the lettuce and blueberries will still make you shit yourself to death.
We’re going to need to start growing our own food. A vegan diet definitely makes that easier, though.
It’s also more efficient since you’re not separated by a trophic level from the producers of calories. You can live off of surprisingly little land if you plant the right veggies, jerusalem artichokes for example.
Anything but breaking monopolies. I swear the only people who hate capitalism more than communists do are capitalists.
Capitalists don’t truly understand what capitalism is. That’s why the “best” capitalists are always ones who used to be Marxists.
I suppose this was inevitable. It was the only solution they would ever come up with to stop all these reports of food borne illness outbreaks. Just stop testing!
I mean, that was the best “solution” they came up with for Covid… yeah, no wonder they recycled it, terrible ideas seems to be the only thing these ghouls recycle, and the only way they can solve any problem is to just stop testing for it!
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Remember, all these deregulation events won’t be undone if/when Dems get in. It’s been this way since the 90s. Clinton didn’t undo Reagan. Obama didn’t undo Bush. Biden didn’t undo Trump 1.
Our entire food supply is going to be a lazy-fair “at your own risk” roulette wheel where maybe you’re okay but you know people who will die from it. Right now the news is covering every single outbreak because it’s Trump. When it’s not Trump, they’ll stop covering it. Just like when Biden got in they started talking about how covering covid was too much of a downer. Eventually it’ll just be normal and any outbreak information will be relegated to some boring government website that nobody looks at. Eventually they’ll just stop counting minor outbreaks at all because who’s to say why people are sharting themselves for days on end? Probably their immoral lifestyle.
This is permanent and you should be getting ready to live with it the rest of your life or find sanctuary in some blue state that will take on the burden of doing minor food inspections at a state level.
This is insane because we export a ton of meat around the world. Other countries will stop importing and then American companies will suffer worse
Can those other countries get out of their free trade agreements?
These people really do want to bring back the 1800s, in all the worst ways, and not a single good thing will come of that.
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The goal is always to bring back slavery
You’ll see private entities providing testing for a good price. The “safe” stuff will be affordable for the richest 10%. Fuck the rest, I guess?
does anyone else find the term “meat plant” a bit odd?
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It’s like egg plant, or milk weed
it’s either that or “meat factory”
JDPON Don for vegans
It’s sad that the only vegan propaganda that works on carnists is that the government will literally let you die from eating bad meat.
Everyone’s been getting poisoned by lettuce in recent news so it’s not exactly just meat lmao, the entire US food regulation is being dismantled and everyone’s going to eat shit
The thing is though that meat is much more of a gamble than consuming plants or fungi. Animals are similar to humans, therefore you get well adapted pathogens in meat processing. It can’t be said that it affects everyone equally, vegans and the rich who can afford privately tested food will come out on top.
Iirc, Sinclair felt like that it actually didn’t work.
supposedly he said something about aiming for the heart (it’s meant to make you a socialist) and hit the stomach.
i think he was bad at writing or he would’ve sold other less salacious stories sooner.
Prior to deciding to get a job in a Meatpacking plant to do the 1904 version of Gonzo journalism, Upton Sinclair pretty much just churned out random pulp fiction, magazine articles for kids, and poetry.
His biggest problem was probably just not being very funny, so unsurprisingly he ended up finding more success in non-fiction.
it gets worse here every day
Fuck it I’m a full blown accelerationist now. This is going to make people vegan so fucking fast you won’t even believe
Soon the sharting diseases will come for the beans
Hey guys, he’s still got two more years in office
(I mean how do you not laugh at this; it just keeps going)
Wait and see if the libs manage to get a landslide into congress then spend the last two years impeaching Trump then shrugging and going “We tried nothing and now we’re out of options” as he continues to do his gutting of the American hegemony.
That’d at least make it 6-7 times more funnier
Haven’t they already done that?
Yeah but now they’re back with popular support and a Mandate to go “how dare you, Mr. President!”
Are we even gonna have elections anymore?
No shot they’re blowing their load for this one, expect the big guns in 2028.
Like there can only be two outcomes: Libs win, fail to prosecute and their base eats them alive, or they prosecute all the MAGA folks they have rightly painted as criminals and all these people go down like a RICO case (which they would not do). Trump can’t risk the latter and libs can’t risk the former.
It’s a perfect storm for the end of so-called democracy in the US.
I dunno, wait and see what happens.
I was thinking the same but I doubt they’d spend all their political capital on something as inconsequential as congressional elections. But theg’re going to tip the scale so much ie voter intimidation, masked goons at polling places etc that elections will effectively be rigged withiut some big public declaration.
I’ve made versions of this joke 1,000 times and it’s purely theoretical but if the democrats actually wanted to win - they could run 10s of millions dollars on attack ads on stuff like “The Republicans want you to eat dangerous and toxic food because it makes the rich richer.”
…if the democrats actually wanted to win…
Many similar paths to “winning” for the Dems have been obvious for a long time. But winning isn’t their goal. Their goal is go keep the rich and powerful rich and powerful, while taking a cut for themselves.
Yeah, but they also get richer from it, so they would never
When will they realize they can do the Obama strategy and just lie?
They’d need more charismatic offerings for that. None of the current batch of centrist grifters have that kind of motion.
Yeah but Hasan Piker is much more important. Let’s talk about him some more.
But they won’t because of the multimillion dollar Toxic Food Lobby funding their campaigns. Which is of course the same Toxic Food Lobby funding their opposition’s campaign, but hey, that money’s got to go to SOMEone, right?
So like… They’re going to have labels denoting it’s been inspected, right?
Big sticker on the front of the package: INSPECTED*
Super-tiny sticker on the back in a 3px font: *Is a word in the dictionary.
Clearly deregulation is going splendidly as we’ve seen from the exemplary Taylor Farms. So let’s just do more of that.
Covering the cyclospora outbreak, crop scientist and former NC ag commissioner candidate Sarah Taber “Farm2Taber” was explaining how the USDA inspections are already so lax and industry captured that companies basically rely on 3rd party inspections to make sure the veg they’re buying are actually not going to make their customers sick. Or it comes down to state health departments that actually have rigorous track and trace programs.
So the reason Taco Bell was one of the first companies to report where the bad lettuce was coming from was because they have money invested into to tracking where their produce is coming from and winding up. And it wasn’t until folks in one of the great lake states (I think Michigan but don’t hold me to that) started getting sick and their state health department went into action that a proper epidemiology picture started to emerge for that region.
The federal regulators are already in the pocket of big industry, and our top civilian leadership wants to make it worse!
Which makes me think something like what Trump’s proposing here woild be an absolute death knell for these producers, kind of akin to Bolsonaro trying to gut Brazil’s department of the environment. These agencies are already completely captured, why even take the publicity and marketing hit for doing something like this?
MAGA is largely a movement of small business tyrants who are mad about larger businesses outcompeting them. Their belief is that these large businesses can outcompete them because of regulation and Wokeness, since any actual analysis would require understanding and skepticism of capitalism.
Good USDA is for sissies and beta males, real men eat raw beef.
Chud pickup line?..
Hey, sexy - you want some uninspected raw beef?
Are we sure he’s not been possessed by a Great Unclean One?
Trust the plan, worms are in control.
No, they have standards.
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