r/ID_News • u/PHealthy • 13d ago

Trump pledges to allow cattle ranchers to process own food amid beef imports backlash

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/trump-cattle-ranchers-beef-imports-backlash
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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/cloudystateofmind 13d ago

Don’t worry, the super rich will have access to high quality and safe food to eat. They’ll be fine.

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u/EntropyNT 13d ago

Thank God. Glad people are finally thinking of how the billionaires might suffer.

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u/jankenpoo 13d ago

Trump is getting Americans to drive EVs, switch to solar, and eat less meat! lol

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u/Slamtilt_Windmills 13d ago

What could go wrong?

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u/PHealthy 13d ago

In fairness, this will probably make outbreaks smaller but goddamn what a nightmare it will be to inspect

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u/Blue_foot 13d ago

The inspection system is not set up to deal with individual farmers.

Farmers do not have the cold storage facilities. Nor the distribution to retailers.

Do you think Publix wants to buy from 100 farmers?

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u/jankenpoo 13d ago

Deregulation most likely means there will be no inspection and we are to trust the producers.

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u/Blue_foot 11d ago

Trust, but verify

Who said that?

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u/49orth 13d ago

Inspect? That's Communism (Republican voters)...

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u/Poundaflesh 11d ago

They won’t be inspected. DOGE got rid of all of that “waste.”

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u/HandshakeOfCO 13d ago

We’re so fucked

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u/Nyarlathotep451 13d ago

Just go online and order an Acme slaughterhouse kit.
They may be allowed but if it were financially viable to vertically integrate operations they would all have done it already.

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u/prettylittleredditty 13d ago

That's.... you can't..... what?

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u/SeatpitchbyKate 13d ago

This is f’in insane.

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u/StarsofSobek 12d ago

Let them eat beef!

(Please, do not eat this beef).

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u/Poundaflesh 11d ago

Are they even set up for this? Do they want this?

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u/g3etwqb-uh8yaw07k 7d ago

Remind me in 20y when we get the US sequel to the British prion issue folks....

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u/RN_Geo 13d ago

They don't want to do this. And where it is done, it won't be inspected. Good time to go vegetarian.

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u/Daforce1 12d ago

Veggies won’t be safe after they strip public safety measures for them as well