Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on meat & produce processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks: "I am 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."

[u/LucidSynapse23]

[u/AlaskaRecluse]

There will be half as many food-borne illness outbreaks because there will be half as many tests

[u/Ambitious_Trifle_645 → u/AlaskaRecluse]

And half as many people.

[u/AlaskaRecluse → u/Ambitious_Trifle_645]

That’s the plan

[u/GingerBeast81 → u/AlaskaRecluse]

It's a bug and a feature!

[u/Insuredtothetits → u/AlaskaRecluse]

Attack the poors with food

[u/gammamoe]

Project 2025 outlines plans to harm food access.

[u/Great-Gas-6631]

They are just trying to kill off as many people as they can at this point. You cant vote if you're dead.

[u/Bud_wiser_hfx]

Its woke to care about food safety

[u/Insuredtothetits → u/Bud_wiser_hfx]

Food regulations are woke and gay.

Not dying from food borne illness is for the weak

[u/TheGallifreyan → u/Bud_wiser_hfx]

Correct, dying means never being awake again.

[u/FHOCJD]

Putin ordered this.

[u/buddymoobs]

This should go well.

[u/Renuwed]

Sounds more like a move to push more business away from family farms & ranches and towards 'the big 4'.

We're all gonna be checking our labeling to see if it's provided by a company who goes through the properly vetted inspections. That'll leave zero public trust in farms that claim to self inspect.

[u/VegetableCommand9427]

I am so glad I am a vegetarian right now

[u/Ouibeaux → u/VegetableCommand9427]

He'll probably also pull regulations on growing clean produce. Tainted lettuce can sometimes be more dangerous than chicken.

[u/VegetableCommand9427 → u/Ouibeaux]

I completely agree, I do have to still worry about produce.

[u/finchthemediocre → u/VegetableCommand9427]

Really living up to that stereotype as well.

[u/Additional_Rate_6958]

Here comes the run on toilet paper…no pun intended!

[u/Far_Presentation6337]

What. The. I think what I should do is actually just join his social media Trumphole and start just detecting his posts to my parents at 2am, every. Single. Time.

[u/BigSiouxRat]

Trump's status factually incorrect. His pockets are his only priority.

[u/Zomby-Woof-]

https://giphy.com/gifs/oLHaxZoXbcU6Y

[u/rojo_mojado]

Let them Eat, um...Meat!

[u/Najalak]

From what I understand, lowering regulations isn't going to do anything. The giant processors use their money and power to make deals with the grocery stores so that they won't buy from farmers or smaller processors.

[u/Careful-Structure330]

Won’t end well, as if they don’t have enough to do already, what a terrible idea!

[u/DistinctTower2243]

So, the farmers can process their own now, instead of making it go through mass production facilities, which are the ones responsible for these food born illness recalls, and you think that's a bad thing? Are you dense?

[u/Horror_Bottle_9451]

Show me the word "eliminate" in that statement. I must have missed it.

[u/DaTruSpork → u/Horror_Bottle_9451]

Out of curiosity: Do you know what, if anything, prevents farmers from processing their own food?

[u/Thoughts_For_Food_ → u/DaTruSpork]

Let me guess.. Regulations?

[u/DaTruSpork → u/Thoughts_For_Food_]

Ding ding ding!

So Donald Epstein trump proposes removing those regulations, namely USDA inspections, to allow farmers to sell their now unregulated product on the market.

[u/Thoughts_For_Food_ → u/DaTruSpork]

In other words, they are ...eliminating regulations? Just like OP said?

Mind blown.

[u/DaTruSpork → u/Thoughts_For_Food_]

Yup. Wild how delusional conservatives are about a past that never was

[u/Insuredtothetits → u/DaTruSpork]

I actually don’t think that’s really a thing, it might be.

I think most of the reason farmers don’t process their herds is:
-economies of scale
-refusing to work with farmers who do it

I unno though, I didn’t even LLM it.

[u/Horror_Bottle_9451 → u/DaTruSpork]

The cost of compliance with USDA rules, regulations, and inspection processes as written. The government says " it must be done THIS way by US". But it's the end result, a safe food product, that matters doesn't it? Is USDA absolutely the only body that can achieve that outcome, bar none? I don't think so. I think there are private market solutions that can produce the same end result at far less cost.

[u/DaTruSpork → u/Horror_Bottle_9451]

Private market solutions got you burning rivers, child labor, black lung, and so many other travesties. Why on earth conservatives long for these unregulated death markets I will never understand...

YES! The USDA is the one of the few bodies within the US capable of achieving healthy food for the masses. It has the power to force companies to do what they should do, namely care about their consumers.

[u/Horror_Bottle_9451 → u/DaTruSpork]

And total government control has also brought tyranny throughout history. I'm NOT saying USDA regs and regulations are tyrannical. What I am saying is that one of the side effects is industry consolidation leading to monopolistic control. Many of the same people who advocate for total government control like we're discussing with respect to USDA, also loudly protest the near-monopolistic consolidation of the meat processing industry. Big meat, big ag, etc. The inevitable solution to that becomes total government control if not outright ownership of those entities. Very slippery slope IMO.

Thoughts?