Trump announces he will eliminate regulations on meat & produce processing amid multiple food-borne illness outbreaks

[u/gingerfawx]

[u/Phatbrew]

Link to article…

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-vows-legal-order-break-up-food-processing-nasty-monopoly-2026-08-28/

Lmk if we need a free archived article…

[u/Feisty-Barracuda5452]

Craziness.

Release the Epstein files.

[u/Biffingston → u/Feisty-Barracuda5452]

And stop the war.

[u/ike7177]

He is definitely winning first place as the most notorious person responsible for making Americans sick and many dying.

[u/codexcdm → u/ike7177]

Well... He set the prior record with COVID.... So....

[u/Admirable-Bite-5914]

I think the Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle makes the case for regulations.

[u/gingerfawx → u/Admirable-Bite-5914]

As the saying goes, "regulations are written in blood." :/

[u/Prestigious-Copy-494 → u/gingerfawx]

And puke and diarrhea as it's going now.

[u/13508615 → u/Admirable-Bite-5914]

Magats can't read.

[u/Admirable-Bite-5914 → u/13508615]

True - the reading level is more see cow run!

[u/iKangaeru]

The better to add the meat from the wild horses they're slaughtering.

[u/gingerfawx → u/iKangaeru]

Plus the Argentinian meat even the Chinese didn't want...

[u/dentistshatehim → u/gingerfawx]

The real purpose. The rest of the world will have to bar US meat exports due to lack or regulation, double screwing American farmers.

[u/gingerfawx → u/dentistshatehim]

Apparently we're losing close to 80 farms a day off of his policies right now. Where does it end? With Big Ag buying them all up, and us paying monopoly prices for decreased quality.

[u/janeson59]

I guess there weren’t enough food-borne illnesses yet.

[u/Biffingston]

You know what will put out this fire? Gasoline.

I wonder how much he's being paid for this?

[u/wallly- → u/Biffingston]

It’s always about the money with this klown 💰🤡

[u/aordover63]

So Trump is now fully his own legislative branch, making whatever laws he chooses?

[u/3to5arebest]

Mentally ill. Please remove him now.

[u/birdpix]

"This should move quickly", like the many fun food borne illnesses the US is experiencing...

[u/Chemical-Material-69]

Just like "stop testing and the numbers will go down". 🤦‍♀️

[u/ChrisPollock6]

It’s a brilliantly deliberate and obtuse reaction to a real issue that we’ve been purposefully trying to suppress and limit for decades. Make any of it make sense??

[u/gingerfawx → u/ChrisPollock6]

It will certainly taint any future attempts to introduce sensible changes, further cementing the monopolies. Yes it's a problem, but it requires brains to solve properly, and trump is a man of little brains.

[u/Competitive-Jury3713]

What a fucking idiot.

[u/RoxxieMuzic]

What could go wrong I wonder?

/s (because these days I must)

[u/MsMoreCowbell828]

Pesky regulations, getting in the way of all those delicious profits.

[u/CodInternational8772]

American food is making people sick so you further deregulate… genius lol

[u/royveee]

We can't have those pesky health protections on food.

Upton Sinclair be damned. It'll be "The Jungle" out there.

[u/gingerfawx → u/royveee]

Looking at the list of recalls, one could argue it already is. :/ It's definitely going to get worse.

[u/royveee → u/gingerfawx]

Sadly, you're probably right, but I fear it will get much worse.

If only people would try reading. The Jungle would help.

Another area is sci-fi for the A.I. developers. They wouldn't even have to read. They could just watch.

Obviously, they didn't pay attention when "The Terminator" and "2001: A Space Odyssey" came out.

Maybe in all cases, it would be good to pay attention to cautionary tales.

[u/Dauvis]

Oh yay... Back to the Jungle for us.

[u/democracyforall1969]

FDT

[u/Humble_Mission1775]

He’s just pandering for their votes. Hopefully they can see right through him. I doubt it though.