r/LeopardsAteMyFarm 8h ago

Trump says he’ll make it easier for ranchers to process food after blowback over his beef policies

https://abc7chicago.com/story/trump-says-hell-make-easier-ranchers-process-own-food-blowback-beef-policies/19769223/
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u/Bwindolyn 7h ago edited 7h ago

Yay, unregulated mom & pop operations giving us old timey food borne diseases without USDA oversight

They'll claim the raw milk and green steak was delicious from hell.

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad 3h ago

Small ranchers don’t want this, either. Only the big corporations benefit. Big surprise.

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u/LBTavern 5h ago

Everyone stop buying beef for 1 month. At grocery stores, restaurants, etc.

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u/Big-Daddy-Kal 3h ago

We aren’t buying beef in this household for the foreseeable future. I’m not putting my babies at risk because the village idiots elected a clown to run the show.

The village idiots can be the test dummies for bad beef.

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u/SLevine262 3h ago

I’m only buying from my local butcher/processor, who is USDA certified. I don’t have the charming reliance on the innate goodness of American food producers that this demands.

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u/MsSpicyO 2h ago

I’m already there because we can’t afford it. 

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u/Jimjomes69 2h ago

I can’t afford beef.

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u/AccurateMidnight21 26m ago

October is “National Seafood Month”, just saying.

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u/AbaloneDifferent5282 4h ago

I just stocked up yesterday. Bought three months worth of hamburger.

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u/FernwoodTonight 5h ago

The trust I have for this country is completely gone.

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u/BoysenberryDry999 3h ago

Libertarians getting their dream world of no regulations on business and no protection for consumers. Their likely response “When you see people getting ill or dying from contaminated food you can choose the safer option - the market is supreme”.

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u/JayGabVersionTrex 1h ago

Maybe that's how we get rid of libertarians. This is what Darwin would've wanted.

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u/zenfaust 2h ago

We really are speeding towards a libertarian hellhole.

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u/LordMimsyPorpington 1h ago

I thought Night City would have been more colorful.

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u/quail_challenge122 6h ago

He literally is watching Yellowstone and Dutton ranch isn't he? Like he saw Beth go to this tiny Texas butcher and thought... * That's how you do it!" Didn't he?

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u/InevitableGreedUK 5h ago

This is how I imagined it...

Watching Dutton Ranch when Beth goes there and *insert diCaprio meme". That is how you sell beef!

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u/Designer-Back-5178 1m ago

I've long had a theory that the Canada thing came from the movie "Canadian Bacon".

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u/small_bird_loud 4h ago

mental note - don't buy American beef for a long, ... LONG... time.

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u/commissarcainrecaff 3h ago

15 nations already ban US beef for safety reasons.... I see that number increasing.

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u/DesignerMoose90210 2h ago

Unfortunately, I’ve made the decision not to buy anymore meat…including restaurants. Between the high prices, mystery meat and deregulation, my confidence in US meat products has taken a BIG hit.

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u/captainrondj 4h ago

I won't be buying beef until this asshole is in the rearview

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u/LordMimsyPorpington 1h ago

This whole situation has finally made me pull the trigger on giving up meat entirely and becoming vegan.

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u/Outside-Car2889 2h ago

I’ve read ‘The Jungle’, I personally don’t want regulations to be loosened. Time for me to look for a usda certified processor.

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u/spaitken 3h ago

Nothing fixes a horrible decision better than an equally horrible decision!

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u/Less_Ant_6633 3h ago

This is a great idea- take ranchers and farmers who arent set up to process meat, and have them process meat. I am sure this wont end up with massive waste and grift. Freedumb at its finest.

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u/BoringArchivist 2h ago

No thanks, I read The Jungle in high school.

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u/jdwtriton 1h ago

I doubt Don has a clue of the facilities needed to start with a live cow and ultimately turn out a packaged beef product. An average cow has more than 8 gallons of blood that must be disposed of. About 40% of the cow is carcass that must be disposed of. A couple cows for family and friends is manageable. Beyond that, you have very specialized facilities.

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u/Crafty_Ish1973 1h ago

I'm not buying any beef for the foreseeable future.

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u/Original-Living7212 4h ago edited 4h ago

Everything you’re seeing happening right now…

All of it…

is ultimately about one thing:

SELLING WILD HORSE MEAT!!!

https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/americas-wild-horses-sent-slaughter-under-trump-administration

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u/zenfaust 2h ago edited 28m ago

They've got quite an uphill battle if that's their plan... its pretty taboo to eat horses in the states. Most people are gonna have to be starving before they cross that bridge.

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u/Original-Living7212 1h ago edited 1h ago

Not if you don’t know!

That’s exactly why they’re specifically importing “ground beef” from undisclosed locations.

And now they’re limiting the USDA?

Project 2025 is no longer a “project.”

It’s happening right now.

https://frac.org/blog/project-2025

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u/youtinkitsfunny 4h ago

Time to eat chocolate covered crickets.

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u/Choice_Depth_5933 3h ago

Anybody got some of that pre-war beef?

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u/Gumderwear 3h ago

Or.....Beef Ranchers are fucked because nobody wants unregulated food.

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u/Accomplished_Day2384 2h ago

💯 this. Let the idiots buy it and help thin their own ranks. I saw a clip of a lady that's a small rancher and is so excited about this. Oh, honey, no smart person intends to buy your unregulated beef. You're setting yourself up for a liability nightmare in the process. A few lawsuits should change her tune.

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u/sickofyourshit77 3h ago

Trump would fuck up a cup of coffee.

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u/No-Consequence9392 2h ago

Remove all those pesky food safety rules, make everyone so sick so they cant VOTE !

Voting out MAGA control of both houses of congress and then making it very clear to the new congressional leaders that we want impeachment and replacement needs to happen in NOV. Everyone do your part, and in Red states , check your registration now , there are efforts to cut folks off the rolls in TX and MO .. Help yourself and then others to get out the vote !

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u/Steelbill77 4h ago

Processing isn’t the problem. Affordability is the problem. Make it affordable much more will be bought! Farmers will do better.

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u/zenfaust 2h ago

Yeah well, step one is stop tariffs on everything. Step two is stop the straight of hormuz from being closed.

The first their pride won't let them do, and the second they can't do without a time machine.

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u/KcityKalcutta 3h ago

Great, cant wait to eat a MAGA farmers spit steak when they ship it to my blue state grocery store. Do you really think MAGA farmers are going to to give us Libs quality meat?

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u/chimpyjnuts 3h ago

He'll TACO after a few billionaire meat processors sqwuak.

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u/ecwagner01 1h ago

He's just making it hard for people in the US to avoid catching disease for the sake of profit. I trust the ethics of US Beef Farmers as much as I do the unregulated South American meat being bought in an attempt to bring the price down (that will never work)

Anthrax, it's ok. You'll never know what you are dying from because the cost of healthcare will keep you from going to the doctor. Want to experience more E. coli along with Salmonella and Listeria?

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u/guywithshades85 31m ago

Everything is "fine". Create a fake problem. Propose fake solution. Everything becomes "fine" again but worse.

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u/Tyrs-Ranger 3m ago

Weakening safety standards on American beef will be a surefire way to kill American beef ranching for good. Food poison or kill a few people, some mass meat recalls, and boom public confidence evaporates. We’ll be begging for foreign beef with higher safety standards before you know it.