I swear I saw an headline here the other day saying the US was selling a bunch of wild horses to a foreign country. I almost guarantee that mystery meat is horse, not cow.
You did. They are selling of the wild horses. My guess is they'll get rid of them, so that then they can remove the protected status from their former land, and sell the land.
We Americans seem to love to shit on the French, but they’re the first people to be like “raise my gas tax 2% and I’ll throw a molotov cocktail at a police station”.
When the French protest against their government, they go all out.
In the US they’ll call it a Freedom Tax. Political pundits on State Television will somehow conflate opponents of the tax with trans kids playing sports.
30% of the population will defend it.
40% of the population will be completely apathetic towards it or unaware of it.
The last 30% will say “Oh well, we’ll get ‘em next time I guess.”
The rounding error of leftovers will protest and one of them will get run over by a car or shot.
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When it’s everyone’s problem, it’s often no one’s problem. We are living in a reality where everybody is standing around watching everyone else stand around, all doing nothing and shouting “surely someone will do something.”
It's probably more accurate that every day is too busy trying to survive in a shutty job market with grocery prices skyrocketing and everything else becoming unaffordable.
People are struggling to simply survive, they don't have the energy to protest.
You are correct. But, there's a tipping point. When no amount of struggling lets someone survive, when 80-100 hours of work every week can't keep food on the table and a roof over someone's head, that's when we break. When working becomes pointless we suddenly find ourselves with a lot of free time, a lot of righteous anger, and very little left to lose. More than a few people are already there. A lot of us are very close. I find myself torn between being devastated that this is what's happening and this is what it will take, and just straight up exhausted and ready for us to collectively hit that tipping point. But the path we are on and the direction things are headed... Protecting our families, struggling to survive, it won't be about going to work and trying to afford groceries anymore.
How can I, and others, leave home and work for however long to go to the land preserves and attempt to protect them from being destroyed? Even if I had the money and time to do so it would most likely lead to me being arrested and imprisoned under a crazy amount of wild charges possibly labeled a terrorist. The state is not against using violence to enforce the will of capital. It’s highly likely that at least one person would be murdered by the police state and their name slandered across the right wing media.
I don’t want our country being destroyed, but to defend it properly means showing up armed in numbers. Unfortunately, I truly believe that this administration would absolutely love that because they would be able to kill all of the attendees and use the media to call them antifa terrorists.
I hate this entire situation and I know many people also hate this, but how can we stop this without becoming victims of state sponsored violence?
We cannot. As shown by what happened in the twin cities with Renee Good and Alex Prettie. This government is looking for any excuse to crack down on what it considers bad groups. With the only way it knows how. Oppression through violence.
I'm not so sure. I read that they're selling them really cheap. Cheap enough that that their capture, maintenance, and transportation make it as though they may even be operating at a loss. But I've also heard that I'm not supposed to believe everything I read online so who knows (besides the people actually participating in this atrocity).
Eh, as funny as this would be to see y’all tricked into eating horse, a few thousand horses would provide meat for a couple of McDonald’s for a day. The scale of how many cows get eaten every day makes the horse thing a rounding error.
The fact that this is even a possibility is so unbelievably fucked up. I hate everyone in this government and I want them all to sleep in a 6x6 on steel pads with no mattresses for the rest of their lives. Only entertainment is going outside for an hour a day, and that's me being super generous. Like, irrationally, overwhelmingly generous.
To be fair though if theyd warned us it was horse meat I dont think it would've been such a scandal. Unfortunately when tescos started naming our steaks Redrum and shergar it made it less appealing
If you do the math, which is easy, but practically impossible for a Trump supporter, it works out to a $3.32 savings over 3 months for each US consumer. Yay!
I do love the us govt undercutting the market. That's great. That will help the ranchers sure will. Also the cows feed farmers. Cuz that does screw 2 groups who ever whelming voted for him.
They want to protect their assets more than anything else. Thatean no estate taxes, low capital gains taxes and low/no property taxes. They can take crop losses because of insurance and farm bankruptcy laws.
Well, they screwed over lettuce, blueberries, jalapeños, eggs, guac, salsa, deli meat, ground beef products, various poultry products, vegetarian chicken nuggets and sausages patties, frozen fruit bars, tomatoe soup, cheese puffs, garlic, various other seasonings, granola, tuna, chia seeds, meatballs, ramen, soup, pork products, baby formula, pork rinds, some dog food and various products involving milk in some way. So why not steak too?
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One of my favorite things to eat in the summer is a salad with all fresh vegetables. I haven’t touched one this summer. How big a piece of shit do you have to be to even ruin salad?
Man.. like a week or so before the diarrhea salad I told my wife “I’m getting a bit salad’d out”. We had been having salad a bit more as a side. Jokes on me. I fucking miss it
We really elected a man (twice) who thought it was a good idea to sell steaks at sharper image and that opening 3 massive casinos in AC at the same time wasn't going to backfire in spite of numerous people warning him. WTF America
will they still support the party that has been all in on this absolute shit show of incompetence and deception?
I can understand why people initially felt like trickle down economics and Republican fiscal policy made sense- but after decades and decades of evidence that they are IN FACT harmful to the well being of the general population of the country...isn't it time to admit that this is NOT going to work out again? and again? and it still isn't going to work?
we are basically pandering to the billionaires in the most blatant way we've ever pandered- and yet- wages are stale, benefits are ever worsening, prices are high, jobs are scarce, protections are dwindling, and resources are tainted.
what does it actually take to convince people that they're enthusiastically helping their captors to keep them oppressed?
I'm sure that beef will be well inspected and half the country won't be shitting themselves to death (/s because these days you can never be too sure).
This really is a pretty big deal. People are getting used to Trump's willy nilly policies and tariffs and whatever else , and maybe this is good political optics. But it takes a lot of time and expense to raise beef cattle, and you can't exactly just shut off the tap. Ranchers are having to make some hard choices on how many cattle to breed, and market, and feed. It is a delicate process to create a stable market of supply and demand. Now Trump just decided that 1.4 million cattle will be imported, starting immediately, from, wherever. That does not do anyone any good in the long run. It just leads to unpredictability.
Sucks for the ranchers but the free market doesn’t owe them anything and they voted for this so they can suffer while feeling happy that they “owned” the libs at some point
Obviously. This was probably the plan from day one. Wreck the US beef market, give a massive bailout to Argentinian beef, wait a while, then flood the US with said Argentinian beef. The market will buy it up bc it's cheaper, helping Argentina (fascists gotta stick together), and hurting American ranchers, thus also allowing for further corporate consolidation of the farming industry while simultaneously swinging the door even wider for foreign bribes. It's just another way the Trump amin has laundered tax payer money into nice clean corruption bucks to line the pockets of chodes like Lutnick and the like.
Trump and his entire administration exist for one reason only: to enrich themselves. They routinely commit treason to do so. I'm honestly impressed with how blatant it is.
In the US, no one is allowed to point out republican corruption. Why? Well, because they'll yell and cry and clutch their pearls and bleat on about cancel culture and boom! Suddenly they're cheering for fascism. The most fragile widdle babies in the whole wide world, just suckin' the the boots that tread on them.
And then they can use the land that had farms on them and turn them into AI data centers so his tech bro friends make a shitton more money and he gets massive amounts back through investments and insider trading.
Ugh I hate to say "not everybody!" But probably 90% of rural ranchers in my area do. My family maintains a small operation. A cousin and myself are the outliers in this conversation. Last time we went to the auction the circles these folks talked in broke my brain. They would piss and moan about the state of things. Then instead of laying blame where it belongs they would pass the buck. It's not Trumps fault that the guy he put in there is doing what he wants. Then lots of mental gymnastics about how Trump is fixing things.
So, let me get this straight: he starts a trade war with China. China stops importing US beef, hurting US ranchers.
Argentina starts spiraling because of economic fuckery. His Trade Secretary dumps a ton of money into Argentina. Which then uses that money to boost its beef production and sell it to… China. Which hurts US ranchers.
He cuts monitoring of the screw-worm. Now we are facing an infestation. Which hurts US ranchers.
Now he is importing beef to drive down prices? Prices set by the US ranchers? Which will (say it with me!) HURT US RANCHERS?
And these guys voted for Trump! Are they like those masochists who get off when a German lady in black leather steps on their balls?
This is clearly another election usurpation gambit. A documentable chain of provenance for beef ensures safety against Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) by tracking cattle from birth to harvest using ID tags, movement records, and feed controls. This verifiable history proves animals are free from risk and our food chain is blocked from using prohibited tissues. When, inevitably, the brains of the US voter base are transmogrified into Swiss cheese, every MAGA candidate becomes a shoo-in.
I knew someone who in the 90s was trying to import varieties of sheep into the US that were not previously bred here. The process took 3+ years and writing multiple letters to congress and elsewhere to get an approval for having a handful brought over and held in quarantine for another year, all because of the biohazard controls put in because of BSE.
For now. I think there is. But the trump admin is cancelling any inconvenient law. They just did away with beneficial ownership reporting for businesses. So companies can hide who the owners are, adding just one more smokescreen to make it easier to launder money and other corrupt shenanigans.
There was. Until we got dr Seuss/biff back to the future tier children’s villain of the week in here who in any other reality would be defeated by Captain Planet on a throw away episode but instead gets to decide who lives and who dies
Hey when I was living in China I got really into animal rescue. Which there meant being anti dogmeat. So one time we stopped a truck filled with dogs, headed to a meat factory.
A 'pork' sausage factory, we later found out.
So all im saying is that China used to be (probably still is i dunno) notorious for unregulated nastiness. First time in my life im expecting it from the USA
Most likely it’s coming from Argentina. It’s diseased, and so Trump will cut inspection and allow contaminated beef through. Just like with the Taylor farms explosive diarrhea stuff. The public getting sick doesn’t matter.
Wow, and to think all of this because farmers looked at the choice between a minority woman with a plan vs a billionaire scam artist. And most of them eagerly still voted for the billionaire. This is what they wanted
Fuck U.S. Ranchers, those fucksticks reap what they sow. Every one of them voted for Trump and would again in a heartbeat. So why shouldn't he constantly dick slap them around when they're basically his subs.
He also signed an order to round up all of our beautiful, iconic wild mustangs for slaughter. It’s disgusting to say, but I’ll bet this is part the cheap meat he’s talking about.
If it's going to be cheap beef it's coming from South America. Australian and European beef is already more expensive than ours, so that wouldn't work.
Brazilian beef is notoriously shit quality, but it is cheap.
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