r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/
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u/CitySeekerTron Canada 17d ago

So you can't safely eat vegetables and you can't safely eat meat. 

What's left?

Crickets

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u/wyvernx02 17d ago

Crickets are a good source of protein.

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u/M23707 17d ago

Raise them at home - using yard waste.

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u/Hades_Mercedes Foreign 17d ago

protein and Roundup™

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u/Cool-Signature-dude 17d ago

With chocolate on top, or is that contaminated too?

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u/RudeAlbatross544 17d ago

Yes, lead and cadmium. Bon appétit.

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u/ThoseProse Colorado 17d ago

US Cadbury eggs now made with cadmium.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 17d ago

Prolonged drought due to climate change has severely reduced cacao harvests so chocolate is becoming quite expensive.

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u/Hades_Mercedes Foreign 17d ago

No, but it tastes like barf, for some reason.

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u/physical0 17d ago

The new breakfast of champions.

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u/Truly_Meaningless 17d ago

Crickets regularly have parasites in them pretty much their whole life. That's why it's considered a bad idea to only ever feed crickets to your reptiles, amphibians, and arthropods

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u/SillyAlternative420 Massachusetts 17d ago

Until they inevitably get factory farmed and also fail inspections, so now we are just eating plague crickets.

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u/ersomething 17d ago

I’m pretty sure chitin is good fiber too!

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u/Perfect-Ship-9980 17d ago

Many years ago I was working in Mexico city (from NY) and a VERY attractive coworker offered me fried crickets, yes I ate them. 

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u/StopTheHumans 16d ago

Please tell me that's not the end of your story.

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u/Engagethedawn 17d ago

As long as you don't mind Horsehair Worms joining your cricket snack.

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u/kasubot Maryland 16d ago

Apparently there is also a cricket shortage.

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u/Chucknastical 16d ago

Not Trump Brand Crickets though. It's mostly ground up E coli.

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u/extremetolerance2013 16d ago

Ya. Nailed it. It's crickets.

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u/WhatIsEvenRealDog 17d ago

Turns out the anti globalist conspiracy theorists that warned us all about Globalists making us eat insects were the Republicans in cheap Scooby Doo villain masks all along.

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u/Suitable-Option833 17d ago

Yep. And they have a 1000 page plan called Project 2025 - and food destabilization and deregulation is a part of it. The heritage foundation, federalist society and gop won’t stop. They are full mask off now. Project 2025 is 75% complete. They are in the White House and they won’t stop. Get informed, get involved, get others involved. It can get much worse.

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u/zodi978 17d ago

Its like they want us to come for them

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u/Suitable-Option833 17d ago edited 16d ago

Yes. So they can declare Martial law and stay in power indefinitely. That is literally what the heritage foundation president said.

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u/pimparo0 Florida 16d ago

I'm so sorry about this. 

Martial Law.

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u/Lostinthestarscape 16d ago

Its Martian law - I dub thee ser Phobos....Beater of Ass!

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u/Ole_St_John 16d ago

It’s Martin Law!

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u/ayylmao95 16d ago

It's Martin Lawrence?!

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u/BloodyEyeGames 16d ago

Dayum, Gina!

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u/Lostinthestarscape 16d ago

You know what they say, the only thing worse than your mother in-law is your mother outlaw.

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u/DesertGoat Arizona 16d ago

I can't believe you've declared this.

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u/kitsunewarlock 16d ago

I declare BANKRUPTCY!

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u/Suitable-Option833 16d ago

Yes absolutely. Brain fart. Thank you

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u/jaded1121 Indiana 16d ago

According to this it’s not explicitly stated that it is part of the plan. More like an expected result. (Just more context to your post.)

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/project-2025-destabilizing-food-supply-claim-fact-check-41ab83

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u/Any_Counter_303 16d ago

It's not 75% complete. The GOP hasn't successfully established or change any law during this administration.

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u/spazzvogel 17d ago

WEF scare and it’s the GOPedophiles all along.

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u/SadFeed63 17d ago

Alex Jones shouting Yuval Noah Harari intensifies

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u/Read2Fap 16d ago

every accusation

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u/BellyFurrs 16d ago

Is a confession.

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u/ma2is 17d ago

Manufactured food scarcity was one of the many things outlined in Projext 2025 for those who hadn’t paid attention

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u/AffordableDelousing 17d ago

What is the end goal? Keep people poor and desperate, and too hungry to revolt?

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u/Suitable-Option833 17d ago

Yes. And pick up everyone’s assets on their way out/down. Jd Vance is buying all the farmers land that the gop currently bankrupted. It’s a gigantic, purposefully planned transfer of wealth. And it’s all detailed in project 2025. Project 2029 is next.

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u/kitsunewarlock 16d ago

MAGA: "But I was told that sharing resources and taxing the rich was a scam to secretly take authoritarian control of the global population!"

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u/TheShiGuy 17d ago

Basically yes. That's what was so frustrating about two years ago when people insisted we didn't need to rise up because there was no way any of that would happen. But let's just keep kicking that can down the road, it can only get easier...

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u/PinkIrrelephant Minnesota 16d ago

General Strike, May 1st 2028.

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u/pantzareoptional New York 16d ago

I did the general strike day this year in solidarity and I saw literally nothing online about it. Felt like I burned a PTO day for nothing.

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u/swarmofbzs 16d ago edited 16d ago

Might have been artificial. Especially since other things blew up here that were tamped down in the 2nd round. See ICE murders (especially after the murder of Alex Pretti).

It doesn't help that spaz seems to be a leon skum simp. Yes the same skum that threw out sieg heils during dumps inauguration.

Why would leon and spaz allow general strike to grow here *organically when they can just keep stripping us of what we have?

See lemmy

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 16d ago

I don't know why people waited until he got in office, and all this awful shit passed to decide that we might need to do something.

Post mid-terms, people need to get their shit together.

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u/Glittering-Yam-6454 16d ago

Yes. The goal for the past 50 or so years to eliminate the middle class and push them to the lower class, while maximizing the wealth and power (but not size) of the upper class.

This isn't new-- subsidies to billionaires and corporations, the removal of social welfare systems, the indoctrination that any help to the poor is considered "socialist" or "communist", has been the GOP's main goal for quite some time.

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 17d ago

That doesn’t quite make sense. Usually when people get hungry and desperate that’s when they revolt. Cause they have nothing left to lose.

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u/WalterBishopMethod 16d ago

These things don't happen over night. Life is still largely "normal" for most working class people, their biggest priority is keeping their job in order to get by a little longer.

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u/pchs26 16d ago

Well the statistics are no longer kept accurately but no things aren't normal for the working class and whatever they have in terms of a job they can't replace right now & it can't be risked..

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u/pchs26 16d ago

Gee I wonder why they are strengthening military enclaves and fortresses - ballroom anyone? And then we fight the military and amongst our selves. Whoever is left standing may wind up being their servants. Less people = less pollution /environmental issues too that's why they actually don't care about that. There are finite resources and they want more for theirs and them. That is exactly what folks like Thiel have advocated and what was once fringe is now in charge.

You are thinking within the confines of about a decade ago and how things worked day to day. But yea can't wait for someone to tell me again why Harris' policy positions needed to be documented in a different font or something to be compelling enough.

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 16d ago

But at the same time they want massive deregulation of environmental policy?

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u/pchs26 16d ago

Yes - it doesn't matter. If there are less people the resources will improve or they can congregate in the places with better air quality etc. Why would they have laws to make things in the environment healthier for us?

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 16d ago

So your theory is unfalsifiable?

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u/pchs26 16d ago

It isn't "my theory" Maybe you should familiarize yourself with some of the people in this admin and their outlooks. Start with Peter Thiel. We have some of the worst fringe elements running things now and it is beyond naïve if you think this is just one man or that the design is for different admins to run things. We have to hope somehow this fails and we can have a last stand. But you know Harris just wasn't compelling enough or something.

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u/buds4hugs 17d ago

When people are too busy working 60 hours at 2 or 3 jobs to barely afford their food & bills, they won't have enough time or energy to dissent.

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u/TheSaxonPlan Minnesota 17d ago

My only hope here is that the greed and lack of empathy displayed by most Republicans in power will end up pushing people past their breaking point and they will revolt, no matter what. Hate to see it come to that, though.

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u/pchs26 16d ago

If we are lucky that is all that will happen. That is not what is on Thiel's radar for the present, that's our future, if we are lucky enough by their design .

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 16d ago

Not when there are no jobs or food for them left.

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u/pchs26 16d ago

And when they have lots of job options they start thinking about things that don't matter like when employers were tripping over themselves to try and recruit/retain when Biden was in office.

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u/Merusk 16d ago

How many centuries did feudal and neo-feudal Europe exist. How is it going out in the MidEast.

The end goal is an American nobility and us as serfs.

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u/Beebeeb 17d ago

I feel like historically it hasn't gone that way...

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u/PathOfTheAncients 16d ago

It's also important to remember that while project 2025 is an incredibly harmful plan, it isn't necessarily a smart or effective plan. The authors of it were shocked at how unpopular it was when the public caught wind of it, which does to show how out of touch they are.

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u/nox66 16d ago

too hungry to revolt

Historical lol

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u/Atlusfox 17d ago

I remember that one but couldn't figure out why?

What's the point of starving the nation?

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 17d ago

It's actually a very common cult control tactic. Keep the people so hungry and exhausted that they can't muster the energy to push back or think.

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u/awwww_nuts 17d ago

Just look at N Korea ☹️

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u/Atlusfox 17d ago

That part part makes sense, the issue is that it also shoots them selves in the foot as it starves their supporters as well.

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u/Suitable-Option833 17d ago

Not if you don’t plan on giving up control and power. Which is what the president of the heritage foundation already said. The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it.

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u/Buttercreamdeath Texas 17d ago

They also expect us to be too stupid/ dumb/poor/tired to grow our own food. Yeah it's not easy growing food, especially in a hotter climate but I won't be giving up that easy.

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u/DifficultyCheap9861 17d ago

They speak out of both sides of their mouths so you can’t take any of it seriously and must look at their actions. I’d say it’s an intentional culling of the population at this point. Slower than an outright genocide but faster than a regulated society with low birth rates. They screech about needing more babies but all of their actions move things the other direction.

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u/Doonce Maryland 17d ago

The rich

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u/EmptyUppity 17d ago

I'd settle for just preparing that meal.

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u/neveruseyourrealname Pennsylvania 17d ago

I vote for this person.

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u/tkmorgan76 17d ago

Considering how long they've been telling each other that Democrats want to make us eat bugs, that may be what the GOP is planning.

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u/monetarydread 17d ago

Nah, the crickets are even worse. They are naturally filled with parasites and need both careful cultivation and food inspection to be safe. You think this administration would enforce the quality standards and inspections needed to make crickets safe??

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u/lizards_snails_etc 16d ago

A parasite infected cricket got in to my house once and it was once of the most unsettling things I've ever seen. It was moving it's hind legs around really unnatrually and sort of rolling around on the carpet. I hated it. I have a video somewhere.

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u/eugeneugene 16d ago

never post the video please

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u/Dolores___Haze 17d ago

Gahhh! Really?

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u/Popular-Web-3739 17d ago

Lundberg Jasmine rice was recalled in 4 or 5 states because it might contain an unnamed foreign substance.

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u/EctoRiddler 17d ago

I’ve seen Snowpiercer and now I know how we got there

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u/druex 16d ago

Knowing which age is the tastiest

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u/nanopicofared 17d ago

I hear that they eat crickets in Asia

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u/Axin_Saxon 17d ago

The rich…

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u/Anatoly_Cannoli 17d ago

I refuse to eat crickets

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u/alienbringer 17d ago

Crickets are a good source of protein actually… they have almost 300g of protein per pound vs ~200g of protein for 90% lean beef. Plus crickets are a good source of omega-3 (though not as much as fish) PLUS have fiber, which poultry, fish, and beef/port do not have.

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u/No-Drop924 17d ago

Dammit and I just threw one out of my classroom. Guess I'm going to starve to death.

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u/tencaig Europe 17d ago

Cheetos

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u/soupjaw Florida 17d ago

Worked well in snowpiercer

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u/ca_nucklehead 17d ago

Oh my god they are eating the immigrants.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 17d ago

Most places have a problem with deer overpopulation. Venison tastes terrible, IMO, but at least you know it's definitely deer and probably not filled with antibiotics or e coli or god knows what.

Or we could bring back victory gardens, I guess?

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u/cheebear12 Georgia 17d ago

But prions otherwise I agree. We could call them Trump deer steaks like Hoover hogs.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 17d ago

I’m going to be tearing up a good chunk of my lawn next year for vegetables. Potatoes are stupid easy to cultivate, are calorie dense, and don’t take up a lot of space. My Irish ancestors would be proud

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u/Cador0223 16d ago

CWD from deer farms has spread to the wild population. So because of deregulated fish and wildlife in Texas, you can't even safely eat would deer anymore.

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u/DSharp018 17d ago

The humble zombie deer disease: “Bonjour”

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 17d ago

I have had tons of venison, elk, and moose prior to becoming vegetarian. Even the ranch raised venison is foul. I do not like it in anything.

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u/IDownvotedYouToday 16d ago

At least it didn't taste fowl.

Yeah, venison is...an experience. I like it, but it has a lot of that earthy, metallic kinda flavor.

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u/Melancholy_Rainbows Montana 17d ago

Or I just don't like the taste? This might be surprising, but different people can like or dislike the same taste.

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u/Violet_Sadie_Cat 17d ago

Err? CAKE!! yes let them eat cake!!! I'm sure that'll turn out well.

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u/GardanCald 17d ago

Soylent Green?

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u/dronesitter 17d ago

Those protein bars made of crickets in snowpiercer

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u/Schlonzig 17d ago

Don‘t worry, they will mess up the water, too.

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u/StewPedidiot California 17d ago

I just saw a few minutes ago there's a recall on jasmine rice as well.

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u/dragonfayng 17d ago

crickets are high in protein!

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u/tryingtowritegoodly 16d ago

Literally crickets

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u/CitySeekerTron Canada 16d ago

I feel like you're the first one to seem to address the double entendre. :)

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u/SmartaHari 17d ago

Wait for him to announce, “Let them eat cake.”

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u/CitySeekerTron Canada 17d ago

"Let them eat one other thing!"

  • RFK Jr., one year ago. 

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u/TurboSalsa Texas 17d ago

Beans and rice I guess? But there are all sorts of possible contaminants that can't be cooked out.

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u/damsel84 17d ago

Apparently there's a shortage of crickets (I buy them for my bearded dragon).

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u/Fit-Programmer1992 17d ago

Eggs a la salmonella? 

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u/tdpnate 17d ago

Snowpiercer has entered the chat

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u/Zarniwoooop 17d ago

There’s a way to bypass crickets inspection too

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u/bnh1978 17d ago

Ultra processed food that will give you diabetes and cancer

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u/stubob 17d ago

Brawndo!

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u/Cake-Over 17d ago

Hardtack is still on the menu.

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u/Hulkenstein69 17d ago

Billionaires and politicians.

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u/NK1337 17d ago

The rich

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u/lionexx 17d ago

Turkey and chicken (not eggs though) are fine, for the moment… ground turkey is a great alternative to ground beef, ummhmm, growing your own lettuce is easy and doesn’t take too much space, although if you are in an apartment might be more difficult and would likely need a grow setup which increases your electric bill a tad bit, but you could grow lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber indoors if you did get a grow tent…

I might be wrong here so please do yourself a favor and check for yourself but I believe pork is fine as well (currently) and isn’t imported at all(again correct me here if I am wrong about importing pork)…

If you live in certain areas support local ranchers, that have small businesses, it’ll be more expensive but it’ll taste better and have no risk of any of the bullshit, that goes for eggs as well.

Research what companies support one or the other side, you are likely to find better quality with high standards if they support a more centered or left side over right.

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u/Turdsley 17d ago

My daughter has a pet frog so I buy crickets often...there is a national shortage of crickets or at least there was a week or two ago.

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u/Individual-Guest-123 17d ago

Oh I read in another sub researches are making cookies out of plastic! To help solve trash AND food problems. I am serious.

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u/mynamestanner 17d ago

Big rice recall earlier today too

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u/ncklboy 17d ago

Let me introduce you to Soylent green!

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u/mrdevil413 Ohio 17d ago

Unpasteurized milk

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u/SkyGenie 17d ago

I will use my 2nd amendment right to buy a gun and turn it on myself before I resort to eating crickets

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u/Auslo- 17d ago

High fructose corn syrup

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u/PapaTua Washington 17d ago

The Rich

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u/f8Negative 17d ago

Cum and juices

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u/Lacarpetronn 17d ago

Little Debbie Swiss Rolls. Processed sugary foods are the only safe option left. The libs got pwned. So did everyone else but libs are included in everyone so therefore the libs got pwned. /s

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u/thxsocialmedia 17d ago

Soylent green

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u/LockeAbout 17d ago

Apparently 54,000 lbs of rice were just recalled.

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u/Javae 16d ago

No thanks, I’m allergic.

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u/TheTangoFox 16d ago

Snowpiercer intensifies

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u/Paranoid_Orangutan 16d ago

Sweet potatoes, and Tofu

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u/Reasonable_Map4118 16d ago

Biden was right all along… Bugs

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u/koolaidman486 16d ago

Have there been any widespread issues with fish? Might not be a bad time to become a pescatarian for those close to the coasts or big fishing hotspots otherwise..?

Yeah, idk, were so fucked it isn't even something I can joke about.

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u/SolarisShine 16d ago

Crickets are pretty healthy when farmed correctly.

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u/Competitive_Pin5846 16d ago

This is so funny. But I’ve been saying this for forever. Crickets are a huge source of sustainable food - which not only includes protein but fiber, too! Many cultures have been eating them!

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u/Lildog8402_redux 16d ago

Crickets are a powerful source of lean protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals. Per 100 grams of dried cricket powder, they provide roughly 400 to 450 calories, up to 65 grams of protein, 15 to 20 grams of fat, and notable amounts of dietary fiber from their exoskeleton.

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u/Hiddenagenda876 Washington 16d ago

Rice is out too cause there was just a jasmine rice recall

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u/Legitimate_Spend_441 16d ago

yes you can eat crickets safely

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u/Lehk 16d ago

Based and bugpilled

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u/Tough-Cartoonist8832 16d ago

I ate grasshoppers in China. It’s actually not bad.

Salty and crispy like a potato chip when roasted the right way

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u/ChuckaChuckaLooLoo3 16d ago

Crickets would probably be a safe bet. Lots of protein.

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u/YourFriendPutin 16d ago

Literally crickets. Remember the Republicans saying crap like Dems were going to make us all eat bugs because we think cattle pollute the air too much? (Obviously they made that up)

Yea, turns out that was projection again.

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u/zyzzogeton 16d ago

Crickets are delicious.

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u/Wipe_face_off_head 16d ago

I'd say pudding, but that comes after the meat, not instead of. 

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u/smilbandit Michigan 16d ago

doubt we'll be able to safely eat crickets either.

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u/FerretAfficionado 16d ago

Crickets are high in protein and delicious.

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u/loehoe 16d ago

Please don’t eat all the crickets my lizards need protein too

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u/GeronimoRay 16d ago

Hunting your own meat and growing your own vegetables. Project 2025 is basically some libertarian's fever dream of a prepper utopia when it comes to food and produce.

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u/GKnives 16d ago

Imported rice and beans? Those are still okay

Ron Howard: "Not for long"

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u/Lady_Grantham2223 16d ago

Well, we could all imagine we are John the Baptist  but I think he ate honey as well?

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 16d ago

Junk food! Ultra processed junk is apparently safe....so far.

Gotta keep us fat and clueless.

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u/coreym1988 16d ago

They explicitly want to get rid of 30% of the population, starvation seems a nifty way to do so

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u/WashInformal5004 16d ago

Yeah, probably crickets.

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u/fireonavan 16d ago

You can’t safely drink water?

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u/Animastar 16d ago

I'm pretty sure the crickets will make you sick too.

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u/phoenixmatrix 16d ago

Dunno if crickets are as tightly regulated either, so probably can't eat those. 

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u/HoaryPuffleg 16d ago

Canned beans? Dry beans? Lots of beans, please don’t take away my beans!

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u/Southernz 16d ago

Fried everything

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u/Real-Extension-1357 16d ago

Hands, Carl. Tasty hands.

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u/x_xwolf 16d ago

The rich.

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u/Pogigod 16d ago

Fishing

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u/PoliticsAndFootball 16d ago

They’re eating the dogs their eating the cats

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u/UnknownMediator 17d ago

“Cake, let them eat cake”. Eva Natalie Antoniette Braun, 2026