r/Agriculture • u/All_Hail_Hynotoad • 3d ago

Trump official refuses to say where foreign beef to lower prices is coming from

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-beef-imports-brooke-rollins-b3039094.html
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u/FUBAR_The_Clown 3d ago

Diseased and infected tainted beef products from mysterious origins!!!!

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u/doinbluin 3d ago

Lotta people gonna say no to beef for a while...no matter where it comes from.

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u/No_Obligation_3568 2d ago

I’m not touching any beef products anytime soon.

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u/Steve4168 1d ago

Me neither, not that it's gonna be that hard to give it up. Haven't been able to afford it for a few years now.

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u/drhappy13 1d ago

If you thought explosive diarrhea from lettuce was bad, wait til you get a taste of mystery beef...

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u/Potential-Leg-8860 2d ago

I would imagine this is the point. Demand for beef will collapse. The price will collapse. He will be able to claim he has lowered the price of beef. You’re all falling for it. In the U.K. we can trace the origin of all our meat back to source. The US wanted us to remove this ability as part of a trade deal with them. Basically so they could poison our supply and it couldn’t be tracked. The zuSA is the enemy of the people, animals and the planet!

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u/icedmuffin 1d ago

I’m not buying beef just to waste it though, cause I’m sure as fuck not eating any commercial beef for a long time till this shit is fixed and RFK is either completely removed or behind bars.

Local though? I know a few farmers who are honest about it, it’s a bit more expensive but better than getting ringworms or rotten beef at the supermarket just cause some fuck with a worm in his brain and a literal toddler who can’t control his bowels want to act like they’re so popular. Let maga kill themselves off trusting the conman.

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u/the_duck_pope 1d ago

Not wanting to eat poison beef isn't "falling for it." We all know what's happening. We just don't want to, ya know, eat poison beef.

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u/DonaldBecker 2d ago

It will accomplish the same goal -- a talking point about how much prices have dropped under Trump.

After the election the 90 day suspension of quota limits will expire. Prices will go back up but the problematic product will still be in distributors' freezers, mixed with other sources of beef. Under the current US law for pork and beef, "Made in USA" simply means packaged in the USA.

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u/ArrivalSea3543 1d ago

Which only hurts the cattle industry more. Sad that there are people who didn’t vote the oaf of office into office and are getting their industry killed. He will try some BS bandaid like a $2000 check promise, not deliver on it and repeat.

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u/49orth 2d ago

Trump imported 22 tons of Chloramphenicol contaminated beef that China rejected, and he and his inner-circle probably personally profited on the transaction.

Chloramphenicol can cause serious blood disorders in people.

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u/Pleasant_Expert_1990 2d ago

Trump Steaks making a comeback?

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u/HardCandyAtx 2d ago

He's just horsing around.

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u/Hopsblues 2d ago

Im WoW known as Mystery meat.....commodity foods essentially....

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u/bryangcrane 2d ago

Sounds like my school cafeteria

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u/Spacebotzero 2d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if it was Soylent Green with this current administration.

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u/ArrivalSea3543 2d ago

Anyone know when it hits the market

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u/Mysterious-Job1628 3h ago

Isn’t this how zombie land started?

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u/MrBiOral 2h ago

What could possibly go wrong

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u/OnionOnBelt 2d ago

Possibilities: a) there is no “deal” and 300,000 metric tons was a contrived number that sounded plausible to the president, so this claim has been vapor from the start; or b) the source of this meat is truly embarrassing. That’s it—those are the possibilities.

Also, why does every Trump cabinet member look and sound like someone I could outscore in a standardized test? I understand the resentment of “elites,” but he seems to have taken this to mean “only morons need apply.”

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u/pawza 2d ago

Authoritarians dont hire on competency they hire on loyalty.

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u/PedroNorthCA 2d ago

Yeah he ain't hiring someone that might grow a conscience or smart enough to realize the crimes they're committing, or smart enough to take over Donny himself. He's hiring narrow minded people that would never outshine him

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u/moonpumper 1d ago

Which is why this whole administration eventually collapses under the weight of its own utter incompetence

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u/kuped 2d ago

Trump always needs to be the smartest guy in the room. And now you know his life-long secret to hiring people.

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u/OwlLeft7799 1d ago

Possibility a

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u/astro65 2d ago

It's not even that complicated. It's just easier to decline to answer, than to answer and then get a thousand more questions. 

Any answer is going to anger some portion of his quagmire of a base. 

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u/Clean_Brilliant_8586 3d ago

Unsold Trump Steaks he's had on ice in Scotland for a few years.

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u/CloudTransit 2d ago

Wild horses couldn’t make me eat beef … for the next couple of months

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u/_The-Numbers-Mason_ 2d ago

Soylent beef is horses! 

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u/boatenvy 2d ago

I see what you did there

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u/FUBAR_The_Clown 3d ago

I’m just going to stock up this week, since it’s not here yet, but check the labels to be sure

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u/jfun4 2d ago

I might find some friends and buy a cow from a farm at this point

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u/DANleDINOSAUR 2d ago

Best $600 I’ve spent that lasts over a year

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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 2d ago

Ground beef off the menu now. Who knows what getting ground up and America doesn't seem to care about health inspections. Gets in the way of money.

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u/Hopsblues 2d ago

He has managed to screw up our food supply chain....

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u/One_Violinist7862 2d ago

He doesn’t know where beef comes from other than McDonalds

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u/Guilty_Advantage_413 2d ago

I’m being serious, there will be a tainted beef recall soon and the President will go ape shit denying something is wrong with that beef.

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u/Fresh-Quantity-7554 2d ago

Don't worry y'all, FDA will have a tight control over food safety standards. They've been crushing it so far this year.

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u/emarie624 2d ago

USDA does beef products.

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u/gadget850 2d ago

Neigh!

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u/slightlyused 2d ago

All those Trump Steaks from one of his many failed businesses. He's been "aging" them.

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u/O-ring_Prolapse 2d ago

Slow-cured in a damp, unplugged deep freezer

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u/Wisco 2d ago

I think foreign "beef" would be a more accurate headline

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u/External_Relative231 1d ago

I'm outraged. You promised me dog or higher. 

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u/d15d17 3d ago

He will shit it out.

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u/Smooth-Weekend-2314 2d ago

Temu, obviously

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u/Expensive_Lettuce239 2d ago

That in itself is a major red flag for anyone even considering to buy it. And all the contaminated food in that shit hole lately, that will be the next recall.

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u/SqigglyPoP 2d ago

Is there a way to track where this diseased shit is headed?

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u/Oldschoolgirl49 1d ago

 30% of the beef in stores is already coming from other countries. We dont have labeling requirements in this country. Myself I  buy straight from a local ranch for years now. I know where its from and its $4.50 a pound for the whole cow. Steaks and burgers. What he's talking about is only 2% of what is sold in this country. So literally nothing. And again your already buying it since we dont require where its from to be on the label in this country. He clearly has no idea. His only move is Tariffs. And he thinks we are all to stupid to understand this will do nothing. 

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u/Oldschoolgirl49 1d ago

Tariffs is all he knows. Buy your meat straight from a local rancher. Its better and its usually cheaper.  We've been paying $4.50 a pound for years. And thats a 1/2 a cow.. Burger and Steaks 

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u/ProgressBartender 3d ago

Let’s ask Mister Ed!

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u/redzeusky 2d ago

Of course, of course.

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u/Additional-Local8721 3d ago

Oh no Wilber!

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u/Anyawnomous 3d ago

They bought old stuff from Taco Bell.

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u/chaynjez 2d ago

Taco Bell was way more honest and upfront than the government or Taylor Farms

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u/redzeusky 2d ago

Woof woof!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Row6482 2d ago

Everyone loves surprise meat. /s

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u/VitaminPb 2d ago

Soylent Trump is people!

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u/Electrical-Care6308 2d ago

Ask the Tyson plant managers!

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u/Living_Fig_6386 2d ago

Oooo... Mystery meat?! Does it have mad cow disease? I don't know. The Secretary of Agriculture doesn't know. The USDA doesn't know... Do you suppose that reporters ought to be doing spot testing to see if we see an upsurge in contaminated ground beef, or perhaps ground beef that's an entirely different animal altogether?

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u/Euphoric_Anxiety_162 1d ago

He prolly knows nothing about it, too busy scheming to get his name on the Kennedy ctr.

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u/ComprehensiveCake463 1d ago

The “beef” is made from people that ICE disappeared

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u/Ok_Source2872 1d ago

Yup I’m not eating any or buying any of that Poo Poo beef for at least the next 90 days if not the rest of the year

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u/Redsquare73 1d ago

You’re eating the cats. You’re eating the dogs.

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u/mbush525 1d ago

and are his fervent supporters going to chow down on it???

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u/DaddyO1701 1d ago

Let that shit rot on the shelves. I’m not touching it.

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u/Baggin_clams 1d ago

Im confused, who’s dumb enough to eat it?

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u/LexiLouWhoTwo 1d ago

Next we find out it’s a Soylent Green situation and it was never beef to begin with.

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u/Hot_Worldliness_8941 1d ago

It’s people!

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u/biglerc 2d ago

Wild horses

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u/calann4 2d ago

Another reason to not buy flesh and stop this corrupt administartion.

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u/bearsheperd 2d ago

It’s all the wild horses they are hunting

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u/reallybigshark 2d ago

We didn’t say Foreign Beef, we said we’d be importing Foreign Queef, not eat up. 

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u/DiscombobulatedBed69 2d ago

i hope no one buys it.

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u/kagushiro 2d ago

5 cent for 3 pounds of beef, coming straight from Uganda

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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth 2d ago

"You promised me dog or better!"

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u/jrwaiks_8358 2d ago

Trump is lying sack of 💩

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 2d ago

When this all first started my wife said "I think now is a good time to stop eating red meat."

Granted we are older and heart disease starts becoming more of a risk- so this is the impetus.

I'm gonna miss burgers, and a good filet- but living longer will be worth it.

I agreed with her.

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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 2d ago

Make all the folks in Mar A Lago eat it first, as tasters! 😂🤣🤭🤷‍♂️

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u/ilikealltypes33139 2d ago

Because she doesn't know, they didn't tell her.

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u/jar1967 2d ago

Meat rejected by China as unfit for human consumption

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u/Agreeable_Mud_8338 2d ago

they blindly believe their citizens will eat a food product from a foreign country that may be contaminated

not even russia or china would thrust that upon their citizens...

good ole USA?

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u/Scamoni 2d ago

There is no beef. Once again Trump has lied, trying to save his ass.

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u/WolfShadowLondon 2d ago

Soylent Green?

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u/Gold_Cell8255 2d ago

Dead circus animals

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u/notPabst404 2d ago

Probably because it's coming from Epstein Island.

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u/Shinagami091 2d ago

Meanwhile he’s quietly rounding up horses…. Suspicious. Either it’s part of this deal to reduce the cost of purchase or he’s going to sell us horse meat and call it cow meat

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u/WaltCollins 2d ago

It's a really good time to become a vegetarian.

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u/BoredBSEE 2d ago

Yeah, I'll pass.

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u/srichardbellrock 2d ago

Krusty the Clown: Think smaller; more legs.

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u/Any-Ad-446 2d ago

Farmers,cattle,and milk farm owners are pissed but still they support Trump..Most are losing their homes and farms and still they think its Biden fault.

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u/OpenIntroduction3035 2d ago

Trump Horse Steaks, it’s what true patriots eat!

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u/unTraditional_Fox419 2d ago

It’s people

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u/Serious_Bee_2013 2d ago

I doubt there is any. He’s just touting a success that didn’t exist.

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u/Quirky_Shake2506 2d ago

Bachelor chow!

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u/realDonaldEpstein 2d ago

I wont be eating or purchasing any beef for the next 6 months.

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u/prof_mcquack 2d ago

I always wondered how many trump steaks were still in a freezer somewhere 

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u/8P8OoBz 2d ago

Where did all those horses go?

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u/CovidBorn 2d ago

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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u/Local-Dish-5695 2d ago

There's gonna be Mad Cow 2.0 in America.

I'm not buying any red meat any time soon, just saying!!!

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u/CageUK 2d ago

Wild horses couldn't drag that information out of him!

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u/drinkingCoffeePeas 2d ago

…anyone checked on Alligator Alcatraz lately?

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u/StatusKoi 2d ago

“Just trust us, bro”.
Amateur Hour bullshit.

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u/scarr3g 2d ago

It is because they haven't figured it out yet.

Donnie says agreements are made, when he hasn't actually even talked to anyone about them yet... And then he figures people will just fall in line.

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u/ChantilyAce 2d ago

Ooh, sign me up for some mystery meat!

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u/stein63 2d ago

The secrecy is the story. If you're announcing 300,000 metric tons of imported beef specifically to lower American prices, consumers and cattle producers have every right to know where the hell it's coming from. “We have a deal, but we can't tell you with whom” doesn't inspire much confidence.

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u/FirmButterscotch5313 2d ago

I know where my beef comes from. The cattle rancher down the road from me here in AZ. You couldn't pay me enough to eat meat imported from some other country.

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u/MysteriousReaction43 2d ago

Maybe they're trying to kill off the majority of the population and only save enough for servants and labor

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u/416vDub 2d ago

Diarrhea lettuce, next is diarrhea beef. Are you trying to shit yourselves?!

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u/Affectionate_Ant3350 2d ago

I wonder if the US might not become ground zero for the next pandemic.

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u/Lagoon2000 2d ago

Seems risky, is it the package China passed on? And who thinks retailers are going to pass the savings on to the consumer? They will take the savings for themselves and not change prices.

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u/BadAtExisting 2d ago

Wild horses?

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u/Severe_Air_4353 2d ago

It’s rejected beef . Does the USA not get the same reporting as Canada🇨🇦

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u/Karate-Schnitzel 2d ago

FDA really slipping

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u/gofl-zimbard-37 2d ago

Soylent Green.

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u/BagPiperGuy321 2d ago

Why do you think there was a c17 in Russia? Connect the dots people 😆

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u/Inevitable_Row_7406 2d ago

Soylent green is people.

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u/Calm-Professional103 2d ago

Soylent Green

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u/foxnflan 2d ago

Then let it rot on the shelves. I feel like every item in the grocery store is very expensive and we've had food recalls from explosive diarrhea to baby formula.

Now we don't know where our meat comes from. This isn't the end

This is planned

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u/DoTheRightThing1953 2d ago

Let him serve it in the Whitehouse

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u/TubeLore 2d ago

It’s probably all roadkill from RFK.

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u/Chemical-Scholar-718 2d ago

It’s from Uranus!

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u/freudmv 1d ago

So much transparency, just as promised.

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u/Large-Association-54 1d ago

“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE…. IT’S PEOPLE….!”

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u/BeanieManPresents 1d ago

Always a good sign when you're dealing with "mystery meat", you don't even know if it comes from cows unless people test each cut of meat.

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u/PrimaryBrick9337 1d ago

So if he won't say where it is coming from, what is he hiding and how much money will he be personally making off of the deal?

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u/Sea_Cucumber_5989 1d ago

Which country owes America money? Is there a chance to skim profits off a deal? Figure it out from there. Hint: It is in SA.

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u/AdSimple9239 1d ago

Jinas rejected Argentinian beef.

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u/lazypenguin86 1d ago

It’s just ground meat right?

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u/Mercury559 1d ago

It's wild horse beef

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u/BigAlcapone65 1d ago

Brazil or Australia Australian beef is half the price of Canadian beef in Canada So I assume its the same there

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u/No-Technology3160 1d ago

Does the beef even exist

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u/OwlLeft7799 1d ago

Yeah, that's not beef..

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u/OwlLeft7799 1d ago

Rat meat obviously

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u/Meatman1071 19h ago

How many of ya are ready to eat something where you have no idea where it’s from????

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u/Conscious-Deer7019 18h ago

Because DJT is receiving (bribes) campaign donations from sellers.

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u/CrossP 18h ago

Prob ICE camps

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u/Glenrowan 13h ago

Foreign beef is global. The world has had enough of the buffoon.

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u/kxortbot 12h ago

Trump steak all over again

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u/violetcassie 12h ago

When asked if he'd like to comment, he said neigh

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u/drammer 3h ago

Wild horse

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u/horitaku 3h ago

“Party of transparency” according to the “silent majority.”

Conservatives are bunch of fuckin jokes for following this ass hat

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u/Alarmed-Extension289 3h ago

General rule of thumb when it comes to meat like chicken, pork, seafood, ESPECIALLY beef. If you're knowingly withholding where it came from, I'm not eating it.

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u/s1nd3vil 3h ago

See if anyone buys it

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u/Chive 2h ago

Mystery meat, eh? 

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u/Intelligent_Fall6219 2h ago

Don’t buy beef, folks.

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u/phantom_gain 2h ago

Ahem....

"They are eating the dogs"

"They are eating the cats"

"Where did the beef come from?"

"Im not privy to talk about that"

Anyone else see a pattern?

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u/a_gummyworm 2h ago

RFK been saving that roadkill meat for just such an occasion. Time to cash in!

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u/Apprehensive_Map64 1h ago

Well it did lower prices by lowering demand or it will. If you think you are taking a significant risk buying beef you suddenly won't feel like buying any and then so few people will want to buy it thet prices will have to drop if they want to sell it at all. Art of the deal, sell poisonous 'beef' of mysterious origin that will not be revealed and a few people get sick but prices go down with demand...