r/politics • u/huffpost ✔ HuffPost • 29d ago

No Paywall Trump Official Bluntly Tells Americans To Change Their Diet If Beef Prices Are Too High

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u/failedaspotcheck 29d ago

Wow, first he accidentally becomes a huge renewables promoter with his diasterous oil war, now he's getting Americans to go vegetarian too?

Most woke president of my lifetime

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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up 29d ago

He’s definitely the sleepiest president we’ve ever had.

“Fuck, another meeting in front of cameras where I’m not speaking? Where’s the My Pillow dude? TACO sleep!”

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u/BackToWorkEdward 28d ago

Yeah, it's sad it's happening in this insane a context but it's unintentionally, accidentally the right move. Beef should never have been as cheap as it was in the first place; the only reason it is is due to corrupt subsidies and unthinkably awful living-conditions for the very sentient cows who are tortured and slaughtered to make it.

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u/Quazimojojojo 28d ago

And for people who have no empathy for animals: 

We can feed everyone on planet earth pretty easily and healthy and with plenty of delicious junk food if we want. 

But if you try to feed everyone beef, at anywhere near the levels Americans eat it, you'll drain every river and lake and destroy every forest, just to feed the cows. Most people don't eat like this and we're already on the verge of destroying the Colorado River and the Great salt lake for cow feed. 

They're the single most resource-inefficient, cataclysmically destructive, food we can grow. Cows and goats. The only thing that comes close in terms of water is Almonds, but you wouldn't ever replace beef with almonds anyway. Or dairy (oat milk is king. Stay mad almond milk). And they only come close on water, not deforestation or carbon emissions. 

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u/andreasmiles23 28d ago

Most of the Amazon’s destruction has been for beef farming!

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u/Steel_Within 29d ago

Trump doing ecosocialist praxis?

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u/OldBlueKat 29d ago

I like looking at it all with this kind of head tilt. It doesn’t fix anything, but at least it seems funnier. 

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u/HawkThunderson 29d ago

Maga Soon:  "trump is a Democrat and I never supported him"

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u/jeremiahfira 28d ago

I was unironically saying that during the UFC event on the White House lawn.

Since each fighter gets their own choice for walk out song, and many of the fighters were international, they were either playing the music through speakers or having the US Marine Corps Band play the songs chosen. So, they'd have walkouts with a classic Spanish song blasting on the White House Lawn. Unintentionally the most woke Trump has ever been.