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

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

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brooke-rollins-beef-prices-trump_n_6ab29ecfe4b085277b53a8d0?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main
14k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

94

u/nightmaresabin 29d ago

An Impossible Whopper at my local Burger King is a dollar more than the normal beef Whopper.

80

u/gleaf008 29d ago

That’s unpossible.

16

u/ciaomain New York 29d ago

Me fail English?

1

u/teknorath 29d ago
unpossible

3

u/poorlilwitchgirl 28d ago

That's just the Vegan Tax. Plant-based foods have always been less resource intensive and thus (after accounting for animal ag subsidies) cheaper sources of protein on a gram for gram basis, but companies charge more because it's a small but dedicated market. The pendulum has actually been swinging away from the plant-based market lately, but maybe this will change that.

1

u/dformed Washington 29d ago

It's like a $3 substitution at Red Robin, but tbf it's usually slightly better than their beef patties.

0

u/psiphre Alaska 29d ago

actually love me an impossible whopper