Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Tells Americans To Change Their Diet If Beef Prices Are Too High

Damn liberals always telling you what to do.

Conservatives just make it prohibitively expensive to do what you want to do.

This administration is going to accidentally encourage a ton of earth friendly behavior. Won’t offset the evil being done, but it’s kind of funny.

Bread and water for you. And you'll like it!

Is Trump about to give the same inadvertent boost to plant-based diets and the environment as he did for renewables?

If food is too expensive, don't eat.

-Republicans

Famine makes ecconomic sense

-Also Republicans

Why aren't the plebians having kids? We need more wage slaves! Maybe outlawing abortion is the solution.

-Republicans, again

LOL, she was soooo close for a moment, I guess. She's still adhering to protein mythologies, it seems. It's 2026. Do people still not know?

But I find it funny that the cons clutched their pearls so hard over Michelle suggesting kids get more exercise and eat vegetables. And now it's a con that is depriving them of beef and telling them to make do.

I thought the liberals were going to make conservative eat bugs and live in a shoebox and own nothing?

Oil and beef are expensive. 😞

Oil and beef are expensive. 😀

“But if it is too expensive — unlike fuel, Benny — you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs."

"Let them eat salmon." LOL.

So there are alternative proteins. That's a free market situation. But there is no alternative to the petro-state. Doing less driving is communism.

And they said the democrats wanted to take away hamburgers.

Good message, wrong reasoning.

Ecologists have been telling people [from rich countries] to minimize beef consumption or drop it altogether for years, but not because of its price tag.

Got that Marie Antoinette energy.

lol

GOP: "we support farmers!!!!"

also GOP: "oh, beef too much? buy something else"

let them eat cake

It is kinda nice that Impossible Steak Bites now costs less per unit of mass than beef does. Going vegetarian starting to make more sense every day...

Yet when Michelle Obama merely suggested that Americans eat better and exercise, the pedo GOP blew a gasket.

Let them eat pork.

I was gonna say sarcastically: "this will go down well with the maga base". But most of them will never hear it. And most of those who do will just scream "FAKE NEWS! LIBERAL HOAX!" And the few who don't do that will tie themselves in mental gymnastics knots.

Close enough... get the guillotines.

Lets eat the rich, then.

Okay. I mean the farmers might have something to say about it, but sure thing on my end. I love beef, but I ain't married to it for the fuck it all prices it's currently going for.

So maybe Trump is actually caring about climate change.

Not only has he lowered the CO2 emissions, through the closure of the straight of Hormuz. Gives electric cars a big boost and now he turns people away from meat to a plant based diet.

Wonder what is next on his agenda to save the planet. Keep on going.

“Cost of living too high? KILL YOURSELVES, STREET URCHINS!”

• the wealthy

"Let them eat re-constituted soy!" (I've heard that before, but in a different language).

Oh look, a rich person literally begging to be eaten.

Cattle country hates this one trick!

Yeah bitch, we about to switch from beef to Eat the Rich.

Capitalism will make vegans of us yet.

Beef, it's what's for dinner... unless you're too poor you worthless piece of shit

-the Trump administration

While technically correct, this is such a supremely tone deaf statement that I have to wonder if they’re just going full mask off.

Considering that beef is a potential carcinogen, it's actually good advice. Plus, cattle are a massive producer of methane, which is far worse for global warming than CO2

Not to mention screw worms.

Wild horses couldn't tear some people away from eating beef, but they might be eating them instead soon.

“Eat this toxic scrap meat we got from South America at a REALLY good price! It’s good for you!!!”

They might get what they are asking us to do, and I'm certain that they'll like that less than tough questions.

I don’t eat much red meat anyway. So now what do i do, bitch?

The trump administration, best thing for the environment on accident.

Personally, I will just get my meat from a blue dot farmer. There is a website for blue dot farms if you want to search on Brave.

Eventually, Id like to buy 60 - 70 % of my groceries and any fun things from progressives or blue dots entirely.

Yeah, but there's a whole 100 year old system of feeding the US beef. Sure, we can change things. The system however, has been fabricated to produce beef. Its a very very large system that isn't easily just changed. Can it be changed? Sure. Can that change happen easily and without economic pain? No. Its like oil. Sure, alternatives for gas and fertilizer exist, but its a hugely painful process to change when there has been such a reliance on a very ingrained system.

Let them (not) eat cake

Did Big Lentil put her up to this?

I agree, we should add some succulent, fattened long pork to our diets.

meanwhile she will continue feasting on trumps teenie weenie

Let Them Eat Slop!

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