Here comes America’s “Four Pests” campaign.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2026
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While we're at it, just yank the fucking CDC out of the meat industry. They are administrative bloat and we want to keep them borgers cheap. Thank me later
Having a bunch of shadow puppets controlling the food supply is scarier than most of the other trump related bullshit.
Why what are they gonna do profile it?
Is that a threat?
Do you want brawndo? because this is how you get brawndo.
Fucking clown show of a county
So, regularatory capture is now announced to fanfare?
Fuck me. If our treasonous legislature hadn't been cutting funding for decades, there would be no problem to solve. This is a bullshit "solution" to an engineered problem.
lol
Farm security is national security. Through this partnership, Palantir is empowering USDA with core capabilities that will enable it to secure American farmland, enhance supply chain resilience, and shield agricultural programs from fraud, abuse, and foreign adversary influence. In doing so, USDA will gain critical visibility into risks that can affect America’s agricultural production and food supply.
I'm curious about what this'll look like in practice.
Because it sounds like the US federal government is about to make total surveillance a prerequisite for subsidies.
I'm confident you're correct. Also, as always, the surveillance isn't for the reason they state; it's just an excuse. They want to monitor all the people. They'll be able to track when and where everyone goes in rural areas. Urban areas are mostly covered by Flock.
The food supply is one of the main levers that the working class has to put pressure on the ruling class. "Securing" the food supply means taking away the possibility for farmers to protest.
"safeguard"
Don't worry, they'll let us eat cake
And the cake will be "free", as in "each bite adds to your debt and you will serve in our army until it is paid off or you die in the line of duty. In the event you die in the line of duty, your debt will be passed down to your next of kin, who will be forced to pay it until their death."
Your Costco Hotdog(tm)* payment plan that you qualify for thanks to your continued $150/mo ~~tax~~ Executive Platinum A+ SSJ Membership 🌟
*contains no meat products. ^Terms^ ^and^ ^conditions^ ^apply^^,^ ^we^ ^know^ ^where^ ^you^ ^live^^.^
I'm GLAD that we're able to give HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of Dollars to this Company that paid $0 in Taxes while helping ICE Murder us!
What an amazing grift.
There is a reason their stock was like 600x price:earnings, now it's "only" 242x. Tech stocks are aggressive at 30-80x.
When the fix is in, the fix is in.
Robot killing machines coming to a farm near you.
Sigh. We're gonna go from third in the world in food safety to like 80th. Speed run.
Rice is a major staple food in our house. We've always avoided rice from the US as several studies have shown higher heavy metal levels in most American grown rice.
https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/news/toxic-metals-found-in-all-rice-samples-in-new-report/
This does not negate our food ranking for safety when compared to the rest of the world no matter how much you might like it to be otherwise.
Think about what I said vs what you think I said before you decide to reply to me.
https://www.glaubfm.com/index.php/blog/us-ranks-3rd-global-food-security-index
Think about what I said vs what you think I said before you decide to reply to me.
I did. Now think about what's in your food at 3rd place and consider how much worse it's going to get.
Why? Seriously. What for? What was the point of replying to my original comment? Are you trying to start a fight?
Do you not like facts? Is it just that you felt like what I said was misleading?
What is your deal?
Because it seems to me like you're just being antagonizing for no reason.
My comment wasn't intended to be a defense of American food. It wasn't suppose to come across as if the food doesn't have any flaws or dangers. But you sure took it like I said something crazy.
You aren't even comparing our rice and the levels of heavy metals found to other countries to see where we land.
Or explaining the difference between brown rice levels of heavy metals vs white rice levels (brown rice having more heavy metals by a large margin).
Instead you're just out here spreading FUD for reasons so you can dunk on the US.
I don't get what they will sctually be doing. It's all hype speak and that's a lot of money for mumbo jumbo.
Sounds like you understand it just fine
Fuck this country
FUCK!!
For some reason fertilizer is very expensive, and for some reason crop yields might be worse than ever this year... I wonder if those totally unavoidable things (which probably didn't involve a waste of our tax dollars) factor into this decision (to use more tax dollars)