Where’s The Beef? Ask The Feds

Government meat “safety” rules can do more harm than good. They block you from healthy meat, help cause shortages, and hurt farmers.
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During the worst of COVID, many of us noticed beef shortages.
“You’d go to Wendy’s to buy a hamburger and they were out of hamburger,” says Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY). "Yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru.”
Stupid government rules, like “poke and sniff," are to blame.

[@Mr.Rogers91]

Could you imagine sitting down and telling the founding fathers we made it illegal to raise, butcher, then sell your cattle unless The State approves ? They're turning in rheir Graves at what we've done to this country with massive government

[@AgneDei]

It might be a good idea to strap some magnets to the founding fathers bodies, and surround them with inductors to create an electric engine. At this rate of federal absurd I'm guessing that their turning in their graves could generate many Giga Watts of clean electricity ;)

[@nameespinoza6555]

They would be very happy to know that their plan was unfolding according to design... because they were freemasons. The world is not what we have been told, history is written by those in power. Time is running out and Jesus is coming soon! Get ready!

[@samvandervelden8243]

Breeding mutilating and killing animals should become illegal

[@NoName-rw8ow]

@@samvandervelden8243 it’s the circle of life. Get over it

[@silent1967]

@@samvandervelden8243 FU !

[@sweydert]

"I'd rather deal with cattle than congressmen; at least they exhibit learned behavior." Lol

[@seatedliberty]

And the same stuff comes out of both of them.

[@michaelstansfield319]

@@seatedliberty With one difference. What comes out of a cow's butt is what comes out of a politician's mouth.

[@SepticFuddy]

@@seatedliberty Not true, cow pies are actually valuable, for fertilizer

[@remessinger]

@@seatedliberty only congress delivers many times more.

[@leojensen9270]

@@SepticFuddy and magic mushrooms

[@redlion7134]

I was just telling my husband yesterday while shopping that there was never a shortage of junk food.

[@res00sky]

Good observation! So true, never a shortage of soft drinks, chips, and snack cakes.

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

IDK man, I've started seeing empty shelves of my favorite box of crackers (triskets), and a couple of other items too. Not to mention a bag of potato chips costed almost 6 bucks! The sour cream was 1/3rd that!

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

An unhealthy population is much easier to control

[@Redmanticore]

@@nerdicusdorkum2923 i sincerely wish a bag of salted potatoes would cost 100 bucks. cigarettes, sugar too.. imagine american men finally buying salads and fruits..

[@donf3877]

@@Redmanticore Move to Cuba. I'm sure they would love to hear your "ideas".

[@triclopsgamer5934]

Imagine getting sent to jail for buying and eating a steak without the permission of some government official.

[@ResortDog]

All the cow milkers WERE jailed and no raw milk is available or door to door business by the way.

[@triclopsgamer5934]

@@ResortDog I bet some poor kid in the future is going to have a juvie record for drinking illegally obtained milk LoL

[@manupontheprecipice6254]

@@triclopsgamer5934 Don’t give them Feddies any ideas.

[@thosecrazyarkwrights]

Amos Miller vs USDA Amish farmer who has been battling the fed gov for 6yrs. Bird in Hand, Pennsylvania

[@dustinthewind3925]

So stupid. My aunt cant "sell" her dairy milk to anyone, but she does "trades". Best milk I've ever tasted, too. Even some of her lactose intolerant church friends love it.

[@wolvenar]

It's not even about the money, it's about the control.

[@karchariasxiras]

Both. More about the money though.

[@thegeneralist7527]

From cradle to grave, and the more suffering they can inflict the better.

[@jim-ce5kt]

The demoncrats are obsessed with control of your life and never ending power....for them. These idiots are wrong on just about everything because they are out of touch with reality. That is what happens when you put "academics" in charge. Reality and academic "theory" are oxymorons.

[@charlesblaha6560]

@@karchariasxiras I respectfully disagree, they’ve already lined their pockets, everything they do is about control

[@thorveim1174]

I'd say money. Wanna bet a good amount of the meat gets sent to other countries because its more profitable than selling to the local people? And the thing with money? its never enough. Else rich people wouldn't jump at every chance to become even richer when they already dont even know what to do with their money.

[@hephaestus6365]

The bigger the government, the dumber things get.

[@taboovsknowledge1603]

By design. They make the fog so we done see the crime.

[@davidd.c.9344]

Have you met the people in government?? I actually understand their motivation. They're dumbing everything down to their level so as to make it an even playing field!!

[@taboovsknowledge1603]

@@davidd.c.9344 You say the people in government are stupid? 100%? That there is no intelligence? That's the problem? 5% correct. 95% of the problem is government has been corrupted by big business over the past 150 years with a adapting plot for total win and the people aren't caring enough to fix it. This corruption has been global and is saturated into every facet of necessity. They are about to make their final move of absolute power over all human activity. They are coming out into the open. Do you see & hear them? They want perpetual lock down with no individual rights! They are not stupid!

[@arcguardian]

@@davidd.c.9344 I'd simplify rather than dumb down.

[@sweetsendaedreamr]

The dumber the voters the dumber the gov.

[@Nick-kq8pg]

This isn’t incompetency, it’s evil. Such a coincidence how so many processing plants are burning down now too.

[@nolimit4117]

And the ones that had to close down during COVID-19. It's not a coincidence that we have a pandemic that leads to a meat shortage.

[@SUPERULTRAMAGNUM]

"You will have nothing and be happy" - Klaus Schwab

[@Bristecom]

They want us to eat bugs and live in pods with little to no transportation while only the rich elites get to eat what they want and travel the world freely.

[@-FreeAlberta-]

Klaus Schwab wants you to eat bugs. True story

[@mikemurray3962]

Don't forget Bill Gates buying up all the farmland. He wants us all to eat synthetic meat. Whatever the fuck that is. But I bet that's why he's buying all the land.

[@JohnBuol]

My Dad owns a farm and raises hogs, among other cattle. He met the owner and chef of a local fine dining restaurant who purchased a Yorkshire and had it processed at a near-by butcher for his family. He told my Dad he'd like to source all of his restaurant's pork (pork cutlets are their signature dish) because of the high quality, but he is not allowed to due to legal restrictions. A local restauranteur is disallowed from offering a superior product from a local provider because the government says so.

[@denisegaylord382]

Unfortunately this is the way of many things. Government in the name of "protecting" us, stifles competition and creates burdensome and unnecessary barriers to everyone, in every walk of life. If we would all just push back, and tell our government to get back within the narrow confines of our constitution, we might have a fighting chance to make America great again for our future generations.

[@skillcoiler]

So.... Your story is.... it was legal to sell ONE but not others?

[@jonathanwingard1119]

It's legal to sell a live animal then the new owner gets it butchered. That was the case here.

[@skillcoiler]

@@jonathanwingard1119 Seems like an easy fix....unless the chef was just being polite and didn't actually like his dad's shitty hog....

[@JohnBuol]

@@skillcoiler Yes. You can legally purchase an animal from a farmer and then have it processed for personal consumption. The butcher's packages are explicitly marked "Not For Sale". The restauranteur would not be legally allowed to do the same thing for his customers because then it's magically unsafe, according to the government. Food safety is a real thing (obviously) but the government's enforcement of it sometimes doesn't make sense.

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

The same people who have removed the words "mother" and "father" from federal documents want grown adults to ask their permission before doing just about anything.

[@BlazinRiver1]

Sadly there are too many "adults" that want the Gov to hold their hands. And we all know what side of the fence they come from...FJBLGB

[@pauliusiv6169]

1984 was a warning, not a guide

[@rayalbertogutierrezbalanza8333]

Exactly

[@RyuuOujiXS]

They don't care if you ask for permission. They care if you PAY for permission. "Oh, you're asking if you can drive you new car? Give me $500 for registration, safety, license, etc. or get the fuck out of my face."

[@jakegarrett8109]

They want to be your new daddy, and have you beg for permission.

[@johnnyboy55]

If you want something screwed up on a massive level just get the government involved.

[@cajun1253]

Amen!

[@silent1967]

Or the company I work for these days. All hooked up with china.

[@ashleypenn7845]

What was that quote? "If you put the Federal government in charge of the Sahara, within a year, there'd be a shortage of sand"?

[@colincopland3665]

@@ashleypenn7845 That’s a famous Milton Friedman quote.

[@ashleypenn7845]

@gjaegreag "There are thousands of examples of businesses selling toxic and dangerous products which were marketed as safe." Guess the regulations didn't catch them, huh?

[@kevinwallis2194]

Joel Salatin did a video called "Everything i want to do is illegal", where he talks about regulations that keep people from selling anything from their farms because of everything from inspections to zoning .

[@KerbalFacile]

Oh he even made a book by the same title.

[@organicfarmer6609]

As a farmer I wish more people would watch this. Very accurate of things going on in the agriculture industry.

[@matthewschwartz6607]

The Government is HELPING you! It’s a good thing.

[@Sketch-Motion]

@@matthewschwartz6607 Yeah but that's what drafted germens said before they were Killing innocent people.

[@ntal5859]

Its all about making sure Farmer Joe is not doing cash deals. They(Gov) wants its cut on the deals.

[@Zach-ju5vi]

I'm a farmer as well and this is a very well informed video.

[@Zach-ju5vi]

@@matthewschwartz6607 I hope you aren't serious.

[@LavishPatchKid]

What he said, "four large corporations run the entire meat processing industry." The omission, "we want to make it one."

[@kyleschmidt4830]

They want to make it none. Haven't you been paying attention to Bill "Eat Lab Meat" Gates who has been buying all the farmland he can. By 2030 you'll own nothing and be happy, eating bugs.

[@cajun1253]

3rd is restrict your intake of said product. Grasshopper or cricket for you ?

[@AgneDei]

4th omission - "lets outsource the whole meat processing industry to China, it will be cheaper"

[@LavishPatchKid]

@@AgneDei It's actually Brazil and Africa. Look it up. And ironically - all done under Trump's watch.

[@dr.floridaman4805]

@@real_exodus blame capitalism? Dude Klaus shcwab is socialist. WEF is socialist. This is a socialist problem. State control through unelected elites is socialism USDA who was voted in? Socialist program Welfare EPA FBI CiA All Socialist programs that don't follow the constitution The free market is the only way. Not a market flooded with subsidies and regulations, that is socialist

[@TheBallsKicker]

"The bigger the government the bigger the corporation" So true.

[@JohnDoe-xf2ke]

It's not really true though. Power is a vacuum, and if government isn't filling it, corporations & NGOs will.

[@pinksoup8548]

@@JohnDoe-xf2ke They're both on the same team

[@cristiantalero96]

@@JohnDoe-xf2ke You don't understand the concept. The bigger the government means more bureaucracy, more red tape, more laws and regulations, which only limit the capability of small businesses to compete with bigger, more established, more resourceful businesses, therefore small businesses are pushed out of the market while big businesses are left standing.

[@JohnDoe-xf2ke]

@@cristiantalero96 I understand perfectly well. The point is power must rest somewhere, if government doesn't take it, but simultaneously doesn't secure it for individuals, then power will be taken by other groups. Tyranny by Big Tech, or Big Finance, is not inherently more better than tyranny by Big Government. It's still tyranny.

[@century2298]

The bigger the government the bigger the CORRUPTION !

[@bobjoatmon1993]

When I was a kid we always had a cow on our 5 acres and then took it to a local butcher/ slaughter house to be processed. And they had rental freezer lockers of various sizes too to store your meat. It was cleaned daily and the family that has been doing it for 3 generations was loved in the community. The feds came in in 1974 and harassed and nitpicked weekly for a year and shut them down. After that, it became very hard to get your cow or hogs processed and most everyone ended up buying from the big national stores that appeared everywhere

[@IKostman]

I'm always happy to visit farmers and ranchers... occasionally dropping and losing my billfold on their property after being so excited to find their generosity in "giving" me beef, chicken, lamb, eggs, or any crops. Since wallets are so expensive, and so prone to being lost on ranchers' properties, I'm looking at switching to good old-fashioned rubber bands :-)

[@tuiroakwood]

If we run out of beef I'll just start eating Vegans. They're grass-fed too

[@miguelgameiro8063]

😂 🤣🤣

[@iloveschicken6527]

Lmao! 😂😂😂

[@davidl7813]

Lmbo dark but hilarious

[@firstnamelastnamethirdname]

With a "planned" global crisis, we're all going to be starving so cannibalism isn't new

[@ChristopherRyans]

John Stossel is a American hero and Legend!!

[@MellowYellow.]

Yes!

[@firstnamelastnamethirdname]

I really hope he doesn't self unalive

[@cartertran270]

Been watching for years always delivering great reporting.

[@afuen012]

Rand Paul / John Stossel 2024

[@terry_willis]

But he needs to shave that fakakta beard. He's a handsome man. Even in his old age.

[@rhondaserges5136]

25 years in the Retail Meat business.. Thank you John for pointing out the problems in our food supply.

[@gregoryeverson741]

i like going to the local butcher, buy meat, they give you advice on how to cook it if you dont know

[@rhondaserges5136]

@@gregoryeverson741 always .. brings back return customers if they cook it right ..

[@mikehartel8057]

This man is a national treasure. I love John Stossel!!!!

[@toofar7493]

I worked for a major beef packing plant about 15 years ago and it was super clean. When I left they were pushing about $5k - $6k a minute on the line. I was told several times that we couldn't have the line stop for more than 10 minutes or corporate would shut us down. I do remember seeing the USDA taking samples and it was very well known that you don't talk to them and stay out of their way. I'm fine with the idea that they can do random checks, but stopping a business from growing because you have absurd rules is just crazy. Inform the public what the difference is and let them choose what they want to do. Realistically a small meat processor has a better chance to be cleaner than a big one because there is less to clean and they have more to lose.

[@pkendlers]

Bingo

[@cassmarkonthemove]

We buy a local cow annually, have it processed locally, it tastes better, we know the people and we know where our food comes from.

[@corey6393]

@@cassmarkonthemove We do the same, and also with pork, chicken and eggs. All of it comes from within 30 miles or so.

[@Vermino]

@@corey6393 I just butchered my first two roosters this year. Definitely a tough experience when you raise them from chicks. But my mindset has changed a lot about food waste (especially meat).

[@rrich52806]

@@Vermino So sad killing 2 Roosters. Don't they have a right to life? Joe Biden supports meat free USA. Biden's climate plan will require Americans to reduce their meat intake to one burger per month

[@jmor-_-.656]

At the same time the government allows ingredients in processed foods/drinks that have been found unsafe and/or outright banned in other countries but they worry about a Farmer's livestock more than necessary.

[@davelatimer1269]

The sugar/fast food and pharmaceutical companies are sleeping in the same bed!

[@denisegaylord382]

We pay for the privilege of all of this nonsense. Not only in higher prices for finished goods, but in terms of our health & wellness, plus through the subsidies that the vast majority of food producers receive. The only food sector that is not subsidized is that of the fresh vegetable and fruit market. They are expected just to deal with the market, and the weather. Unlike anything else that is deemed "edible" in the US food supply.

[@gregoryeverson741]

its about the taxes government can collect

[@arcguardian]

Unsafe, sure. Banned by other countries, irrelevant. Other countries throw gays off of rooftops, we need to lead not follow.

[@TheRoadhammer379]

Take Kraft Mac and Cheese for instance, it's banned in the European Union. McDonald's fries are only allowed to contain two ingredients in Canada... potato and salt. We are being poisoned.

[@philipenos2930]

The scariest thing you will ever hear: "I am with the government and I am here to make things better."

[@andrewbobb3170]

The PRIME Act should be unnecessary. The Tenth Amendment forbids the Feds from meddling in anything that the Constitution doesn't give them authority over, and meat is definitely not in there. But Washington stopped worrying about the Constitution on Feb 24, 1803, when the Supreme Court seized control of it.

[@scotthoover1568]

I'm share his opinion and I'm not a cattle rancher. The government has no business inserting itself between two consenting parties.

[@Shblibble]

So, let's test this. Should a woman be able to freely buy the morning after pill from a chemist?

[@scotthoover1568]

@@Shblibble if they both consent to the transaction, of course. It's no one else's business what goes on between them.

[@Shblibble]

@@scotthoover1568 Well OK then. Current GOP platform is pretty at odds with that attitude. A lot of red states are pushing to outlaw or at least discourage birth control in general, beyond what the Roe overturn set. Pretty concerning.

[@YourSavant]

@@Shblibble Is SHE paying for it? Or I am through stolen taxes?

[@Shblibble]

@@YourSavant well I said buy so she is.

[@jamesadkins1780]

One reason I’m a libertarian. Regulations are a slippery slope to control.

[@thegreenman2030]

I think we nave already slid off the cliff on many things.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Regulations ARE control

[@steveescher1554]

When I tell people I mostly lean towards libertarianism, they usually have no idea what I am talking about haha they usually think I am saying I am a liberal because they have no idea there are more than 2 parties

[@rcyalater...2305]

@@steveescher1554 yep. That's mostly the whole fucking problem

[@stevencooper4422]

This is why I support the authoritarian right, socialists like Sinclair would never have been allowed to exist if they were in power

[@trishbell969]

I trust local farmers who bet their lives on what they do, far more than a government employee who doesn't GAF... as long as that $ is paid they will give you whatever credentials you need. It's not about safety, it's about greed!

[@mitchwinder1204]

I used to raise a few cattle, process them locally, and sell it to friends. It’s done all the time across rural America.

[@B5152g]

The best decision I have made this year is buying half a side of beef, my uncle owns a farm and we went in together to butcher one..

[@WrongTimeWatch]

I totally agree. My freezer is only big enough for a 1/4 of a cow though. I need to buy a larger freezer on eof these days.

[@goodolearkygal5746]

Next get a hog.... my parents do this every year, some member of the family goes in halves every year... I think my turn is next year lol

[@debanydoombringer1385]

@@WrongTimeWatch We purchased a large deep freezer and it's full after processing. It's worth the expense for sure. Ours is in our garage. Sure we lose a parking space, but the hubby's truck wouldn't fit anyway with my car and we've got 380 lbs of beef for less than $4 a lbs.

[@donf3877]

And, you can't find better beef anywhere. A friend and I split a side, all frozen in small packages. I was SO excited to try my first hamburgers on the grill. When the first side was done, I flipped them over. They fell apart and dropped right through the openings of the grate. I had to add a little olive oil to it, and mix it... to keep the meat together. THAT'S how little fat was in the "hamburger". Man, I NEVER ate as good. Would put a fancy steakhouse to SHAME.

[@B5152g]

@@donf3877 yep I like it a whole lot better, think it Is because it isn't aged like store beef, so it is fresh and has less fat because of that.. if you want hamburger to hold together better I have always been told to add an egg to it. Mine was a whole lot cheaper than $4/lb it cost $90 to have the whole cow done.

[@annotterrealm1549]

Everything the gov. Does is questionable.

[@aowi7280]

I'm sick and tired of all the government regulations. They have to get their fingers into everything.

[@salacommander2674]

I love that Stossel gives these politicians hell even when he agrees with them

[@salacommander2674]

@gjaegreag And government isn't a breeding ground for selfishness? Look, you can disagree if you want, but the point isn't that regulations shouldn't exist, it's that the federal government implements and enforces these regulations in such a stupid way that it only ends up hurting regular people.

[@salacommander2674]

@gjaegreag Actually, it's perfectly possible to do so. All it takes removing huge concentrations of centralized power from the federal government, and giving it back to state and local governments to try and decide what will be best for their specific region, rather than have all the same rules and regulations apply to Barrow, Alaska as they do to Miami, Florida.

[@salacommander2674]

@gjaegreag It's really not.

[@salacommander2674]

@gjaegreag Swimming in a pond in upstate New York is safer than swimming in a pond in Florida where there may be alligators.

[@salacommander2674]

@gjaegreag Oh so now you shift your goalposts? So it's just as safe to eat fresh (not frozen) sushi in Nebraska as it is right on the coast?

[@samwroblewski748]

Not mentioned but worth bringing up: USDA regulations on bird flu. We killed several million chickens not too long ago over an outbreak of bird flu and sent egg prices sky high. Eggs and bird meat are not affected by bird flu if cooked. In fact, the panic over bird flu is over animal to human transmission which is easily avoidable with basic hand washing

[@keith3761]

I think the reason they take it so seriously is because other nations will ban our meat products at the slightest whim. Japan is known for that along with other nations. They do this so their local producers have a advantage. Also there is a real risk of bird flu mutations leading to it becoming a human problem.

[@JohnDoe-xf2ke]

@@keith3761 The reason they 'take it seriously' is because they want to force people to eat bugs, worms, and plant-based meat alternatives filled with soy and other chemicals. These foods increase estrogen production that makes a population more docile and controllable.

[@silent1967]

That's it in a nutshell. Cook it at the proper temp for the correct length of time and it is fine. Common sense has mostly gone out the window these days.

[@keith3761]

@@JohnDoe-xf2ke so you believe when the FDA was created over 100 years ago it was because they wanted you to eat bugs? Do you realize how much of a factor leaded gas and paints and DHT and petrochemical plastics have had on testosterone and childhood development? what about smoking? if they were out to get you they had numerous ways the could have not regulated things. Also what about obesity? That increases estrogen by a huge factor and lowers testosterone production massively. Seems like keeping everyone fat as hell would be the best way to keep them docile. Not to give them leaner meats and less fat.

[@addictedtostacks]

@@silent1967 I don't want chicken that had the flu. As a consumer I should be able to make that decision and pick other meats. Chicken meat from a bird with flu should not even reach the market. IMO.

[@ronframe387]

Come on John! Not one mention of the more than 100 food processing plants that have mysteriously burned down this year alone! They are doing everything they can to Create a food shortage!

[@juliecramer7768]

👍🏻

[@andruboy80]

And the only available option is the frozen section.. 🇨🇳

[@tmbarry]

Source?

[@debanydoombringer1385]

Don't forget the massive outbreaks of bird flu and hoof in mouth disease causing millions of animals to be removed from the supply.

[@KG-xt4oq]

@@tmbarry 1/11/21 A fire that destroyed 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville 4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL 7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call 7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson’s River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama 8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell 9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines 10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID 11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry 11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant 12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire 1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton’s Mountain following an overnight fire 1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA 1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem 2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston 2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe 2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas 2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston 2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana 2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm 2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont 2/22/22 The Shearer’s Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded 2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions 2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery 3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri 3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware 3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD 3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA 3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover 3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin 3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis. 3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa 3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware 3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland 3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota 3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast. 3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska 3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa 3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota 3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa 3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa 3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas 3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa 3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa 4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina 4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska 4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota 4/13/22 fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire 4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant 4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California. 4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota 4/19/22 Azure Standard nation’s premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon 4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color 4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota 4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia 4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota 4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah 4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania 4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska 4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers 4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware 4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado 4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma 5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota 5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota 5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania 5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan 5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin 5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL 5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota 5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms 5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota 6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania 6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay. 6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola 6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta. 6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs 6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin

[@elmatador678]

Thanks for the video Jim this hits home like a ton of bricks...being a farmer and rancher is difficult enough. Maybe the next video can be about the lack of water to grow crops and how the government controls it all

[@kylesinclair5002]

They are not stupid rules… they are rules in order to social engineer society and advance their agenda

[@wrongthinker843]

Right, the "stupid" government officials who somehow keep doing great for themselves. In spite of alleged stupidity in all their policies. How about we finally recognize that they aren't stupid, but malicious? And then act according to that knowledge.

[@gregoryeverson741]

there is a certain type of politician(s) that always make problems, Give me mean Tweets

[@actuallyKriminell]

how is it that politicians like K. Harris and alike get 300k salary a year and increase their market value by ~70% each year. From a few millions in 10 years to a few hundred millions. Warren Buffet dreams of such rates. Answer: Look at their investment portfolio. How many P invested into medical before announcing pro c19? Are they investing in Bug farms?

[@wrongthinker843]

@gjaegreag And yet the state is the one that covers for corporations like Monsanto, pushing the "muh gluten" bs when they used a new chemical spray that turned out toxic.

[@wrongthinker843]

@gjaegreag > "REEEE regulations are for your own good" > "REEEE it would have happened anyway" So regulations are just about government generating monopolies after all. Good to see the birth of your first brain cell.

[@MustPassTruck]

My local butcher has had Chinese businessmen offering to buy their business. These guys barely speak english. Why am I not surprised that democrats are offering tons of free money to them.

[@joshuad1716]

It’s not the democrats, it’s the Chinese government giving their citizens blank checks to “invest” in the US. Our currency is worthless and tied to nothing. China has realized they can just give blank checks to its citizen to buy anything they want. That’s how I got bought out of the RE wholesaling business in Vegas. Chinese came in with CCP backed checks buying dilapidated properties at market value or better from foreclosure auctions

[@silent1967]

Tell the butcher to tell the chicomms to go piss up a rope.

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

Some people are so smart to find solutions to government problems; the issue for a lot of people is to criticize the government a life of eternal damnation, courtesy of their upbringing.. sick of this society always building walls higher and higher just to do normal everyday things. Thanks John and your guest for your important work.

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

@gjaegreag are you speaking from personal experience? (give me an example of a product made by a local family that gave you grief)

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

@gjaegreag Maybe John Stossel's attitude is also a danger to society for bringing up those issues ay ?

[@George4943]

"Regulators, when they start doing something stupid, keep doing it." So true.

[@steelefarmllc142]

as a small beef farmer I am in total agreement with this!

[@tobyhorn9641]

Why don't you butcher your own for your own freezer

[@my3dviews]

@@tobyhorn9641 Maybe he does, but you can't use all of your cattle for your own consumption. H has to sell it, since that is his business.

[@tobyhorn9641]

@@my3dviews that's a lay but with a grane of truth in my home state the doctors tryed to get people to stop home by her but now more and more folks are going back to it because of the meat shortages besides 8n hunting you butcher most of the meat in the field and I've never been sick of of home butchered meat

[@steelefarmllc142]

@@tobyhorn9641 I could do that for one animal. But I personally can not eat 20 cattle a year. 😀

[@user-qi7xx5ih6z]

@@my3dviews A business based on murder of sentient animals for the pleasure of the consumers taste receptors.

[@williamhermanson9753]

They still probe cheese with a rod. It exposes that area of cheese to the air and causes that area to mold.

[@silent1967]

Yeah, makes wonder about those swabs up the nose doesn't it.

[@ryanjones7681]

Cheese is already mold

[@KMF3]

@@ryanjones7681 not exactly

[@hinspect]

I used to do maintenance on food X-Ray at Chicken processing plants and they have USDA offices right in the middle of processing that would inspect everything that went on and supervise washdowns. Thomas Massey is a great guy, I have never met him but I subscribe to his KZbin channel as well as Stossel!

[@Zachary-Daiquiri]

Thank you for spreading awareness Mr Stossel.

[@cajun1253]

The local butcher that we used when I was a kid always told us about new regulation after new regulation. It’s almost as if they were trying to regulate him right outta business..... and they did. Where once there were many options there are now very few.

[@silent1967]

That is the communist plan.

[@digitalfootballer9032]

"Local butcher" has become somewhat of an anachronism these days. Almost all the small privately owned butcher shops are long gone. Of course you can say the same about many other types of businesses such as hardware stores, pharmacies, etc, as it is a sign of the times with big box stores dominating everything.

[@davidcox3076]

@@digitalfootballer9032 There are some still around. There is one in another town here that's a bit out of the way but if I want something good for the grill or smoker, they're the go to place. It's always fresh, properly prepared and ready to cook. I also use a local hardware store a lot. Much more convenient than hiking through a big box and the sales people are very helpful. It may not be as cheap, but the extra cost is worth it.

[@JaketheJust]

I remember in the 1980s the government created tons of cheese and they couldn’t get rid of it

[@khatdubell]

Its because they started subsidizing the milk industry and had to do something with all the excess milk

[@debanydoombringer1385]

Ah yes. The government cheese.

[@JaketheJust]

@@debanydoombringer1385 rumor is there are still 80s government cheese out there

[@KMF3]

I got some of that free cheese in 50 pound blocks to feed my day-care center kids. Never knew before then that you could freeze cheese.

[@ian0903]

I consider myself a Libertarian and am a great fan of Stossel. The only thing I disagree with many Libertarians is that after watching these videos how can we still claim that the US is still the greatest country in the world. I believe there are many other sensible democracies in the world.

[@jhost0311]

“The bigger the government, the bigger the corporations.” - Thomas Massie

[@neilschristensen9143]

Had a farmer friend who slaughtered a heifer that was not good for milk . Got it all cut processed and wrapped for about 3 dollars a pound.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

$3 per pound sounds a bit high for just the processing. I mean, you're providing the meat after all.

[@mastring1966]

when the government gets involved on the granular levels like this, it always leads to supporting the one who pays them the most.

[@billybobjohnadamjoe]

We know that the regulations were necessary when they were first introduced, but when do they become helpful to everyone? Those local butchers would be perfect for expanding markets, but the whole “build another bathroom” needs to be reviewed on whether it’s actually necessary.

[@debanydoombringer1385]

That's the point. The businesses become big, lobby the government for more and more regulations, to prevent competition. The big processors propose these regulations so little processors can't grow and compete. It's been going on since Heize and Coke. Heinze had lots of small competitors after he invented ketchup. It was available in different price ranges depending on the quality of ingredients. In order to protect his product he complained to government officials about unsafe ingredients in other versions. Coke did it by demanding the other products weren't safe because the bottles weren't sterilized after he'd purchased a bottling company.

[@bluefishactcl1464]

Great video - reminds me that I don’t want anyone protecting me or my family, that I can’t safely fire at any monument . If gov were protecting me , and IF it was a good idea , it was would not be obligatory and forced on you with full power of the federal government and threat of jail.

[@merpius]

The Fed has no business in transactions that remain completely in state. I'd guess most states would step in with just as much idiocy, but the Fed needs to be smacked down, at least, for that kind of overreach.

[@stevenlevstik7257]

You should read Wickard v filburn 37 U.S 111 (1942), It will blow your mind.

[@davidcox3076]

Same thing with federal welfare. My neighbor is poor. So I have to send my tax dollars all the way to Washington to have them come back to my neighbor. My other neighbor is hungry. But I have to go through Washington's regulations or I can't sell him beef from my farm. The Feds always get their cut.

[@puddintayne9254]

I should be able to raise, buy and eat whatever I want. My body my choice. These stupid government rules need to end.

[@aaa7189]

My body my choice - where have I heard that before ?

[@radiobikini6429]

Really? The republicans just banned abortion because your body is NOT yours!

[@scd603]

@@aaa7189 Stossel agrees on both points. Libertarians want people to run their own lives

[@andrewgus8763]

Canadian government already opened cricket and worm plants in Ontario to replace beef. Just like from some crazy nightmare.

[@zachfrobose3387]

Government regulation has made it hard on small meat processing facilities to stay in business. It use to be that every small town had a butcher and a bar. Now most have neither. But my family business has been the owners and operators of a custom and retail meat business for over 23 years in a small town in Ohio. We continue to bring northwest Ohio high quality meat at a fair price.

[@hulahula6182]

dont just blame government, blame KLAUS SCHWAB, WEF chairman :)

[@NewSquallor]

and the governments that follow him

[@johngenericlastname9781]

Nah it's the government as well, they are his Stooges, they need to be burned away like the cancer they are

[@cajun1253]

I’m surprised your comment is there! Now where are the 2 replies?

[@hulahula6182]

@@cajun1253 hahahah hidden by youtube for badspeak, tq for protecting us youtube :))

[@CVSoprano]

The You'll-own-nothing-and-like-it guy?

[@edwardhopf2654]

We process our own cattle. We know where it comes from. Much more healthy than what comes from the store and tastes better to.

[@res00sky]

The vast majority of people on earth alive today, and those who have gone on before us, ate and survived just fine with food grown by themselves and others, with little to no gov't regulations. The customer decides who provides the best and those stay in business.

[@jamessharier7529]

Right on John, keep the truth coming

[@Dontlicktheballoons]

I've been a vegetarian since 1999 and I fully support what massey is doing.

[@Petra999]

Of course. I'm vegan but I realize people should have free choice to eat what they please. They should just be aware of how the food on their plate gets there in the first place.

[@akashgarg9776]

Well its not inconsistent right? I dint want to ban factory farming, but local farming and processing is far superior. I know people who are vegetarian who would be totally fine with organic locally grown meat ... they just don't have access to it

[@thomasscala1905]

Keep them coming John....great piece. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

[@user-qi7xx5ih6z]

And the lack of it is one of the main reasons people support Jhon. Well, that and the belief he is actually making reasonable points.

[@Robot-Overlord]

Go figure government intervention always ends in a problem. How many more examples do people want before they start doing something about it?

[@khatdubell]

At least once more, ms swan, as always.

[@kennethboyer2338]

This would've driven my grandfather nuts if he was alive. He raised hogs and in the winter he'd butcher and sell to everyone in a 5 mile radius of where we lived. Most usually got a whole hog but some got 2 or 3. His shop was clean and orderly with nothing out of place. When I was old enough I helped him, it was a great experience to learn where my food came from. He and my grandmother also had a huge garden and orchard and canned everything. I miss those days, life was so much slower and simpler.....

[@ChiefMac59]

John - you are one of the few REAL journalists in the business. We do not see eye to eye on everything, but you have always reported the facts and for that I think you are a true gem. Whenever you come back to Kentucky and need a place to crash, my house is open to you

[@miller8084]

We need to elect people who have common sense and refuse to be seen or used as a savior. The notion that government is our savior or can be our savior is driving this. Take responsibility, refuse to be treated like a victim and work hard. If we do this and vote people into office who think the same way will result in a better quality of life.

[@rockyroad7345]

Most in Congress have a mission to author and pass as much legislation as possible with their name attached to it. Massive federal spending and regulation must be stopped.

[@jacobjohnson8069]

their is a lot of stupid people in this country that do not take responsibility witch is why we have things like covid vaxeen mandates to prevent the hole workforce from getting sick, the problem is not regulation itself it's to mutch regulation.

[@iloveschicken6527]

I hope this nightmare is over soon! Tired of what's been going on with this squatting criminal administration! God bless all!

[@bcarss1970]

This has been going on long before Brandon.

[@cajun1253]

It sadly predates this guy by about a few decades! We need a change in the bureaucracy that runs D.C. 👆Closest thing to a fix that anyone could offer you.

[@firstnamelastnamethirdname]

I think this is where the antichrist arrives and we end up in the great tirbulation.

[@iloveschicken6527]

@@bcarss1970 I don't care. Things have just been getting worse since they've been in!

[@iloveschicken6527]

@@cajun1253 I agree! I hope things change! God bless all!

[@larryfromwisconsin9970]

Always informative. Up in Northern Wisconsin there are numerous small butcher shops for processing deer during hunting season. Throughout the rest of the year they process any livestock for local ranchers. Nothing for commercial sale. But wow, they make some great sausage. I kept my freezer full.

[@frederickburns1739]

Well we need to start a poke and sniff program for POLITICIANS!!! I bet we'll get a lot of BAD SMELLS!!!

[@ck3561]

Insane, I’m glad I am able to raise my own livestock and I also hunt. It blows my mind how dependent we have all gotten on the grocery stores/government to put food on the table.

[@silent1967]

Exactly !

[@AM-xi1lh]

I depend on them because I can't stomach processing. A skill I likely envy you for.

[@Stevarooni]

One would be forgiven for mistaking incompetence for malevolence.

[@cajun1253]

BINGO!

[@brianhoward1245]

Thomas Massie is a national treasure. We need to protect this man at all costs.

[@jasonjoyce5798]

Well said John! I would strongly encourage everyone to write to their US Congressional Representatives and US Senators in support of the “The Prime Act”. The US Food Supply Chain is a mess right now due to an ongoing trucker shortage combined with high diesel prices. The American People deserve to have more competition in the Meet Processing Industry since it is mostly controlled by only a few companies.

[@independentthinker4881]

The key to all this federal interference is interstate commerce because of commerce clause. If we can overcome interstate commerce then many of these federal roadblocks could be overcome similarly to the Texas made in and stays in suppressor law. The argument is If you can localize 100% of the products, production, distribution and customers to a single state then the fed has no jurisdiction. Of course there is currently a legal battle over the Texas suppressor law, but if it succeeds in its claims we could flip much of the feds power on its head.

[@cajun1253]

I wish them luck but should we need to fight to sell our own products in this way? Hey , I know - you didn’t break it your just hoping to see it fixed up better than it’s current broken state - me too.

[@independentthinker4881]

@@cajun1253 With luck we can get America back to it's roots in freedom, liberty... but just cause I didn't make the mess doesn't mean I don't feel a need to clean it up. To quote Billy Joel. "We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it"

[@independentthinker4881]

@Steve L The constitution is law and the commerce clause is in the constitution and has a lot of case law associated with it.... While I appreciate the principles of what you are say it is not a practical means of change. On principle, I do not give my money to Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and the like because it is foolish to strengthen your enemy. However, I do pay every stolen cent of of my income taxes as not paying taxes will just get me in prisoned and then I am just out of the fight. If it was possible to just brute force things to be the right way life would be easy, but it doesn't work that way. Take a stand where you can and then change the system from within and add pressure from the outside everywhere you can. This is literally what the Communist Manifest proclaimed and it is what the far left (and some of those that claim not to be) has done to push America to where it is now.

[@TankGunner84]

I just up he road from Congressman Massie, he is the real deal. I’ve also used that slaughter house, it’s so so. I’m glad we have a real down to earth representative who stands up for America and his district. If only we could ditch Mitch McConnell and get another real senator. I wish Massie would run for his seat. At least we have Rand Paul.

[@JohnDoe-xf2ke]

Massie is one of the best.

[@HeloPetry]

Thanks for you work, Mr Stossel!

[@vomeister]

John Stossel - I've been following you since you were on 20/20. Love and appreciate all your team's hard work to bring us the truth.

[@Frank00]

Although I appreciate Johns straight to the point videos this could have and should have been a 10 minute in depth video.

[@jaxkal9596]

All his videos last 5 minutes

[@cyberft]

Then he would lose 75% of the audience.

[@Frank00]

@@cyberft hopefully a part 2.

[@mohamedabdourahman9845]

What he could do is create longer videos but split them into 2 videos instead.

[@THEFERMANATOR]

He does do some extended in depth videos, and this is one subject that is deserving of one. I grow my own beef, it is far better than what you buy in the stores, but as he pointed out I cannot sell it regardless of the quality of it. Even during covid when people couldn't find meats, you couldn't go to a slaughter house, and buy from them even though they were backed up overflowing with meat that farmers would have loved to have shared for a reasonable cost.

[@shellyscholz1256]

This is why I miss living on a farm. We used proper processing techniques.

[@MichaelJames-lz7ni]

...and who told you what was 'proper'? The easter bunny?

[@shellyscholz1256]

@@MichaelJames-lz7ni science determines what is the proper way to process meats. We do not allow the commingling of intestines (fecal material) with edible meat. We do not grind hamburgers from multiple animals because it could cross contaminate and ruin all the chopped beef.

[@b-chroniumproductions3177]

@@MichaelJames-lz7ni I would think years of experience from actually being a farmer

[@shellyscholz1256]

@@b-chroniumproductions3177 that, too!

[@MichaelJames-lz7ni]

@@b-chroniumproductions3177 SO - you taste-test EVERYTHING your process before you sell it? No, you don't - the Government told you how to test your products, and why.

[@taylormunson3605]

I know SO MUCH MORE about the world around me because of Mr. Stossel

[@danielpratt3393]

I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

[@ccmusic2249]

SPOT ON! I learned all of this during the first lockdown and it made me LIVID.

[@aryaprincess2479]

Buying meat, poultry, eggs and vegetables from small farms is the epitome of buying good quality products. You can see the animals, the farm, the people, the equipment etc. Please, regulations and big corporations are not more sanitary, they are just better at blending their mistakes together in a mass production line.

[@cjlowe1978]

Been watching you as far back as I can remember. Thank you

[@Armalite015]

Wish we had more people in Congress like Tom Massie or Rand Paul.

[@arioch2112]

Thank you as always, John! Keep doing the great job started all those years ago with REAL investigative reporting.

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

Endless regulations, means fewer small producers. Also complicated tax issues (the Govmt authorities must know every dollar spent, or made) require a accounting and legal team. The individual is Crushed

[@db6655]

I would say this is government incompetence, but these days I think they know exactly what they're doing.

[@johnnygeneric161]

Massie is my congressman. He is GREAT!!!!

[@rockymntnliberty]

Another way around this problem, but a difficult solution for most people, is to buy the steer directly on the from the farmer, then you take it to the meat processor.

[@PureAmericanPatriot]

I prefer option (a): permanently defund [eliminate] the USDAg, USDEd, NIH, EPA...

[@droe2570]

So we need a right to eat amendment, now? The madness of this nation and our government is mind boggling.

[@tsunamirojomajore1762]

Always informative. Thank you John!

[@sammerjay8128]

For a while now, I have been an advocate of going to your local rancher, asking questions and buying directly from them. Get the federal government out of it. The Fed is now going after Amish ranchers and farmers.

[@johnnyboy55]

Poke and sniff. Not to be confused with scratch and sniff.

[@roxtar69-9mm]

Poke and Sniff - that was my nickname on the wrestling team, in high school. 😂

[@CVSoprano]

"Poke and sniff" - sounds like the typical evening after going to the club.

[@adailyllama4786]

Stock of beef hasn't been an issue, because it isn't selling at $15 a pound.

[@TheMosinCrate]

King George waving saying "miss me yet?". I always liked the quote from the Patriot. Paraphrasing here.. "Being ruled by one tyrant 2000 miles away or being ruled by 2000 tyrants one mile away."

[@jonathantyree8172]

I used to work at a facility that made a product that the usda had to "inspect"... It was 3% actual meat. It was 1 product out of about 300 that we made. We had to clear an office and a parking space that they could have 24hr access to. The actual inspection when they were there was laughable. We treated it no different then any of our other products we made. Same safety. Same sanitation practices. Same procedures. Same paperwork. But it had the little usda seal on the labels. What a scam.

[@MustPassTruck]

Local small butcher that only slaughters 2 or 3 a day has to have a USDA inspector watch every time they slaughter and prep.

[@cajun1253]

They are regulating them out of business. They did it to the local butchers around here .. well most of em.

[@thegeneralist7527]

It is insane. I have a local grower who markets their own porkchops. 10 times better than anything you can buy in the supermarket.

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

Since when can the federal government stop intrastate sales?

[@mikebergman1817]

Massie is one of a few very good, trustworthy members of government. Love that guy.

[@revacohen]

This is an eye opener. I've been a Republican since I was 29, but I still have a lot to learn. John Stossel doesn't preach to the choir, he shows people that there are always things to learn.