The Taylor Farms diarrhea lettuce and diarrhea jalapeño peppers, specifically. The same Taylor Farms that donated to a Trump-aligned super PAC six days before the announced delay of food safety regulations.

ETA: this is only meant to name and shame a big offender, but all large corpos benefit from the disgusting deregulation rampant here in the United Shits of America :’)

What is it with right-wing populists and being undone by lettuces? Liz Truss in Britain is now synonymous with the lettuce, and she had a simillarly laxative effect on the economy.

This week it's tofu

They love swallowing,

They are the greatest at it,

maga swallows best!

And let's also not forget the coup d'etat in Venezuela

Conspiracy theory since the BLM is selling rounded up wild horses to buyers and then those buyers are suspected of selling to slaughter houses. Meanwhile the administration is waiving tariffs to import lean meat trimmings without specifying the source countries. The theory is those two things are directly linked.

Article on the Horses

Buy Canadian.

Is that a reference to something? I feel like some comedy bit featured someone saying "that makes me want a hotdog real bad". Maybe a false memory on my part.

Never have been

There are protected wild horses on federal land.

It's illegal to hunt them or kill them for meat.

But the Trump administration has found a loophole: if they capture them and sell them to a foreign entity alive, that foreign entity can legally butcher them.

It's darkly funny because those horses are a invasive species that only have federal protections because conservatives like to pretend to be cowboys.

Stay clear of beef unless you're really confident in its origin at least for a little while.

It's not the meat that's problematic. There are a few points:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html

The government can spend more than $3,000 to capture a mustang and bring it to market, but sells each for as little as $25. A horse can fetch up to $750 at a slaughter plant. The potential for profit keeps buyers coming.

if I was president i’d have sent firefighters to Canada, not fucking tariffed them for smoke