▪️The average person seeing this meme would assume the Trump Administration is removing safety regulations at the behest of big chicken, but that’s not at all what happened.
▪️There is no change in any rule, the poultry industry is still under the same regulations as they’ve been for decades. This was a proposed rule that has been withdrawn. There were over 7,000 public comments on the proposal, and the agency said:
🔹“the comments have raised several important issues that warrant further consideration. Therefore, FSIS is withdrawing the “Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products” proposed rule and proposed determination to allow the Agency to further assess its approach for addressing Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products.”
▪️Indeed, Pilgrim’s Pride was among one of the comments, but they agreed with the rule proposal! They were a little more nuanced, saying certain aspects should be modified and the implementation dates changed. But they were overall in support.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FSIS-2023-0028-6982
▪️It was actually the small farm poultry producers that were most opposed to this change. As with most regulations, larger companies can more easily absorb the costs and are less affected.
▪️For example, one small (“women owned”) producer, called Towering Oaks Farms posted a comment opposed to the rule. She pointed out that this proposal would require small producers to test a much higher percentage of their chickens than large producers.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FSIS-2023-0028-7070
▪️She noted increased costs to comply could result in 40% of slaughter facilities closing, which would mean many small farms might not have access to compliant facilities. This would cause many small producers to discontinue poultry production, even make it so farmers can’t get their birds back for their own consumption!
▪️Other small producers posted similar comments. If anything, it appears this proposal was withdrawn more after listening to concerns of small farmers than large ones.
Here’s the Fox LA article referenced:
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/usda-salmonella-levels-raw-poultry-usda-withdraws-plan
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
