BREAKING: President Trump tells the Department of Justice to "immediately" begin investigating meat packing companies who are "driving up the price of beef."
Nov 7, 2025 · 8:41 PM UTC
As usual Trump is aiming for the target but missing the bull's eye and only getting the outer ring.
Prices are soaring due to a combination of supply shortages and sustained demand, with meatpackers' market power contributing but not dominating the equation.
Meatpackers have faced credible allegations of price manipulation, and their oligopoly enables them to squeeze ranchers (paying low prices for live cattle) while charging consumers high retail prices. This disparity has widened profit margins for packers amid the supply crunch.
Here is the real reason why beef prices are surging.
However, the root causes of 2025's record highs—such as a historic cattle herd low and environmental factors—precede and outweigh any alleged collusion in driving the overall cost surge.
The pandemic cause plant closures due to herd culls.
Culls came about due to drought in cattle areas as well as high cost to maintain herds.
Trump may not help with drought but he could help a lot with feed and other maintenance needs.
Animal meat is going to be a thing of the past
Government should use SNAP funds to buy $BYND and produce food that is scientifically cheap, nutritious, and tasty
some kind of basic food to prevent people from starving
EBT recipients would get three meals a day
No inflation in stores for everyone else, end hunger
Win-win
Full idea here:
🧵 HUNGER EXIT PROGRAM:
Welfare that saves your life — but forces you to earn a better one.
Zero starvation. Zero chronic NEETs. Zero collective guilt.
Here’s how 👇
1/ Poverty is an open-air prison.
The poor are inmates on day release:
Obsess over food → can’t study, work, or escape.
42M Americans on SNAP (USDA 2024)
28% NEET among young users (BLS)
Avg subsidy: 4.2 years (Census)
Cost: $120B food + $600B obesity/diabetes (CMS)
Enough.
2/ Solution: Ration Pack — “Food Parole”
Govt uses SNAP funds to buy $BYND and create Beyond Food Gov,
a state-owned company mass-producing a basic, nutritious, dirt-cheap meal.
Not a restaurant. Oxygen.
3 meals/day. 1800 kcal. Plant protein. Fortified. Neutral taste.
You survive. Period.
Want better? Earn it.
3/ Why plant protein, not meat? Math, not ideology.
FactorBeefPlant ProteinCost/kg$8–12$1.2–2.5Water/kg15,000L1,500L (–90%)CO₂/kg603 (–95%)ScalabilityLimitedUnlimited
→ $87B/year feeds 60M people (plants) vs 20M (meat).
4/ How it works
10 giga-factories → cost $0.9/meal at scale
Pickup via EBT QR code → fraud –90%
Nutrition: 50g protein, <30g sugar, fortified with B12/iron/D
Obesity 42% → <25%
Diabetes 18% → 8%
Healthcare savings: –$185B/year
5/ Variety? Yes — but earned.
Tier 1 (0–6 mo): 100% base ration (gray, repetitive)
Tier 2 (6–18 mo): 70% ration + 30% voucher if >20h work/week
Tier 3 (>18 mo or >150% poverty line): 0% ration
Escape Mode app:
+10h work → +1 flavor
+Income → real chicken, pizza, steak
Earn more, eat better.
6/ Built-in NEET repellent
Today: 35% SNAP cash → junk
Tomorrow: calculated discomfort → 72% “tolerate it only to escape”
Results:
Subsidy: 4.2 → 2.1 yrs
Exit rate: 12% → 22%/yr
NEET 18–35: 28% → <15%
No effort? You live. But nobody envies you.
7/ Macro impact (numbers, not vibes)
MetricTodayHEPΔSNAP users42M<25M–17MFood cost$120B$87B–$33BHealthcare$600B$415B–$185BGDP—+1.8% (+$420B)Food inflation+6%–2%
8/ Pilot: California
5M users (⅓ of national SNAP)
$10B/year budget
2-year test
KPIs:
Hunger 0%
Obesity –10%
Exits +10%
Backlash <30%
If it works → national rollout in 36 months.
9/ Objections
“Dystopian!” → No, honest. Current SNAP = junk survival.
“No variety!” → Every hour worked = more choice.
“Allergies?” → 3 base variants (soy-free, gluten-free).
“WTO?” → Domestic subsidy, not export dumping (CAP-style).
10/ Verdict
Hunger Exit Program = investment in upward mobility.
Society: no starvation, no guilt, more productivity, less spending.
Individual: oxygen to climb, not a couch to crash on.
Poverty = phase, not identity.
Welfare = ramp, not hammock
