I mean with the mystery meat imports, it's hard to say how much of this is a joke

What we do know is that his administration announced an enormous influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before providing basic answers about exactly where all of it would come from. There is also evidence that, almost simultaneously, another arm of the federal government was allowing inexpensive wild horses to enter a chain that could end at foreign slaughterhouses. The internet supplied the connecting tissue because the government had supplied the blank space.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/27/trumps-mystery-meat-problem/

Sidebar: it's also really something when people think the only two things out there are meat and bugs and just like forget plants exist?

Potentially less if you allow for the mystery meat imports to be considered possibly horse meat. Copying from another comment

What we do know is that his administration announced an enormous influx of unusually cheap imported ground beef before providing basic answers about exactly where all of it would come from. There is also evidence that, almost simultaneously, another arm of the federal government was allowing inexpensive wild horses to enter a chain that could end at foreign slaughterhouses. The internet supplied the connecting tissue because the government had supplied the blank space.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/27/trumps-mystery-meat-problem/