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Already hurting from drought, tariffs, and natural disasters Cattle herds dropped significantly now due directly from Trump policies. Donald Trump ‘Destroying’ US Cattle Industry, Market Operator Warns ""President Trump has ruined agriculture and American farmers and he has done [it] in less than a year’s time. When Trump announced he was going to import beef from his buddy Argentina it was downhill from that point," he added. Industry observers have attributed the drop to expectations of increased beef imports—after Trump slashed tariffs on several agricultural products—as well as the recent announcement from Tyson Foods that it will be shutting a plant in Nebraska, while reducing operations at another in Texas and laying off thousands of workers." (Nov 25, 2025 newsweek) You asked:" SO, ARE THEY DOING THEIR JOB or 'SUCKING up AIR' ? FSIS, USDA, FDA, and the CDC" Here are why the USA food safety is at risk: Thousands of critical employees — including scientists and front-line health staff — have been pushed out, raising questions about how the agencies will continue their vital work. *grist organization › food-and-agriculture Trump radically remade the US food system in just … May 2, 2025 · The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. *foodsafetynews com › trump-aided... Trump, aided by RFK Jr., is dismantling the U.S. food safety network Sep 26, 2025 · Staff cuts at the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service have reduced the agency’s ability. *FDA actions that safeguard clinical trials, food and drug safety in steep decline, Science investigation reveals 2 Jul 2019ByCharles Piller(science.org). *CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive ... - Jul 10, 2026 · The country is in the midst of a nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea caused by a parasite the CDC stopped. * Aug. 21, 2025 When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to federal health agencies earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was getting rid of excess administrators who were larding the government with bureaucratic bloat. But a groundbreaking data analysis by ProPublica shows the administration has cut deeper than it has acknowledged. Though Kennedy said he would add scientists to the workforce, agencies have lost thousands of them, along with colleagues who those scientists depended on to dispatch checks, fix computers and order lab supplies, enabling them to do their jobs. Done in the name of government efficiency, these reductions have left departments stretching to perform their basic functions, ProPublica found, according to interviews with more than three dozen former and current federal employees. Over 20,500 Workers Lost as of Aug. 16" (propublica.org) And this: "“I am concerned that by letting go so many people, by offering early retirement, it’s like that kids’ game Jenga where you pile up all these wooden pieces,” said Sandra Eskin, CEO of Stop Foodborne Illness, a non-profit, and former deputy under secretary for food safety at the US Department of Agriculture. “And if you pull one out from the bottom or even the middle, the whole thing falls apart. The FDA “does not have a robust inspection program for the foods that it regulates”, she said. “And so if that’s your baseline, and then you’re cutting back inspectors, then that is very concerning.” Foreign food inspections by the FDA have dropped to the lowest on record since the agency began inspecting foreign food facilities in 2011, aside from during the Covid-19 pandemic. Domestic inspections also steeply declined. Due to cuts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which works with the FDA and other agencies to conduct surveillance for food pathogens, reduced the number of pathogens they surveil through its Foodnet surveillance program from eight to two. Frank Yiannas, former FDA deputy commissioner for food policy and response under the first Trump administration, and into the Biden administration, expressed concern about the reduction in surveillance, with food recalls already on the rise. “Foodnet and the pathogens that they track is critical, because it’s the ultimate scorecard of whether we’re getting better or worse on performance in food safety,” he said. “Consumers in general, when they hear there are cuts to food-borne disease surveillance programs at the CDC, they should pay attention,” added Yiannas. “It’s not a good idea if any food-borne illness remains invisible. We need to know about these things so that we can gather why they happen in the first place, and inform future prevention.” As the FDA grapples with these cuts, former workers criticized the treatment of employees, the wastefulness of firings and rehirings, and dismissed claims by the Trump administration that the cuts have no impact on the agency’s ability to effectively execute its mission. Harbourt, the fired safety manager, said his position’s responsibilities were replaced with two full-time employees, who were pulled away from their initial employment positions. “Turning the federal government into a temp employee agency is going to have negative effects for all Americans across a number of different aspects of their lives – some of which we’re already seeing,” he said. Rightwing media pundits have called federal employees “entitled bureaucrats”, “worthless parasites”, and “completely worthless” amid cuts to the federal workforce. Russell Vought, whom Trump tapped to lead the office of management and budget, stated shortly before the 2024 election that “we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected”." (M. Sainato Jan 13,2026) There are facts available you just have to research. With a self proclaimed genius, A proven snake oil Oz and a worm eaten brain guy running things be careful what you eat. Do you trust what you eat?