Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was ridiculed en masse Monday night after recommending Americans consider alternatives to beef amid an extraordinary spike in ground beef prices.“If [beef] is too expensive, unlike fuel, you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs… there are other sources of really g...

Rollins’ claim that prices for other protein sources were “coming down” is inaccurate. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of eggs, while lower than in 2025, has increased in recent months, increasing by 4.3% from May to June, falling by 0.5% from June to July, and then increasing again by 2.9% from July to August. Pork and chicken costs both increased by 0.4% from July to August.

Meanwhile, prices for ground beef hit a new record after reaching an average price of around $7.16 per pound as of August, an increase of 0.6% from July and 7.9% when compared with the previous year.

“If Joe Biden said anything close to this, MAGA would’ve had a total meltdown,” argued Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in a social media post on X to his more than 400,000 followers. “Now this is just part of Trump’s messaging. Hypocrisy at its finest.”

Others, like the progressive media organization MeidasTouch, jokingly argued that Rollins was “about two weeks away from telling people they can always eat bugs.”

“You will eat the bugs, you will live in the pod,” quipped Damin Toell, a New York-based attorney, in a social media post on X.

A multi-millionaire telling people to eat other protein that they also cannot afford is about as close to a “let them eat cake” moment as we’ll probably get.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    Very good points. Protein as a marketing juggernaut in this country is beyond stupid.

    But also, yeah, this administration is so fucking tone-deaf.

    In addition, remember all the fainting spells the right had over Michelle suggesting eating more vegetables and moving around more? The way they acted, you’d think Michelle was going to castrate every single MAGA male in the country…

    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      eating more vegetables and moving around more?

      Oddly enough, the same sort of stuff that would have fixed the so-called ‘flabby military’ that Diapers and Kegsbreath keep whining about…

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        All the more ironic since donnie doesn’t even believe in exercise[1], eats some of the worst shit ever [2] and washes it down with diet soda (12 diet cokes per day!), and Petey seemingly cannot do even one proper rep when he’s doing one of his absurd photo-ops showing how manly masculine macho he-men need to sack up and do some lifting, bro.

        I bet both of them think vegetables are for “soy boys”, too.

        [1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps-exercise-and-energy-belief_l_6930cc7ae4b0cee4438247cf

        He does not get regular exercise, in part because he has a long-held theory that people are born with a finite amount of energy and that vigorous activity can deplete that reserve, like a battery.

        [2]

        he’s apparently a red meat guy and eats “McDonald’s by the sackful”