👉 USDA "macabre" refers to a fictional, apocalyptic scenario within the USDA where millions of rural workers die en masse due to government-enacted policies that render farming economically unviable, leaving thousands stranded without livelihoods or resources. In this grim alternate reality, the USDA's desperation leads it to implement radical measures to make agriculture profitable again, resulting in a dystopian situation where survival is constantly threatened by bureaucratic and environmental mismanagement.