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Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First… Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.
kind regards, The rest of the world
That’s one way to get the farms into the hands of billionaires for cheap.
Another nail for the coffin of US society. Keep it going USA you can do it.
My wife said this tonight and it really hit me: China will be eating burgers and America will be eating soy
they are also eating soy and burgers.
Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.
What about food deserts in the USA? 🏜️
They tried exporting those, demand has been markedly lower. I think America might be stuck with em
I was actually thinking planting some vegetables and selling them to people who live in a food desert. But it’s questionable anyone would eat them unless deep fried I assume
You could start by giving some away. You’ll get people’s attention, get them used to cooking more. Then you could also put out a request for donations or volunteer farmers who’d maybe get first pick of the crop. Good way to make friends and build community. Sooner or later maybe you can start a produce stand and turn a profit, and maybe before long you’ve got enough people involved to start a regular farmer’s market. That kind of local resilience would do a lot of good.
Yes, but now the US can use all the water to train chatbots that invent facts wholecloth. Checkmate, China.
and still growing water hungry alfalfa for the middle east.
Most farmers voted to burn their own fields… again. The same man who nearly crippled American agriculture last time was welcomed with open arms. Tariffs, trade wars, and labor shortages wrecked their profits before, but somehow they lined up for another round. It is like watching someone hire the same man who burned down their house and expecting him to rebuild it this time.
in his first term, i read an article where the farmers were hopeful he would turn things around despite him putitng the tariffs in the first time. theres no helping these people.
After his Trade War on the first term, Trump gave major subsidies and bailouts which really benefited large farmers. Trump promised similar subsidies for this term, and Trump actually delivered on that in his spending bill; but farmers were expecting more than what was promised, and they haven’t gotten that.
Padme: this will mean cheaper soy products for U.S. domestic market, right?
I eat quite a bit of soy because I’m meatless.
Right?
…Right… ?
Having tried both, I prefer oat milk to soy milk.
There’s a few recipes for silken tofu I’ll get around to trying out though.
I prefer the taste of oat, but I go with soy because it is a close second for me and has better nutritional content (namely protein and fiber).
I’m of a generation that has a Clarissa Explains It All understanding of tofu, our hippy dippy parents attempted to substitute tofu for meat in western dishes and pretended to like it. Show me how to really prepare tofu.
We all gonna be meatless soon, insect meat maybe
Aren’t farmers who are among the most conservative voters worldwide?
And this on X? Man people ARE waking up… a handful of years or two too late but still.
The European colonial empires fell sixty years ago, and it wasn’t even out of sheer stupidity that America is doing right now. China is laughing out of sheer happiness that they are filling the vacuum that US is leving due to plain stupidity.
Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%
Honestly you’re welcome. I’m glad someone is benefiting from this absolute shit show.
Corn and soy are about the only agricultural products that aren’t extremely scarce this year…
Guess what the US exports instead of buying from Brasil? Nature wants them to fail too.
IMO there’s a good chance that Trump’s second term will mark the end of the United States as a super power.
The dismantling of NATO, all of the “soft power” has gone down the drain, the US being subservient to Russia. It has basically already happened. We are just waiting for everyone to acknowledge it, because every leader in the Western world are desperately clinging to a world view which no longer exists.
If only there were signs that a spoiled, deranged imbecile, pedofile who bankrupted so many companies that he ended up as a game show host wouldn’t be a great leader
and destroy the republican base, gop too. hes taking everyone down with him, at the behest of putin.
It’s guaranteed because it’s basically already happened. The ramifications just take time to be felt
Farming is .8% of the GDP
The superpower thing has nothing to do with farming.
A has-been empire with a massive military and an aggressive desire to get back to the days when everyone respected them.
They’ll probably decide, fear is as good as respect…
What massive military? Militaries only exist as long as they are paid.
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The US needs a German style constitutional court to make sure you can’t have a dictator again.
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Enforced by a foreign occupation after half of the tyrant’s supporters got killed, but the occupation doesn’t bother killing or at least keeping the rest of them from running the state and corporations like nothing happened?
There can’t be a foreign occupation. Our nuclear warheads guarantee that the only way the USA falls is from civil unrest. No one is going to rush a nation capable of Mutually-Assured Destruction.
At this point that’s barely and opinion
Speed running the collapse of an empire.
It really feels like that, doesn’t it?
Any % Democracy death blind playthrough on a DDR pad.
What I don’t get is how come this hasn’t translated to more plentiful and cheaper soybeans here for the local market. You can’t buy fresh soybeans at my local grocery store. You can only get them frozen and they’re about four bucks a bag. Which isn’t hugely expensive but it’s not exactly cheap either.
Most soybeans grown in the US aren’t food grade. Something like 95% of US grown soybeans are grown for livestock feed and soybean oil, not for human consumption - the GMO varieties they grow don’t taste good as edamame and may not be safe to eat due to the high levels of pesticides used.
The soybeans China imports from the US are used for soybean oil and livestock feed, just like most of the US soybean crop. You might see cheaper jugs of soybean oil as a result of China bowing out of the US market, but you’re not going to see cheaper green soybeans in your grocer’s freezer.
You think things are going to get cheaper just because there’s an excess of it? No, no, that’s not how that works here. You’re used to paying $4 a bag, therefore you will continue paying $4 a bag or more until the heat death of the universe. I’ll be surprised if it isn’t $6 a bag by this time next year.
Anything not sold will, obviously, be destroyed. Can’t have anyone trying to eat it for free.
They don’t usually harvest and store them fresh. Most are harvested and stored dry, but generally need additional processing to be used… there’s just not the domestic capacity to use it all. They can only supplement feeding farm animals and unless processed beforehand, are just like cooking any other dry bean.
Do you mean edamame? I think mature soy beans are normally dried for storage, but maybe I’m wrong?
