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I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.
They voted for this and it’s going exactly to plan, they just wish the plan was faster.
The plan is to remove everyone undocumented and then bring them all back as H-2A visa labor paying them pennies on the dollar.
All bailout money is earmarked for the corporations. We need to save the banks and the auto industry! Again!! /s
Ok, ultra corrupt and all, but at least from environmental pov (especially water) killing soy where USA grew it en masse is a really good thing afaik.
It was too forced & unsustainable.I dont know if country’s in south America are filling the gap the US created, but if yes its probably much worse than farming in the US.
I once had the chance to hear a lecture from a Brazilian professor about how soy gets grown in Brasil and that shit was terrifying. Slavery like working conditions. Corruption, massive landgrabs, insane use of pesticides (they literally used to apply them with airplanes until it got banned due to health “concerns” (it actively destroys your health) for the civilians) and mono cultures all the way through. It was very informative, but fucking scary. Due to the fact that massive sizes of land are not really listed and nobody owns them. So farmers are literally creating their own documents, that say they own certain land, put them in a drawer with crickets, so the paper looks older than it is, go to the local government and surprise, they now own even more land.
Very true.
Tho that is true for any industry in such countries.And it’s not like fairly similar things don’t happen in USA farming.
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.
I bet they’d love soy burgers?
Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.
I couldn’t believe how many people don’t realize that a country literally CANNOT be run as a business.
It can, but it doesn’t mean it will be good or useful at all lol but I get what you’re saying. Government is for people, business is for profit. People and profit are not compatible as the purpose of the entity. Just look at the US Healthcare “Industry” for the most glaring example of this.
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.
This really needs to be higher up. Farmers are millionaires who got massive bailouts and tax breaks the first Trump term. They were expecting the same thing this time around which is why they voted for him again. They voted for their bank account over human suffering and the destruction of America
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… ?
We all gonna be meatless soon, insect meat maybe
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.
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.
