Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.
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What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.
They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.
Which wave of feminism is this /s
Nova Scotia lobster is awesome and there will be lots to go around this year since we won't be sending much stateside or to China.
I'd suggest Alberta beef as well but fuck Danielle Smith.
From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.
Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.
Republicans are racist, misogynist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, fucking idiots
European beef is very sophisticated.
The cows go "Meaux"
We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.
This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.
Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.
This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.
"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."
Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?
Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.
That's not true. He ate all the crayons before he wrote anything.
Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.
It’s unbelievable how much better it is overseas compared to US.
The wild thing is that we do have access to it here, there are small farms growing quality produce and heirloom varieties not available in Europe. But that's not what gets sold in supermarkets in population centers. The problem is in the middlemen and marketing, all unregulated for profit from crap.
Our food is garbage. It's all engineered to be fast growing, so it has no time to develop flavor and take up natural nutrients. The result is flavorless, empty food.
Man, you'd think itd be cheap, with the quantity over quality game were running
The good news is, for us prepper types, is that proteins are looking to have a good, if short, crash in prices in the coming weeks or couple months as export orders dry up. They'll drop just to break even on the immediate costs, then go back up again as farms scale back their operations to accommodate the decreased demand, raising costs back up again, except at that point, it'll likely be higher as there's no real "buffer" of producing more for exports and there's an overall smaller count of source animals.
Now's a good time to get a chest freezer (or a second one) and get it ready to stock up.
You are for getting about the corporate greed aspect of it. It will never be cheap if they think they can charge more for it.
I try my best to buy as locally as possible.
It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.
I try to go by the book “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan. The book basically tells Americans to eat like the rest of the world does, which isn’t easy here with all of the oversized portions of “edible food-like substances” as the book describes.
this guy is an utter dipshit, he should be impeached, if that's even possible lmao.
He was, twice, wore it like a badge of honour, and all the MAGAts voted for him again.
There was a time when presidents had decency and would quit rather than be impeached. Normal rules don't apply to the orange twat.
There's also the fact that despite the economic recovery post-pandemic, every-day Joes didn't see the recovery in their paycheck - and at the same time, inflation (price gouging, really) was rampant. The salt of the earth tends to vote by their wallet, and wallets were feeling the pinch at election time.
That, plus Democrats' well-known propensity for utter failure at messaging, practically guaranteed a Trump victory.
the biggest argument here is the global anti-incumbency sentiment. Likely due to covid.
Beef is a lot more expensive in Europe in my experience, but is also of a much higher quality. You can get an equivalent quality in the US but you’ll have to go to a specialty butcher or a farmers market and it will be more expensive than an equivalent cut in Europe.
And frankly the cheap stuff in the US is still too expensive for me to make it a regular part of my diet. So, if I’m going to have it, it’ll be a treat, and I may as well buy the better stuff in that case.
Russia refusing to import our bleached chicken during Obama was a big falling out point with them. And they blocked the US adoption industry from trafficking Russian kids.
Big Ag has a lot of power here. They will be petty and make this hurt for the EU.
We didn't stop buying your chicken now, we weren't buying them in the first place.
I know.
Big Ag, ~~sponsored~~ subsidised by the US government.
Take a hike. The US has lost all its trust and trading power with trump's tariff games.
Things tariffed, things exempt, not exempt but not tariffed, U-turn on tariffs.
The uncertainty isn't bringing manufacturing back to the US. Especially if the US is tariffing raw materiels.
And it isn't going to force the EU to buy worse products than they can grow locally.
I buy milk from a farm that's 70 miles away. It's a bit more expensive, but holy hell does it taste better than the (already fairly decent) supermarket milk.
I cannot imagine a world where I have to refrigerate eggs. Sitting in the fridge, soaking up the random flavours of leftovers. That's weird as fuck, man.
"Big Ag" has power in the US. The US has pissed away their power failing to strong arm dozens of countries. And they've deported/interned (or are working on departing and interning) their labour farm workforce.
Eggs are expensive in the US? Have fun with the next 6 months.
That’s some very optimistic and tough talk, that seems to ignore the US military power and their willingness to use it for petty retaliation.
Oh yeh. US the bully. Meat is absolutely the issue of the future. Not electricity, not communications, not water. Fucking chlorine washed chicken and hormone injected beef. Nobody else can grow that.
Let the US deploy their McDonalds & forward bases as a military operation against - what was previously - an ally that provided goods, goods and knowledge sharing.
The US has military might, but they have like 6 months to actually use it. The EU isn't sleeping, Canada isn't sleeping, the world is not sleeping.
After 6 months, the allies they would be invading are no longer relying on "US off-switch" military assets. It will be some fucking washed-out russian "special operation" type failure, where the US either has to commit to genocide or get kicked back home.
And anyone they use their military might on - who has previously been an ally and trade partner - would be instantly backed up by the rest of the western world.
Because the US has turned from ally to hostile. Everyone is now preparing for it.
My comment isn't tough talk.
The US is tough talking. And have complete fucked it up. They have slapped on tariffs then undone tariffs, then slapped on tariffs, then exempted shit, then saying the exemptions are just a different type or tariffs.
They have fucking rang the bell of trade power until it's meaningless and nobody fucking cares.
The US trade talks are bullshit.
Other countries can just stonewall until it's time for the toddlers afternoon nap. Look at China, they aren't relenting. The EU isn't relenting. Canada isn't relenting. Who is the US winning against? Penguins on an uninhabited island?!
Oooh, we fold to the big bad tariffs. Next week, the guy in charge executive-orders some new bullshit against us.
Why not just retaliate, and still new bullshit against us the following week anyway?
It's idiocy to capitulate to the tariffs.
The US won't bomb the EU over shitty meat and trade deals.
The US military might is - essentially - meaningless.
Military power works in many ways besides direct military action. The US essentially controls most major trade routes on earth. Would take Europe at least a decade to be able to build enough to push back.
Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants
Honestly asking, what reaction do you think he is looking for?
I can understand (and believe) these assholes are all evil and greedy at a cartoon villain level, but I simply cannot understand what is the goal here. All I see is stupidity running rampant
Absolute isolationism with nationalistic delusions of grandeur
Basically, North Korea
But don't they realize that North Korea is a broken dump? why would they want to be kings of that when they are already Oligarchs of an actual rich nation?
Not asking you to make them make sense... I am just at a lost for logic here
Because even oligarchs aren't kings.
There's always another goalpost.
They do realize that, they don't see what they want as that tho. This guy is too stupid for that, and he himself is not a oligarch
They probably think that couldn't possibly happen to their country because they think they're better than North Koreans
im convinced this guy has actual brain damage.
that's my occam's razor
The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".
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