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- news@hexbear.net
Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.
U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.
Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.
I don’t care.This is actually better for the environment.With a smaller ecological footprint.
This is america where we pay our farmers to grow stuff that they can’t sell. And we think we like it this way
We pay them to do that so we have a surplus so we all don’t starve… every country does this so if there is a bad year, you don’t have farmers stopping production because they can’t survive and have to sell everything.
No clue why they vote red though, considering they get a ton of subsidizes.
I have family farmers in Iowa. This is a bull shit take. They make so much corn because usa says so, but the corn the grow can’t be eaten by humans. It’s cattle feed.
It just sits. And you gor wit for 30$/acre or you try to free market and go broke.
It’s an extremely inefficient system and non of that food goes to USA citizens. Which is why you have no citations for that comment.
That corn is grown so they have money for when it’s needed.
That corn also goes to feed beef cattle which we eat.
https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-data-says/
They’ve been doing this since the great depression in the usa because no one wants another great depression. Other countries do it as well to keep the food supply stable and affordable.
I don’t know why you’re arguing this.
No one says it’s efficient. You don’t do efficiency on your food for your citizens. You make sure they can eat.