- cross-posted to:
- news@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- 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.