- 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.
Liberals don’t like it when you highlight that what they support is bad too.
Yes, it’s shitty for business and the economy and will hurt the country short term and these export relationships may never be rebuilt, and that’s counter to what Trump promised so “haha leopards eating faces”.
But when you highlight that these industries are harmful and exploitative appendages of the American empire, and their collapse will give your children a chance at a better future, downvotes and disengagement.