Reminder that the vast majority of people in the US who call themselves farmers are capitalists and often landlords, ranging from petty bourgeois try-hards that pat themselves on the back for riding a combine to those who do basically no farm work. And all of them depend on worker exploitation, usually undocumented immigrant labor because they can abuse them the most.
They are at risk of… not being profitable. They want their usual financial bailout and are going to the media for help. Part of this is reduced demand over Trump’s trade war but don’t forget that this is around the end of harvest season, the big time for labor, and they have been failing to find enough labor at dirt wages due to inflation and terrorizing immigrants. According to capitalism, they should be increasing prices and paying their workers more, but that would be less profitable than free money from the government.
The vast majority of farming in America is done by megacorps, the individual farmowners who still exist are a very small fraction of actual farmland and have no real impact on ag production in america. This ICE shit is going to drive them out of business and the megacorps will buy up their shit.
“Half a century ago, when Marx was writing Capital, free competition appeared to the overwhelming majority of economists to be a ‘natural law’. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly. Today, monopoly has become a fact. Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that ‘Marxism is refuted.’ But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not. The facts show that differences between capitalist countries, e.g., in the matter of protection or free trade, only give rise to insignificant variations in the form of monopolies or in the moment of their appearance; and that the rise of monopolies, as the result of the concentration of production, is a general and fundamental law of the present stage of development of capitalism.”
Pretty much this, there are smaller farmers who need to do things so much more boutique that they can remain competitive (think beautiful flawless fruits, flowers, stuff like that where the individual thing is grown and prized) with the bigger industry players.
But nobody is hand harvesting fucking soybeans on their personal acreage.
And even then the boutique places probably rely on migrant workers during a harvest or planting, picking a weekend when the big players aren’t so all the workers can trickle out to the small farms picking up a couple days. It’s a whole ecosystem and these guys think they can tilt it without consequence. Which is exactly the kind of behavior I’ve come to expect from capitalists and landlords.
It isn’t exclusive to the US either. I remember when those farmers’ protests happened in multiple Western countries, and they tried to convince people that they were poor farmers being oppressed by the government for having to lower their emissions, when in reality most of them are wealthy kulaks.
Especially with these large monocrops like soy, they are also destroying local ecology and causing long term damage to the land
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i should buy tofu tonight
Rebrand tofu to Freedom Cubes to increase domestic consumption
It’ll be extremely funny if the conservative establishment does a 180 on soybeans in an attempt to drive domestic consumption
soy increases testosterone. the reason we have so many beta males and transsexuals nowadays is people dont eat as much tofu as they did back in the 50s when things were good
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a media and marketing push for tofu.
the unceasing crowing of “they voted for this” across media is insufferable
Thought terminating moralism everywhere I look. Its like congratulations, you’ve assigned blame. Now what? Oh, nothing? Okay.
One of the grossest responses to this I’ve seen was on
where one smug lib commented that these farmers should become homeless because it would do them some good. 
They just love showing their contempt for the homeless, and how much they fantasize of punishing those who did not vote for Copmala.Just a tissue-thin veneer of assumed superiority failing to hide a nihilistic politics of punishment
For real. Solves nothing. We all suffer from this.
BTW y’all i don’t have the exact numbers but basically it seems like produce prices have jumped up like at least 35-50% over last year based on how much it’s costing my sous chef to order shit. Like what would have been $800 of shit is costing $1200 now
Surely American junk food cartels can turn soy beans into some kind of unhealthy snack food Americans can chow down on like hogs?
They’re gonna find a way to make a tofu that’s bad for you and the environment
They already did, long ago. Hydrolysed soy protein already makes up a large fraction of the “meat” that fast food restaurants serve. Much of what is labeled “vegetable oil” is either soybean oil or cottonseed oil. I think they use defatted soy flour (maybe a byproduct of oil production?) in food too.
they could sell soybeans as a product directly to amerikans if they call it beanis
Americans, you will eat the soy and you will be happy
I’ll eat the soy at least, but let’s not get carried away
I’ll be happy cause I’ll be making delicious fuckin meals out of it
just start calling them ‘Nazi beans’ again and the manosphere will be all over them
那籽 ?
Chinese consumers are quitting the soy estrogens that made the frogs gay
lol. Hoping for some cheap edamame this year then but I’m sure a ton of it will end up getting composted
Do you eat the skin? Someone said I was weird for eating the skin, but I assumed most people did.
I put em in my mouth and use my teeth to pull the beans out, which takes off a lot of the skin too, but no I don’t eat the hulls. I think you generally don’t but if you don’t mind the texture I doubt it matters
egans stay winning?spoiler
or will this make meat cheaper too by depressing feed prices?
lol you think anything is about to be cheaper
tofu did get significantly cheaper over the last couple years
Nominally, if not actually, yes:
got any good recipes with tofu?
Never ever skip marinating tofu. I almost always do a basic marinade of low sodium soy sauce with garlic and onion powder (or teriyaki if it’s available and adding wheat as an allergen doesn’t matter)
Un marinated tofu is sad shit i don’t care what anybody says. It’s bland curdled bean protein, it needs to soak up something
Rip off the top of the package, drain the water inside, and put a shit ton of hot sauce and soy sauce on the cube before microwaving it for 3 minutes.
Oh shit, my bad, you wanted good recipes, not ones I do when I’m fucking exhausted.
An oldy but a goodie, you can always make a tofu scramble with some black salt. I just put some extra frozen veggies (spinach is excellent) and some vegan cheese shreds in it and it’s a very filling meal. Bonus points if you have vegan mayo to help it taste more fatty and eggy.
Sundubu Jjigae or any variants containing silken tofu; but emphasizing tofu stew. I like it in hot and sour soup.
https://rainbowplantlife.com/tofu-recipes/
These are pretty good starting points that you can fine tune as you practice. The most important thing is to press the tofu (the boiling method kinda works, but not as well)
So uh, in the nicest way possible, I don’t recommend the Western methods people suggested here. Like I’m genuinely not trying to be a hater, maybe I’m the weird one but I don’t think anyone presses store bought tofu lmao.
Try Asian preparations. Tofu does, in fact, have incredible flavor. Simply slice some firm tofu into… slices, pan fry until golden, black pepper, dip into a mix of soy sauce and sesame oil and chopped green onions and crushed sesame seeds.
Make Mapo tofu, or some sundubu guk/jigae.
Crumb down some soft/med tofu, mash it into some steamed or raw broccoli, maybe a lil salt or oil dressing if your choice. Ratio is very light, think broccoli coated with tofu and not a tofu salad.
The culinary possibilities are endless and very easy and the Western culinary tradition is just not very good with it to be completely honest.
Take some miso or daenjang, tofu, and water. You got a stew going. Add whatever you like.
Take the above pan fried tofu. Some lettuce. Make a lettuce wrap with ssamjang. Some cucumbers maybe. Some kimchi.
Raw tofu wrapped in kimchi. Done.
Super versatile, I could go on and on…
One thing is
only relatively speaking in comparison to the rapid inflation of substitutable goods.
no discount, only profit
I think tofu prices would go up if soybean supply drops because it’s not being planted as much. You won’t see the rise until the current supply runs out. If farmers can’t sell the beans to anyone, they’ll just trash them.
I hope you’re wrong, but if that’s what happens after the glut, at least (amerikkkan) meat prices will skyrocket
Chinese markets sell tofu jerky. It is cheap and good. I will be so sad to see the nacho cheese flavored version that is extra expensive and terrible for no reason
Lol, lmao
How long does tofu last? Might be a good year to stock up.
i know shelf stable tofu and dried tofu can last months
You can freeze it for a very long time.
Bonus points, it gives it a very fun, spongy texture that goes great with sauces and soups.
