cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65781855
Members of Congress are being urged to investigate President Donald Trump’s plan to import hundreds of thousands of metric tons of foreign beef in a bid to lower grocery store costs, amid growing frustration from farm-state lawmakers and the nation’s embattled ranchers at the proposal.
Under the plan, the administration would allow up to 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the U.S. tariff-free from a still-unspecified source country for a 90-day period beginning September 1—which Trump said would then be sold “at 25 percent below current market prices."
“Congress needs to have an emergency hearing on this,” John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, said in response to the proposal, which the president said would “reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.”
Its ok, they’ll magically forget when Trump’s socialist “look the other way” bailout bribe comes in before the midterms.
You don’t have to go full vegan or vegetarian. Reducing beef intake without giving it up is better than nothing. Even swapping to chicken or pork for a meal or two a week will impact your big picture water usage more than you’d think.
only one of these isn’t an inbreed chimera. And anit Halal.
But the others dont cause anyeurisms when replying online, apparently.
You suck
Oh im sorry. I meabt the ‘most’ educatarded generation that cant even.
I see you’re on a new account. Perhaps the fediverse is not where you belong.
So we can have more datacenters right??
You don’t have to go full vegan or vegetarian.
But it’d be cooler if you did 😎
Who has beef money nowadays anyway?
Beef Money is my street name
You ain’t kidding - 2 years ago a huge pot of my 5 meat chili was 140.00 or so to make. I am not going to want to do it this year.
Ugh now I want to try your 5 meat chili though
I’m like 80% vegan. Still do bacon and eggs on the weekend and sometimes chicken with dinner. Even if everyone in the U.S. only became 50% vegan it would be pretty huge.
I feel like so many people think it’s an “all or nothing” type of thing. Where either you’re 100% vegan or you don’t even bother with it.
My husband eats beef every meal I swear. I’ve stopped eating it entirely, best I can do.
This is the way.
I had steak for the first time in like two years yesterday, it was incredible. It was a whole event, a good time all around
Then I picked up some produce and now I just started soaking some beans to cook for the week
A hardliner position is pretty much the least effective method imaginable to win people over. I’m convinced it’s enemy action
You don’t need to make people vegetarian, you shouldn’t even put a vegan label on things. You just have to normalize not eating meat every meal
I’ve been replacing the minimal amount of ground beef we use with bison because it’s good but also because I live with picky motherfuckers who won’t eat Morningstar crumbles even though they taste fine to me.
How is importing this cheap beef supposed to lower the grocery costs for those of us who don’t consume beef?
Thats the best part! It wont! Labeling this frankenbeef with a lower price all but guarantees us beef will be left on the shelf, so the grocers will simply mark it up to nominal and pocket the difference. See? Trump cares about the small guy.
/s for those of the slower mental persuasion
Or perhaps simply fed to people stuck in involuntary institutional settings, like prisoners or the people stuck in the ICE concentration camps. Or just school lunches!
We don’t matter, man.
Well you see, they got rid of the FDA so all the alternative non beef foods (lettuce, eggs, bacon, etc) are poisoned now.
Also the beef is probably poisoned Argentina beef or possibly even horse meat.
Wait, they poisoned bacon? And the US isn’t in revolution right now?
Now this is purely theoretical and probably not true in real life, but if people buy more beef because they can afford it, they’ll likely buy less of other foodstuffs and the prices of those would go down?
But in reality, yes, it’s only really going to affect the prices of beef and MAYBE other meats (if people were buying e.g pork instead of beef due to cost).
Oh, tainted beef (oh, oh)
Tainted beef
Leopards eat my face
Agribusiness takes my place
Vote for you though you hurt me so
Screwworms come and I got to go
Tainted beef (oh)
Tainted beef (oh)
Tainted beef (oh)
Tainted beef (oh)
Feed me, baby, tainted beef
Feed me, baby, tainted beef…
Apologies to Soft Cell
You hired representatives that refuse to question or investigate Trump. You’ll keep getting fucked until you start voting Democrat.
You will keep getting fucked until you vote for people who aren’t out to fuck you. Democrats are not excluded.
Ok, so nothing in the near term will help at all. Thanks for the input.
For intelligent people, one thing being better than the other is still better. I don’t like the two party system either but it’s not going to change by us continuing to refuse to participate.
Reminder that voting 3rd party is fine in local/state elections, but you have to be a special kind of stupid to vote 3rd party in a presidential election.
At the current moment, democrats are the only option to stop what’s happening. After the current mess is dealt with, exploring other options are viable again.
Voting 3rd party right now is like refusing to let the firefighters onto your property while a wildfire burns down the neighborhood.
“Can’t trust the firefighters! They have fire right in the name! Every-time there is a fire the firefighters are there! Coincidence?”
Meanwhile, republicans are running around with can full of gas and a box full of matches…
Edit: Oh and the third party candidate is seemingly promising to build a utopia out of the ashes and saying this fire is very unjust and shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
the third party candidate is seemingly promising to build a utopia out of the ashes and saying this fire is very unjust and shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
this is precisely what I want from a candidate
Burn all your possessions then.
this is a nonsequitur.
No, it’s pointing out the inherent stupidity and immaturity of your comment.
Democrats aren’t going to to shit
Progressives will, even if they have a D next to their name. We need to take the party infrastructure by force
Well they’re the only ones with the power to do anything so if they can’t, you might as well give up and kiss America goodbye for the last time. Its maybe your last meaningful vote, might as well take the chance they will.
It’s like you didn’t even read my words
I just don’t agree with you.
Then could you restate my point in your own words for me?
You will keep getting fucked until you vote
Grassroots means direct actions.
DAMN YOU ASSHOLES! SHE HAD A FUNNY LAUGH! WHY DO YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE?!? GAZAAAAAAAAAAA!
You weren’t supposed to tread on me. 😭
Ranchers deserve to experience absolute ruin for all of the evil they supported when it didn’t touch them.
“It’s an emergency now!!” He stole nearly 3 billion dollars from the American people, but now he’s stealing millions from us. Have the days you voted for you fucking bigot cowards.
They even got the bumper stickers asking people not to tread on them
Edit: unrelated, but the reflecting pool should have had one of those bumper stickers
The fucking farm kids that ended up in my workplace are the worst fucking assholes I’ve ever met.
They bitch and moan about the union, refuse to join it, and accuse unions of being too political. They don’t trust the government and that’s fine. But then they bitch and moan about the new contract. Mother fucker, they shafted us because we’re at record low membership and they can get away with murder. As if the union wasn’t fighting tooth and nail for a better contract.
Who do you trust more? The guy with his name on the building or the men and women working alongside you? Turns out, it’s the guy with his name on the building.
Subsidized farming is like Co-Cain.
I found the report!
We investigated.
He betrayed you.
You’d better shut up and take it.
Suck it losers!
GOP congresspeople: “Shh! You want to get us all primary-ed?”
Hey, he renamed a lake for you, what you complaining about?
Ungrateful ranchers!
Seems like they got beef.
The great Beef Beef,
Lol.
I hope these welfare queens are hurting bad. I hope it destroys them. To be honest, I’m not sure I trust the food I eat coming from such simpletons.
Did these dumb fucks really think trump cared about them?
Yes.
Did these dumb fucks really think
No.
Fair point
Idiots
