Chinese buyers booked at least 10 cargoes of Argentine soybeans after Buenos Aires scrapped grain export taxes, three traders said on Tuesday, dealing another setback to U.S. farmers already shut out of their top market and hit by low prices.
Nice job farmers. Now the corpos can gobble up your land for cheap and leave you out on your ass… Maybe you shouldn’t have backed the orange moron.
Actually, these tariffs could be the thing that turn impossible burgers into the mainstream. Could you imagine if an impossible burger dropped substantially below a beef burger? You won’t have to imagine it soon.
Can confirm, it tastes “good enough” to me that if it were the cheaper alternative I’d default to it.
For fucking real! I got some when it was on clearance and it could’ve fooled me. I also kinda liked Boca burgers way back in the day when my mom used to keep the freezer stocked with them.
I don’t know what sort of protein they’re using, it might not be soy based. But this does mean Dirt Cheap tofu that they’d be selling at a loss just to get rid of all the soybeans. You could also end up with warehouses full of soy protein isolate that needs to go somewhere which could be a very cheap source for a lot of things for years to come
Don’t know what happened with Just Eggs when real eggs were super expensive. What stopped them the past 5 years from scaling production to really take advantage of the peak egg prices
I tried some last week for the first time, and it is borderline a food crime. I was making some home made mcmuffins and tried them side by side with real eggs. It might be okay if it’s consumed with other ingredients like a breakfast burrito, maybe, but on its own or where it can stand out, just no.
I’m happy that it’s there for those willing to try or on a restricted diet/vegan lifestyle, but it would not sell as a direct egg replacement for regular folk in my opinion.
As long as their macronutrient profile resembles beef (ie. near to no carbs); I’d happily switch over!
They shouldn’t be bailed out. They should just lose their Farms. Solid from some hippies to make a commune instead, it’s a way better use of the land
They won’t be. Small farms will be foreclosed on and predatory corporations owned by billionaires will swoop in to buy them up, further concentrating all wealth into the hands of the few.
This isn’t just wealth though. Wealth has the potential to lose its worth in some scenarios depending on the outcome of the current regime. Arable land? As long as we don’t hit the MAD button arable land is going to be primo real estate regardless of what happens. Wealth can only buy food; arable land produces it. THATS power.
They aren’t going to be bailed out. This was planned. The corrupt government wants their land and bankrupt farmers sell the cheapest land.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. A la USA. -chef’s kiss-
Maga: “winning!”
Trump did this shit his first term and they voted for him again knowing full well he would do it again. Fuck’em
FAFO
I cant wait to buy some cheap farm land. I’m going to host gay parties and teach women to read. It’s going to be soooo woke.
Oh my god, it’s happening. My country made it into the news without it being something hideous!
Wir haben es geschaft meine Brüdis!
We made into the news antagonizing America wtf, Milei is the bigger Trump bootlicker ever, I’m confused.
Wenn du aus Argentinien bist, warum sprichst du dann Deutsch?
When they Nazis.
Technically, long before the nazi went seeking shelter. The German speaking populace was a reason why the nazi chose Argentina
Genau das gleiche mit Blumenau und Pomerode in Brazilien.
American leopards are feasting well.
Someone wants to buy US soy farms for cheap.
Billionaires want to buy farmland for cheap
JD Vance apparently
That’s what I love about their stupid logic
The US economy was built and maintained because of the large number of middle class business people and small town business owners, farmers and workers … the little bit of wealth they generated for themselves helped to create a monolith of wealth for the ultra rich … the money trickled upwards.
Now they are set to destroy and decimate all those American middle class people and their little bit of wealth … it will be like shutting off the tap that supplied the ultra wealthy with all their wealth. On top of that, the new class and growth of destitute people everywhere will only become a net loss as you try to turn your country into an expensive police or military state that will constantly need financing.
Sure, the rich will be able to buy everything up for cheap … land, businesses, buildings, real estate, everything for a fraction of what it cost originally … but any savings they get will be lost on paying for security, police, even military as everyone everywhere start fighting for the little bit of scraps they can get because they’re starving.
Ironically, this is (partially) why government social support services originally started in England. Back in the Victorian period, the rich realised it was cheaper to pay a bit more tax to keep the poor fed, than pay for security to stop them being robbed. It was also cheaper than locking them all up.
Which is why we will never be allowed to starve … not fed enough, not enough nutrition, constantly hungry … but never allowed to completely starve.
Not like you will have statistics or free media to know one way or the other. Lmao
Glad USians sacrificed all those children to gun violence in case they ever needed to use their guns to fight tyranny. /s
This is America we’re talking about here. MAGA is fucking cruel. They’ll take pleasure watching people starve who they’ve deemed as lessor.
That already think all immigrants in the country are criminals and cheer when they’re deported to death camps.
Sorry, friend. You’re starving.
They are trying to engineer a return to feudalism, like slavery but for everyone, not just black people this time
If you cant afford to miss a paycheck, youre already a slave
Don’t start a war you can’t win
Unless losing is your goal
Incredible to see how easily they are collapsing our society
They?
The Trump administration and the billionaires
the oligarchy, yes.
I thought they meant China, because this is all on the US.
Exactly what they voted for
In Trump’s last term, farmers were bailed out with some nice cash infustions. They figured that in his second term, Trump would bail them again with some sweet sweet cash and that’s what they thought they voted for. They were wrong.
If I remember correctly, Trump’s last term made cash payouts to farmers because … wait for it … China wasn’t buying crops from the US (particularly soybeans) in response to the tariffs imposed by Trump’s first administration.
So I guess they weren’t entirely wrong with that “he’ll do it again” mentality.
So they voted for welfare for themselves basically. That’s MAGA for you.
Except that project 2025 does talk about scrapping a lot of farmer subsidies, insurance and safety nets.
Bankruptcy is a small price to pay for smug racism
Watching these dumb fucks lose their farms and try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps working for minimum wage at Dollar General is going to be one of the few amusement that will come out of the next few years.
They will spend all day at the only cafe in town and bitch about how this is all Obama and Biden’s fault. These stupid a-holes wouldn’t read a newspaper if it had tomorrows lottery numbers on the front page.
