Cattle ranchers are making less money in the US despite beef prices at an all-time high. In the meantime, Trump started importing beef from Argentina to lower beef prices, but only achieved to lower cattle prices.

Trump supporting cattle ranchers weren’t happy

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    Cattle prices had reached record highs throughout 2025 after years of drought dried up grazing lands and forced producers to slash the nation’s herd to its smallest size in decades.

    Keep on voting for climate change deniers, I’m sure it will help.

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    Nebraska is a heavy red state, especially out west. those dipshits will vote red for the rest of their lives and nothing can change it. Those communities are brainwashed completely, and anyone that dare speak differently is harrased and riduculed into submission.

    They voted for racism, they deserve every bit of pain they receive. But it wont matter, becuase they will still vote red. The sate is just over run with willfully ignorant, hateful, “christians”.

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      those dipshits will vote red for the rest of their lives and nothing can change it

      People keep saying this (or things like it), even after we just watched the 2025 mid-terms where across the board districts flipped that went for Donald in 2024.

      I dunno, man. I think this is evidence that your ingrained prejudices might be wrong, but we’ll see.

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        In many of those cases though voter turnout was down. Alabama of all places had a progressive-ish democrat for a few years because his opponent was credibly accused of being a pedophile. Red voters didn’t carry Doug Jones to the finish line, the inaction of red voters did.

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        I hope you are right. I would love to eat my words.

        All I can do is report what i see with my own 2 eyes. The racism runs deep here and often has no opposing viewpoints in the small ranch towns on the west side of the state.

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    Remember all those times Trump made a speech about America First, manufacture and produce everything at home?

    His actions never match his words and everything is for sale including YOUR country.

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    “I’m still a Trump supporter. I’m just not a happy Trump supporter.”

    Anybody who supports trump at this point is either brainless or heartless. Stopped reason after that. That means the guy is either completely uninformed, or he should say “I’m still a pedophile sympathizer”. Ergo, his opinion on the matter is completely worthless.

    Seriously most of these people…ranchers especially…are sitting there like Gilles Fucking Corey yelling out “more face-eating leopards”.

    Y’all need to go vegetarian in protest. Or at least give up red meat. Fuck this guy and fuck his industry.

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      Instead of giving up red meat, I have been saving the trimmings so when planting season rolls around I can just grow my own cow.

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        This is the best kind of cow, since as the cow grows it’s unable to move and all the suffering enflavens the meat.

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      I’ve mostly given up eating beef for my own personal health reasons. I won’t seek it out but if a beef dish appears before me at dinner or something, then I’ll have it once in a while.

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      These people would cut their own arms off if the people they don’t like would also lose a leg as a result.

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      I gave up red meat, it’s not that hard. Honestly, I’m hoping the market will take this opportunity to come up with more decent vegan alternatives. I’d like to give meat up altogether but the products that are out there currently are pricier than red meat, ffs.

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        This is one reason why I stepped back from veganism after like 6 years and into ovo-lacto.

        The cheese alternatives, especially. You’re paying top-dollar for a sub-par product made by the same Big Food conglomerates. Why give them more money for a worse product. The money still ends up in the same dirty hands, and IMO cheese is way harder to give up than meat or “other dairy”. Other dairy products have come a very, very long way.

        Also fate wound me up with 9 hens and I can’t pass up them eggs.

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          Dairy, by nature of stress-spoiling, is relatively cruelty-free. That is to say, the profit motive is harmed unless you make the cow feel stress-free. So I’ve never seen how milk, butter, and cheese are not vegan. We make cows happy and get good milk in return, in excess of what the calf needs. Seems like a good trade for an animal that cannot survive without humans.

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            The cow doesn’t consent.

            As dumb as that sounds, you have to realize that to produce milk you must first be a mother. And to keep milk coming, you gotta continue being a mother.

            Only one way to turn a heifer into a cow…

            Also gotta realize that modern livestock breeds (not just bovine but poultry, pork, etc) are quite removed from their wild ancestors. They are only here because we keep them here. We didn’t extend the same courtesy to most of their wild ancestors.

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              The cow doesn’t consent.

              it’s absurd to discuss consent from anything nonhuman.

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          Follow Your Heart, which is one of the biggest (and best IMO) for vegan cheese, isn’t owned by another company. Violife is owned by Unilever, but Miyokos was only just bought by Melt Organics. And the only other brands I have seen are all very small brands that are local. So I am not sure why you claim they are owned by “the same Big Food Conglomerates” when Violife is the only one that is true for.

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      Or at least give up red meat.

      The high prices have done that for me, eating more white meat than ever.

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    “guy who has proved he is bad at business does a bad business deal, his supporters suffer for it. More at 11.”

    Some of these ranchers are family, so blinded by fear of ethnic minorities and “them damn antifuh slurs” that they can’t see how their blind faith in orange man is actively hurting them. These guys are literally about to lose their ranch to a corporate firm who will almost certainly hire them again to tend it until they die at starvation wages. And when their kids refuse to take those reigns they’ll bring in the very ethnic minorities those idiots are terrified to do the work instead.

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      Loses ranch to corporation.

      “Well, at least it’s still owned by Republicans!”

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        “Well, at least it’s still owned by Republicans! Chinese wealth management firms”

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    Reuters spoke with a total of eight ranchers who said they still backed Trump, though he hurt prices for their cattle.

    Wilful stupidity when they vote. Wilful stupidity when they reap the consequences too. You’re supposed to learn something from FAFO.

    Have the life you voted for.

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      Funny, my liberal blue ass is still doing okay in my blue city. Things are more expensive but overall not much has changed for me. Personally I voted blue to help those in need, expand snap, healthcare, and benefits even though in all likelihood I won’t need them.

      Meanwhile they voted to “own” me, whatever that means. I don’t feel owned, but as long as they feel better without those benefits I guess?

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        I feel pretty owned as long as I’m paying hundreds of dollars a month for healthcare, still having to pay when I use that healthcare, and being threatened with death/lack of healthcare if I leave my job.

        I thought Republicans were supposed to be about independence.

        I don’t have room to start my own small business unless I marry someone who can cover our healthcare.

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    They have the critical thinking skills of an 8 year old which is why Trump loves fucking them so much

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    As much as I love LAMF, I think it’s great that some of them are waking up, even if it’s only for selfish reasons, and even if they should have woken up before they voted the damn idiot in a second time.