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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    15 hours ago

    “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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      Giles Corey wouldn’t enter a plea to face an unjust trial so they tortured him to get him to enter a plea.

      Giles Corey endured torture so his family would get his property

      There’s no correlation between “More Weight” and “More face-eating leopards”

      Giles Corey was in the right, he wasn’t a wizard. He fought an unjust government.

      “These people” are nothing like Giles Corey

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      10 hours ago

      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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      15 hours ago

      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’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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      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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          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.