The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.
Meanwhile tomatoes rot on the vine on U.S. farms because ICE has deported most workers and the rest are too frightened to show up. Plus, pay is far too low to actually attract American workers.
That’s some real 10-dimensional thinking, there.
they just don’t want the tomato’s thrown at them when they are locked in the stocks. same with eggs.
mean while kicking farmers out? good luck
… while at the same time raiding local farms
The best way for this regime to be stupider. is to stay awake for more hours
Feed ice to ICE…you might actually be on to something.
Want people to eat more US tomatoes? Maybe try making them taste good instead of just growing the tomato equivalent of iceberg lettuce because it keeps for weeks and “looks good”
Ok… What field do i have to go to so i can harvest them myself… Since there is no one to harvest them for me?
Does he think the tomatoes are made like in the factory or something? Does he understand that it takes time to grow tomatoes?
The old cunt has probably never seen a tomato that hasn’t already been mushed into the “sauce” he puts on his well done steak.
All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.
You know it was always one of the big points that got brought up in hypothetical WW3 scenarios that the US has enough food to support itself even if it went totally isolationist. Kind of incredible that they found a way to fuck up one of their greatest advantages.
The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.
America gets what they voted for.
don’t worry, they’ll blame someone else
Why would Obiden do this?
Are americans to good to work their own farms? What is it about americans that makes them incapable of manual labor?
The farmers don’t pay a wage that covers housing and food in the United States.
The system is not profitable. People are not willing to pay the actual costs of food. They are happy to have a slave class however.
As ICE kills a man on a tomato farm in California
Who is going to grow them? Disabled people? Also, lots of luck speed growing tomatoes.
The prisoners from the concentration camps will be leased back to the farmers.
Probably, if RFK jr. gets his way with his health farms.
There are means to do this!
It’s called…lots and lots of artificial fertilizer…
Nope. Doesn’t work that way at all. Hot soil can speed up tomatoes, but not fertilizer.
have you tried adding more sun?
the world been working on that for decades and decades
Oh, so growlamps!
Eh, won’t beat LLM electricity bill anyway xD
And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow
Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.
Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.
These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.
The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.
Thanks for the clarification. I figured there was something you could bet against, but forgot about futures. Appreciate it!
Jesus Christ this is the absolute dumbest time line…ice… ice did this
No, Trump did this. ICE is his tool to do this, but make no mistake, Trump is to blame.
America is to blame. Trump is simply a symptom of America’s collective sickness.
The U.S. has been manipulated into this hellhole situation just like those raped thirteen year old girls - promises of nice things and candy.
Well yes and his little impotent chudd Miller
My old highschool now has the option for kids to opt out of PE instead you hop on the school bus and your 4 hour block is instead done on a local farm helping out.
So children mostly I would assume.
Its not a bad thing to allow highschool kids to experience real working conditions. Americans also need to see for themselves that working on a farm isn’t the horrible torture everyone acts like it is.
The work isn’t the horrible torture, it’s the non-livable wages.
Then the question is how do we get livable wages to whoever is working on farms.
I can think of one way
American tomatoes would probably be smeared in e coli. Be careful out there my US friends.
At this point I have a difficult time trusting any tomatoes I don’t grow myself.
Make tomato’s great again!
Well I guess it’s time to just not eat tomatoes during the off season.
Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.
Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I’m sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I’m in NW Florida. Even down here I can’t grow year-round. Good luck with that.
You can grow year round anywhere using greenhouses…
You definitely can grow year round. This is a tiny part of what is called “the plastic sea” in Almería, Spain. The climate is like Arizona, dry and hot. They grow year round by managing light, heat and water. Almeria is part of Europe’s vegetable garden.
Excuse me, we are american and we KNOW there is nothing left to learn about farming. We are already the best at it so take your mystical ideas somewhere else!
Heh. You really should put your /S at the end. Some dumb readers may interpret this as serious.
You just know magas put real effort into being this stupid.
