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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I love how GMO foods pose one of the greatest dangers to our species' continued well-being and survival, but not in way because of the genetic modification, but because of the ability for corporations to patent life itself and control who gets to grow it or not.

Meanwhile, you ask most average grocery shoppers if they would eat GMO vegetables and they will shriek in horror like it's going to make them grow dicks out of their elbows.

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[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

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[–] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 23 points 5 days ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 6 days ago (5 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

The US is several third-world countries in a trenchcoat, supported by a few first-world countries within it so it doesn't collapse, cosplaying as a single first-world country.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"What do you mean this chicken is rotting??"

pours bleach everywhere

"What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!"

Please keep their foodstuffs away... 🤢

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 days ago (7 children)

As an African with access to reasonable traditional cattle farming, I can say that American beef tastes like crap. Looks amazing, but tastes like crap.

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 20 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

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[–] smokingpistol@lemm.ee 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

As an American that has traveled to many places, why would Europe want any type of American food. I felt like most countries I’ve traveled to especially in central and South America and places like Italy the food is more farm to table and by far way more healthier. Have you ever seen Fanta from Europe compared to USA?

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[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 days ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

EU: "I don't want your beef. I hate your beef."
American Beef: sob
Lutnick: "Don't listen to them Beef! You're beautiful no matter what anybody says! You know what EU? I think your beef sucks! Your beef is WEAK!"

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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 12 points 6 days ago

You know, that's exactly what I've said, every single time I've eaten beef, anywhere in Europe..."What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn't have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour."

🙄

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Nope, that would require them to think/know we don't want their food because it's a lower standard. They will instead believe we don't want their food because we are jealous of them, or because we want to unjustly mess with them as competition.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Keep your poison

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I worked at a slaughterhouse for about 6 months, in Canada so obviously different. But the only time I saw a cow not unconscious while being drained was when the Orthodox Jews or Muslims stopped by. I didn't watch those twice.

My father insisted I work at one, like he worked at one when he was young. He used a .22, I used a captive bolt gun. Done correctly, the cow should be unconscious. But that industry attracts a certain type of people, so without the government keeping a close eye on the industry I believe the events of that article will happen more.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Yep, kosher and halal are pretty f-ing inhumane.

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[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

I try my best to buy as locally as possible.

It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

European beef is very sophisticated.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

The cows go "Meaux"

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 17 points 6 days ago

"they hate it because its beautiful" makes absolutely no fucking sense. these people need to be laughed at to their face. (among other things)

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Trumps words coming out of a sycophants mouth. How stupid do you have to be that trumps way of putting it is better than what you can come up with yourself.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Or maybe because they have standards and we don't

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 18 points 6 days ago

I thought this was a joke until I read Lutnick's name

[–] EuroCentrist@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago

I don't mind the statement behind the post, but was there really no other medium for the post than the Trumpist NYPost? This is the same media that supposedly wants to ask 10 questions about the tariffs in an article to defend them, and then asks questions like should Trump keep 12 million illegal refugees in the country like Biden?

What does this question have to do with legitimising the tariffs? No idea, ask the brainwashed journalists at the NYPost.

[–] ComfortablyDumb@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

American is the worst food in the whole world. Its better to go hungry than partaking in the excesses of highly processed american diet. Go to any supermarket and check the ingredients of american food and you will find stuff like malto dextrose, inverse sugar, dyglycerides, corn starch and high fructose syrup. All of these are rubbish ingredients which pollutes your body and makes you addicted. Stay away from american food for your own health. Buy EU/Canada/India/China/SEA etc but do not touch american products.

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