President Trump says his plan to import 300,000 metric tons will "substantially lower the price of ground beef."

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/65781855

Members of Congress are being urged to investigate President Donald Trump’s plan to import hundreds of thousands of metric tons of foreign beef in a bid to lower grocery store costs, amid growing frustration from farm-state lawmakers and the nation’s embattled ranchers at the proposal.

Under the plan, the administration would allow up to 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings into the U.S. tariff-free from a still-unspecified source country for a 90-day period beginning September 1—which Trump said would then be sold “at 25 percent below current market prices."

“Congress needs to have an emergency hearing on this,” John Boyd, founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, said in response to the proposal, which the president said would “reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our Great American Beef Herd to grow again.”

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1101·
    13 days ago

    You weren’t supposed to tread on me. 😭

    Ranchers deserve to experience absolute ruin for all of the evil they supported when it didn’t touch them.

    “It’s an emergency now!!” He stole nearly 3 billion dollars from the American people, but now he’s stealing millions from us. Have the days you voted for you fucking bigot cowards. Ranchers are the real screw worms, because they’re parasites suckling off the government teet while they cry about big government. I hope it dries up and you become just like most gen z and millennial without a single sq ft of property or money to your names.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      23·
      13 days ago

      They even got the bumper stickers asking people not to tread on them

      Edit: unrelated, but the reflecting pool should have had one of those bumper stickers

    • SippyCup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      The fucking farm kids that ended up in my workplace are the worst fucking assholes I’ve ever met.

      They bitch and moan about the union, refuse to join it, and accuse unions of being too political. They don’t trust the government and that’s fine. But then they bitch and moan about the new contract. Mother fucker, they shafted us because we’re at record low membership and they can get away with murder. As if the union wasn’t fighting tooth and nail for a better contract.

      Who do you trust more? The guy with his name on the building or the men and women working alongside you? Turns out, it’s the guy with his name on the building.

  • churrodestroyer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    672·
    13 days ago

    You don’t have to go full vegan or vegetarian. Reducing beef intake without giving it up is better than nothing. Even swapping to chicken or pork for a meal or two a week will impact your big picture water usage more than you’d think.

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      12 days ago

      I’m like 80% vegan. Still do bacon and eggs on the weekend and sometimes chicken with dinner. Even if everyone in the U.S. only became 50% vegan it would be pretty huge.

      I feel like so many people think it’s an “all or nothing” type of thing. Where either you’re 100% vegan or you don’t even bother with it.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      This is the way.

      I had steak for the first time in like two years yesterday, it was incredible. It was a whole event, a good time all around

      Then I picked up some produce and now I just started soaking some beans to cook for the week

      A hardliner position is pretty much the least effective method imaginable to win people over. I’m convinced it’s enemy action

      You don’t need to make people vegetarian, you shouldn’t even put a vegan label on things. You just have to normalize not eating meat every meal

    • littlewonder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      I’ve been replacing the minimal amount of ground beef we use with bison because it’s good but also because I live with picky motherfuckers who won’t eat Morningstar crumbles even though they taste fine to me.

    • Malica@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      My husband eats beef every meal I swear. I’ve stopped eating it entirely, best I can do.

  • aarch0x40@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    13 days ago

    Yeah, Farmers thought they were included in Trump’s America but they forgot to leave their bribe donation at the door.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nzEnglish
    22·
    13 days ago

    I found the report!

    We investigated.

    He betrayed you.

    You’d better shut up and take it.

    Suck it losers!

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    221·
    13 days ago

    You hired representatives that refuse to question or investigate Trump. You’ll keep getting fucked until you start voting Democrat.

    • kylie_kraft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      208·
      13 days ago

      You will keep getting fucked until you vote for people who aren’t out to fuck you. Democrats are not excluded.

      • minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        162·
        13 days ago

        At the current moment, democrats are the only option to stop what’s happening. After the current mess is dealt with, exploring other options are viable again.

        • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          12 days ago

          Voting 3rd party right now is like refusing to let the firefighters onto your property while a wildfire burns down the neighborhood.

          “Can’t trust the firefighters! They have ‘fire’ right in the name! Every-time there is a fire the firefighters are there! Coincidence?”

          Meanwhile, republicans are running around with cans full of gas and a box full of matches…

          Edit: Oh and the third party candidate is seemingly promising to build a utopia out of the ashes and saying this fire is very unjust and shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

          • tar@lemmy.zipEnglish
            26·
            12 days ago

            the third party candidate is seemingly promising to build a utopia out of the ashes and saying this fire is very unjust and shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

            this is precisely what I want from a candidate

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          Democrats aren’t going to to shit

          Progressives will, even if they have a D next to their name. We need to take the party infrastructure by force

        • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          112·
          13 days ago

          DAMN YOU ASSHOLES! SHE HAD A FUNNY LAUGH! WHY DO YOU SUPPORT GENOCIDE?!? GAZAAAAAAAAAAA!

      • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        12 days ago

        Ok, so nothing in the near term will help at all. Thanks for the input.

        For intelligent people, one thing being better than the other is still better. I don’t like the two party system either but it’s not going to change by us continuing to refuse to participate.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Reminder that voting 3rd party is fine in local/state elections, but you have to be a special kind of stupid to vote 3rd party in a presidential election.

  • tigermountain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 days ago

    People in general just don’t think enough when they’re voting. People in general just don’t think enough.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Its ok, they’ll magically forget when Trump’s socialist “look the other way” bailout bribe comes in before the midterms.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    12·
    13 days ago

    The best part is that it’s not going to hurt those farmers at all. What it will affect is the quality of beef for the average consumer, since they’re probably getting much lower grade or even rejected meat other countries don’t want. So still getting faces eaten, but it’s not the farmers. If you want an example of very thorough welfare, look at agriculture. Yet they’re the loudest shouting.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        2·
        12 days ago

        For one, there’s more than hamburger demand which is what this import is about. Higher grade cuts which from what I understand is what a large part of US beef is used for. But really second is the safety nets for all agriculture from the government. They can fail totally (which again, they won’t) and they’ll get welfare help. Like the rest of the public should be getting, but apparently would take away from the wealthy and the warhawks is too costly.

    • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Thats the best part! It wont! Labeling this frankenbeef with a lower price all but guarantees us beef will be left on the shelf, so the grocers will simply mark it up to nominal and pocket the difference. See? Trump cares about the small guy.

      /s for those of the slower mental persuasion

      • tankfox@bookwyr.meEnglish
        4·
        12 days ago

        Or perhaps simply fed to people stuck in involuntary institutional settings, like prisoners or the people stuck in the ICE concentration camps. Or just school lunches!

    • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      Well you see, they got rid of the FDA so all the alternative non beef foods (lettuce, eggs, bacon, etc) are poisoned now.

      Also the beef is probably poisoned Argentina beef or possibly even horse meat.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

      Now this is purely theoretical and probably not true in real life, but if people buy more beef because they can afford it, they’ll likely buy less of other foodstuffs and the prices of those would go down?

      But in reality, yes, it’s only really going to affect the prices of beef and MAYBE other meats (if people were buying e.g pork instead of beef due to cost).