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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.
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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.
… 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.
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.
Exactly the plan. Which is why private prisons have to be Bastille’d.
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
Probably, if RFK jr. gets his way with his health farms.
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”
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.
mean while kicking farmers out? good luck
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?
The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.
that fills me with wrath, towards… grapes
How fast do these idiots think the tomatoes grow anyway?
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.
This is gonna go well
Well I guess it’s time to just not eat tomatoes during the off season.
Make tomato’s great again!
At least he learned that tariffing all the products, including those which you can’t produce domestically, is not the brightest idea
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.
what’s it called when you’re shorting your children’s futures
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.
Well yes and his little impotent chudd Miller
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.
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
