RFK and the Republican deregulation shits keep coming.

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[–] 83 points 2 months ago (41 children)

Have Americans considered importing food so they don't have to risk eating American food?

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  • [–] 93 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    Do you even understand what you're asking? The lettuce was IMPORTED from Mexico via Taylor Farms. These berries may have as well.

    The distributors hide their supply chain and claim it to be "industry secrets" to keep us from knowing where we get our food.

    This shit is insane.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (11 children)

    I'm sure they know that, no country grows every crop sold at stores. It's the usual "le american bad" that's beat like a dead horse here lol

    Usually rightfully so but man is it just getting a tad boring

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    America is bad but it’s all the complaining about things that humanity as a whole is bad for then pretending it’s America only that’s so damn annoying. They think they popped out of a golden non American vagina just for being on different soil. They can’t see the irony in the way they think.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Did I say it was? Is it the worst?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I asked a question. Can you not answer it?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    In the context of this thread, with fucking up agencies, causing more risk to its citizens under the guise of "cutting costs" while the national debt just went to 40 Trillion today. Yeah it's bad for that. Gaza bad too if that gives you warm fuzzies.

    Were you expecting a different answer?

    I don't think blanket "everything about X is bad because Y" is a healthy way to view the world.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Who cares where the food comes from? It's a drop in quality control thanks to these businesses feeling emboldened by Trump's gutting of regulatory agencies that's the problem.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    It matters for the same reason knowing who sold it matters. If the farm in Mexico supplied multiple sources, then you can avoid it if you're aware. The degradation in quality and regulation is all the fault of the US government, and that is in turn the fault of Taylor for not holding their farms to higher standards...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    That's most of the problem, the diarrhea lettuce was coming from Mexico.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That being said, Farmer (possibly third-party, likely exclusively contracted to meet Taylor standards)->Processed by Taylor facility in Mexico->Taylor Fresh Foods->Taylor Farms->Grocery store.

    The entire supply chain was Taylor the whole way regardless of what country and their "safety" checks failed.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Most of the people I know are expanding their gardens

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Not necessarily cheap work, if you don’t already have good soil and such. It’s also more time intensive than people realize.

    Recommend strawberries in the ground, tomatoes, snap peas, and zucchini for the easy stuff. To learn.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Anyone looking to build their soil should look up Korean Natural Farming. Cultivate and feed your local microbes and they'll feed you. And it's cheap.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Your comment was the firstI have heard about KNF. As an eternally skeptical microbiologist, I suspected it to be similar to many "organic" farming methods, some of which isn't scientifically sound, but just gave it a quick review and it seems to be based on some solid principles. I'll be looking into it for my own garden. Thanks for the recommendation!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't plow, till or weed much. No tiller. Just hand tools - round point shovel, hoe and five tine fork. Clay soil. Brought sand in and use old hay bales for mulch. Soil is fantastic. Very little cost. Very little work. Huge harvest. No harmful pesticides. Those who want to garden should read Ruth Stout and Masanobu Fukuoka

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I have cedars that aggressively invade any gardening attempt that isn't hard-sealed. I have some native berry plants doing alright, they've evolved to handle it, but actual food crops are a huge waste of time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Anyone calling any variety of squash “easy” haven’t ever gardened and dealt with squash bugs (vine borer)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Wee Americans should stop exporting these water-intensive crops such as pistachios

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wee Americans are tiny Americans, why are they growing pistachios?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    More than 1/3 of America’s produce is imported.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That was probably meant to sound like a lot.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ok, sorry, to be more precise: Approximately 60% of its fresh fruit, and 38% of its fresh vegetables are imported. Averaged out, that’s 49% of total consumed fresh produce being imported for a population of 342 million people. So yes, it is ‘a lot.’ Google is free btw

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