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[–] 14 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

If there are any input cost savings, the meat packing megacorps are just going to pocket the difference anyway.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Sounds like donnie the dotard is trying to do some short-term "fix" for a problem of his own creation, shortly before the election.

    Wonder what happens after Nov 3?

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

    People that ate the meat, get sick?

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

    While US beef production is geared towards steaks and ground chuck, most other countries focus on growing lean beef.

    The almost certainly low quality meat being imported (countries aren't going to export their good stuff to Donnie), likely isn't even going to end up in your local grocery stores as steaks or ground beef. It will be used in other areas of industry with massive orders. Think filler for frozen dinner meatballs, etc. where the raw quality isn't a priority. Where the lower quality stuff already goes.

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

    Which also means that this won't actually affect customer prices in the slightest. Those companies will just pocket the 25% discount on their input costs.

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

    Meanwhile the US beef farmers get screwed yet again, because the increased consumer pricing never makes it all the way back up the chain to the actual farmers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    ...Meanwhile the US beef farmers get screwed yet again,...

    Eyeahhhhh. Check out the youtube chanel "Farming While Beige" and listen to the guy's videos.. he has some fairly spot-on points about farming and farms in the US. Some of it is stuff I kinda knew about, but did not realize just how much more was true.

    His most recent post - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CwogYy7LFoE

    At the end of this particular video - the list of the stuff he rattles off. Holy shit.

    Hmmmm.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    It’ll just make you a little horse.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    maybe only like 120% cheaper

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

    I'm just not buying shit for a while. My garden is in full bloom for heat tolerant shit, and I got root veggies just starting to sprout.

    First it was raw veggies with the cyclospora, now meat can't be trusted. I'm over this. You can only trust you it seems.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    “Ass covid… round 2… SHIT!”

    “FATALITY!”

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

    The price is going to exponentially increase over time regardless of what Trump’s little circus today does because factory farming is unsustainable. I wish people would stop supporting wide scale animal abuse along with the rampant ecological disasters, pollution and climate change that come from this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Entirely meaningless compared to the crippling cost of living.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago*

    No, it won't change the price, just the profit margins...🖕

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

    The price is going to exponentially increase over time regardless of what Trump’s little circus today does because factory farming is unsustainable. I wish people would stop supporting wide scale animal abuse along with the rampant ecological disasters, pollution and climate change that come from this.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    No.

    But (horse) meat's back on the menu, boys.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm sure that whatever else happens, a lot of money is going to end up in Trump's pocket.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Stop subsiding the meat industry.

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