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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I’m dumb, can someone ELI5 why they aren’t just selling the beans here?

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

China has a pop of 1.4 billion, US has 340 million* (about a 4 - 1 ratio), and China consumes more soy per capita as well, to a factor of about 100.

The US is the world's largest soy producer. So we have a fuckton of soy we can't sell, and a surplus so large we can't eat it, or if we can, it would require a huge cultural change on a food we vilify here.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

US is the world's largest soy producer

dont-laugh lenin-dont-laugh

[–] LargeAdultRedBook@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Isnt most soy going to cattle or some shit anyway?

[–] casskaydee@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

They do sell the beans here but i believe China made up more than half of the demand for the soybeans US farmers produced in the past so pulling that out has a pretty big effect on our economy