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This isn't even a tariffs issue... well, maybe not, anyway. The same thing happened in Germany at least.
Over here, the reason potatoes are literally being given out for free is that the potato harvest was so bountiful, the supply so high, that the price distributors and supermarkets pay for them was just not worth the effort for a lot of farms. We literally produced too many potatoes for Capitalism to handle. I heard onions were similarly high in supply, so they were literally sold as biomass for energy production.
Remember this when you see someone begging for food. We could feed them, but if we can't profit of it we won't.
Even from a pure profit motive, this is a solvable problem. Just find another use for it it’s a simple starch. Can’t it be processed into something else like packing material, paper-like products, plastics, bio fuels, etc? Even if you can’t use it as food, it can be turned into other things.
But it won’t.
Because this regime is not only evil, but fucking dumb.