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[–] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Or maybe because they have standards and we don't

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

[–] shortypants@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I lived in Japan for several years and wholeheartedly second this. I had a later model Nissan Skyline that was roughly the size of a Camry and that thing was too big for the cities.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I love how GMO foods pose one of the greatest dangers to our species' continued well-being and survival, but not in way because of the genetic modification, but because of the ability for corporations to patent life itself and control who gets to grow it or not.

Meanwhile, you ask most average grocery shoppers if they would eat GMO vegetables and they will shriek in horror like it's going to make them grow dicks out of their elbows.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

[–] Iamnotafish@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans are racist, misogynist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, fucking idiots

[–] kcweller@feddit.nl 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The rest of the world doesn't not see Democrats like that either. Red or blue, both right wing, pro-war, genocidal, anti-people parties.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I don't exclude the Dems from that statement.
Whenever the Americans have their wars they all rally around the flag.

[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

me too 😵‍💫

[–] LuckyPierre@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

Logic's not so strong with this one, eh?

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's not true. He ate all the crayons before he wrote anything.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Every American thing I've tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s unbelievable how much better it is overseas compared to US.

[–] aow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The wild thing is that we do have access to it here, there are small farms growing quality produce and heirloom varieties not available in Europe. But that's not what gets sold in supermarkets in population centers. The problem is in the middlemen and marketing, all unregulated for profit from crap.

[–] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Our food is garbage. It's all engineered to be fast growing, so it has no time to develop flavor and take up natural nutrients. The result is flavorless, empty food.

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

European beef is very sophisticated.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

The cows go "Meaux"

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

I try my best to buy as locally as possible.

It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nova Scotia lobster is awesome and there will be lots to go around this year since we won't be sending much stateside or to China.

I'd suggest Alberta beef as well but fuck Danielle Smith.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Gee, it's almost like he's intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We've gone from "Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level" to "Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is".

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The US is several third-world countries in a trenchcoat, supported by a few first-world countries within it so it doesn't collapse, cosplaying as a single first-world country.

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"What do you mean this chicken is rotting??"

pours bleach everywhere

"What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!"

Please keep their foodstuffs away... 🤢

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 12 points 1 day ago

You know, that's exactly what I've said, every single time I've eaten beef, anywhere in Europe..."What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn't have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour."

🙄

[–] melfie@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

I try to go by the book “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan. The book basically tells Americans to eat like the rest of the world does, which isn’t easy here with all of the oversized portions of “edible food-like substances” as the book describes.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Nope, that would require them to think/know we don't want their food because it's a lower standard. They will instead believe we don't want their food because we are jealous of them, or because we want to unjustly mess with them as competition.

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

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[–] megopie@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

Beef is a lot more expensive in Europe in my experience, but is also of a much higher quality. You can get an equivalent quality in the US but you’ll have to go to a specialty butcher or a farmers market and it will be more expensive than an equivalent cut in Europe.

And frankly the cheap stuff in the US is still too expensive for me to make it a regular part of my diet. So, if I’m going to have it, it’ll be a treat, and I may as well buy the better stuff in that case.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

this guy is an utter dipshit, he should be impeached, if that's even possible lmao.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He was, twice, wore it like a badge of honour, and all the MAGAts voted for him again.

There was a time when presidents had decency and would quit rather than be impeached. Normal rules don't apply to the orange twat.

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