'recent development beyond our control'....
Yeah this happened by itself and was totally unpredictable....
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I thought most people in Idaho voted for this.
Rexburg is the biggest town in Madison County, Idaho. Here are the county results for the 11/5/24 elections:
- Donald J. Trump (REP) - 13,925 votes
- Kamala D. Harris (DEM) - 2,767 votes
Itβs highly likely that this farmer voted for the regime that is fucking him up.
Rexburg is a college town
eh, it's hardly berkley. it's a college town, yeah, but the college is byu-idaho so hardly a bastion of liberalism
Rexburg
Yeah, BYU Idaho. Rexburg is also 95% LDS.
probably the second most conservative college i've seen
It's beyond their control if they didn't vote for it
Why aren't people eating potatoes? Is this just the demand drop from Canada?
Or a supply chain issue because a processing facility has to close cause all their workers were deported...
or scared away from the country because of ICE/deportations.
I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I'm not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I'm craving the shit out of that stuff.
At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn't profitable to even sell them anymore.
Even if they voted for Trump, they are trying to help the community eventhough they are being affected by misfortune.
If they weren't suffering hardship would they still?
It's my experience that, up here, there is a lot of "help the community" attitude, so probably yes.
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Americans would be socialists if the word wasn't demonized by decades of propaganda.
i mean, 1% are living in utopian socialism already. technically speaking.
The rich get tax breaks, the best healthcare, social and financial safety nets, judicial favor, guaranteed food and shelter... They sure live in their own utopia.
I am glad they are trying to get it to people regardless of profit atleast. Cool of them
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 itβs a simple starch. Canβt it be processed into something else like packing material, paper-like products, plastics, bio fuels, etc? Even if you canβt use it as food, it can be turned into other things.
But it wonβt.
Because this regime is not only evil, but fucking dumb.
If tariffs make your farm suffer, you're a fucking industrial facility.
I LOVE my farm; everyone who buys our products loves my animals too. That's the point.
Have the day you voted for.
Aren't raw potatoes supposed to make you sick?
They're fine for cows, but they should be crushed first to prevent choking and help digestion. Also it's not good for their diet to be all potatoes. They get a lot of nutrients out of them though, even raw; their stomachs do the work that cooking them would in breaking down the starches and proteins, they even get additional nutrients from their digestive bacteria, that's why bulls can get buff eating veggies.
Or you could, you know, cook them?
Humans, yes, but in the photo they're being eaten by a cow
Raw potatoes making humans sick wouldn't necessarily mean they make cows sick. E.g., plenty of animals can eat raw meat but as humans we need to cook it to be safe.
I wonder at what point in our evolutionary history we lost that trait. Did we ever have it? Could our ancestors eat raw meat? Could modern monkeys?
We can eat raw meat just fine, it's just that we're now rather fond of avoiding the parasites and bacteria raw meat can harbor, hence why we cook it (and it tastes better)
Raw meat is still eaten in some places, too. Raw pork is still eaten in Germany, Sushi is raw fish, and there are amazingly some raw chicken recipes. I personally know an older family friend who told me he used to eat raw ground beef that he sprinkled salt on, it wasn't too uncommon in rural areas.
Other animals can have stronger stomach acid to deal with the bacteria or viruses, but even with that, most predators end up with parasites, which is partly why humans rarely eat them.
I personally know an older family friend who told me he used to eat raw ground beef that he sprinkled salt on, it wasn't too uncommon in rural areas.
I thought that was something only my grandmother did. Glad to see she wasn't completely mad, and it was in fact a thing that other people did. She also used to eat sugar cube sandwiches so she's not totally off the hook yet.
My mom told me she and her siblings ate sugar sandwiches too, though I think they used granulated sugar and maybe some butter.
Did your grandma ever mention dipping slices of bread in a bowl of milk? That's something else my old family friend did.
I ate stale bread torn up into pieces and covered in milk at my grandmother's house when I was a child. Usually with a teaspoon of sugar on top. It was a way to use up the stale bread, and honestly I liked it.
They can if they're green or spoiled.
Shouldn't this be under leopardsatemyface?
Not necessarily. There are a good number of progressives in the area (it isn't 100% MAGA...more like 75%), and this was posted in a very progressive leaning FB group.
If you say so. I only know of Idaho's reputation.
Every state even in red areas has at least 30% or so blue voters. That's how everything works.
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You have failed to establish what the title has to do with the image. Sounds like made-up BS to me, given that 85% of Idaho potatoes are sold domestically.
The image is from a private, regional community Facebook group. Meaning that you have to live in or very near yhe community to join. So this is not some made up BS because the intended target audience was a few thousand people. The title is as such because they are American, they are farmers, and they could not sell their product.
For further context, some weeks ago the local grocery stores were selling potatoes for $0.49 per pound.
Now, I do not know the full background for this mess but I do know that Idaho potatoes are exported outside the US, in part, due to their highly successful marketing.
idk how they are compared to other countries, but in statesia they are the good potatoes. and that photo looks like a lot of damn good potatoes
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