Posted on 03/03/2025 11:13:39 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Meant to say good stuff neat. Not Wild Turkey neat.
Get a Homer bucket and some seeds.
Learn to can.
Home grown tastes better.
I can afford to buy domestic. My monthly expenditures are under 10% of my income. Mine isn’t the profile of the average American consumer.
Probably the greatest factor (out of many) that produced the 2024 landslide was inflation. If you think that a new wave of trade-based inflation can be sold as patriotism, good luck to you.
I love my homegrown tomatoes, kale, parsley, dill, and arugula.
YOU and the majority of Americans are just plain fickle...
Fickle about what?
I am fortunate that if prices were to increase 10%, 20%, or 50%, there’d be little impact to my household.
Most Americans do not have that financial flexibility. That doesn’t make them fickle.
Explain how a 25% import tariff can raise prices by over 25%? Just how many goods do I buy from Canada? Probably none.
Nice thought, but the US is a net importer of food, thanks to regulations, environmental wacks and their lawyers, also California’s water policies which let water run back to the ocean rather than to farmers.
As for nuts there are nuts in every state, but not many or none in commercial quantities.
Eating just got more expensive for everyone while hardships loom for older folks on SS and food stamps.
We who have to endure this pointless policy thank the wealthy author.
Reading is fundamental: “ More than half of the fresh red meat imported”.
Its not half the fresh red meat eaten, its more than half of the red meat IMPORTED!
I wouldn’t eat cannuck steaks if I have a choice, and by gosh, my freezer full of home grown beef says I do!!
Beans and rice?
I doubt we import half the beef we eat. I looked at the comment as trying to imply that more than half the beef we eat is imported from Canada. I see that a sad attempt at disinformation...
I will grow my own. F them.
So go to the local farmers market. We did fine before we started importing food from every country. We looked forward to summer for the summer fruits, and fall fruits and veggies.
Maybe that’s what we need to slim down as a country.
The lswimpe.pdf from USDA Agricultural Marketing Service lists red meat imports year-to-date 2025
397,984 metric tons total, of which 110,714 metric tons are from Canada [28%]
Fortunately, we raise our own poultry and buy locally for beef and pork.
Gardening season is upon us.
We’ll be OK.
I used to have a neighbor who I would trade tomatoes and other vegetables for venison.
They got fresh tomatoes, peppers and melons and I got deer sausage and chops.
Hell of a deal.
Yeah local farmers market is so winter. Not. Get off your high horse, please.
Its a misnomer that workers who pick our food never leave - they are not illegals but Green Card holders - as for importing food, perhaps you’d like to try the latest eggs from China - made from waste chemicals.
No its is not cheaper to import food in the short or long run. Our food is better quality and could once again be abundant, returning to a net exporter of food.
Go work in the fields if your are not too old. I once did. honest hard work, try it some time.
Not a high horse. I just know the American people are resourceful and remember when we didn’t import food. It really wasn’t that long ago either.
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