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To: Hostage
Why are dirt cheap pork prices a "pain"?


21 posted on 07/12/2018 5:25:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

The farmers are temporarily inconvenienced as their Chinese inflated markets are restructured.

They don’t see the bigger picture that they grew into that Chinese space while 100 times as many American producers were shut out and taken over by Chinese manipulators.


32 posted on 07/12/2018 5:34:44 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: central_va; DoodleDawg

I respect your enthusiasm for Trump and his policies, but cheap pork or fewer markets will mean farmers will simply reduce growing pigs.

Argentina’s socialist government tried this in 2014 on their big beef export industry. The President Kirchner was a fan of Hugo Chavez. She thought - why not ban beef exports, and we’ll have plenty of cheap beef for poor Argentinians?

It worked for 3 months, when farmers slaughtered their cattle and packing plants shut-down. After that, domestic prices jumped higher than ever.


83 posted on 07/12/2018 6:46:12 AM PDT by PGR88
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