Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦
We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?
How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.
That’s a good question as I watch unharvested corn and soybeans rot in fields in the Midwest. You can tell subsidy fields from yield fields when it’s corn going unharvested in October. If they really cared, the subsidy would only count if it was a crop that added nutrients to the soil, instead of crops that take nutrients from it.
Wait, we’ve been importing cooking oil from China? 🤦
We are surrounded by government-subsidized corn, soy, and other vegetable oil producing crops. Why on earth would we need to import cooking oil from anywhere?
Because it’s cheaper from China.
How could it be? We grow it here. And we’ve already paid for it through subsidies. And buying it from China means we’d have to put it on a ship to get it here.
When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn’t matter.
That’s a good question as I watch unharvested corn and soybeans rot in fields in the Midwest. You can tell subsidy fields from yield fields when it’s corn going unharvested in October. If they really cared, the subsidy would only count if it was a crop that added nutrients to the soil, instead of crops that take nutrients from it.
Just because you don’t understand it does not mean it’s not true.