• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

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      When your entire manufacturing process is run on the back of slaves, the product is cheap enough that the shipping cost doesn’t matter.

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      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.