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‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home (thesarkariform.com)

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Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You could hire Americans at living wage...

Oh no, I said the 'other' quiet part out loud.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, "the locals don't want to do this kind of work" at the wages I pay them.

It would drive up the cost of milk and milk products like baby formula, which is a hardship for poor families, but of course the government COULD step up more on WIC, because we know the GOP cares so much about babies and children!

Thinking now, I wonder how much of the American milk supply is bought by Nestlé. I bet there's a way they could eat the extra cost and still make a profit, just not an obscene profit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Globally nestle got about 6.6 million tonnes of milk in 2016. If they were producing as their own country this would get them to ~27th place. The US (#2 behind India) produced over 100 million tonnes of milk in 2022. So probably 3-5% of US milk supply goes to Nestle.

Unless they're regulated to do so no company will ever eat a cost instead of making more profit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

And obscene profit while destroying poor families is kind of their brand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

In fact, I'm pretty sure they'd destroy families even if it wouldn't bring extra profit.