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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Or maybe because they have standards and we don't

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] violetdelights818@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

European beef is very sophisticated.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

The cows go "Meaux"

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From "they hate us for our freedom" to "they hate us for our beef".
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.

[–] MrPoletki@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

me too 😵‍💫

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Remember "freedom fries?" Republicans are fucking idiots.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't exclude the Dems from that statement.
Whenever the Americans have their wars they all rally around the flag.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.

This part is hilariously stupid because there isn't a block of those exports. It's a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.

Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.

This is another stupid one. The Japanese don't like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.

[–] shortypants@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I lived in Japan for several years and wholeheartedly second this. I had a later model Nissan Skyline that was roughly the size of a Camry and that thing was too big for the cities.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I love how GMO foods pose one of the greatest dangers to our species' continued well-being and survival, but not in way because of the genetic modification, but because of the ability for corporations to patent life itself and control who gets to grow it or not.

Meanwhile, you ask most average grocery shoppers if they would eat GMO vegetables and they will shriek in horror like it's going to make them grow dicks out of their elbows.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I try my best to buy as locally as possible.

It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.

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