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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

they aren't that willing to think about it,

they will just think(be told) that Europe hates freedom and therefore American meat/poultry

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[–] Tetragrade@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago

Dr Strangelove type quote.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha...

Oh wait, he's serious.

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!

America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren't dying fast enough from them.

[–] vitor@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hey, common… my third world country has much higher standards!

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"What do you mean this chicken is rotting??"

pours bleach everywhere

"What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!"

Please keep their foodstuffs away... 🤢

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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I like when they talk like toddlers, it's clear as day they are distracting the topic at hand, much like their IQ

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

but your beef isn't beautiful na na na....

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Trumps mouthpiece

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

"Evidentiary basis" ≠ "consumption declines", greaselords.

It's just become a lot more expensive than it used to be, and the environmentalist/health aspects of it might play a small part in this, too.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

America won't buy our corn and guns!

Why won't America buy our corn and guns?

Oh, because they make their own and they're fucking thousands of miles away.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what's the worst that can happen to chicken in a couple thousand miles from a country of origin with no regulations

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[–] Phate18@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They do buy our guns - they go crazy for ČZ pistols (made in a little shithole country called Czech Republic)

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

in my experience from a decade ago Czechia was a delightful place to visit and the people were very kind and helpful.

[–] Phate18@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We are delightful! Helpful? Sometimes haha. Glad you enjoyed your visit!

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[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Keep your poison

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I worked at a slaughterhouse for about 6 months, in Canada so obviously different. But the only time I saw a cow not unconscious while being drained was when the Orthodox Jews or Muslims stopped by. I didn't watch those twice.

My father insisted I work at one, like he worked at one when he was young. He used a .22, I used a captive bolt gun. Done correctly, the cow should be unconscious. But that industry attracts a certain type of people, so without the government keeping a close eye on the industry I believe the events of that article will happen more.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yep, kosher and halal are pretty f-ing inhumane.

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Definitely not because our beef is hormone filled

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And antibiotics surely play no role either

[–] heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Antibiotics are allowed and, unfortunately, used plenty in the EU. Growth hormones on the other hand are banned. As far as I know, those are standard in the US, so farmers can't simply export surplus production.

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[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

"...because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak."

My brother in christ, what the fluffer nutter cyberfuck are you talking about?!?

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who believes this? It's such an obvious lie. It's just a signal to the troops that statements don't need contain logic, right?

[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who needs logic, this is a discussion about beautiful beef dammit!

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Stupid sexy cows

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[–] sporkler@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So this must mean that in America the local markets will be flooded with suddenly affordable meat?

didn't think so.

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I don't really eat red meat much anymore but if it starts getting cheaper I might have a steak every two weeks instead of every two months! Gimme cheap food bro. I'll pay for it.

[–] EuroCentrist@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago

I don't mind the statement behind the post, but was there really no other medium for the post than the Trumpist NYPost? This is the same media that supposedly wants to ask 10 questions about the tariffs in an article to defend them, and then asks questions like should Trump keep 12 million illegal refugees in the country like Biden?

What does this question have to do with legitimising the tariffs? No idea, ask the brainwashed journalists at the NYPost.

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

As someone who used to visit fairly regularly, yeah it sucks.

[–] ComfortablyDumb@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

American is the worst food in the whole world. Its better to go hungry than partaking in the excesses of highly processed american diet. Go to any supermarket and check the ingredients of american food and you will find stuff like malto dextrose, inverse sugar, dyglycerides, corn starch and high fructose syrup. All of these are rubbish ingredients which pollutes your body and makes you addicted. Stay away from american food for your own health. Buy EU/Canada/India/China/SEA etc but do not touch american products.

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada isn't necessarily great either, and European grocery stores are full of "foods" containing the same cursed ingredients. There's a big difference in volume of crap though, and alternatives are much more accessible than they are in the US.

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And then they say at the end, "there is some evidentiary basis" for that idiot's statement... our food is terrible and that's why nobody else wants it. Many of us don't even want it. But since this is the "land of the free", we have basically no choice. I hate this place so much

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