• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Which also means that this won’t actually affect customer prices in the slightest. Those companies will just pocket the 25% discount on their input costs.

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      4 days ago

      Meanwhile the US beef farmers get screwed yet again, because the increased consumer pricing never makes it all the way back up the chain to the actual farmers.

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        3 days ago

        …Meanwhile the US beef farmers get screwed yet again,…

        Eyeahhhhh. Check out the youtube chanel “Farming While Beige” and listen to the guy’s videos… he has some fairly spot-on points about farming and farms in the US. Some of it is stuff I kinda knew about, but did not realize just how much more was true.

        His most recent post - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CwogYy7LFoE

        At the end of this particular video - the list of the stuff he rattles off. Holy shit.

        Hmmmm.