Historically, China has been the top buyer of US soybeans by “a staggering margin,” says the American Soybean Association. This year, with US soybeans facing retaliatory tariffs amid the ongoing trade war, China is going elsewhere.
In a letter urging President Trump to cut a deal with China that removes China’s retaliatory duties and includes “significant soybean purchase commitments,” the ASA says China “currently has zero new crop export orders for US soybeans on the books for marketing year 2025/26.”
Use the soy beans here
All those MAGAts are going to turn into tofu eating soy boys ? Lol.
Beef flavored soy burgers.
Bwahaha. <insert redneck drawl> Eye aint eetin’ that shit son, id’ll turn ya gay, an i don’ wanna be no homo
That’s not what you said in the barn, Cletus.
Wha happen in da barn, stay in da barn
You have corn at home!
Interesting proposal. Even assuming you could get people to switch their protein intake from animal sources (until literally all the cows and pigs have died, that’s never going to happen in significant numbers), would the USA have the infrastructure? Processing factories and such?
It would be easier to make those than to make factories for microchips and… nearly everything else.
Soybeans are overwhelming used to feed pigs. China has over 400 million of them. This is more than the rest of the world COMBINED.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263964/number-of-pigs-in-selected-countries/
I guess more US Bacon? I’m not sure that’s a good thing
Oh god please no. The soy usage in everything is bad enough as it is.
I already dread grocery shopping with a soy allergy, please don’t make it worse 😭
I suppose we could always use that land to grow other vegetables. But more likely they will just put cows on it
Sustainable crop growth would definitely be preferable, instead of monocrop hell but yes you’re probably right unfortunately.