The US was a breadbasket of the world. Now, we import most of our food- including breadbasket staples like beef, potatoes, peanut butter, and flour. When egg prices spiked earlier this year, we couldn’t farm our way out of it- even though we have one of the highest square miles of high-quality farmland of any country in the world. We had to import eggs.
And it didn’t start with tariffs. The US has been growing less and less food for the last 15+ years. So: What’s going on?
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Really? That’s the thumbnail you’re going with for a video released on 9/11?
Classy!
Imagine having so much pastures for livestock, deciding to export it and then needing to import it agin…
Certified bruh moment
Don’t have time to watch a video right now but I’ll take a wild guess and let someone check me. Was it anti-immigration policies?
Nope turns out it’s nepotism. A sizeable chunk of farmers didn’t learn how to be competitive so they grew big monopolies. This along with the don’t let family farms fail policies has created a system where there is no innovation so wages stagnant but the landowners survive and vote against Thier own interests.
Actually a good video worth watching at double speed if you’re time crunched
Thanks for clueing me in, I’ll give it a go over lunch
Its been interesting over my lifetime watching people who literally own millions of dollars in land scream about how poor they are, and continuously blame liberal ‘elites’ when they could sell or rent their millions of dollars of land for profit. Like I get it, that value isn’t liquid cash so they might be cash poor and finding it hard to make ends meet, but when you’re sitting on extremely valuable land that you can sell whenever, its crazy to be screaming about being poor when most people in the US own nothing and are renting their apartments or homes, and have no value of anything to sell when they’re cash poor.
Oh you think you’re poor because you can’t afford to buy a new half million dollar tractor to farm your 2 million dollar farm land??? How do you think the person working at McDonalds for $7.25 an hour feels when they go back to their $1,300/month apartment they’re splitting with 3 other people to make ends meet???
