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Tomatoes are set to jump in price as Trump slaps a 17% tariff on the grocery staple
(www.independent.co.uk)
Just cut the tomatoes out of your burgers. Problem solved.
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For those that don't know for fresh market tomatoes.
Indeterminate tomato vines can be grown for years if they don't freeze.
Mexico has invested heavily in greenhouses, high tunnels and thrip-proof net-houses. These allow for year round production of tomatoes. This was done with government money.
Canada has also invested heavily in greenhouses to grow tomatoes and produce them year round. This was also done with government money.
Meanwhile the U.S. focused on open field machine harvested sauce tomatoes controlled by massive corporations. There are still some U.S. tomato growers that rely almost 100% on immigrant labor. In general they produce 1/10th the tonnage per acre at higher cost even with the cheap labor.
What manufacturing sector of the American economy doesn't focus on migrant labor?
Trump probably hasn't eaten a vegetable his whole life. Now if it was an increase on a KFC bucket of chicken, this would not happen.
Having worked at McDonald’s I imagine he’s one of the “no pickles, no onions, no lettuce, no tomatoes, add bacon, extra bacon, extra mayo” guys.
And no salt on the fries during rush when the fries are already fresh + multiple salt packets.
I didn't even know you could order fries that way.
Technically, he likes ketchup on his steak I thought so does that count as a vegetable?
It mainly counts as corn syrup. Have you ever had Canadian ketchup? It's so much better tasting
Out of all his war crimes, this one might be the worst
It is condiment, so no, but probably the closet to one he has ever come.
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Trump doesn't pay for shit so why would he care how much food costs?
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That 17% tariff will magically turn into 200% price increases thanks to algorithmic price fixing.
Good thing egg prices have dropped.
Wait...
Buy local, folks. I got far higher quality tomatoes at a farm stand the other day than I can find at any big box store in the US. The prices can't be beat.
That's great in the high summer, but good luck finding those locally grown tomatoes in January.
Buy local, and buy seasonal. That's just as important, because if you're shopping for avocados in Milwaukee in November, those fuckers have traveled a long way and was picked a long time ago. You might not live in a climate that has oranges or strawberries year round. Accept this and choose food that doesn't have a swollen climate footprint.
Also eat free-range billionaires. Eating one billionaire would do more good for the climate than every other change you and 300 of your friends could make.
I love me a farm fresh avocado picked ripe from the Milwaukee avocado farms every June.
Not eating anything except local produce might get you winter scurvy in some places.
But you have a good sensible point about the billionaires.
One word: cabbage.
Two words: yummy cabbage.
Many words: I actually agree with you in general, I just love cabbage which, on top of many other benefits, is SUPER high in vitamin C and excellently suited for climates where not much grows in winter🙂
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There are plenty of sources of vitamin c that are available in the winter. Broccoli, kale, and Brussels sprouts are all available in colder climates well into fall and winter. Sailors would get scurvy from eating fish and cured meat and drinking only ale and water for months at a time. Malnourished children get scurvy because of neglect. It's not that hard for adults with access to fresh food and sufficient economic freedom to get enough vitamins.
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Learning to eat what's seasonal is a great way to understand world cuisines better. It's advantageous when traveling...
They don't seem to farm tomatoes locally where I am, but the local half-runner beans are great.
Enjoy it while there are still pickers working on said farm.
They're family-run operations, proudly owned by generations of Latinos, in many local cases. You're talking full-on internment camps if they're to forcibly remove these legal citizens from their businesses. I'm not saying that isn't in the works but these aren't only field workers vulnerable to being terrorized. There's a vast co-op network they pull resources from. If trump is going to truly go after all production, food will cease to be available. We will see economic destruction that will make the Great Depression pale in comparison.
That may be less far-fetched than it seems, if Laura "Jigsaw" Loomer still has Trump's ear: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laura-loomer-alcatraz-alligator-lives-matter-trump-b2782150.html
Nothing seems far fetched anymore. It's only the commitment to total devastation that gets him chickening out.
Are such farm stands present in cities, though?
Pretty much every major city in the US. I've been to farmer's markets in multiple red cities and multiple blue cities.
Though, in some cities, they're only open half the year because of weather conditions in the other half.
Sounds great while they are open, thanks.
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I'm so glad I accidentally over planted tomato seeds now. I'll have to give some extras to our neighbors, we really only have a little patio to put stuff on or the apartment flips out.
You can have hydroponic cherry tomatoes indoors in 90 days.
The initial setup needs lights and aquarium air pump some rock wool tomato seeds and a couple of 5 gallon buckets and a little hydroponic fertilizer.
My neighbors have some really good-looking Roma tomatoes out front. They've had a good crop this summer. I'll bet they taste a lot better than the ones from the grocery store, too.
Look out for each other.
Society is no longer.
But we are strong together.
What an odd statement. What is society, if not a group of people looking out for each other?
anything to get people to stop talking about the epstein files, hes been doing tariffs since last week.
A small price to pay for freedom.
Is this some kind of american problem that im too european to understand? /j
Right after Canada and the EU backed down on the foreign digital taxes.
The real reason for all of this is he wants to disenfranchise the poor and destitute to the point where they have no choice but join the army to get food and healthcare.
They are force feeding the machine.
You know why they need that? Because a BIG WAR is coming.
they haven't figured out what the big war will be but they're working as hard as their fat ceo asses will let them
My local grocery store sells tomatoes starting at $3.99/lb.
A pack of seeds was $1.50 and my plants are 2-4' tall and loaded.
Which is great and all if you have room to grow them—and aren’t a complete brown thumb. But a lot of people live in high-rise apartments without so much as a balcony.
And before someone recommends container growing indoors—assuming the apartment is oriented so the tomato gets enough light—that adds also the cost of pot, soil, and probably fertilizer, and then you have a very toxic plant in your house, which needs to be kept away from kids and pets.
Ahh true. I do have outdoor pots for mine and natural sunlight. My grow tent houses herbs like basil that I use year round.
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Sure, it's midsummer. But if the tariffs are still on in December... Well, I'll probably still have cherry tomatoes on my balcony in Los Angeles, but it won't work for someone in Minnesota.
Fortunately, TACO.
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