Meanwhile tomatoes rot on the vine on U.S. farms because ICE has deported most workers and the rest are too frightened to show up. Plus, pay is far too low to actually attract American workers.
That’s some real 10-dimensional thinking, there.
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they just don't want the tomato's thrown at them when they are locked in the stocks. same with eggs.
mean while kicking farmers out? good luck
How fast do these idiots think the tomatoes grow anyway?
... while at the same time raiding local farms
The best way for this regime to be stupider. is to stay awake for more hours
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Want people to eat more US tomatoes? Maybe try making them taste good instead of just growing the tomato equivalent of iceberg lettuce because it keeps for weeks and "looks good"
Ok.... What field do i have to go to so i can harvest them myself... Since there is no one to harvest them for me?
The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.
that fills me with wrath, towards... grapes
Does he think the tomatoes are made like in the factory or something? Does he understand that it takes time to grow tomatoes?
The old cunt has probably never seen a tomato that hasn't already been mushed into the "sauce" he puts on his well done steak.
Make tomato’s great again!
All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.
You know it was always one of the big points that got brought up in hypothetical WW3 scenarios that the US has enough food to support itself even if it went totally isolationist. Kind of incredible that they found a way to fuck up one of their greatest advantages.
The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.
America gets what they voted for.
Don't worry, it won't be long before they stop deporting them and instead force them to work on farms as slave labor. Maybe with somr promise that work will make them free or something.
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This is gonna go well
As ICE kills a man on a tomato farm in California
Who is going to grow them? Disabled people? Also, lots of luck speed growing tomatoes.
The prisoners from the concentration camps will be leased back to the farmers.
Exactly the plan. Which is why private prisons have to be Bastille'd.
Probably, if RFK jr. gets his way with his health farms.
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American tomatoes would probably be smeared in e coli. Be careful out there my US friends.
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I can't wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.
I'm excited for a banana grown right in Wisconsin 😋
What could it cost? 10$?
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And who will be working those farms? But I’m sure somebody in the administration figured a way to short a stock involving it, somehow
Nitpick: this would be shorting a future, not a stock.
Futures are typically “physical” goods like oil, bananas, cheese, maple syrup, etc. there are also other types of futures.
These commodities futures were originally created in the 1600s in Japan for rice, but they got their mass appeal in Chicago in the late 1800s.
The trading floors in Chicago are pretty cool and have a ton of interesting history.
what's it called when you're shorting your children's futures
Thanks for the clarification. I figured there was something you could bet against, but forgot about futures. Appreciate it!
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Well I guess it's time to just not eat tomatoes during the off season.
Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.
Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I'm sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I'm in NW Florida. Even down here I can't grow year-round. Good luck with that.
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