The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

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    337 hours ago

    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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    126 hours ago

    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?

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      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.

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    137 hours ago

    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”

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    299 hours ago

    … 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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    159 hours ago

    Does he think the tomatoes are made like in the factory or something? Does he understand that it takes time to grow tomatoes?

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      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.

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    1312 hours ago

    American tomatoes would probably be smeared in e coli. Be careful out there my US friends.

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    5817 hours ago

    All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.

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      1010 hours ago

      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.

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      2316 hours ago

      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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      110 hours ago

      Are americans to good to work their own farms? What is it about americans that makes them incapable of manual labor?

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        The system is not profitable. People are not willing to pay the actual costs of food. They are happy to have a slave class however.

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    I can’t wait to buy American tomatoes in the fucking winter, after the tomato growing season is over.

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      421 hours ago

      Not a Trump fan, but year round tomatoes could actually be done. Regrettably barely anyone wants to invest in it. Indoor farming and hydroponics are a thing. They use less water and less/no pesticides. And they are great for “buy local” without having to ship them from another country. And you don’t have to pick them in the hot sun. So far I’ve seen lettuce and strawberries for sale in my local grocery that were grown this way.

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        914 hours ago

        Shipping from Mexico isn’t very far, fyi. Mexico is closer to the entire southern and western US than those areas are to New England. To be clear, I support eating/buying local at every opportunity, but as international trading partners go, shipping from Mexico is about as efficient as can be.

        Hydroponics and indoor farming add significant cost, also

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      117 hours ago

      The US has plenty of areas with a shitton of sun in the winter. Very dry areas, like southern Spain, or Israel, produce year round and with little available water, but well managed.

      The Netherlands produce vegetables, competitive for export, with half the sun or heat.

      Vegetables are one of the few sectors that can be repatriated in a short time through tariffs.

      When you get into tree crops and such is when you have the same problem as with factories, years until production.

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        715 hours ago

        Given that tomatoes suffer when nighttime temperatures start going below 55°F (13°C), there is pretty much nowhere in the continental US where they can be grown successfully year-round without some sort of environmental control or protection.