• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Europe doesn’t want American slop because the US’ rate of food poisoning is obscenely higher than it is in Europe. 14.6% of USians get food poisoning per year while in the UK it’s 1.4% and in the rest of Europe it’s comparable.

    Keep that shit as far away from me as possible please and thank you.

  • as an American who has worked inside the US food system for closing on 2 decades, I would never recommend importing any food or ingredients from this completely fucked joint. the default should always been to suspect it as contaminated and substandard, so unless you are developing some highly specific relational sales and distribution channel with an individual person you can trust for a specific thing, find it or an alternative somewhere the fuck else.

    a handful of countries buy a lot of commodities from the US because our environmental and agricultural production/processing labor regulations range from lax to non existent. throw in some of the subsidy structures, and it makes some of these commodities cheap and abundant compared to their regional analogs.

    but a supply chain that will fuck over the very environment, communities and specific people it directly depends on will absolutely fuck over its buyers/customers downstream.

    buyer beware.

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    It’s so funny to me when people try to seriously mimic Trump’s affectations and speaking style as though it’s anything other than the product of a dying brain clinging desperately to life. It’d be like if Democrat talking heads started performatively falling down stairs or pretending they’d forgotten where they were.

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      It’s like historical fads where some inbred King had shitty teeth so they dyed them black to hide the cavities, and all of a sudden everyone starts dying their teeth an ugly black color to look more like the king. It’s just tooth decay/dementia dog, you don’t have to copy it, and now everyone looks like a fucking freak.

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    Tariffs aside, you have a great unclean one of nurgle as head of healthcare trying to spread his gifts everywhere and this doge thing trying their best to deregulate what they can.