Trade war complexity: the USA is entirely dependent on China for animal feed ingredients

https://www.agtechnavigator.com/Article/2024/04/17/china-dominance-us-told-to-invest-in-vitamin-production/

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RangerJosey@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

Among (many) other things

fake_meows@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

https://www.afia.org/pub/?id=3b2578f9-b377-8d4d-2535-e18066fa347c

China also dominates in many other food security areas:

Vitamins B1, B3, B7, B12, D3, K, plus multiple amino acids.

kokesh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Brilliant

Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is it, though? Nothing i feed my chickens is from China. My chickens are free-range and eat well. They qualify as organic eggs. I give away (or occasionally sell very cheap) much of my surplus because I'm a Christian, and that's how I was raised. I love blessing folks. I'm giving away several dozen per week.

fake_meows@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

Many small scale solutions do not scale up smoothly to the societal/industrial level. If you are feeding mass amounts of chickens raised in buildings using grain, you need to add additional vitamins, they are critical.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y

I'm an aethiest and do the same thing, so it seems doing the devent thing has nothing to do with religion... but that methodology also does't scale.