I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I'm not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I'm craving the shit out of that stuff.
At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn't profitable to even sell them anymore.
The rich get tax breaks, the best healthcare, social and financial safety nets, judicial favor, guaranteed food and shelter... They sure live in their own utopia.
This isn't even a tariffs issue... well, maybe not, anyway. The same thing happened in Germany at least.
Over here, the reason potatoes are literally being given out for free is that the potato harvest was so bountiful, the supply so high, that the price distributors and supermarkets pay for them was just not worth the effort for a lot of farms. We literally produced too many potatoes for Capitalism to handle. I heard onions were similarly high in supply, so they were literally sold as biomass for energy production.
Remember this when you see someone begging for food. We could feed them, but if we can't profit of it we won't.
Even from a pure profit motive, this is a solvable problem. Just find another use for it it’s a simple starch. Can’t it be processed into something else like packing material, paper-like products, plastics, bio fuels, etc? Even if you can’t use it as food, it can be turned into other things.
But it won’t.
Because this regime is not only evil, but fucking dumb.
Raw potatoes making humans sick wouldn't necessarily mean they make cows sick. E.g., plenty of animals can eat raw meat but as humans we need to cook it to be safe.
We can eat raw meat just fine, it's just that we're now rather fond of avoiding the parasites and bacteria raw meat can harbor, hence why we cook it (and it tastes better)
Raw meat is still eaten in some places, too. Raw pork is still eaten in Germany, Sushi is raw fish, and there are amazingly some raw chicken recipes. I personally know an older family friend who told me he used to eat raw ground beef that he sprinkled salt on, it wasn't too uncommon in rural areas.
Other animals can have stronger stomach acid to deal with the bacteria or viruses, but even with that, most predators end up with parasites, which is partly why humans rarely eat them.
I personally know an older family friend who told me he used to eat raw ground beef that he sprinkled salt on, it wasn't too uncommon in rural areas.
I thought that was something only my grandmother did. Glad to see she wasn't completely mad, and it was in fact a thing that other people did. She also used to eat sugar cube sandwiches so she's not totally off the hook yet.
They're fine for cows, but they should be crushed first to prevent choking and help digestion. Also it's not good for their diet to be all potatoes. They get a lot of nutrients out of them though, even raw; their stomachs do the work that cooking them would in breaking down the starches and proteins, they even get additional nutrients from their digestive bacteria, that's why bulls can get buff eating veggies.
Not necessarily. There are a good number of progressives in the area (it isn't 100% MAGA...more like 75%), and this was posted in a very progressive leaning FB group.
the worst of the reputation is the northwestern part. this is more in the eastern part of idaho if i recall correctly and i do my best not to. still cold as a witch's boots (my contacts froze to my eyeballs the weekend i was in rexburg. not an experience i wish to repeat) in winter up there
The image is from a private, regional community Facebook group. Meaning that you have to live in or very near yhe community to join. So this is not some made up BS because the intended target audience was a few thousand people. The title is as such because they are American, they are farmers, and they could not sell their product.
For further context, some weeks ago the local grocery stores were selling potatoes for $0.49 per pound.
Now, I do not know the full background for this mess but I do know that Idaho potatoes are exported outside the US, in part, due to their highly successful marketing.
55 Comments
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 129 pts · 203d
'recent development beyond our control'....
Yeah this happened by itself and was totally unpredictable....
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 203d
At least they're trying to feed people with the unsold produce..
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · -8 pts · 203d
those look like cows, so only the cows are eating it.
20cello@lemmy.world · -19 pts · 203d
They're dumping it or selling for a lower price to farmers.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 203d
It says right there in the pic they want to distribute it to food banks.
20cello@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 203d
Whoops sorry,for some reason it showed a cropped image to me
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 28 pts · 203d
I thought most people in Idaho voted for this.
WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 203d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Rexburg is a college town
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 202d
eh, it's hardly berkley. it's a college town, yeah, but the college is byu-idaho so hardly a bastion of liberalism
MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
Yeah, BYU Idaho. Rexburg is also 95% LDS.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
probably the second most conservative college i've seen
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 203d
Why aren't people eating potatoes? Is this just the demand drop from Canada?
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 203d
Or a supply chain issue because a processing facility has to close cause all their workers were deported...
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 203d
or scared away from the country because of ICE/deportations.
sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 203d
I know that your comment was sarcastic, but Canada supplies a whack of potatoes to the US annually. Nearly 2.5B in frozen French fries alone. There is a marginal potato trade the other way, nominally in processed products. Like Stonemill Kitchens amazing red potato salad, which I'm not allowed to fucking buy because its American and I'm craving the shit out of that stuff.
Mim@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 203d
At the beginning of the year there was a donation of 4.000 tons of potatoes in Berlin. Apparently it was a redicously good harvest of potatoes and the price fell so much that it wasn't profitable to even sell them anymore.
Soulg@ani.social · 9 pts · 203d
It's beyond their control if they didn't vote for it
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 203d
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 203d
Even if they voted for Trump, they are trying to help the community eventhough they are being affected by misfortune.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
If they weren't suffering hardship would they still?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 203d
It's my experience that, up here, there is a lot of "help the community" attitude, so probably yes.
athatet@lemmy.zip · -7 pts · 203d
They are trying to unload their misfortune. The help is, in their eyes, an unwanted byproduct.
Soulg@ani.social · 11 pts · 203d
If that was the case they would just dump it all. The fact that they're trying to get them to hungry people means they care at least a tiny bit.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 203d
Americans would be socialists if the word wasn't demonized by decades of propaganda.
Alloi@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 203d
i mean, 1% are living in utopian socialism already. technically speaking.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 201d
The rich get tax breaks, the best healthcare, social and financial safety nets, judicial favor, guaranteed food and shelter... They sure live in their own utopia.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 203d
I am glad they are trying to get it to people regardless of profit atleast. Cool of them
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 203d
This isn't even a tariffs issue... well, maybe not, anyway. The same thing happened in Germany at least.
Over here, the reason potatoes are literally being given out for free is that the potato harvest was so bountiful, the supply so high, that the price distributors and supermarkets pay for them was just not worth the effort for a lot of farms. We literally produced too many potatoes for Capitalism to handle. I heard onions were similarly high in supply, so they were literally sold as biomass for energy production.
Remember this when you see someone begging for food. We could feed them, but if we can't profit of it we won't.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 202d
Even from a pure profit motive, this is a solvable problem. Just find another use for it it’s a simple starch. Can’t it be processed into something else like packing material, paper-like products, plastics, bio fuels, etc? Even if you can’t use it as food, it can be turned into other things.
But it won’t.
Because this regime is not only evil, but fucking dumb.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 202d
If tariffs make your farm suffer, you're a fucking industrial facility.
I LOVE my farm; everyone who buys our products loves my animals too. That's the point.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 203d
Have the day you voted for.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 202d
Aren't raw potatoes supposed to make you sick?
TBi@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 202d
Or you could, you know, cook them?
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 202d
Humans, yes, but in the photo they're being eaten by a cow
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 14 pts · 202d
Raw potatoes making humans sick wouldn't necessarily mean they make cows sick. E.g., plenty of animals can eat raw meat but as humans we need to cook it to be safe.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 202d
I wonder at what point in our evolutionary history we lost that trait. Did we ever have it? Could our ancestors eat raw meat? Could modern monkeys?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 202d
We can eat raw meat just fine, it's just that we're now rather fond of avoiding the parasites and bacteria raw meat can harbor, hence why we cook it (and it tastes better)
Raw meat is still eaten in some places, too. Raw pork is still eaten in Germany, Sushi is raw fish, and there are amazingly some raw chicken recipes. I personally know an older family friend who told me he used to eat raw ground beef that he sprinkled salt on, it wasn't too uncommon in rural areas.
Other animals can have stronger stomach acid to deal with the bacteria or viruses, but even with that, most predators end up with parasites, which is partly why humans rarely eat them.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 202d
I thought that was something only my grandmother did. Glad to see she wasn't completely mad, and it was in fact a thing that other people did. She also used to eat sugar cube sandwiches so she's not totally off the hook yet.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 202d
My mom told me she and her siblings ate sugar sandwiches too, though I think they used granulated sugar and maybe some butter.
Did your grandma ever mention dipping slices of bread in a bowl of milk? That's something else my old family friend did.
absentbird@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 202d
They're fine for cows, but they should be crushed first to prevent choking and help digestion. Also it's not good for their diet to be all potatoes. They get a lot of nutrients out of them though, even raw; their stomachs do the work that cooking them would in breaking down the starches and proteins, they even get additional nutrients from their digestive bacteria, that's why bulls can get buff eating veggies.
Inucune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
They can if they're green or spoiled.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Shouldn't this be under leopardsatemyface?
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 203d
Not necessarily. There are a good number of progressives in the area (it isn't 100% MAGA...more like 75%), and this was posted in a very progressive leaning FB group.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
If you say so. I only know of Idaho's reputation.
Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 203d
Every state even in red areas has at least 30% or so blue voters. That's how everything works.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
the worst of the reputation is the northwestern part. this is more in the eastern part of idaho if i recall correctly and i do my best not to. still cold as a witch's boots (my contacts froze to my eyeballs the weekend i was in rexburg. not an experience i wish to repeat) in winter up there
Xanthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
Reygle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
chunes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 203d
The image is from a private, regional community Facebook group. Meaning that you have to live in or very near yhe community to join. So this is not some made up BS because the intended target audience was a few thousand people. The title is as such because they are American, they are farmers, and they could not sell their product.
For further context, some weeks ago the local grocery stores were selling potatoes for $0.49 per pound.
Now, I do not know the full background for this mess but I do know that Idaho potatoes are exported outside the US, in part, due to their highly successful marketing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
idk how they are compared to other countries, but in statesia they are the good potatoes. and that photo looks like a lot of damn good potatoes
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 202d
Which Region? If it's in the Pac NW I know people who could possible get this distributed to communities
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 202d
Tetons (Idaho near the Wyoming border)
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 202d
Damn, way too far.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
At least they aren't wasting them