The Great Trump Tomato Crisis

[Yagoda]

This the one! We are all going to die! The Dems will win the Presidency. I for one am joining the Resistance (as long as I can remain hetero, is that allowed?) over this one.

 

Can you imagine? My beefsteak tomatoe will rise from $1.99 a pound to $2.19.

 

https://reason.com/2025/07/16/trumps-latest-tariffs-could-raise-tomato-prices-by-6-percent-or-more/

 

This is aimed at the Latinax community because they eat more tomatoes than the white exploiters.

[Gsxrnz]

I dunno about being allowed to remain hetero - apparently heterophobia (didn't even know it was an actual thing until recently) is on the rise.

 

We can only hope, for the sake of the non-heteros (irrespective of gender, be it imagined or as-born), that these damn tariffs don't impact the price of cucumbers. 

[Patong2021]

Tomatoes are imported into the USA because it is not cost effective to grow them in the USA. Instead, US farms switched to more profitable produce or sold their land to build homes and retail developments for windfall profits. The greatest loss to agriculture has come at the hands of US citizens themselves as they allow the very best  agricultural land to be sold off for real estate development. There will come a point when the USA can no longer feed itself  because it does not have the people to plant and harvest the food and because it has destroyed its best arable land. 

 

Maybe  the increase in  tomatoes might wake up  Americans to protect their farmland. The USDA reports that between 2001 and 2016 11 million+ acres of farmland was converted to non-farm. Between 2017 and 2022, the loss of farmland grew faster, through the loss of  20 million+ acres of farmland.

[Nick Carter icp]

With global warming ,USA will be able to grow tomatoes in Greenland soon 

[Jingthing]

Bored that way.

 

[Yagoda]

45 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Tomatoes are imported into the USA because it is not cost effective to grow them in the USA. Instead, US farms switched to more profitable produce or sold their land to build homes and retail developments for windfall profits. The greatest loss to agriculture has come at the hands of US citizens themselves as they allow the very best  agricultural land to be sold off for real estate development. There will come a point when the USA can no longer feed itself  because it does not have the people to plant and harvest the food and because it has destroyed its best arable land. 

 

Maybe  the increase in  tomatoes might wake up  Americans to protect their farmland. The USDA reports that between 2001 and 2016 11 million+ acres of farmland was converted to non-farm. Between 2017 and 2022, the loss of farmland grew faster, through the loss of  20 million+ acres of farmland.

Are you from the USA? LOL

[Yagoda]

40 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

With global warming ,USA will be able to grow tomatoes in Greenland soon 

Ontario. Great tomatoes.

[bunnydrops]

Trump wants American farmers to be able to Ketchup.