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The Tyson beef plant that just got shutdown in the Midwest is going to fuck Republicans…
Not because of the 2-3k workers, not because of the increased price consumers pay.
But all the livestock owners who suddenly have nowhere near to slaughter cattle at scale are fucked. Couple that with flooding the market with Argentinian beef, and a lot of Republican voters are going to stay home for midterms.
They might not admit to themselves they want Republicans to lose majorities, and they’ll likely spend the next two years bitching about Dems. But a lot of them just won’t find the time to vote when they’re getting fucked this blatantly
That is primarily a consequence of immigration crackdowns. Beef inflation up 9% while cattle is down 9%+
this is an insight I hadn’t considered.
makes intuitive sense but do you have any links or references so people can learn more?
I thought drought was a major factor in beef supply drop but it’s probably multiple things
Meat packing is heavily biased towards foreign born workers. The companies have complained about high labour costs.
Cattle prices are from futures market charts. The typical market price effects from narratives of “high beef demand” and “Cattle shortages” would be higher cattle prices.
The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.
Now, they don’t have the herds to supply the demand, and you can’t just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.
The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.
well maybe YOU can’t
neither can I but if we can find the asshat who can but isn’t…
And if it came from Argentina like everyone is suspecting, it might be contaminated. It’s not like he’d care if it was.
China rejects Argentine beef due to chloramphenicol: investigation and internal consumption crisis
https://noticiasambientales.com/animals/china-rejects-argentine-beef-due-to-chloramphenicol-investigation-and-internal-consumption-crisis/#google_vignette
Nice investigative work - this is the first I’ve heard about the contamination. It looks like China caught the issue back in March, and its highly likely more of the supply chain was compromised. This would make it subject to further Chinese boycotts, endangering the Argentian economy and screwing Milei because it makes things bumpy for Peter Thiel in his new home.
This is why Trump is both helping Milei and refusing to say where the beef is from.
Btw, these are the side effects of chloramphenicol:
To be clear, I didn’t do the investigative work. It was linked in the original Raw Story article: https://www.rawstory.com/beef-import-2677774264/
These days reading the article counts as research. Have an extra upvote for honesty tho ;)
It’s so weird to see this identity crisis in action.
The conservatives are actively screwing them over in every possible way, but they cannot imagine voting for a Democrat. You know, because, well, reasons. The dems are city folk. The dems are for loud-mouthed blue-haired women with nose rings. The dems are gonna take their guns and their gigantic truck (and their manhood). Because dems are for “gender ideology”. Etc.
Right. All the crap Fox News has been feeding them 24 hours per day, daily for decades now. They live in a different reality where facts don’t mean anything.
They also think D’s are literal child eating demon worshippers.
I’d rather LOSE my ENTIRE Human Identity then to vote for LOWER Taxes and Healthcare!
-LITERALLY Republican Voters!