US farmers helpless as TPP boosts Australia, Canada

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

In 2016, actual serious analysis of the TPP showed that agriculture would have been the sector of the American economy that would have best benefited from the deal. This was always true, just not part of the TPP discourse because it didn't matter for the election. Of course, agriculture is an industry dominated by Republicans, so the political benefit was disproportionately in an area where very few votes were put into play. Meanwhile, the largest sectors with potential downside in the deal were much swingier. This made the deal politically asymmetric.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Sorry, but American beef is just not desired in Asia where people strongly prefer Australian or New Zealand beef.

New Zealand I understand...but that we can’t produce consistently far superior beef than that dried out husk of an island-continent probably means we deserve to lose market share.  Quality, not quantity, will save Murican boeuf.

if we need quantity perhaps we can enlist Kavanaugh to export some boof

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Who the hell cares what happens to all the large agribusiness farms that mistreat their animals and pollute their lands with fertilizers anyway? Good, go out of business. Perhaps then we can refocus on the real, small farmers whose lives are being destroyed (what few remain).

Erm, you ever been on a farm, or met a farming family?

It's not just the big, industrial-scale farms that overuse fertilizer and abuse animals. There are tons of "real, small farmers" who mismanage their land and water, deplete their soil, use poor feed, grow monocultures, etc.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike big ag and the agglomeration of smaller farms into larger farms, but this post (per usual) reads like some weird, idealized fantasy from someone who has never met a farmer before. It would take a lot more than simply disaggregating larger farms to smaller parcels to solve these problems.