Comment on the Global Food Trade
A reader sent me the rendering at left. Funny, I didn’t think he knows any more than I do on the multi-national economics of food, which isn’t much.
Looking it up just now, it does appear that the U.S., does in fact import many foods from China, including fruits, vegetables, spices, tea, snack foods, fish, and shrimp. In turn, the United States exports many foods to China, including corn, soybeans, wheat, rice, dairy, beef, pork, tree nuts, and sorghum.
Is this a bad thing? Is it some sort of tragedy that the layout and skill set of the U.S. makes us better at growing bumper crops of corn, where the Chinese are better at harvesting and processing shrimp? Or is just another attempt to upset ill-informed people?
May I submit that it’s humor?
I hear you, David. A couple of comments in return:
To the reader who sent the meme at left, I respond as follows:
What this Navy admiral says is true, but it goes straight over the head of the typical American voter, who is incapable of seeing that Trump is diminished, ill-informed, untruthful, etc.
Sure, Trump is hostile to environmental health, but even we progressives don’t care too much about that right now.
By the time Trump finishes remaking the United States according to his thirst for absolute power, he’ll have very little public support; even the true MAGA idiots, for the most part, will have realized that they’ve been conned.
This quote from Volodymyr Zelensky reminds us that if we’re looking for heads of state who are actually decent human beings, go to out-of-the way places that are fairly inconsequential in terms of international politics and commerce, e.g., New Zealand, Iceland, and Scandinavia. If you’re trying to find some true monsters, on the other hand, look in the big places: Russia, China, or the United States.
Holy cow.
According to what we’re reading, the town hall meetings where Republican congresspeople are coming face-to-face with their voters are filled with extreme levels of anger.
