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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've eaten beef all over the world. US beef is nothing special.

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[–] ObstreperousCanadian 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even as a Canadian I avoid American meat as much as possible when buying groceries.

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[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

Keep your poison

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] SSNs4evr@leminal.space 12 points 2 weeks ago

You know, that's exactly what I've said, every single time I've eaten beef, anywhere in Europe..."What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn't have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour."

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[–] stembolts@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won't reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, "Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that.. a good or a bad thing?"

And some small number will learn something they would've never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn't say it.

I don't imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn't be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.

Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).

[–] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Nope, that would require them to think/know we don't want their food because it's a lower standard. They will instead believe we don't want their food because we are jealous of them, or because we want to unjustly mess with them as competition.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

That is an abstract thought. Something tells me a Trump voter really struggles with abstract thought.

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I've never seen belittling people get them to change their minds, but I have seen conservative attempt it hundreds of times.

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[–] ComfortablyDumb 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

American is the worst food in the whole world. Its better to go hungry than partaking in the excesses of highly processed american diet. Go to any supermarket and check the ingredients of american food and you will find stuff like malto dextrose, inverse sugar, dyglycerides, corn starch and high fructose syrup. All of these are rubbish ingredients which pollutes your body and makes you addicted. Stay away from american food for your own health. Buy EU/Canada/India/China/SEA etc but do not touch american products.

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[–] EuroCentrist@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago

I don't mind the statement behind the post, but was there really no other medium for the post than the Trumpist NYPost? This is the same media that supposedly wants to ask 10 questions about the tariffs in an article to defend them, and then asks questions like should Trump keep 12 million illegal refugees in the country like Biden?

What does this question have to do with legitimising the tariffs? No idea, ask the brainwashed journalists at the NYPost.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Article is from NY Post which is basically Goebbels Press

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

Which wave of feminism is this /s

[–] shinratdr 8 points 2 weeks ago

Article is 10 days old, which in Trump tariff terms is like a year. Just noting for anyone who thinks this is relevant to the current situation.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

The bigliest beef ever. Tears in its eyes.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

I try my best to buy as locally as possible.

It doesn't matter how beautiful that beef is, I won't let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.

And then they say at the end, "there is some evidentiary basis" for that idiot's statement... our food is terrible and that's why nobody else wants it. Many of us don't even want it. But since this is the "land of the free", we have basically no choice. I hate this place so much

[–] LarryLurkman@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

European beef is very sophisticated.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

The cows go "Meaux"

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty certain that the main imports of beef to EU is from South America.

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu 6 points 2 weeks ago

"Evidentiary basis" ≠ "consumption declines", greaselords.

It's just become a lot more expensive than it used to be, and the environmentalist/health aspects of it might play a small part in this, too.

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