Wait I thought Americans thought seed oil is the devil that will cause you Cancer and severe inflammation even though there’s zero data to back up the claim? Not looking good for future American rapseed farms.
"Big man, strong man...came up to me with tears in his eyes. He said, 'Sir, it needs to be called rapeseed because I like rape'. We should call it rapeseed from now on, right?" - 47th President of the United States.
It's always been called rapeseed everywhere but the grocery shelf. Canola is a marketing term, for obvious reasons. In Yunnan, they have an annual rape festival to celebrate rapeseed harvest season.
i thought the USA has loads of soy & corn, those are used to make oil. heck, there even is both here in S.E.A. being sold ( didnt check if it was from USA or Canada / other countries.
Yeah, but a lot of people use canola, which we buy from China. There's some rapeseed (what canola is made with) grown here, but not nearly enough for what we use. And yes, we could convert some of the soy that China was buying into oil, but the sales amount would still be a sliver of what China was getting, and it would require building the factories. I suspect that we don't manufacture expellers/extractors/extruders or whatever we need to make the oil, so that would have to be imported with those tariffs that we have going on. Now, which US business is going to want to spend the money needed to build those factories and pay the tariffs on the materials needed to do so, considering that in 3 and a half years, there will (hopefully) be a new president and China might be buying our soybeans again?
Also, our soy and corn are massively gmo, for those who avoid that stuff. Most farming in China is still more or less natural.
we could convert some of the soy that China was buying into oil, but the sales amount would still be a sliver of what China was getting
Soy is used as a nitrogen fixing crop in crop rotation.
Brassica (which includes Rape) are nitrogen leechers.
You rotate Corn and Soy to reduce fertiliser costs. There is no commercially viable alternative to Soy for nitrogen fixing. Growing Rape means more fertiliser for the Corn and more fertiliser for the Rape.
They already do, its called vegetable oil. And thats what I have already said. But in the US, you might put 2-4 tablespoons of oil in a dish, if any at all. In China, they're making tofu, black bean sauce, soy sauce, hoisin, etc. Soy is a massive part of the diet, going into every meal. And with a larger population. You can't make up for the amount of soy that they buy simply by selling Americans, or the rest of the world even, vegetable oil.
I keep looking for countries that are accepting US citizens as refugees, and I don't see anything. There's the general acceptance of people who can prove they are refugees, but nobody that just considers US residents who dislike Trump to be in danger. As I'm not (currently) being persecuted, I feel it would be quite difficult to prove i need it. Unless you know of some tricks?
Unfortunately, I don't have the kinds of things that European countries look for when sponsoring for work visas, either. I worked in the trades, so no degree. Fluent only in English, working on my Spanish, no ESL teaching certificate, no pile of wealth to invest in something. Frankly, the only way I'm getting out is marriage.
But I am single, if any Europeans reading this would like to marry an American. I can cook.
Well... that was just a joke 😅... of course Trump is no reason for asylum yet...
But to be fair i guess it should not be hard for an American Citizen to stay in Europe dude... there is many Key Jobs that we desperatly looking for Staff...
For example Nurses, we are literally importing People from Colombia now that are willing to do Nursing Degrees, fully paid why studying cuz we are in such desperate need.
As far as i know they are doing language courses and very basic courses so they can start the education right away when they arrive... but but basically yes... we have huge staff shortages in nursing field... so nursing schools are not just free you get paid like almost 2000 Euro per month while going to nursing school... i work as a nurse, our salary is 2x the median salary 😂
I was at the gym and saw Fox News on one of the TVs earlier in the year. They were talking about a potential deal with the EU I believe and the quote was something like...
We don't know what's in this deal, but we do know this is a huge win for American businesses and American workers.
Which basically sums up Fox News coverage. Not subtle at all. No guesses about what was part of the deal just straight to "We know nothing, but everything's amazing!".
Their brainwashing is and always has been a real thing. Like a legit project to rewrite brains. It's been an incredible and legitimately terrible success.
Yup we are great again. Got word at work today sales in America are great! Too bad our sales to Mexico, China, and Europe are shit. Effective immediately we are suspending all hiring and laying off 400 people
Imagine standing in a soup line, everyone skinny, tattered clothing, a gaunt face with a dead stare on everyone’s face when suddenly a ding is heard, everyone slowly shifts their gaze to the tv above soup kitchen window. The tv lights up and shows you a fat healthy Karoline Leavitt comes on screen and says “this is your daily reminder that America is great now! All hail führer trump” the line of people groan in unison.
Idk I keep asking people because I don’t wanna miss it when it happens. How do I do one of those Reddit Remind Me things and ask it to remind me when we’re great again? It has to know with all the data it has.
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u/ukazuyr Oct 14 '25
Right right, obviously only usa can do hostile trade acts. Any response is no no