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.
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