Mexico ready to hit the US where it hurts: Corn

Bd #80

And thank you for having sex with your mother in the Wal~Mart parking lot so often. She seems to really enjoy it.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
It was built to keep people in; because they didn't want them escaping.

Which has nothing to do with this; because people weren't trying to go the other way, over the wall. :palm:
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you have to excuse Rune..he doesn't seem to understand East Germans wanted out..*pathetic*
 
It may be an inaccurate comparison.

a) Were they both barriers?
OK
It might have been a "wall" in Berlin. But much of it was barbed wire.

b) It was a Soviet fortification not to keep drugs out, but to keep victims of Soviet totalitarianism in.
Thus it had extreme propaganda value, perhaps exceeding its simple utilitarian value.

c) " Your people, the Socialists, built that wall. " Bd #83

So you're calling Trump a socialist for wanting to build his wall?
 
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AWWWW FUCK IT!
I QUIT!!​
 
Rune said:
Did the Berlin Wall keep people out or in?
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This is yet another stupifying example of how unintelligent Rune is. If you walk into to Mexico at the TJ border, they don't even check ID, nothing, you just walk in. That is how bad they want to keep Americans on this side of the fence.

:palm:
 
Yaya said:
This is yet another stupifying example of how unintelligent Rune is. If you walk into to Mexico at the TJ border, they don't even check ID, nothing, you just walk in. That is how bad they want to keep Americans on this side of the fence.

:palm:
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Same at the El Paso Juarez border.
 
Bigdog said:
Yep, we subsidize the hell out of corn. It's time for a shift. The subsidies are ridiculous and have ruined crop diversity in the U.S..

Obama was not only the cornhole pres, but also the corn pres.. It's no coincidence that Illinois is the second largest corn producing State.
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We'll never see an end to the subsidies, as the Red Midwest would be up for grabs politically
 
Bigdog said:
Last time I checked, 40% of our corn is converted to ethanol and 38% for feeding livestock, and a good portion to corn fructose. Those are huge markets. Mexico will have little impact.

IMO, we actually need to shrink the percentage of agricultural land devoted to corn, and increase the diversify of our crops. The corn subsidies have made to many farmers switch from other crops over to corn. Time to move the pendulum in the other direction.
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It also makes Monsanto rich, which in turn adds to the coffers of Congressional representatives.
It's not going to change.
 
sear said:
Stupid though it was, it was a corn-growing State coup. It drove up the profit margin on farmer's corn harvests.

Several problems:
a) corn is a staple of impoverished persons, particularly Mexican peasants, tortillas etc.

b) It drives up U.S. food prices to add an additional consumer to such commodity.
Corn as food had its own market driven price.
Corn as basis for gasolhol also has a market driven price.
Corn as both food staple AND fuel ingredient drives up the market driven price for both markets, making both fuel and food more expensive.

That's frick in stupid, EVEN if it benefits Iowa corn farmers.

Cellulosic ethanol is fine.
But where 100% and 90% gasoline 10% alcohol are available in the same market, it's the 100% gasoline that gets the lion's share of the market.
Engine manufacturers, particularly small engine manufacturers for carbureted engines, lawn mowers, weed-eaters, chainsaws, motorcycles, etc. warn in their owner's manuals about the harm gasohol can inflict.

We don't need it.
Get rid of gasohol, and our food prices will drop. Not just on corn. But on food consumers buy that's involved with corn; pork and beef for obvious examples.

"When your demand for corn stays high, the price tends to go up, and your hog farmer gets disgruntled ..." U.S. President Bush (younger) 07/02/14
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You speak as if Monsanto would ever let the corn market be altered to reduce ROI.
 
A #97

The potato famine in Ireland is attributable to Ireland's potato crops being near clones; very little genetic diversity.

Monocultures make mechanized agribidness cheap & easy. We're feeding more people per acre of farmland than ever before.

BUT !!

With the lost of biodiversity we toe ever closer to the precipice.

Monoculture crops may be easier to harvest.

But one blight, one pathogen that can attack Monsanto's GM crops could wipe out our entire nation's harvest of that crop.

If you want some insight into what it's like to survive famine, read Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Monsanto shoves us closer to the plummet into the abyss for profit.

What good is ROI if the investors all starve to death?
 
sear said:
A #97

The potato famine in Ireland is attributable to Ireland's potato crops being near clones; very little genetic diversity.

Monocultures make mechanized agribidness cheap & easy. We're feeding more people per acre of farmland than ever before.

BUT !!

With the lost of biodiversity we toe ever closer to the precipice.

Monoculture crops may be easier to harvest.

But one blight, one pathogen that can attack Monsanto's GM crops could wipe out our entire nation's harvest of that crop.

If you want some insight into what it's like to survive famine, read Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. Monsanto shoves us closer to the plummet into the abyss for profit.

What good is ROI if the investors all starve to death?
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let me guess.......you think the industry is modifying seed to produce only ONE strain?.......incredibly ignorant......
 
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