The U.S. government said Monday it is immediately placing a 17% duty on most fresh Mexican tomatoes after negotiations ended without an agreement to avert the tariff.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things that make a tomato a fucking tomato.

    Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone bitch. I’m sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I’m in NW Florida. Even down here I can’t grow year-round. Good luck with that.

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      You definitely can grow year round. This is a tiny part of what is called “the plastic sea” in Almería, Spain. The climate is like Arizona, dry and hot. They grow year round by managing light, heat and water. Almeria is part of Europe’s vegetable garden.

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        20 hours ago

        Excuse me, we are american and we KNOW there is nothing left to learn about farming. We are already the best at it so take your mystical ideas somewhere else!

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          13 hours ago

          Heh. You really should put your /S at the end. Some dumb readers may interpret this as serious.