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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by Aperocky on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:00PM (#20721696)
Technically they could sell all of that to China for animal feed, the meat consumption of China per capita is nearing Europe and has a huge demand of feed. Too bad trade war screwed all of that and now it looks like a lot of food will be wasted.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by petre on Saturday August 17, 2019 @01:36AM (#20722315)
Donate it to starving African children.
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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by babayega2 on Saturday August 17, 2019 @02:16AM (#20722471)
Not necessarily starving children... but I have seen in the 1990's the USA distributing corn oil, and other surplus of the farming industry through the UN/USAID in Africa. A way of buying influence...

(P.S. I work for one UN food organization especially funded for that purpose :D)

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