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I looked up bananas in Wikipedia. US produces very little. The biggest producer is India. China grows some.
But if China can grown bananas, why can't the US?
Farm-raised Tilapia from China, it must sell very well in the US, it seems to be everywhere.
Probably because it's a crap fish (literally, it eats feces) marketed to dumb Americans as an exotic seafood, yet for a cheaper price. It's cheaper for a reason.
I looked up bananas in Wikipedia. US produces very little. The biggest producer is India. China grows some.
But if China can grown bananas, why can't the US?
The USA does grow bananas. Bananas grow in Hawaii and Southern Florida. Places where real estate is a bit too expensive to put fruit farms on the acreage to grow the cheapest type of fruit. The USA gets bananas from Central America.
Mostly, bananas are grown as a backyard fruit in the USA, but they can grow really well and they are quite common in areas where they grow well.
We ship soybeans to China, they package them and then send them back to the US.
Same with chicken and seafood products. Raised and slaughtered on the US side, shipped to China for processing, and shipped back to the US. Absurd, yes, but we know the answer as to why it's done. Naturally the industry's big players deny this, pointing out that it wouldn't make economic sense with the freight and shipping costs, but evidently it does.
(As an aside, I was both alarmed and amused at the footnote at the bottom of that USA Today article, where it says "Our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from Facebook." That doesn't inspire much confidence!)
same with chicken and seafood products. Raised and slaughtered on the us side, shipped to china for processing, and shipped back to the us. Absurd, yes, but we know the answer as to why it's done. Naturally the industry's big players deny this, pointing out that it wouldn't make economic sense with the freight and shipping costs, but evidently it does.
(as an aside, i was both alarmed and amused at the footnote at the bottom of that usa today article, where it says "our fact-check work is supported in part by a grant from facebook." that doesn't inspire much confidence!)
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But can't China grow their own soybeans and corn? Can they not raise pigs?
Maybe it has to do with getting it exactly right. American farmers know how to do certain things well, and have decades of experience, so the food is better?
Land is distributed differently in China. Who owns and where.
Land produces what makes the most money, anywhere.
Land in China is more intensively farmed for produce rather than for grain (wheat, maize). Rice can be triple cropped in some locations in China. Soy-Maize can be doubled cropped in certain parts of the US.
China is the largest producer of pork in the world. Several outbreaks of swine flu have decimated their domestic production. US production of eggs fell in 2022-2023 because of avian flu.
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