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Subject: Re: silca and Tariffs
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On 4/27/2025 2:39 PM, Shadow wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:06:50 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> Goes both ways.
>>
>> Brasil is a highly efficient producer of sugar, which is
>> virtually impossible to import in to USA.  For the past 120
>> years across every administration.
> 
> 	Brazil uses slave labour. Hard to compete with that
> price-wise. The sugar cane industry has become an oligopoly. The "big
> corps" rent land from farmers, sometimes refuse to pay what they
> promised and when they give the land back nothing will grow on it.
> Sugar cane depletes the land, rather like soy. In three years it's
> sand.
> 
> 	There's a reason why the Chinese government  will not allow
> planting soy in most of China..... they plan thinking decades in the
> future.
> 
> 	 I heard that Australia's fully-automated sugar-cane farms are
> far more efficient than Brazil's labour-heavy methods. Machines don't
> have to feed their children or invest in bettering their education.
> They're cheaper than slaves....
> 	[]'s

WTF?  And neither Dilma nor Lula nor anyone else interfered 
with or even addressed slavery as a domestic political issue??

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Andrew Muzi
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