Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: silca and Tariffs Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:16:07 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:16:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7376a270fb5e664d88ca308dd8fe7d64"; logging-data="1632566"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX193cweN/ChRAB8ebJ+BEzSr" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:VEAW8ML7S12sYFndF1eIxh4MMIY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 4/27/2025 2:39 PM, Shadow wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:06:50 -0500, AMuzi 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?? -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971