American wheat is often sprayed with glyphosate shortly before harvest to speed up the drying process, because American farmers insist on growing wheat in climates that are not dry enough for proper wheat production. Even with the desiccant spray there is a big mold problem. Not
Italy working hard to prevent extra US tariffs on pasta. The United States' Department of Commerce is planning to impose duties of over 91% on pasta from January 2026, on top of the 15% already in place https://t.co/SBZwrJPIJ1
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Not to mention Italian-Americans are some of our strongest MAGA soldiers and Italy is a strong ally.
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All the polls have inflation as the first or second issue on voters’ minds. Most of that is the cost of food. If you want to tariff food imports, go after countries where they cut quality corners and pay slave wages.
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@GraduatedBen If I were in the administration, on this very specific issue I would keep tariffs at the current rate for a little while longer to save face, while also agreeing to end allowances on labelling American products as protected Italian names, like “Parmesan cheese”
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@aIIegoricaI The current 15% tariff rate is fine longterm for Italian food imports. They aren’t competing unfairly.
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@GraduatedBen Someone red pill me on the cons of foodstuff enrichment. Seems like a general positive for humanity
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@PunishedMugi99 Producers use the cheapest bulk-grade vitamins and minerals they can get, often in forms that people don’t process well. Some people have the opposite of deficiencies, like hemochromatosis, where excess iron causes liver damage and diabetes. We all have different nutritional
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@GraduatedBen Been farming for 20 yrs. Used to be common long ago. Isn't at all anymore. Couldn't tell you the last time I heard someone doing it. Was mostly used in Canada in areas that had a short growing season. We farm in a cold high elevation area and have plenty of time to grow wheat.
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@GraduatedBen Another American Wheat farmer here. Glyphosate is rarely used as a desiccant in wheat. If you have other facts please share. It's not the wheat we grow it's the processing and additives that poisons the food system.
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@GraduatedBen All checks out. He's right. Up to 36.6% of wheat products tested have had glyphosate residues, 11x what the NAWG claims. FDA mandated "enrichment" includes potassium bromate, banned in the EU as a probable carcinogen too.
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@GraduatedBen A huge chunk of all high end Italian pasta is made from a special wheat grown in a small corner of Arizona. I used to drive past the fields all the time.
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@GraduatedBen Yes, we tried a euro flour, just to test the difference, and everyone in the house liked it. But it’s already too expensive; don’t raise the cost further w tariffs.
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@GraduatedBen If big AG, retail, and the government got out of the food industry. We could have more people buying local and eating higher quality food grown domestically. Farmers, ranchers and people who do similar occupations are some of the happiest on the planet because they get to work
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@GraduatedBen American wheat farmer here. We do not use roundup on wheat. Been raising it 34 years. My dad raised it for over 50 years he’s same.
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@GraduatedBen Agree. I will continue to only eat fine imported Italian pasta but the poor will get sicker.
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@GraduatedBen I also recently learned about other chemicals used in the milling process and the bleaching process.
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@GraduatedBen Honesty the tariffs are totally out of control at this point. We are all paying dearly for them. Including the fake price increases that are slapped on that claim it's from tariffs whens it's actually just greed.
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@GraduatedBen This is depressing I love Italian pasta So much American food is simply drenched in poison Our government has become a greedy corporation
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@GraduatedBen This is a bullshit explanation, the extent of wheat planted today is smaller than before glycophospate (GP) was invented dumbass. That also isn't even true, wheat is almost never grown where it is wet because you can grow higher earning corn or soy there. You don't know very much
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@GraduatedBen Millet and polenta make a decent substitute if you can't get imported or organic unsprayed semolina. This is still really sad.
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@GraduatedBen @Will_Tanner_1 There is stuff I need for my small business from a guy in Spain who can no long afford to ship to the US. It's stuff he designs and fabricated at a small business in Spain. He's the only person in the world I can get it from and it'd be theft to steal his designs. And even if...
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This isn’t just about one city it’s about rethinking public safety in America. D.C. proved it works. Now, the question is how far this goes. @siriusxmpotus @nayyeroar
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