The powerful U.S. agriculture industry is throwing its weight behind the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement, urging the Trump administration to consider the deal's economic benefits to rural America before making any moves to rip it up.

Some 40 organizations representing farmers, ranchers, food producers and processors have launched what they call the Agricultural Coalition for USMCA, the American acronym for the three-way trade deal known in Canada as CUSMA.

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s a bit late for that, friends. I’m not buying your products anymore.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Found a lot of good Canadian produce.

Local lettuce grown in green houses lasts longer. I don’t need mutant flavourless berries that we grow here.

why would I buy shittier produce from farmers who overwhelmingly voted to fuck me over?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

Never again.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Does Trump care about the farmers, when his billionaire buddies who own massive amounts of land to have businesses run the farms.