Why Switzerland will never compromise on agriculture with the U. S.

[Lynx122]

Many U.S. products don't meet our health and safety standards but that's not the main reason.

Some traditional garments

We don't make money on agriculture so why is the government protecting it?

The government even subsidizes farms by paying them money directly every month. This has led to problems like having too much milk and nobody to drink it or eat the cheese or the yogurt or any other dairy product. Even though Switzerland consumes a lot of dairy products it's still not enough.

The reason is to keep Switzerlands cultural identity alive. People lik me who live in a city are not walking around in traditional clothes and yodeling or going to a Schwingfest. Schwingen is a traditional sport where strong farmers wrestle and the goal is to push both their shoulders into the sawdust. Then they get up and the winner brushes the dust off the losers back and the winner of the whole tournement wins a prize bull which was valuable to farmers in the past.

Swiss wrestling basically :)

It keeps rural areas alive. This is also why Switzerland builds public transport to the smallest villages and makes people in populated areas subsidize it.

This keeps Switzerland alive as a living breathing country and not just another place.
Once you stop supporting people in rural areas what will they do? They will try and sell their farm and move to the city. Then the only place where there's any opportunity becomes the city so anybody who wants a chance to build a life has to move there. That makes housing go balistic. Then more people are concentrated in the city and that means politicians prioritize the city even more and neglect the rural areas even more which reinforces the trend. We have seen this in many cities like London, Tokyo and Seoul where the city canibalizes the rest of the country and nobody can stop the decay.

The Alphorn is a traditional instrument :)

This would also kill tourism and many activities like winter sports and extreme sports hiking etc they also depend on rural areas and tourism.

So it's not about money. It's about the health and the identity of the nation as a whole. Keeping communities alive and making it possible for people to live all over the country instead of only in a few places. So if you're ever visiting a rural area in Switzerland the taxpayer is keeping these areas alive artificially because farmers couldn't compete with the low prices and huge volumes. But many people still buy local produce even though they have to pay more because it's worth it.

It doesn't matter how good Trump thinks his beef is, nobody cares. He loves Mc'Donalds and he's obese so why would anybody listen to his opinion on food anyway.

[CaptainSmartass]

Switzerland has my support. If you need a hand clearing the excess chocolate supply, let me know.

Simples...

[Lynx122]

You can come by anytime :)

[Sirenboobzilla]

I love this take. Switzerland has been one of the beat places I've ever had the privilege to visit.

[OlderAndWiser]

I am always glad to read about people who are proud of their country.

[Lynx122]

Glad you liked it :)

[purplepoppy]

Farmer's get subsidised because governments want to protect the food chain, its vital a country can feed itself. If you don't subsidies Farmer's then the price of food skyrockets as they have to pass on the cost. Trump wants to flood Europe with cheap meat putting our Farmer's out of business putting him in control of our food supply and no one in their right mind wants swiss cheese replaced with American cheese.

[Lynx122]

Hmm yes maybe if we were completely dependent on other countries for food they would charge us more but right now it's definitely cheaper to buy foreign food. I went to the store the U. S. sweet potatoes were 1.90 and the swiss ones were like 6.50 for a kilo. I still bought the swiss ones though XD

[purplepoppy]

Isn't it a bit chilly to grow sweet potatos in Switzerland

[Lynx122]

Nope they grow it here too :)

[Shiprex]

Good for the Swiss. The Tangotwat has too big an ego for his own good and the tariffs primarily affect his own dumb base so they miss out and pay so his pals get to own more private jets and ships

[Avicenna]

Hmmm, how could tariffs primarily affect only Trump’s base?

[Shiprex]

@Avicenna They're the ones who will be buying things at higher prices NOT the foreigners OR they'll be buying lower quality US products thanks to the TAX he's added

[Avicenna]

The inflation statistics do not support your claim. And you didn’t answer what I asked you- why would tariffs primarily affect only Trump’s base? Are you saying that Democrats don’t buy things too?

[Shiprex]

@Avicenna Trumps base tend to be the ones at the lower end of the educational and income bracket ALTHOUGH the ones actually benefiting from his autocracy are the rich which is hilarious. ALL products prices are rising OR about to rise like economists are predicting. The job figures are also kinda shitty because small businesses are the ones who will be most heavily impacted SO his mates can get in on buying up small businesses or have less competition and thus fix prices and profits for themselves to do better in the medium and long term.

[Avicenna]

You obviously don’t know much about economics and you can’t put together a coherent argument, probably not even when the topic has nothing to do with Trump or politics.

It cannot possibly be the case that Democrats would be unaffected or almost unaffected by tariffs if Trump’s supporters are. The exit polls from 2024: (scroll down to get to income):

www.cnn.com/.../0

I understand you hate Trump and his supporters, but when you hate them so much you completely take leave of your senses, you make a fool of yourself.

[Shiprex]

@Avicenna Trumps supporters are generally from the less educated and lower economic strata, I didn't say other's won't be affected because that shit show drags everyone down except the sponsors of the Tangotrumpet

[Avicenna]

No matter how many times you repeat yourself without any evidence, you’re wrong about Trump supporters. It’s interesting how working class people were great as far as the Democrats were concerned when they mostly voted for leftists.

But I’m glad that you’ve finally admitted everyone would be affected, even though it’s just an assumption on your part that there will be some great effects despite most of the US economy not being involved in international trade and the inflation statistics not showing this rumored inflation surge (hey, one of those occurred under Joe Biden, but leftists don’t scream about that).

[Shiprex]

@Avicenna LOL sinking a boat affects everyone but you know the women and children get the lifeboats first? Well Trumpists are the working class men in this scenario and they're last to get a life jacket too,

[Avicenna]

You’re so wedded to your inaccurate ideas that instead of admitting you were mistaken, you keep trying to cover for them with more nonsense, in this case a false analogy.

Go back and look at the exit poll data I linked to- Trump and Harris had roughly the same number of voters making under 50k.

[exitseven]

Switzerland can afford to do this because it a a small country. In the US a vast majority of the population lives within 100 miles of the ocean. Subsidizing the entire rest of the country would not work.

[Xawyx-2]

Switzerland definitely has my support, excellent myTake 😎👍

[Lynx122]

Thanks :)

[Xawyx-2]

You're welcome :) 🇨🇭

[andreasderjuengere]

I value a hard working farmer a lot more than a "life-styling" career broker.