The vast majority of farming in America is done by megacorps, the individual farmowners who still exist are a very small fraction of actual farmland and have no real impact on ag production in america. This ICE shit is going to drive them out of business and the megacorps will buy up their shit.

Pretty much this, there are smaller farmers who need to do things so much more boutique that they can remain competitive (think beautiful flawless fruits, flowers, stuff like that where the individual thing is grown and prized) with the bigger industry players.

But nobody is hand harvesting fucking soybeans on their personal acreage.

And even then the boutique places probably rely on migrant workers during a harvest or planting, picking a weekend when the big players aren’t so all the workers can trickle out to the small farms picking up a couple days. It’s a whole ecosystem and these guys think they can tilt it without consequence. Which is exactly the kind of behavior I’ve come to expect from capitalists and landlords.

Especially with these large monocrops like soy, they are also destroying local ecology and causing long term damage to the land

It isn't exclusive to the US either. I remember when those farmers' protests happened in multiple Western countries, and they tried to convince people that they were poor farmers being oppressed by the government for having to lower their emissions, when in reality most of them are wealthy kulaks.

Rebrand tofu to Freedom Cubes to increase domestic consumption

Thought terminating moralism everywhere I look. Its like congratulations, you've assigned blame. Now what? Oh, nothing? Okay.

For real. Solves nothing. We all suffer from this.

They're gonna find a way to make a tofu that's bad for you and the environment

They already did, long ago. Hydrolysed soy protein already makes up a large fraction of the "meat" that fast food restaurants serve. Much of what is labeled "vegetable oil" is either soybean oil or cottonseed oil. I think they use defatted soy flour (maybe a byproduct of oil production?) in food too.

lol you think anything is about to be cheaper

no discount, only profit

I think tofu prices would go up if soybean supply drops because it's not being planted as much. You won't see the rise until the current supply runs out. If farmers can't sell the beans to anyone, they'll just trash them.

Do you eat the skin? Someone said I was weird for eating the skin, but I assumed most people did.

i know shelf stable tofu and dried tofu can last months