Comments by "truth-uncensored2" (@truth-uncensored2426) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1.  @zebwalton979  Yep, in the EU they also have heavy subsidies for farmers and a lot of protectionism barriers to avoid direct competition with countries like Brazil, Argentina, India, etc.
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  2. Only two corrections, the largest cattle herd in the world is in India for obvious reasons, Brazil has the second largest. Also in cotton exports and production Brazil is still behind the US, but the productivity of cotton yields in Brazil has increased very fast in relation to the US in the last years, so they will eventually surpass the US for sure.
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  3.  @l-dogtheman1685  So they just went for a difference form of fascism where unelected bureaucrats control most of the action.
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  4. Well it's not surprising that the USA is friends with Israel who is doing basically the same thing to Palestinians.
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  5. This is a dumb and "primitive" way of seeing things, for economic growth and overall prosperity it really doesn't matter who owns the factories, what only matters is that there's good qualities jobs available because of this higher industrial investment.
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  6.  @edifier107  Brazil's capital Brasilia is not a failed project, it became the center of power in the country, the capital has some of the highest human development index of the whole nation, and because of the investment that was made associated with the project some of the biggest companies of the country were created by a "result" of this construction such as JBS. Also apart from that, the architecture of the capital itself made the city enter the Unesco list of humanity patrimony. And the city is visited by thousands of brazilians and foreigners each year for it's touristic spots.
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  7. The potential arable land in Brazil is actually bigger than the US potential, and this is not including the Amazon rainforest area. You're confusing arable land with area with optimal soil for growing crops. Yes, the US has probably more area of optimal soil for some types of crops, but if you're talking about the total area that could be adapted to receive crops than the area in Brazil is larger, there's still much room to grow. And yes, for this kind of adaptation you'll need fertilizers, but this is not necessarily a bad thing, fertilization done right is not an environmental hazard and many advanced economies use large amounts of fertilization in their farming, like Australia, New Zealand, UK, and the US itself.
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  8.  @Portablespl  Nope, this is false, 90% of the area that will be used for the construction was already being used for palm oil plantation, so they're just repurposing it.
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  9.  @threekblack217  Oh yes they can, this is why there were the dozens of it destroyed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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  10. I'm brazilian and the creation of Brasilia was a positive development overall it actually created some of the largest companies in the country such as JBS. You probably not even live in Brazil to write such non sense.
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  11. Nope, they need it, their capital is literally sinking.
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  12.  @stunstar4553  Keep in mind that most of crops coming from Brazil are also GMO. Brazil is the second largest GMO producer after the US, the only "advantage" of the GMOs from Brazil is that they come from genetically engineered seeds made in house by Embrapa, and don't carry the same bad stigma associated with seeds from Monsanto.
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  13.  @Adrian-op5ni  Good joke IoI
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  14.  @x-men69-96  It's not really about labor costs, as other comments have said most of Brazil agriculture is mechanized, specially in big business agro, what makes brazilian products cheaper is the climate and soil factor. For corn crops they can harvest up to 3 times per year.
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  15.  @ttt3377  This is a common misconception actually most of the land used for crop production in Brazil is not anywhere close to the Amazon. I don't think many people get how big Brazil really is, the proportions on the maps are misleading, the total area of continuous land in Brazil is actually bigger than the continental US. There's a lot of room to grown food.
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  16.  @ismaeljunior8624  Oh so the US is at fault because of the endemic corruption of brazilian politicians IoI
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