Trump Tariffed Everything Canada Sends America. He Never Noticed Where America's Bacon Was Born.

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A truck pulls into an Iowa hog barn this morning carrying young pigs, weeks old, barely 40 pounds. Ask where they started life and the honest answer is often Manitoba — born and weaned on a Canadian farm, trucked across the border, then raised into American bacon and ham that carries no trace of where the animal actually began. Canada breeds. America finishes. It's a decades-old, near-perfect split of labor: Canada's colder climate and lower hog density suppress disease and improve breeding efficiency, while Iowa and Minnesota have the cheap corn, soybean meal, and slaughter capacity to finish them at scale. The US imports millions of live hogs a year from Canada — and 99.8% of every breeding-stock pig the US imports from anywhere on Earth comes from Canada specifically. Over two years, Trump tariffed oats, canola, potash, salt, steel, and mustard. Live hogs never came up. Not because they were exempted by name — because a trade this old, this efficient, and this invisible never land

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