Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it would take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”

Even if the tariffs were to be reversed tomorrow, one wine business leader said, it’ll take "at least a year, if not longer, for my industry to recover.”

Canada’s break from American-made wine and the Trump administration’s global tariffs have compounded the struggles of the United States’ already-stressed wine industry to the point that it may be difficult for much of it “to come back from,” an American wine organization leader told NBC News.

“Canada is the single most important export market for U.S. wines with retail sales in excess of $1.1 billion annually,” Robert Koch, the California Wine Institute’s president and CEO, said in a statement.

Last month Canada united to boycott American wines — taking all U.S.-made vino and alcohol off its liquor and wine store shelves and out of restaurants across the country — as an aggressive retaliatory response to Trump’s tariffs on its political ally north of the border.

        • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          It has alcohol in it, so religious fundamentalists that say alcohol is evil and eat fried rice are being hypocritical. Same goes for a lot of products, alcohol is everywhere and helps add flavor to a lot of foods.

          Unless the original commenter was referring to the negative societal impacts of excessive alcohol consumption and alcoholism, but they didn’t clarify.

      • joshchandra@midwest.socialEnglish
        116·
        2 days ago

        Huh? I don’t judge drug users; I judge the substance itself, which should be banned.

        It’s not “drugs and alcohol”; it’s “drugs.” Anything else only means alarmingly successful marketing.

        I’m not against mind-altering substances! If people need relaxation through a mind-altering substance, marijuana has consistently proven to be far healthier overall, since you can’t overdose on it and there is no hangover if used correctly. Alcohol, on the other hand…

        https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-and-your-health-risks-benefits-and-controversies-202501273088

        https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohols-effects-body

          • joshchandra@midwest.socialEnglish
            11·
            5 hours ago

            Right, but it was also a totally different world back then with cannabis, psilocybin, etc. nowhere near as well-studied nor accessible. Arguably anything before the advent of the Internet, and even anything before COVID and now AI, is outdated if not plain unusable as a reference point…

            Anyway, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek as bans aren’t that effective regardless, but imposing a massive, tobacco-like tax would get my support, given its life-ruining ratio to all other stuff (relative to public accessibility, anyway).

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 day ago

          I’m more in favor of decriminalization. I would only react similarly to you for cocaine, meth, heroin, and PCP. Those are bad news.

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      112·
      2 days ago

      As someone who vomits at a strong smell of alcohol and gets nauseous with any smell…

      Fuckin wat

      Alcohol is no more evil than table salt or the dirt beneath your feet.

      Guess what! Everything you consume is slowly contributing to your ultimate fate.

      If you want to pass on any consumption, cool. Good for you.

      If you want to be a judgemental ass towards others, there’s the door. If it hits you in the ass on the way out, so be it.

      • joshchandra@midwest.socialEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        Um, is there a Mothers Against Table Salt organization? Or are you saying that Mothers Against Drunk Driving is comprised of judgmental asses? I didn’t post that comment just because I’m a teetotaler. Maybe you haven’t seen the pain and suffering of those with severe alcoholics in their families like I have, in which case I hope you never do.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      64·
      2 days ago

      I am pretty sick of its ubiquity. Like my friends can’t even hang out unless it’s somewhere that serves.

      I don’t see votes but you’re probably downvoted to hell. People get real weird when you start criticising what they eat or drink.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        1 day ago

        Yes, people do get “weird” when you literally call them “evil”.

        “I don’t like the way that drinking alcohol is seen as a neccessary component of socialising in our society.” <-- Completely reasonable statement, even as someone who drinks I agree wholeheartedly. North America in particular has a serious problem with a lack of third spaces that aren’t bars or other places that serve alcohol.

        “Alcohol is evil” <-- Absolutely deranged thing to say, deserves to be down voted into oblivion. I cannot even begin to imagine what would possess someone to willingly share this thought with the universe.

        • joshchandra@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          I did not call people evil but the substance, and my stance has nothing to do with socializing (which is fine) but rather everything to do with the pain of drunk driving, abuse, addiction, permanent bodily harm, psychological scarring, and death that are all results of alcohol intake. Why play with fire? Let’s look at other drugs:

          “According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol causes 88,000 (62,000 men and 26,000 women) deaths every year. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism tells us alcohol shortened the lifespan of those 88,000 by 30 years. That makes alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. All other drugs combined cause approximately 30,000 deaths annually.” - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-addiction/201601/which-is-more-dangerous-alcohol-or-drugs

          I don’t even understand why I’m conducting this research right now; why are you disagreeing? Arguing against science is like saying the damage from leaded gasoline was all fine. That article was from 2016, so let’s find something more recent for relevance:

          “A new study estimates that over their lifetime, more than a third of U.S. adults or 113 million people are harmed from someone else’s drinking while 46 million experience harms from someone else’s drug use. Among study respondents, 34.2% experienced secondhand harms from alcohol, 5.5% from cannabis, 7.6% from opioids, and 8.3% from other drugs.” - https://www.phi.org/press/new-study-alcohol-and-drug-use-cause-significant-harms-that-go-beyond-the-individual/

          That was just from Nov. 2024. I hope I don’t have to go on. There are so many incredible and safer ways to have fun (and even ones that are as wild or wilder, when it comes to certain mind-altering substances). /c/stopdrinking exists for a reason, and I’m not gonna minimize their struggle in light of those ratios above.

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      Will you come to the mission will you come will you come

      For a free cup of cocoa and a bun and a bun

      It’s a man’s life in the Salvation Army !