Well, you also have Arizona, which grows a lot of vegetables, and Florida, plus varying amounts grown in other states. There's a reason you see more and more farmers' markets around the country. And don't forget potatoes, which are grown in many places throughout the country, not just Idaho and Maine.
It's worth mentioning that farming in Florida has been declining for decades. Farmland has increasingly been sold to developers for more zero lot line gated communities, to the point where many areas of Florida that were once rural farmland are identical suburban sprawl.
remember they switched from beef tallow to veggie/seed oil because of consumer health concerns and price. Beef tallow isn't exactly the best for your arteries (can't speak to veggie oil but remember there was a health scare in the 90s when everyone switched). As for price, while tallow and lard has always been cheaper, we heavily subside our corn and soybean production which leaves us with so much surplus it managed to be cheaper than tallow/lard.
It has always been about price, the cholesterol just helped justify it. Where have you lived all of your life? Here in the Globalist Republic of the United States we race to the bottom to maximize shareholder value, line must go up, it's just what we do. If we can cut the price of something at the consumer's loss for more shareholder value we do. There are only two reasons any of these places would change back to beef tallow:
-competitive advantage, somehow will make them more money
-they think it'll be more expensive to use seed oils soon or this is happening already
Fast food as an industry has already maxed out on price increases, people will likely not tolerate more, so I doubt they're looking to increase prices to offset another cost rise. Fast food industry growth has been down over the past couple of years and in some cases they're actually shrinking.
Older appliances even encouraged repair, you were able to order replacement parts and there was repair manuals and diagrams available from the manufacturers.
They also just lasted longer. My in-laws replaced their refrigerator with an LG Linear Compressor refrigerator a few years ago, the one they replaced was something like 12-15 years old. You may have heard about these things, I think Rossman even did a video about it. The compressor in the new one failed late last year. Compressor failure basically means you throw it out, I'm not aware if you can even get a new compressor for them but that's a bit more of a pain from a DIY point of view than other things like an ice tray motor or a set of dryer rollers and belts. There are no service fittings on any fridge I've seen taken apart, so you'd be doing soldering or using puncture type fittings, and I'm not even sure if you can buy the proper refrigerants without a license.
Also the Tarrifs are retarded, America's main economic asset was that the US dollar was valuable and this is because people want to sell things to America and other governments having faith in America.
How do you figure the tariffs will break that? The United States is the largest customer for multiple major foreign economies. It's a game of chicken they can't win because they literally cannot afford to lose US volume let alone the US as a customer, they basically have to capitulate because increased tariffs will hurt them a lot more than they can hurt the US. World markets are not fungible, you can't just say "ok fuck you then we'll sell our X to Y instead" because there is a lot more to selling goods than just saying "hey canada do you want this instead?", there are infrastructure issues and the logistics of finding new customers, as well as regulatory issues. The crap you sell to the US may not be legal to sell in the EU or Canada.
For a large number of things domestic production is not realistic short term or long term, but bringing some things back, especially those with strategic value, is unquestionably a good thing to do, even if it does make them a bit more expensive.
