'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
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Tyson has outlined how farmers are depopulating millions of their livestock animals - chickens, pigs, cattle, due to the closure of processing facilities.
Maybe this will get Dr. Fauci's attention. Virus kills some, starvation kills many.
27 Apr 20
@earl-of-trumps saidI’m sure our food processing plants have been kept open and their staff designated as key workers. That’s just stoopid. Our farmers, especially dairy are suffering from drop off due to coffee shops and restaurants closing.
'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
Cannot cut&paste from this article.
Tyson has outlined how farmers are depopulating millions of their livestock animals - chickens, pigs, cattle, due to the closure of processing facilities.
Maybe this will get Dr. Fauci's attention. Virus kills some, starvation kills many.
@earl-of-trumps saidGovernment in action, the destruction of a once free economy.
'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
Cannot cut&paste from this article.
Tyson has outlined how farmers are depopulating millions of their livestock animals - chickens, pigs, cattle, due to the closure of processing facilities.
Maybe this will get Dr. Fauci's attention. Virus kills some, starvation kills many.
@earl-of-trumps saidHello, Chicken Little.
'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
Cannot cut&paste from this article.
Tyson has outlined how farmers are depopulating millions of their livestock animals - chickens, pigs, cattle, due to the closure of processing facilities.
Maybe this will get Dr. Fauci's attention. Virus kills some, starvation kills many.
In truth, the government hasn't forced any food processing plants to close; companies have closed them because of outbreaks among their workforce:
"Some of the country's largest abattoirs (processing plants or slaughterhouses) have been forced to cease operations temporarily after thousands of employees across the country have tested positive for the virus.
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Pork processing plants have been hit especially hard, with three of the largest in the country going offline indefinitely— Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, JBS pork processing in Worthington, Minnesota and Tyson Fresh Foods in Waterloo, Iowa. Together, the three plants account for approximately 15 percent of pork production."
So a terrible crisis leading to mass starvation? Hardly:
"The US has about 2,700 slaughter plants, 800 of which are federally inspected. In March, the country saw meat, beef and pork production reach record highs, according to the US Agriculture Department (USDA). The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents more than 250,000 meatpacking and food processing workers, said on Thursday at least 13 processing plants have closed over the past two months, resulting in a 25% reduction in pork slaughter capacity and 10 percent reduction in beef slaughter capacity.
As many Americans remain under stay-at-home orders, industry experts say the demand for meat has increased. At the same time, meat processing is on the decline. Beef processing in the US was down 27%, and pork processing was down almost 20%, compared to this time last year, according to USDA data."
"The numbers are startling, but Julie Niederhoff, an associate professor of supply chain management at Syracuse University, says the country's food supply is not in a crisis, but it is vulnerable.
"The definition of a supply chain problem is when we have supply and demand that can't reach each other," Niederhoff said. "We're not going to run out of food. We're going to run out of maybe your one particular favorite foods."
She added that it is unlikely people will start seeing empty meat sections at the store, but it is likely there will be less variety.
"We have so much food in America and we have so much choice that I am not worried that there will not be enough food. There might not be enough of one particular brand, or one particular cut, but that the state of our food supply chain, in general, is robust. The state of some specific items within that supply chain is vulnerable and it's at risk," explained Niederhoff."
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27 Apr 20
@earl-of-trumps saidSurely not... ears will always be in amply supply!
'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
27 Apr 20
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This is a microcosm of the food chain as produce has been destroyed as well, and it is still very much in the onset.
You want to think that all that matters is surviving the virus, go ahead.
@earl-of-trumps saidThe Strawman Army grows.
@no1marauder
This is a microcosm of the food chain as produce has been destroyed as well, and it is still very much in the onset.
You want to think that all that matters is surviving the virus, go ahead.
Isn't it obvious that IF corporations are shutting down meat processing facilities because their workers are getting sick with COVID, that the only way to get these to reopen is to get the virus under control?
What part of that is sooooooooooooooooooooooo hard to understand?
28 Apr 20
@earl-of-trumps saidIf you were concerned about starvation you would be criticizing the farmers for destroying all that food.
'The food supply chain is breaking,' Tyson says as plants close
Cannot cut&paste from this article.
Tyson has outlined how farmers are depopulating millions of their livestock animals - chickens, pigs, cattle, due to the closure of processing facilities.
Maybe this will get Dr. Fauci's attention. Virus kills some, starvation kills many.
28 Apr 20
@athousandyoung saidThey have no CHOICE, athousandyoung.
If you were concerned about starvation you would be criticizing the farmers for destroying all that food.
You think they killed all those animals on a lark? C'mon, dude. That is income they will never realize. I read today, 60,000 pigs per day, KILLED. And there are similar problems with chickena and eggs.
These farmers will surely go out of business. The farmers are amongst America's poorest businessmen.
28 Apr 20
@athousandyoung saidWhat are they supposed to do with all that food if they can't get it to market?
If you were concerned about starvation you would be criticizing the farmers for destroying all that food.
If they let the food rot on the ground and set the animals free (run you little gubbers... go on, git outta here) how would that prevent starvation?