Packaging, distribution channels and volume. People need to wake up, if this keeps up, the American food supply is going to start getting hampered. America needs to open up again.
Serious question: in other parts of the country are you able to easily buy a cow or pig and have it butchered at a local butcher? I'm in Nebraska and its very simple. I will help Feed the Pedes if it becomes needed.
And no, while I live near Denver, which used to be the West's quintessential cow town, I have no idea how to get this process started. Nor is my freezer big enough to store a cow.
The big newspapers in that part of the country have been beating the "shut them all down" drums loudly and relentlessly for the past few days and winning popular sentiment. It was inevitable. The people contacting their state representatives demanding shutdown don't realize they're risking their own hunger.
The packing plant shutdowns are because they are having Chinese Virus outbreaks. 3 plants in Nebraska that I'm aware of, one with 3600 "employees" (are illegal Mexican visitors considered employees?). Real question, how did they not foresee Virus outbreaks at meat packing plants with 95% illegal workforce? Working shoulder to shoulder, living 4 families to a house or apartment, working even when sick....
Your local trucking delivery that went from farm to nearby vendor, then to restaurant, doesn't have the ability to immediately switch to selling to further markets. Hence, large scale production in one area is not able to get to another less supplied area.
Also everyone is hoarding so people buy way more than their local supply chains are used to. So what was good enough in a local region is depleted rapidly without a supply from another region.
Contracts. Restaurants buy X amount. Supermarkets buy X amount. Usually negotiated with the packaging plant which negotiates with the farmers. Some food industry only buys the whites, the other the yolks.
It's a balance of supply and demand combined with farmers wanting to keep prices stable..
Regulation. Ever buy a box of something and for each item see “Not for individual resale” or the like printed on it? The regulations around labeling and packaging are immense and to straighten that out in the supply chain takes time and a lot of money.
GEOTUS has taught us that all it really takes is a patriot with titanium balls and some brains to just come in and smash all that obama-era regulations shit right up. We don't have to live with the regulations we've been yoked with for so long, especially NOW. The fact that some dickhead obummer lackey's signed documents sitting on a shelf in some DC office is the reason why people are pouring a billion gallons of milk down a drain somewhere during a fugging CRISIS is INSANE, and won't fly for long.
Those regs are why we have massive businesses. They wrote the laws and paid congressmen to pass them. Cronyism. And we have to find a way to roll it back to get our economy chugging along.
Reason.
Packaging, distribution channels and volume. People need to wake up, if this keeps up, the American food supply is going to start getting hampered. America needs to open up again.
A company that supplies restaurants close to me has been opening on the weekend and selling different priced bundles of meats and eggs to the public.
In many states, that's illegal. But everything is illegal right now, so what difference does it make?
And that right there is the main issue. Red tape is causing this problem more than anything.
"What I do may be illegal, but it's not wrong." - Capt. Mal
Even Whole Foods is selling their bulk packaged foods that are usually sold in their food/salad bars.
Got a HUGE bag of spinach for 5 bucks!
I'm strong to the finich cause I eats me spinach!
Do you have any delicious spinach squares recipes? We always bake them just before the spinach goes bad
aka welcome to costco
Tyson just shut down their biggest plant
That fucking Chinese pork producer in Iowa just shut down (biggest one in the USA)
STOCK THE FUCK UP ON FOOD
Serious question: in other parts of the country are you able to easily buy a cow or pig and have it butchered at a local butcher? I'm in Nebraska and its very simple. I will help Feed the Pedes if it becomes needed.
A live one?
And no, while I live near Denver, which used to be the West's quintessential cow town, I have no idea how to get this process started. Nor is my freezer big enough to store a cow.
The big newspapers in that part of the country have been beating the "shut them all down" drums loudly and relentlessly for the past few days and winning popular sentiment. It was inevitable. The people contacting their state representatives demanding shutdown don't realize they're risking their own hunger.
Realize most of those papers are owned by the same company......
Or that .. after just ten days of it .. they'd eat their own betacuck comrades.
smithfield -- and i heard someone say they heard something about a nearby hormel plant as well, but cant confirm
The packing plant shutdowns are because they are having Chinese Virus outbreaks. 3 plants in Nebraska that I'm aware of, one with 3600 "employees" (are illegal Mexican visitors considered employees?). Real question, how did they not foresee Virus outbreaks at meat packing plants with 95% illegal workforce? Working shoulder to shoulder, living 4 families to a house or apartment, working even when sick....
Iirc Smithfield is owned by the CCP. Fucking Chicoms
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/jobless-claims
We are in for a hurting. It's only getting worse.
Your local trucking delivery that went from farm to nearby vendor, then to restaurant, doesn't have the ability to immediately switch to selling to further markets. Hence, large scale production in one area is not able to get to another less supplied area.
Also everyone is hoarding so people buy way more than their local supply chains are used to. So what was good enough in a local region is depleted rapidly without a supply from another region.
Contracts. Restaurants buy X amount. Supermarkets buy X amount. Usually negotiated with the packaging plant which negotiates with the farmers. Some food industry only buys the whites, the other the yolks.
It's a balance of supply and demand combined with farmers wanting to keep prices stable..
Regulation. Ever buy a box of something and for each item see “Not for individual resale” or the like printed on it? The regulations around labeling and packaging are immense and to straighten that out in the supply chain takes time and a lot of money.
GEOTUS has taught us that all it really takes is a patriot with titanium balls and some brains to just come in and smash all that obama-era regulations shit right up. We don't have to live with the regulations we've been yoked with for so long, especially NOW. The fact that some dickhead obummer lackey's signed documents sitting on a shelf in some DC office is the reason why people are pouring a billion gallons of milk down a drain somewhere during a fugging CRISIS is INSANE, and won't fly for long.
Thse reg have massive corporate and federal backing behind them. Good luck fighting them.
Those regs are why we have massive businesses. They wrote the laws and paid congressmen to pass them. Cronyism. And we have to find a way to roll it back to get our economy chugging along.
Eggs packaged for restaurants come in a big box with layers of loose eggs separated by cardboard.
Eggs packaged for retail sale come in the same sized box but the eggs are packaged into dozens.
I know this because sometimes my company gets the restaurant eggs by mistake and they have to be sent back as we have zero use for loose eggs.
Multiply this sort of problem across the entire food supply chain and you can see how you have consumer end shortages and producer surplus.
Also, much of the restaurant egg supply is liquid eggs. Suppliers of liquid eggs aren't prepared to package eggs by the dozen.
once people are hungry they won't care