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Donkeyballs 21 points ago +23 / -2

Why is it closing? Can’t hire people with no symptoms, wear masks, gloves, etc. food is not essential?

It’s a ploy to get us to rely on government programs like WIC. We can live off peanut butter, cheese and bread.

And, meat plants bad for environment.

Control+fear = absolute power

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Pelosi_Halitosis 20 points ago +20 / -0

It's not food that's the problem, it's the supply chain. With restaurants closed, there's too much food in the supply chain. Similar to oil, there is no storage for this excess and food is perishable. The solution is to stop processing food. What happens when everything opens is going to be the issue with food labor.

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FredWinston2.0 7 points ago +7 / -0

People haven’t stopped eating because restaurants close.

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Pelosi_Halitosis 1 point ago +2 / -1

No they haven't, but they're not eating the same. There's a big difference between going out for a meal and opening a box of hamburger helper. I know I've cut down a lot on meat, seafood and indulgence. We've always been a mostly make food at home family. But I go out to lunch 3-4 times a week, wife and I eat out alone once a week and we take the kid out for dinner once a week. All those meals have been replaced by cheaper, less healthy food, because I'm sick of cooking. Yeah, I can still order out from favorite restaurants, we did the first week and promptly quit, the food sucks after a car ride.

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Okie_Life 0 points ago +1 / -1

The article says its due to outbreaks at facilities and worker shortage. It doesn't have to do with them not being able to ship it out, because most restaurants have contracts making them required to take the food. Farmers are having to get rid of food because they can't send it to the processing plant. So supply is fine, demand is fine, just the food plants don't want to hire more people.

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Touser 4 points ago +4 / -0

Fake news. They close for a day, clean, then reopen.

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NotRealDemSocialism 2 points ago +2 / -0

You're gonna eat the bugs