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CisSiberianOrchestra 28 points ago +28 / -0

Trump isn't about to allow Chinese-owned companies to create a famine in America.

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Cyer6 3 points ago +3 / -0

Great point. He probably knows they might try something like this. Reports going around how some are starting to worry about supply chain breakdowns in this lockdown. It would be just like the Chinamen to pull something like this.

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DancesWithPepe 20 points ago +20 / -0

CNN: This just in, President Trump wants Americans to die from Covid-19 tainted meat.

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AlohaChris 18 points ago +18 / -0

The virus didn’t sicken or kill enough people, so now they’re going after the food supply.

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Reddit2016 17 points ago +17 / -0

Awesome!!! I was starting to get worried about this. Our grocery stores only allow us to purchase two similar meat items each time we shop since the shelves were bare a few weeks ago when this first started. Then I started hearing about all the animals being slaughtered and eggs being thrown away. It's ridiculous!! Thankfully GEOTUS is on top of this.

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Isaiah53 [S] 17 points ago +17 / -0

Don't freak out about the agricultural dumping. I live in a very cattle-heavy region, and know a lot of these guys. Here's what's actually happening;

The US government already pays farmers to overproduce each year, as a matter of "food security/national security". America literally can feed the entire earth, if required. We have that capacity.

However, the government only gives the biggest producers (million-acre corporate farms)the largest grants to over-produce. And it's a set amount.

If the market demand tanks, and it has...bigly...the commodities prices drop like rocks. Farmers can't sell their product for pennies per pound. It's not worth shipping. They'd go broke overnight.

All of the restaurant (meat) and school closures (milk) have just about killed both markets. Moreover, many of the meat processing plants are being shut down by thrir Chinese owners, claiming CV employee infection.

The milk is worth less than it costs to truck it in. It's now a net loss/gallon.

And there are rapidly-dwindling places to send meat for processing.

Most of this centralized meat processing occurred under Clinton & Obama. It was Clinton who made it legal for China to start buying up the processing plants.

They cited the occasional food poisoning as a basis for taking butchering rights away from farmers. Likewise, this is the reason a massive percentage of American-grown chickens are sent all the way to China to be processed, only to be sent back again for US consumption.

The food-chain sellout to the commies was absolutely coordinated.

CT's Rosa DeLauro played a massive role. Monsanto pays for all of her campaigns, and they are 100x worse than Bill Gates.

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Scroon 7 points ago +8 / -1

Well, holy shit, that's horrible. Can we just burn it all down and start again?

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Isaiah53 [S] 11 points ago +11 / -0

It would be MUCH faster if Trump just signed an executive order allowing local processing.

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Scroon 4 points ago +5 / -1

But then...less fire. :(

Seriously, I hope he does do something because all that crap is just wrong.

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Isaiah53 [S] 7 points ago +7 / -0

Oh, if he passed the ability for each state to process meat butchery, there would be a MASSIVE industry political fire.

You have no idea just how few people control ALL of the meat processing in the US. And outside of the US, even though it is our domestically grown livestock.

It's 90% commie/globalist-controlled.

They can start a famine tomorrow, if farmers continue to follow the current laws.

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Scroon 1 point ago +2 / -1

I had no idea. I'm looking into it now...and again it's the "public safety" argument being used for massive power consolidation.

Thanks. This has been enlightening.

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Destineed369 7 points ago +7 / -0

Wait, our chicken get outsourced to other countries to get butchered? Or farmed?

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Isaiah53 [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

Specifically China.

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Destineed369 2 points ago +2 / -0

I, uh, im not sure what to say about that. What the fuck possible benefit would that have, besides making us dependent on chyna?

Theres no way its cheaper to ship all the way over there to pay slave wages, then ship it all the way back. Thats impossible lol.

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Isaiah53 [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's what they have argued, for at least ten years now.

It came up during H1N1 and SARS, as a possible infection vector.

Yet, here we still are.

Same US chickens, and China processing.

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OhLollyLollyPop 1 point ago +1 / -0

One reason is the pollution that Americans have a NIMBY attitude about. Dairy farms, and likely any animal processing operation, has to put in very expensive pollution abatements. Also, the stench has to be controlled. As soon as any residents move to the area, the complaints will start.

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Reddit2016 3 points ago +3 / -0

That's great information thanks for clarifying that for me.

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Rugar22 13 points ago +13 / -0

YES, FORCE CHINA TO GIVE SMITHFIELD BACK!

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OhLollyLollyPop 3 points ago +3 / -0

Maybe Trump could seize it with emergency powers?

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Rugar22 2 points ago +2 / -0

It would be nice if he forced China to seize all of their US assets and make them ours. Then we can sell it back to the private industry.

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Lowlylurker 10 points ago +10 / -0

🤞

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Scroon 9 points ago +10 / -1

Wait, so China controls our meat production? Wtf.

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Isaiah53 [S] 7 points ago +7 / -0

Thank Bill Clinton.

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MAGA_Master 4 points ago +4 / -0

This just reaffirms my theory that most all Dems (and probably many news producers and CEO) are in the pockets of Chyna.

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OhLollyLollyPop 2 points ago +2 / -0

They own Smithfield meats. I don't know about others.

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Faintlight 6 points ago +6 / -0

Bill Gates has a patent for fake meat.

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Isaiah53 [S] 6 points ago +6 / -0

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Is it tied to Burger King's 2,400% above-normal-estrogen-content-for-women, Impossible Burger?

Cause that patent product will grow woman tits on any male body builder.

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Faintlight 4 points ago +5 / -1

I saw a short video of the meat being made. My stomach is still sick.

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Deplora -36 points ago +4 / -40

He can't order them to stay open when a huge percentage of their workers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and the rest have been recently exposed.

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Isaiah53 [S] 37 points ago +37 / -0

Once it's deemed critical infrastructure, he can literally send in the marines, if he so chooses.

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Deplora -44 points ago +2 / -46

But he won't choose to send in the marines. Meat processing is not critical infrastructure. People can eat the grain that would have been fed to the cattle and pigs and chickens (and probably be healthier than if they ate the meat). It sucks for producers of meat animals, but no way is it critical infrastructure.

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Isaiah53 [S] 31 points ago +31 / -0

He just legally deemed these plants critical infrastructure. It's the law.

Too bad, China.

Lol.

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Deplora -34 points ago +1 / -35

Still won't be sending in the marines. The closed plants will reopen when they have enough healthy workers.

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Isaiah53 [S] 27 points ago +27 / -0

There are plenty of healthy people who would be glad for temp work.

If China won't hire, the USA can temporarily, or permanently, take control of the plants.

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Bender4Prez 18 points ago +18 / -0

He could literally pay to bus people in from other areas to do it as well.

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HughGRection 17 points ago +17 / -0

You are talking about a MASSIVE shift in the preparation, storage, grading, and sell of grain if we just stop eating meat in such a short amount of time. And that's over looking all the legalities involved. It's also overlooking the failure of massive markets that will have untold ripple effects throughout our economy. In other words, you're spouting nonsense. It's essential. Get over it.

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Rekot24 13 points ago +13 / -0

We don't need these plants, I'll just get meat from the grocery store /s

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Deplora -21 points ago +1 / -22

As long as you include dairy (milk and eggs) in your diet, meat is totally unnecessary. I wouldn't recommend anyone going the "vegan" route unless they're prepared to make a full time job of managing their diet and essential supplements. But as long as the dairy supply chain holds up, the meat supply is not critical.

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Harambe 9 points ago +11 / -2

GET YOUR SOYBOY BULLSHIT OUTTA HERE

MEAT IS AMAZING AND PROVIDES MORE ENERGY PER BITE THAN ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE YOU CAN CONSUME.

ANTI-MEAT = ANTI-HUMAN. KILL YOURSELF PLEASE

Chicoms want us weak and tired so they can roll Taiwan and SK without us doing anything. WAKE UP FOLKS THIS IS TOTAL WAR

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Destineed369 5 points ago +5 / -0

Eating meat is the reason our brain has evolved to be able to do the amazing things that it does today. Eating meat, and then a bit later cooking it literally allowed humans devote more calories to run a larger brain. We wouldnt be human without meat.

As the ad about pet food says "unlike you, your pet cant chose to be vegitarian."

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Isaiah53 [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

Which explains vegan voters.

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Deplora -17 points ago +2 / -19

As far as diet is concerned, milk and eggs are just as good. I agree that as a practical matter, meat processing facilities need to be started up again. But the reality of what goes on in those places has a lot to do with why they've been so hard hit in this pandemic. It's horrible work, in horrible conditions, and inherently dangerous from an infectious disease standpoint, since so many infectious agents can infect both food animals and humans, and most food animals are being fed antibiotics, which promote the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. Plus nearly all meat-processing plants emply a lot of illegals, so respect for rules and regulations is inherently low.

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MAGA4Ever 0 points ago +1 / -1

This is made up bullshit. Eggs are a decent substitute depending on where/how you get them. Pasteurized milk is trash. You don’t know anything and are trying to sound like an expert.

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byron 6 points ago +6 / -0

Eggs aren't a dairy product. Are you retarded?

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Deplora -10 points ago +1 / -11

They're not actually a dairy product, of course, but they're generally categorized that way for retail purposes. Good luck finding a grocery store where eggs aren't located in the "dairy aisle". They're also nutritionally very similar.

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Isaiah53 [S] 6 points ago +6 / -0

They also put 100% fruit juice, cocktail mixes, and gatorade in the same aisle.

They must also be nutritionally the same.

Eggs ARE meat. Almost 100% protein and animal fats.

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OhLollyLollyPop 2 points ago +2 / -0

It isn't holding up, either. Farmers are destroying eggs, dumping milk, and will soon slaughter the animals if we don't get restaurants back open. Chickens are already being slaughtered.

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Deplora 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes, I'm definitely concerned about that, particularly dairy cattle, which obviously take a lot longer to replace than chickens.

I'm not trying to suggest that there aren't serious problems with the food supply chain. But I've seen articles the past couple of days making wacky claims of a looming "protein shortage" blamed on the slaughter of meat animals, and just wanted to point out that there is no reason to equate meat shortage with protein shortage.

And likewise, I don't think that meat processing plants are really "critical infrastructure". Unless their shutdown would result in an actual food shortage, they're not critical, and I haven't seen any indication of that. Sure, it's super-important to meat animal producers' financial and business prospects, but not any more so than a lot of other types of businesses that are sustaining long-term harm from a short-term shutdown.

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Gyrfalcon 5 points ago +5 / -0

People can eat the grain that would have been fed to the cattle and pigs and chickens (and probably be healthier than if they ate the meat).

Not all of us. I'm allergic to wheat, oats, rice, corn, and the rest of the grains. Explain how being in a huge state of inflammation is healthier for me.

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OhLollyLollyPop 1 point ago +1 / -0

Those things are mostly bad for everyone. Grains cause gut keakage over time.

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Gyrfalcon 1 point ago +1 / -0

I know, I just needed to nag a bit.

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keepwinning 4 points ago +4 / -0

watch him.

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OhLollyLollyPop 3 points ago +3 / -0

The National Guard has been sent in to several places. This could now expand. Trump is going to send protective gear for workers and testing. So, naturally the DNC unions don't like any of that.

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iVote 3 points ago +3 / -0

Watch and learn.

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