It's the little child-slave hands! They're needed to reach in there and pull out the guts!
Posted on 04/15/2020 9:31:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
he coronavirus has focused the world’s attention on the woeful lack of ventilators, respiratory masks, and intensive care unit beds available in many countries. Far less attention has been paid to another pandemic-driven shortage lurking over the horizon: food.
As trade walls go up and governments panic about preserving their own food sources, the coronavirus threatens to disrupt global supply chains. Russia, the world’s largest wheat exporter, is limiting grain exports from April to June. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, has ramped up grain purchases and stopped exports of legumes.
The looming food shortage has an echo of the financial crisis of 2008, when large exporters that were worried about food supplies limited exports, causing a global price surge. In response, other countries began importing food like there was no tomorrow. This bolstered demand, pushing prices up even further.
As prices shot up, the result was devastating for the world’s poor. Insufficient food increased malnutrition, especially in children, and plunged already poor people deeper into poverty.
Today, trade restrictions and panic hoarding will only intensify the crisis and further disrupt supply chains. Municipalities in Argentina, the world’s largest exporter of soybean products, closed the roads in major soybean production areas—ignoring a federal government order to keep them open. This resulted in the country’s grain supplies shrinking by half until the municipalities loosened restrictions. With planes grounded, Canadian imports of onions and eggplants from India have plummeted over the past two weeks.
Unlike previous food crises, this one stands to be exacerbated by global restrictions on movement. Millions of migrant workers involved in agriculture and food production are now immobile because of border crackdowns. This has left produce unharvested and much-needed food left to rot in fields. Seasonal laborers from Eastern Europe are missing on the farms of Spain,
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But if the lockdown saves just one person while starving the world it will have been worth it.
Farmers farm. I live in farm country. It getting planted Loretta. The USA is growing crops. This is doom and gloom BS at this point.
Why you...flu bro.
This makes no sense. A bag of onions from Western USA costs about $10-15 per 50 lb bag. No one can be flying these, or eggplants, all the way from India in any volume whatsoever.
The woods are full of deer.
They can’t get workers, because the workers are making too much staying home.
There are fish that are farmed here, sent to China for processing, and then back here for sale.
Bullschifftz. You believe that I gotta bridge for sale. Here we farm by the thousand of acres and they’re getting farmed. Take a guess what one man in a tractor can plant in a day. While your at it stop farm workers from getting to the job and getting paid. Just don’t come to Idaho you’ll not like it.
It's the little child-slave hands! They're needed to reach in there and pull out the guts!
And wild hogs
Live Where the Food is!
Idaho grows spuds, not eggplant, strawberries, peaches, cranberries, artichokes, Swiss chard, pole beans, zuchini or tangelos.
Different crops are harvested different ways.
Some require extra care that a tractor just can’t provide.
Grow it. See if it don’t sell. Hell California got more workers than a big bear can schifftz, quit whining get off your arse and do something weenie.
Sure, people may starve. But at least they won’t die of the by Russ.
It would help to point out that this comes from a publication that has been pimping globalism for over eighty years.
No worries, Dr. fauci will rule that dying of hunger is the result of the China Virus
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“The U.K. government, desperate for farm labor, has looked to tap its reservoir of unemployed to pick strawberries or cut asparagus. India has limited rice exports due to labor shortages.”
Using unemployed people to do ANY work is a sure sign of TOTAL DESPERATION for a Western government.
Things must be bad in the UK. Really, really, bad.
“The woods are full of deer.”
Not that I wouldn’t mind cleaning out the woods of deer (due to Lyme Disease), nor bears for that matter (due to their attitude towards humans), but you’d probably be surprised by how quickly Americans could consume those deer, if we all started to feed on them.
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