Posted on 05/01/2020 4:52:35 AM PDT by C19fan
America's mounting meat crisis has been laid bare in pictures showing empty store shelves across the country after processing plants were forced to slow production or close amid outbreaks of coronavirus. Two dozen meat processing plants across America have been forced to close at some point in the last two months while many others have been forced to slow output after workers got sick, according to union bosses. Shortages of poultry, beef and pork have continued despite stores limiting how many products each person can buy in order to prevent hoarding which has exacerbated the problem. The crisis is also set to get worse despite Donald Trump using the Defense Production Act to force plants to stay open and will not peak until the end of this month, unions have warned, with shortages likely to continue even for months after that.
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Or..., you were there after the hoarders?
Trump responded to this days ago. Sounds like the brits are trying to create a panic buy like toilet paper.
According to Alberta Health, as of Wednesday, 821 cases of the novel coronavirus had been confirmed in workers at the Cargill plant and 276 cases among employees and contractors at JBS...
Nope... You can trust the numbers. These meat plant outbreaks are two of the highest infection clusters in Canada.
Sadly... 79% of the 3,310 covid deaths in Canada have come from nursing homes and seniors complexes.
Our closest grocery store is a small one and I made the mistake of going there on Sunday afternoon and did it again two weeks later. Beef was cleaned out. This is a recreational area and a lot of city people have property here. They come down for the weekend and ride their four wheelers around on the gravel roads. Finally figured out that the reason the grocery store was cleaned out of beef on Sunday aft is because the city people were cleaning it out before heading back home. Fargin Barstids.
On weekdays they have beef but not a big selection and prices have gone up. I go to another store now and they have plenty. Better selection of cuts and bigger roasts too. I’m used to going to the small grocery in the afternoon and grabbing meat manager specials. No such thing now.
Nothing in the way of weekly ads now either. People are eating beef at home now when they would normally grab a fast food burger during lunch break from work.
Got all the pork I need. It was on sale when Wuhan Virus was in Wuhan and Italy. I saw the empty shelves in Italy and decided to get a little freezer and filled it mostly with Boston Butts and ribs. Getting a freezer was something we were going to do this Spring anyway. Glad I got it when I did. Hard to find them now. $1.39/lb for the Butts and not much more for the ribs. I put a little beef in the freezer. Guess I should have got more back then but I was shopping the sale as I always do because we have to. I’ll be firing up the smoker for the first time tomorrow. Sunny, 85 degrees and not too windy.
Trump responded to this days ago. Sounds like the brits are trying to create a panic buy like toilet paper.”
Its very real and very serious. Pigs are being euthanized.
Modern animal agriculture is like an assembly line, the animals move slowly forward on the line with others behind them.
When the plants close, there is no where for the animals at the end of the line to go is they are being destroyed.
Local grocery coolers filled with any kind of beef you wanted. Sale on sausage - buy one lb, get one lb free.
This is more propaganda from the Nazis at Daily Mail.
Sam’s. Yesterday. Limit 1 pack of chicken. 1 beef. 1 pork. Per customer.
No big deal,at least you didn’t need coupons as they did in WWII.
Still, I went to Costco, and made sure my freezer is now full. I do not anticipate needing to go shopping for several weeks.
My Costco was missing the following:
Ground beef (fresh)
Sirloin (fresh)
Ground beef (frozen patties)
Ground beef, grass-fed (frozen patties)
Gluten-free chicken nuggets
Chicken patties (frozen)
All nonsense.
I read a day or two ago that the US has something,what was the number, on the order of, thousands of TONS of frozen pork loins in storage.
The meat-cutting plants closed down, are primarily for pork.
The rest of the issue is that the packaging is different for shipment/sale to stores, vs. restaurants. The vast quantity of food sold through restaurants, and the sudden shift to everyone eating at home, means they don’t have enough packages; and there’s the little issue of shipping: scheduling the loading of trucks, and existing contracts with different trucking companies for taking stuff to restaurants vs. groceries.
This is all Chinese (they own Smithfield) / George Sore-Ass / Bill Gates (he’s pushing non-animal imitation meat with AlGore) / Nancy Pelosi (crash the economy to elect Hillary when Joe Biden gets dementia) bullshit.
“and made sure my freezer is now full.”
I never had much luck with freezing raw meat. The freezer seems to suck the taste and juice from raw beef cuts. Maybe I don’t package it correctly. I do have good luck with freezing prepared beef like sloppy joe mix, grilled beef tips and baked meatloaf. That stuff tastes okay after it’s thawed.
I use the freezer mainly for making icecubes, chilling pina coladas and keeping a store of raw chicken livers for the cat.
silverleaf wrote:
“Curious that clusters almost simultaneously occurring only in meatpacking in multiple states with very low infection rate. Plus Canada and Germany,
Other close contact industries not seeing clusters like this.
Looks deliberate.”
Yep.
Smithfield had a visit from Chinese (execs?) and within a month there was an outbreak.
I guess we’ll all be vegetarians by default.
Let’em eat toilet paper.
Also Brazil.
Eat guacamole! It’s what green SHOULD taste like.
I went to the store two days ago here in Ohio. I got the last packet of ground beef at the store. The ground beef section was bare after that. The chicken section was also sparse.
Well handled!
Get a food sealer.
Freeze the cuts on waxed paper on a cookie sheet.
Once they’re solid, seal them in portion sizes for your family in the food sealer bags.
Hubby brings home several hundred pounds of venison each year and we’ve kept it several years when he wasn’t able to hunt for one reason or another.
Also, buy the vacuum sealed meat cuts. Whole chickens keep for a year or more if you leave them in the vacuum sealed pack they come in.
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