Posted on 04/14/2020 10:17:29 AM PDT by rktman
Civilization truly is a fragile thing. The electrical grid is susceptible to sabotage, the internet is vulnerable to being shut down, and our transportation industry is highly sensitive to fuel availability and price.
And we're never more than a few days away from anarchy when it comes to the food supply.
Rep. Thomas Massie is warning that the supply chain has been so disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic that we'll be seeing food shortages sometime in the next few weeks.
Washington Examiner:
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie warned that the United States could face food shortages due to the brittle supply chain, bankrupting farmers and forcing them to euthanize livestock.
We are weeks, not months, away from farmers euthanizing animals that would have been sold for meat/food. Also, fruits and vegetables are going to rot in the fields. A drastic change in policy this week could ameliorate this inevitability, he tweeted Monday.
Massie shared an interview he did with a local radio show host for the tri-state area of Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, during which he spoke about how the U.S. could see farmers going bankrupt and euthanizing cattle and hogs because meat processing plants have shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Many people don’t have room in their refrigerators for restaurant-sized food packages.
No, hes the guy who insisted on that constitution thingy being followed by forcing congress to actually vote on a $6T spending bill.
Ping.
Actually ‘presbytarian reporter’ posted it first in the link I added at comment 2. But, yes informative.
With no food the tp problem solves itself.
According to the CDC the better masks are needed for healthcare workers. But they wont even take his masks because they are expired. So they sit in a storeroom while his employees are stuffing coffee filters in cloth masks.
You dont even want to know how I feel about the CDC. I think when all is said and done some of them should be brought up on criminal charges. Its a good thing Trump put Pence in charge or wed still be doing a few hundred tests per state instead of tens of thousands through commercial means.
They knew what was coming, and they sat back and let it come, to try to make it Trumps Katrina. They will fail.
Not only that, people dont know how to cook anymore. Its a real mess.
It was vegetarian...sorry forgot to mention that. The fast I was on (Daniel fast) is meat,dairy etc. Restricted.
Locally, one of the submarine sandwich shops, "Subway", are advertising that they will sell retail some of their bread, lettuce, tomatoes, etc., etc.
and other products so as to keep open their supply chain, remove some strain on grocery stores, and keep their own doors open.
Grocery stores can de-package restaurant size packaging.
How does a grocery store “de-package” a 5-gallon carton of milk?
How does a grocery store without a butcher section “de-package” a large package of meat?
How does a grocery store “de-package” a 30-dozen carton of eggs?
Restaurant milk is distributed in 2.5 gal bags or pint chugs; further, almost 75 percent of milk is processed into hard products in this country, cheese and butter. Mozzarella is almost a third of total cheese production; hows pizza sales going right now??
Distribute those bags to the retail trade..Canada has milk in bags, why cant we?
And as for being out of jugs....remember when milk came in paper cartons? Glass bottles?
If there are big cans of stuff the consumer will buy them...ask Costco.
I have noticed low inventories of groceries and frozen food, but not fresh vegetables. If people are concerned... buy the fresh stuff, cook it and freeze it.
My local has a butcher, no problem.
How does a grocery store de-package a 30-dozen carton of eggs?
No problem, just bring your own cartons.
For some of us........poaching will become fashionable.
I always feel a sense of security seeing the herds of deer and elk.
Yep
“Maybe some retail consumer rules need to be changed but Id hope the feds can do that.”
So unless Trump can do it as an EO, we’re screwed?
The Congressman should have been here last week. Poultry producer here in NC had truckloads of fresh poultry.
And not because the restaurants are not buying. Zaxbys, KFC, Bojangles, Popeyes all seem to be doing a great carry out only business.
TYPES OF CHICKEN AND PRICES
40 lbs. of Boneless Skinless Breast
. $40.00
40 lbs. of Cut Wings
... $50.00
40 lbs. of Whole Legs
. $20.00
All Chicken Fresh and Uncooked
ABOUT PICK-UP
Stay in Your Car to Pick Up
Debit and Credit Cards Accepted
Cash - Exact Amounts ONLY
The stores that sell most of the groceries in this country don’t have butchers.
How many people have egg cartons?
I just went to Rosa’s for a tostada and picked up 5 lbs. Of fresh ground beef.
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