Posted on 04/16/2020 8:46:33 AM PDT by blam
As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days. It was announced yesterday; the world’s biggest pork producer is closing a primary U.S plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak amongst employees.
Smithfield Foods Inc. will halt its pork-processing facility in South Dakota, which accounts for 4% to 5% of U.S pork production. The company also warned that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls. This is just one of the latest examples of the coronavirus beginning to disrupt food chains at a more significant scale rapidly.
We anticipated this, as we reported on April 1 that food supply chains were in the early stages of being strained. Many countries were preparing many weeks ago by cutting back on exports to begin stockpiling. Surprisingly, dairy farmers in the United States are starting to dump milk because there was no place for them to go as the marketplace for dairy products has been affected by the closures of restaurants, schools, hotels, and food service businesses.
One would begin to believe history might not be repeating itself, but it is undoubtedly starting to rhyme. During the great depression of the 1930s, the hardest-hit industry was farming. Farm incomes dropped by nearly two-thirds at the beginning of the 1930s. Dairy farmers dumped countless gallons of milk into the street instead of accepting a penny a quart.
During World War 1, farmers had produced record crops and livestock to keep everyone fed. However, when prices started to fell, they tried to harvest even more to pay their debts and living expenses. In the early 30s, prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.
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Yes, the information came from a leaked dispatch from China.
But don't forget that much of our economy is still based on a Globalist economy, with many of our food processing plants bought up by China (ie.:'Smithield Farms').
Personally, I believe that the Department of Commerce should take notice of exactly how many of our factories and food processing plants are foreign owned,
and consider restricting that number to no more than 5% in any one area of commerce.
WE have just learned a good lesson by relying on China, for example, for 80 - 90% or pharmaceuticals, including agents for making aspirin,
heart medications and pain relieving medications, and we were taken aback when they threatened to withold many life-saving medications during their last 'hissey-fit'.
We should have learned from them, and the rest of the world that when it all comes down to survival during a pandemic,
only your true friends will stand by you even at risk of their own peril and supplies of medications, PPE, and equipment (ie.: India)
Among friends, such a relationship is called cooperation;
while among possible combatants, is is called superior vs. inferior subjects (A/K/A : enslavement).
I’ve noticed that here. Sam’s has almost no fresh beef or chicken in bulk. People were waiting in line for it to come out.
Walk over to wally and almost completely full of beef and chicken.
[[Soda and pop tarts aren’t FOOD, Bob!]]
sure they are- breakfast of champions-
Or use a handheld electric mixer, which I've seen my wife do.
When she does lasagna sauce, at one stage she will transfer the sauce to a food processor, blend it for a while, then put it back in the pot.
There's also this method:
those other counties who cannot produce enough food should import ours and deal with format it comes in....
This is a Chinese Owned company. Globalism showing it’s behind. Another hit on our economy be China. STOP BUYING CHINA
Don’t worry, Cuomo and Whitmer will get first dibs.
Related:
“Supermarkets Adjust Meat Sections as Coronavirus Cuts Supply”
I’ve been thinking of starting a thread...
Good idea.
I find this remarkable. Well under 10% of my food comes from the commercial/restaurant sector. Today, I cooked venison, with potatoes (from a 5-pound bag), onions (3-pound bag), and other basic residential grocery ingredients. Yesterday, was similar, but with rabbit.
The last time I ate food from a restaurant or prepared commercial food was on vacation in January. No Starbucks or Dunkin coffee. No grocery store ready to eat meals. How can the average person afford so much restaurant food, even making allowances for restaurant waste? How can they tolerate it so often, when home cooking is (or would be with practice) so much better?
Whenever a Government official tells me to not worry about something, I freakin' worry.
You're the 'land' they'll be trying to live off.
Chili’s good on pasta, too. And on mac & cheese!
My local meat market is spotty now. Been well stocked until now.
Grabbed a remaining whole porterhouse & got it sliced up for the freezer. Gotta get more salmon now.
IMO, not garbage. The supply chain/flow is seriously disrupted.
Now there’s this:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3835803/posts
The one I described is without blenders. The one in the video also used canned tomatoes. You do have to somehow get the skins and seeds out. And I would never put that much basil in anything except maybe pesto. And no pepper—some people don’t like it and others can always add their own.
My grandmother was big on using large chunks of things and then taking them out before serving. She would never have put all that chopped onion and garlic into anything. More like vegetable/tomato soup if you do it that way.
Except for marinara, pieces of fatty pork or something like that were added to give it flavor and then removed.
Food stamp amounts appear to be geared for people with no life skills, who have to have microwavable meals, instead of cooking anything from scratch.
May as well plan ahead for MORE of my RIGHTS to be stomped on, Eh?
I’m spittin’ mad, today! Our pencil-necked geek Dem Governor just extended the Wisconsin lock down through May 26th!
Aarrgghhh!
If anyone needs me I’ll be cleaning my guns, starting MORE plants in my greenhouse and shaking my fist at the sky!
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