Posted on 05/03/2020 2:45:48 PM PDT by John S Mosby
"Hey, everybody- this is Shad Sullivan coming to you from the headwaters of Bitter Creek, Archer County, North Texas. We have to talk! "State officials will be assisting to help identify potential alternative markets, if a producer is unable to move animals, and if neccessary advise and assist on depopulation and disposal methods." L&G.we are plowing under vegetable crops from coast to coast euthanizing millions of chickens. We are aborting sows and burying feeder pigs. We are dumping milk by the hundreds of thousands of gallons. Now they are preparing us to depopulate the fat cattle ready to harvest, because of a bottleneck created by the effects of Covid this thing hasn't been created by Covid but the effects of Covid and the logistics therein.
Our food supply is in trouble, and I am appealing to producers and consumers across the nature-- to START calling. Yesterday, the first shipment of imported beef from the country of Namibia hit the shores of the USA, and yet this morning they are telling us to prepare to euthanize harvest ready cattle
.. It is time we get food on the shelves- because if you're not concerned about this food supply problem..... you better be. We have a huge supply/demand of food across this nation, we can feed the world ourselves and yet we are destroying our harvests! At the same time we are importing beef from other countries, beef that is less regulated than our beef less safe, not as high quality a product and yet... They are preparing us to euthanize our harvest-- does that make sense to America?!
Last 10 years we have been pressed to be "sustainable". I've said all along that sustainability is the PROD. Now we are being told to euthanize-- doesn't sound like sustainability to me.........."
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Yeah, I’m sensing socialist/faux-green wish list items as well.
I grew up on a farm, and when I started farming I raised hogs.
Before I sold I had raised over a quarter million hogs.
I still know a lot of people in the livestock business.
You can call bullshit all you want, it will make you feel better.
But this is really happening.
Some hog packing plants are open only to kill market hogs. There aren't enough workers to cut them up.
From there the whole hogs get buried.
You ever think about doing a pay for hunt as some do with buffalo or hogs and deer ?
Yes, my understanding is there are contracts that the larger farmers sign to get their beef/pork, etc butchered and processed. If the processor cant fulfill, the farmer is prevented (because of contracts and regulations) from seeking other alternatives. Because of younger livestock growing up and coming up the pipeline, they ready to harvest animals need to be moved out of the way. It’s absolutely horrible that we could have real hunger because of idiotic regulations. Is there any kind of organization that can direct concerned people on who to call, and what we need to say (demand).
I may not have stated that correctly, so forgive me if this isn’t explained right. What I heard from someone who has a small family farm.
Oh my gosh, I hate the House leadership so much for giving my area absolutely NO representation on the agriculture committee!
And Trump is employing the Defense Procurement Act to force them to reopen.
it seems really strange there are outbreaks of CCPVirus in the meat packing plants, when we haven’t really heard of “outbreaks” in other specific industries. Certain cities and localities, yes, but not targeted to a specific factory.
Any possibility there is industrial sabotage of some of these big plants, purposefully infecting large numbers of workers?
All I have over here for hunting are pythons, cobras and 3+’ long lizards.
The pythons and lizards taste a lot like chicken
...Because they seem to like to feast on MY chickens, I suppose
And therefore the bottleneck is the packing plants, and NOT the cattle production chain. Trump is already addressing the problem with his Defense Procurment Act emergency powers.
Those are feedlot operations, not farms or ranches. Totally different.
“. If they are getting ready to “euthanize” any animals, then they are a feedlot operation and NOT a farm or ranch.”
Agreed.
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
It would be a shame if we nationalized them.
Can the chit! Nothing fancy. 1lb., 5lb 10lb tins...whatever. then repurpose some of those missile silos and underground command centers all over the country and store the stuff there for a SHTF event.
Food from fallout shelters 60 years ago is still useable. Canned properly it would be worth a hell of a lot more that the oil reserve if it really gets ugly.
Somebody needs their azz kicked for coming up with this "destroy the stuff" idea.
Every day these clowns in DC prove that the political class in America is comprised of absolutely the most stupid among us.
“US food producers are told by central planning to kill their crop— and at the same time central globalist planning is importing beef...”
Holy hell should be raised bout this!
Fry the phone line to your Rep.
BTW, the same thing is going on with our seafood. We are importing over 90% while American producers are being forced out of business.
You are correct-those are feedlot/factory farm operations-I grew up on a small family ranch in W Texas-and I live in a rural county now-there are plenty of locker plants nearby where local ranchers can get livestock slaughtered-and butcher shops that will buy that meat and sell it to people like my neighbors and me who insist on grass fed free ranged meat. Feedlot beef goes mostly to big box markets in cities-if I wanted some, I’d have to drive 25 miles to the nearest HEB or Walmart-same for veggies from Cali-I prefer local and organic food.
Didn’t pres Trump just fix things so that the packing facilities that service the big feedlots and factory farms will stay open to process meat-why would anyone be wasting perfectly good livestock-trying to drive up the price?
It’s certainly possible but there was zero ppe for those workers early on and that would do it as well as open sabotage. These plant workers were working in close quarters with no protective gear. A whole lot of us have been sewing up masks and 3d printing shields for any frontline workers we know since non-medical people spent the early weeks of this entirely locked out from buying ppe. I’ve made ppe for grocery store workers, delivery people, Uber drivers and other critical workers but I don’t know any meat packing workers, mostly because I don’t speak Spanish. I’ve switched over to healthcare workers now too since they have decided finally to take our masks. The meat packing plants are now required to give workers ppe but that wasn’t the story for weeks and weeks.
I WISH it was that easy.
But it is not. Regulations by the hundreds, and the huge factory processors take in 10s of thousands of animals every day. Farmers raise stock with this in mind. The animals need to be out the door quickly when the animal is ready.
And have you ever seen a modern slaughterhouse/meat packer?
They take in thousands of animals a day and product ready carcasses, halves and finished products of all kinds.
The Smithfield plant in Sioux City, SD has 4,700 employees! And that’s just one plant.
The economy of scale they can do will never be picked up by hundreds or even thousands of butchers.
I applaud your idea, it’s better than killing all the stock, but I’m afraid the majority are just not going to be processed in time to allow farmers to keep feeding idle stock.
Most ranchers sell their finished cattle to feedlots, and hogs are really raised in massive barns with thousands who never see the light of day.
So even if it is feedlots or small farmers, the hold up is the meat packers not coming to work. This week after Trump declared meat packers essential infrastructure, the Smithfield plant in SD had only 350 of 4,700 workers show up. That’s pathetic.
Farmers are the greatest people, but the vast majority of Americans get their meat through this massive farmer to feedlot to slaughter house/meat packer to retailer just in time inventory system.
The hold up is the meat packers. They’re all sick or afraid of getting sick.
They wouldn’t need to pick up hundreds of thousands of carcasses, only the overflow. The new processing protocols are going to slow things down but plants here are open.
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