Posted on 02/01/2022 10:04:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. is Canada's largest export buyer for beef and Canada's largest importer supplier. Any disruption to the meat trade between both countries would have severe consequences for meat processors in Canada and consumers in the US.
Days after the "Freedom Convoy" of truckers protesting vaccine mandates in Ottawa, the country's capital, protests are spreading to US-Canadian border crossings and furthering logistical headaches.
Bloomberg reports 150 trucks packed with beef, bound for the US, are stuck in a traffic jam at the border at Coutts, Alberta, the Canadian Meat Council said. Since the weekend, a convoy of truckers has slowed processing times between Alberta and Montana.
We reported as of Monday, more than 100 truckers blocked the US-Canadian border between Alberta and Montana.
BREAKING: Massive convoy of truckers have blockaded the US-Canada border crossing in Alberta pic.twitter.com/A4KHrzETbv — Truckistan Amb. Poso 🏁 (@JackPosobiec) January 31, 2022
On Sunday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney called for an end to the blockade, stating: "Canadians have a democratic right to engage in lawful protests. I urge those involved in this truck convoy protest to do so as safely as possible, and not to create road hazards that could lead to accidents or unsafe conditions for other drivers."
"It is not yet clear what the provincial or federal government is doing to facilitate a resolution. The longer this takes, it will cause more supply chain issues and this will affect everyone from producer to consumer," Marie-France MacKinnon, a spokesperson for the council, said.
What sparked convoys across border crossings and the capital is a new measure imposed by the Canadian government on Jan. 15 requiring unvaccinated cross-border truckers to quarantine upon returning home, making it virtually impossible for them to work.
Trucker convoys are so disruptive to trade between the US-Canada that local officials are expected to take action to resolve the protest revolt.
Every truck taken out of the supply chain is one less truck that can haul goods. This comes as virus-related worker absenteeism and labor shortages have prolonged supply chain woes. Snarling chains, even more, has been an answer by the people to band together against medical tyranny by the government. There's just one problem, blocking cross-border trade or at least slowing it down will further supply chain issues and could spark meat shortages in the US.
Freedom from Mandates vs less or no meat.
I’ll take Freedom.
Where’s the beef?
“Who needs truckers when I can just go to the grocery store and get meat...”
I, too, never understood this ‘supply chain’ stuff. Sounds like a conspiracy theory. All that I need to live on is available at stores within 5 miles of me.
Your sarcasm meter is broken....
The powers that be are responsible for the shortages and disruption to the supply chain. All of it. Every single bit of it.
RE: Who needs truckers when I can just go to the grocery store and get meat
Where does the grocery store get the meat?
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From their supply grown in the back of the store, of course - everyone knows that grocery stores make their own food in the back.
Alaska lives off trucking
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Then you’ll just have to use planes and barges to get the styrofoam to the stores so they can make the food.
Plenty of Stray cats in my Neighbor Hood, always been a fan of Chinese food.
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As you whittle down the cat supply, the rats will fill in - then, with both to make meals, you can have real mainland Chinese food.
No Freedom, No Food
Know Freedom, Know Food
Meat trucks are refrigerated.
The northern border is frozen.
The meat will keep.
Public servants don’t mandate.
I MANDATE
and my elected representatives follow suit or get fired.
You are free.
You don’t need permission.
[ Plenty of Stray cats in my Neighbor Hood, always been a fan of Chinese food.
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As you whittle down the cat supply, the rats will fill in - then, with both to make meals, you can have real mainland Chinese food. ]
Just like communist China, it is the “Cat’s Mao”
You will have to pick them up at the airport, tho-—No trucks
I support the protests, but I question why they are blocking US/canadian lanes of commerce instead of isolating government centers in the major cities. The people who buy meat in flyover country arent the truckers enemies.
They’re in Alaska and use dog sleds, not trucks.
That’s the problem. There isn’t the ability to grow and raise enough food for everyone up here.
Hasn't anybody ever heard of that nice substitute, tofu?
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