Posted on 05/01/2020 5:40:13 AM PDT by blam
Just days after the CEO of Tyson Foods warned that the “food supply chain is breaking”, the disruptions due to the coronavirus are starting to surface not only in households and grocery stores, but also across corporate America, and even McDonald’s has now said it is changing how it is doling out beef and pork to its restaurants as a result.
The company has placed items like burgers, bacon and sausage on “controlled allocation,” according to Business Insider. Additionally, the company’s distribution centers have been placed on “managed supply”.
This means that the company is now going to be rationing meat supplies based on demand, instead of just ordering what the company thought was necessary. And while it doesn’t yet mean the company is facing shortages, it does suggest that even the largest US fast food restaurant believes further scrutiny of its inventory is warranted as the next may very well be shortages.
Two key McDonald’s suppliers are Smithfield and Tyson – names we have covered extensively (here and here) over the last month as they grapple with the coronavirus causing significant production bottlenecks. More than 5,000 factory workers have contracted the coronavirus, with at least 20 of those dying.
McDonald’s executives said mid-week that major production reductions were expected through “at least” the first half of May. McDonald’s CEO said on Thursday that the company, so far, had not had a supply chain break.
He also admitted, however, the state of the meat industry was “concerning” and that the company was “monitoring it, literally, hour by hour.”
Tyson chairman John Tyson said last weekend: “As pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain. As a result, there will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed.”
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Trump did not do that EO until after the Tyson full page ad, IIRC.
Will they go to Bill Gates for some of his Lab Meat ? LOL
If you need one, get one.
They’re ALL sold out around here, even the umpteen cubic foot ones that take up an entire wall in your garage...
OH wait,will they go back to using Worms ?
Is the virus the reason for veggie burgers?
HEB trying to prevent what happened to toilet paper from happening to meat (i.e. small number of hoarders stuff their garage to the rafters and leave everyone else SOL)
“Yup, commercial food chain is not overstressed. Just the opposite.”
A majority of the mom and pop owned meat and three restaurants are closed meaning the supply chain isn’t breaking, hell it isn’t even stretched at this point, so this proclamation by the Tyson hack is nothing more than fear mongering.
I can see when restrictions start getting lifted and the surviving restaurants start reprovisioning that there MIGHT be localized shortages on a few items, but nowhere near the doom and gloom.
I was reading an article that stated the US has vast quantities of meat in cold storage and there is no impending shortage. But the drumbeat of stories about an upcoming shortage continue. Which is it? Shortage or no?
“Well... there is always kangaroo...”
Places like NYC have plenty of large rats.
Because the packaging companies who have hired MEXICANS for labor have a huge virus problem.
One being the meat processing plants in Green Bay WI, for example, have had to close because there is over 400 cases of this virus in Brown County..many cases within the Mexican community who are the main employees for those packing plants.
Then you have the same problems for many of the meat plants across the whole country.
These GD Mexicans rent houses and they bring in hoards to live in those houses. As many as 20 to 40 in some cases.
“If these meat processing plants are so crippled by their workers being infected by the Virus from China, then additional intervention may be needed,”
Being that these meat packing plants were hit as hard as they were (despite being out in the middle of nowhere flyover country) makes it look like a deliberate attack.
“Trump did not do that EO until after the Tyson full page ad, IIRC.”
That is true. My guess is that Tyson tried calling the Dept. of Ag to warn them, but some Deep State holdover told them to f-off, not interested. So they did what he felt he had to do to get some higher-level attention, and it worked.
The hard part is getting staffing back, with the flow of Illegals cut off. Do they offer high enough wages to Americans...who are getting plenty of money for NOT working? Or perhaps bring in the National Guard?
We shall see.
“HEB trying to prevent what happened to toilet paper from happening to meat (i.e. small number of hoarders stuff their garage to the rafters and leave everyone else SOL)”
Raising prices will also prevent that...but I can’t blame them for being gun-shy regarding that.
“I was reading an article that stated the US has vast quantities of meat in cold storage and there is no impending shortage. But the drumbeat of stories about an upcoming shortage continue. Which is it? Shortage or no?”
We’re still eating vast quantities of meat, particularly us Keto types, so I’ll vote for shortage (I know, don’t be so ‘negative’, Bob). It’s just hard for me to see how we don’t run out, when we’re not backfilling those huge freezers (if they even exist).
“Would this be little Billy Gate’s #FrankenFood? No thanks!”
It’s Soylent Green.
And life imitates art:
McDonald’s uses meat in their products??
Who knew?
And they still fit a handful of pickles on there.
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