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Interesting video from a rancher in Texas
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triplestation
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no produce no problem
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V4skunk
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Try harder comrade.
He talks about the import of meat from Namibia as if importing meat at all is a new thing and that the meat from Namibia is jeopardizing the American meat supply. That's a problem I can understand. Except Namibia only imported 25 tons of meat (50,000 pounds) while the US has imported 773.8 million pounds of beef so far this year and over 3 billion annually. The Namibia meat is so small as to not even be a drop in the bucket by comparison.
Euthanizing livestock sounds incredibly dumb but that is a lot of money and rich people aren't in the business of just throwing it away so I'm guessing there's another factor at work here. Like euthanizing livestock to keep prices higher by lowering the supply. Otherwise you flood the market and prices fall too low to be profitable. Similar to oil or diamonds.
Euthanizing livestock sounds incredibly dumb but that is a lot of money and rich people aren't in the business of just throwing it away so I'm guessing there's another factor at work here. Like euthanizing livestock to keep prices higher by lowering the supply. Otherwise you flood the market and prices fall too low to be profitable. Similar to oil or diamonds.
triplestation
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MetalAlien
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At this point does anyone actually care if the world ends? Haven't we shown without a shadow of a doubt the universe is better off without us?
The Lunch Legend
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This is all part of the Vegan agenda.
Stouffers
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We are the world. We are the universe.
MetalAlien
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VibratingPeripheral
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Food distribution is comprised of two completely incompatible systems: away from home, and grocery. 55% of our food chain was annihilated nationwide in a single day. Hotels, amusement parks, cruise ships, schools, prisons, dine-in, etc.
Suppliers had no way to bottle milk, package eggs, or cut meat and get it to grocers in packaging that they could legally and contractually accept.
Packaging sizes for restaurants are vastly different, and often lack required labels and markings for resale.
The demand for groceries increased by 50% but many suppliers didn’t have sufficient packaging to meet new demand because everything runs at just-in-time. So eggs had to be destroyed because they had no containers for them. Same for milk. Cattle had to be destroyed because you can’t take dog food and sell it as prime. You can’t be creative and try to find novel solutions because every thing is moving, and every day your getting an additional 1,000,000 chickens but no way to sell them. So your only option is to euthanize a million chickens a day, everyday day for the next month.
It gets more complicated when you consider contracts for specific grades and cuts need to be negotiated.
How do you manage risk and plan for getting livestock from birth, to feed, to slaughter, to packaging, to storage, to distribution if you have no idea how much the market is going to shrink in the next 30, 60, 90 days?
Notice the constantly changing timelines being discussed by mayoral despots that are extending quarantines by months if not years. Consider the unintended consequences of governors making decisions about complicated supply chains that they know nothing about.
“As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thecon...s-challenges-shifting-food-supply-chains/amp/
Suppliers had no way to bottle milk, package eggs, or cut meat and get it to grocers in packaging that they could legally and contractually accept.
Packaging sizes for restaurants are vastly different, and often lack required labels and markings for resale.
The demand for groceries increased by 50% but many suppliers didn’t have sufficient packaging to meet new demand because everything runs at just-in-time. So eggs had to be destroyed because they had no containers for them. Same for milk. Cattle had to be destroyed because you can’t take dog food and sell it as prime. You can’t be creative and try to find novel solutions because every thing is moving, and every day your getting an additional 1,000,000 chickens but no way to sell them. So your only option is to euthanize a million chickens a day, everyday day for the next month.
It gets more complicated when you consider contracts for specific grades and cuts need to be negotiated.
How do you manage risk and plan for getting livestock from birth, to feed, to slaughter, to packaging, to storage, to distribution if you have no idea how much the market is going to shrink in the next 30, 60, 90 days?
Notice the constantly changing timelines being discussed by mayoral despots that are extending quarantines by months if not years. Consider the unintended consequences of governors making decisions about complicated supply chains that they know nothing about.
“As a nation we essentially stay one harvest ahead of demand by storing it”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thecon...s-challenges-shifting-food-supply-chains/amp/
eddie4
Genuinely Generous
Namibian beef imports now in the US
Southern-African country now licensed to sell chilled and frozen beef products in America.
I only buy from local ranchers and farmers. Do I really trust beef that has traveled from another continent, no.
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Kenpachii
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He sure showed all the critics with lots of data to support his claims that something is something. This video rofl.
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triplestation
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i think the top importers of foreign beef to america is supposed to be like canada, australia and some other shit
i wonder if foreign beef is gonna taste different
i heard ground beef is gonna mix local beef and foreign beef lmfao
i wonder if foreign beef is gonna taste different
i heard ground beef is gonna mix local beef and foreign beef lmfao
Texas Pride
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Probably yes. But only pussies quit. Motherfuckers gonna have to take me out. Mother nature I'm talking to you bitch. Bring. It.
GAMETA
Banned
Except obesity makes you prone to die from covid
Maybe it was their plan all along. Reduce world population by starvation, but gotta kill the fat asses first
Airola
Member
Except obesity makes you prone to die from covid
When you're fat you don't like to walk around but would rather stay home on your sofa so you're not in danger. And if Covid knocks on the door I'll blast it with shotgun.
GAMETA
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Fuck, I live in Brazil, no weapons allowed. I wish I was american, I'd say:
"Son, covid's entering the property, go grab my shotgun"
"And my rifle"
"Wife, covid's here, send word to the marshal"
I'd mount my horse, warning shot to the heavens, american flag dancing in the background: "COVID YOU SON OF A DOG, THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTTTTYYYYY!"
Ok I'll stop :|
quickwhips
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His hat checks out. Im worried.
jts
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