Over the last few days, I have collecting articles on our food chain system. There is a common theme, Meat Packing Plants are closing till an unknown date. Think about this, two years ago Beyond Meat came out and there was so many ads for it. Edward Bernays would be proud. The propaganda went into overdrive. However, most of us said, “Thank you, but no thank you.” Now we are going to be forced to eat it. Big meat companies like Tyson and Purdue started diversifying their product line into fake meat.
What does this mean? It’s going to mean shortages, livestock culling, and worst yet, more people unemployed. Because there are not enough people unemployed now. We need more people unemployed and homebound. Great idea! Food banks are seeing an explosion of people who have never been to a food bank. People who had always worked are now unemployed because of the broken food chain. Remember that great farm aid pack that Trump was going to give farmers to help them. Well, according to the USDA it’s a joke. Someone Trump himself appointed to the position of Secretary of USDA is saying this.
Last year Burger King introduced the Impossible Whooper. It was the commercial use of fake meat roll out. Or just another push for fake meat. Many people have had positive reviews of it. Personally, when I go to Burger King it’s for the Whooper JR. I am not paying $5 for fake meat. I can do that right over to Krogers thank you very much. I don’t think meat will disappear altogether. As long as we have small private farmers and ranchers who are willing to sell livestock to people privately, the meat won’t disappear.
Where do I see this going? If this goes on any longer, say six months to two years, I see people going after the wealthy bougerious. What are they going to do when their own security teams turn on them? They will be screwed. They will have access to things that we won’t and there will be a price for them to pay. However, they are so arrogant that they can’t comprehend what will happen once they don’t have anyone to clean after them, cook for them, cut their yard, maintain their pools, and make sure they don’t run out of food. Why? These people will turn on them. I look forward to that day.
References:
Another Big Meat Plant Shutters With U.S. on Brink of Shortages https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/tyson-halts-pasco-plant-production-to-test-workers-for-covid-19
Smithfield Foods closes ANOTHER meat packing plant in Illinois as coronavirus outbreaks threaten to plunge food supply chain into crisis https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8255013/Smithfield-Foods-closes-meat-packing-plant-Illinois.html
'The Food Supply Chain Is Breaking.' Tyson Foods Warns of Meat Shortage as Plants Close Due to COVID-19 https://time.com/5827631/tyson-foods-meat-shortage/
USDA's agriculture aid program 'is a joke,' farmer says https://theweek.com/speedreads/911052/usdas-agriculture-aid-program-joke-farmer-says
Impossible Foods CFO says its plant-based meat will soon be available in nearly 1,000 stores in US https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/04/24/impossible-foods-cfo-david-lee-on-expansion-into-more-us-grocery-stores.html?__twitter_impression=true
Meat shortages feared in Maryland and elsewhere as coronavirus sweeps through packing plants https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-food-shortages-processors-20200427-lesqwvtv55evhauffr6jy2hvaq-story.html?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=onesignal
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