America’s Meat Crisis Isn’t ‘Solved.’ It’s Just Getting Started.

13 thoughts on “America’s Meat Crisis Isn’t ‘Solved.’ It’s Just Getting Started.”

1. I became a vegetarian in 1972 so I do not understand why a meat processing plant is considered critical to the nation’s food supply. The fact that people like meat doesn’t make it critical. I like sex so brothels should be considered critical by that logic.

   1. Yeah. That’s definitely a valid argument. And, as at least two readers have pointed out, this is partially the fault of the big meat companies in the first place. i.e., the set they table (no pun intended) for this with their past business practices

   2. People are addicted to meat even if they know they would be better to not eat it. I am not going to comment further on brothels.

2. I agree- legalize prostitution, drugs and eat meat as a “condiment”.

3. I was a vegetarian for several years. Doing any kind of manual labor without chewing all day long was not viable. Vegetarian diets are labor intensive and expensive.

   1. I’d buy that for veganism but vegetarians can eat cheese and eggs on top of vegetables. Egg supplies should be in far better place than beef or pork as you eliminate slaughterhouses.

4. Average mortality rate for 130,000people ove a single month is 39 people. 20 due to coronavirus is in the noise.

   Average mortality rate in the world is 165,000 per day. 5,000 deaths attributed to coronavirus is a sci-number. People die every day

   1. And a lot more than usual are dying because of SARS-CoV-2.

   2. would you like to provide links for confirmation?

      1. Payshunt and Radioman, you may scoff at the Case Count and the reported Deaths as immaterial. But do keep in mind that those numbers have transpired within the context of a massive shutdown over the last 35-45 days. Before you dismiss this whole saga as overblown, take a moment to consider what the Case Count and reported Deaths would have been if we had let everyone go about their daily lives without any restrictions. I’ll grant you that no one could know with precision what the EXACT numbers would be. But I don’t think it’s a stretch to surmise that they would be horribly large, and nothing to scoff at.

      2. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/WLD/world/death-rate

         Denotes both world mortality rate and population. Multiply them and divide by 366 to get daily death rate of 165000

         https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/

         5000 deaths per day are attributed to coronavirus in the entire world.

         This number is buried in the daily noise and is inaccurate.

         This is not a political statement

5. Research on a smartphone is a pain!

   First off, the most striking issue with this meat lobbying, related to the Defense Act, is the concept of supply and demand.

   Instead of formalizing a plan related to scarcity and thus rationing, Trump basically wants to control supply versus tamp down crisis related demands.

   Think back to gas rationing or war food rations. When did American companies ever have to ramp up supply during a shortage crisis?

   Why is anyone buying into this crap, besides meat ceo’s looking for wartime profits???

   .specified.. in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)). Under the delegation of authority provided

   1. Hey when the boss only eats cheesebergers (sic) then you gotta keep those packers open.