Just reported that some meat processing plants have shut down, leading to fears of a massive meat shortage. Start your engines and head to the grocery store to stock up/hoard as much as possible. 0__0
Start your engines! Some meat processing plants have shut down, leading to fears of a massive shorta
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Depends upon what recipes you have.
Look on the bright side of this . Less meat better health. Eat more fish and vegetables. This country has eaten much to much meat ...pork, beef , chicken is just bad for your health.
Right now the biggest has been Smithfield Farms closed one of their plants in South Dakota. The company is the largest processor of pork products in the world. The good news is from a quality standpoint they won't be missed. Refrigerated meat inventories are high at this time.
The problem isn't supply. Farmers will just have to work really hard to find new slaughterhouses/processors. Stores like Acme and Wal-Mart that don't have butcher's will feel the pain first. Places like most ShopRite's that have meat departments with actual butchers will do much better.
The problem isn't supply. Farmers will just have to work really hard to find new slaughterhouses/processors. Stores like Acme and Wal-Mart that don't have butcher's will feel the pain first. Places like most ShopRite's that have meat departments with actual butchers will do much better.
Not the ones in PA. They have meat department employees but they cut less than 10% of their product and from Trenton to Philly they have the smallest meat departments I've ever seen. All prepackaged meats.
This was reported a few days ago on CNNMoney. If people didn't think this was going to effect the supply chain they weren't thinking about this to hard. My opinion is that food is going to be more expensive and the selections are going to be limited this whole year. Less people planting right now equals less food 3 or 4 months from now when it's ripe and ready to be picked. Not crazy bad but inconvenient bad where you're like all I could get were golden delicious apples because there were no honey crisps.
I just told my brother that this morning. I might even start raising my own chickens like some of the nut jobs are turning to. 0__0
Just bought a freezer over the phone from a local appliance store. So good on me. I'll pick it up in the morning then shuffle off to Sam's.
Many companies are now starting to only produce top 10-25-50 items.
Example ..::
You won’t see cream of onion, asparagus flavored , with butter and garlic free roam chicken soup.
Just Chicken , minestrone , potato and few basic others
No Lavender oxy clean HE allergen free Tide
Just good ole tide. Ect ect.
Example ..::
You won’t see cream of onion, asparagus flavored , with butter and garlic free roam chicken soup.
Just Chicken , minestrone , potato and few basic others
No Lavender oxy clean HE allergen free Tide
Just good ole tide. Ect ect.
Hopefully @RU848789 gets to the store so he can pickup his 12 tons of ground beef before others hoard it...
If he had Depends, he would not need toilet paper. It would be a lot easier if nobody gave a sh!t about a meat shortage.
No, plants are closing because of illness
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/coronavirus-south-dakota-meat-plant-refugees.html
That's only one of the reasons. Plants that were supplying schools lost their customer basis. Some couldn't pay their workers. some had distribution issues.
These guys have issues coming at them from every direction.
The Smithfield Plant and major beef plant in Colorado are in the news(name escapes me) but both are just one of their many processing plants. They both are making arrangements to ship to other processing plants they own. Ironically Smithfield is owned by a China firm.
Hey now! I raise chickens.
You want honey crisps, you just give me a call.
Nothing against hunting myself, but this thread in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime event isn't the big gotcha to prove them wrong.
My nephew who has a wife and 2 small kids got nervous and bought a whole cow cut up and will freeze it.
