A significant concern that readers should have during an economic collapse and pandemic is food security. We’ve noted over April that troubling news is developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting shortages and rapid food inflation could be ahead.
The reason behind the disruptions begins with meatpacking plants across the country are shuttering operations because of virus-related issues. At the moment, we’ve reported at least 10-12 large operations have gone offline in the last several weeks, which could result in pork shortages in the first or second week in May.
“Almost a third of U.S. pork capacity is down, the first big poultry plants closed on Friday and experts are warning that domestic shortages are just weeks away,” reported Bloomberg.
We also highlighted additional risks to beef and poultry capacity at processing plants that were starting to develop.
Now, more specifically, diving into the world of poultry, new developments from Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, a region known to be a top producer of chickens not just in the country but the world, is experiencing logistical issues due to coronavirus.
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that 2 million chickens are set to be culled across farms in Maryland and Delaware amid coronavirus-related staffing shortages at meatpacking plants.
We’ve heard the same story with pork, turkey, and beef processing plants across the country. Reducing operations or shutting down due to virus-related illnesses among staff.
“With reduced staffing, many plants are not able to harvest chickens at the pace they planned for when placing those chicks in chicken houses several weeks ago,” before strict social distancing rules went into effect, trade group for the Delmarva poultry industry said in a statement.
The trade group said poultry plants across the Delmarva Peninsula, which includes parts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, are struggling to keep plants operating as worker attendance plunges because of virus-related illnesses.
The group said a large farm on the peninsula has turned to “depopulation” this month after processing plants were unable to accept chickens because of reduced capacity. It said culling chickens are last-resort options.
“Depopulation has been done in the past on Delmarva and in the U.S. in response to cases of the infectious avian disease,” said James Fisher, a spokesman for Delmarva Poultry.
The American Veterinary Medical Association approved the extermination methods to cull the chickens on the peninsula.
The Sun notes farms on the peninsula are a major producer of poultry. The region grew 608 million birds last year, producing upwards of 4.3 billion pounds of processing meat.
The problem developing, is that reduced output at poultry processing plants and farmers culling flocks could trigger shortages of the meat.
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I understand a lot of stuff was geared towards the restaurant industry but how the hell can it not be geared towards the supermarkets ect. in a timely fashion?!I will say if due to laws and or regulations they need to be gone by executive order immediately.
It might have to do with packaging. Restaurants want big packages, most people want smaller packages. I’d guess the companies that cater to the restaurants are weighing the costs/benefits of rearranging things to serve the retailers.
The market I usually go to was out of the 5 lb. bags of flour I usually get. Instead I bought a 25 lb. restaurant bag of similar flour – for the same price the 5 lb. bag sells for.
As an aside, Restaurant Depot has opened to the public – perhaps obviously, it’s a membership store that caters to restaurants. If there is a warehouse near you, it’s an interesting place. The cold section is very cold, so you may want a coat.
https://www.restaurantdepot.com/locations/find-a-warehouse
I can’t help but wonder if the labor shortages are caused more by fear than actual illness. The media has convinced a fair number of people that they will get sick and die if they leave their home, especially to go to work. I’m addition, government policies have made it more lucrative to draw unemployment rather than work.
And the bull shit continues as America circles the drain . Send the national guard in to butcher and process the chickens , the pigs , the turkeys the beef cattle freeze it cook it sell it or give it away !
If the shit for brains in charge had refrigerated trucks for dead bodies than they sure as Hell can come up with them to move food with military at the wheel .
Any other solution is a concerted effort to assure things get worse .
Put my mother in law in charge of this shit ! She put 3 kids thru catholic school several trips to Florida and full family Disney World vacation twice and bought a trailer at the beach for the family to enjoy all on a GM assembly line workers pay clipping coupons and stocking the freeze with sale items !
Of course she was a stay at home mom that made up a budget and stuck to it . Of course her education was all the way to ninth grade when she had to quit school and went to work at a bakery .
Obviously her education had a higher value than the pecker heads in charge today . She actually had to make things work or her whole family suffered .
Funny nobody missed a meal or went without what they needed !
This recent vid post comes to mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljanOYIsYKM
THEY are hitting us with everything they got; this is part of the plan to destroy the US.
Take due notice there of and govern yourself accordingly
FORGET ME NOT
Looking at the map, I don’t know of any processing plants in SE NH. Anyone know what that point is referring to?
No such plant in NH.
They never tell the truth about anything unless it’s an accident.
If most meat packing houses are like the Smithfield Ham one near to where I live, they fired all of their American workers years ago and replaced them with Mexican immigrants. I suppose when most of your workers have the same demographics as many inhabitants of the Democratic shithole cities that have high virus infection rates, it doesn’t surprise me that so do the meat packing plants. It’s just another nail in the coffin of globalism, which as it dies, will leave a formerly self-sufficient country racked by all sorts of shortages.
Cull the animals before you cull the population. Per the bolshevik psychopolitics manual, a society which has been put into a state of privation and constant defamation will gladly receive any command you give it no matter how twisted.
The meat plant in Colorado has reopened and fully operational.
A processing plant (House of Raeford) in Columbia SC just sold 320K pounds of chicken to locals the other day
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One of my boys headed up to Restaurant Depot just off NJ-66 near Tinton Falls.
They usually have bulk boxes of chicken but he came back with pork shoulder and beef yesterday. No chicken.
We grind and freeze the meat for burgers and dumplings.
Meanwhile, the “Happy Birthday” caravan with scores of cars and police escort is snaking through my development. I’m glad people have constructive things to do on a Sunday. LMAO
The problems with the meat packing industry are more horse shit because there is no evidence this can be transmitted through FOOD and meat generally gets cooked before being eaten.
Staffing issues with meat cutters/slaughterers not showing up.
Chickens raised for meat are franken chickens, ditto for turkeys. They are hybrids that do nothing but eat and are butchered at 45 days old. They can’t survive on their own….
https://www.savannahnow.com/opinion-columns/2016-06-17/paul-shapiro-todays-chickens-more-frankenbirds