Posted on May 25, 2020
Is there actually a meat shortage? Here's the situation with beef, chicken and pork
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"Why the coronavirus pandemic could make meat more expensive or harder to find in the weeks ahead...The larger facilities may have closed, but farmers still have hogs, cattle and chickens. The issue is that they can't process or sell them while the facilities are shut, resulting, for example, in farmers with large pork operations having to cull their hogs, causing food waste."
Is there actually a meat shortage? Here's the situation with beef, chicken and pork
Posted from cnet.com
Food Production
Food/Chow
Coronavirus COVID19
Economy
Edited >1 y ago
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If people were smart, they'd go in together with a few other people, by the animal directly from the farmer, and take it or have it delivered to a reputable butcher, and have it processed, it's far cheaper than buying from the store.
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LTC Eugene Chu
Great idea in theory, but issue is that all the factors are not usually all in one place (money, meat, storage/shipping, etc.)
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TSgt Jack Oberholtzer
Will be doing this again in the near future, but not until I have a generator. Have lost 2 large chest freezers in the past from power outages. Will not make this investment in meat again without a generator.
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The problem is gov regulations made nearly impossible for small plant to keep going. Most people here would buy a hog or finished beef in the fall have it processed and fill there freezer. Now the small plants a few and far between, and giants control the packing industry. Same thing happened with dairy, drove all the little guys out now you have 700 to 1000 or bigger cow dairy herds
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