Food supply chains starting to crack under Covid-19. | |
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Buzzcheeze
User ID: 77927758 United States 04/13/2020 05:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | They will have a difficult time getting EMPLOYEES back with the State and NOW THE FEDERAL government are BOTH paying them unemployment far more then what they were making when they are working. Everyone will just STAY HOME and collect over $30 per hour. "TRUMP WON" "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" 'My ego is smaller than yours Why is abbreviation such a long word “When seconds MATTER, cops are only minutes away "Cut out a man's tongue and you dont prove him a liar. It just proves you fear what he has to say" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 20250509 United States 04/13/2020 06:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Smithfield Foods CEO Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76485720 “The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply. It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running. These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our nation’s livestock farmers. These farmers have nowhere to send their animals,” said Kenneth M. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer, for Smithfield. [link to www.smithfieldfoods.com (secure)] This one freaks me out. Half the shit in my freezer is from Smithfield. Bacon, sausage, Ham.. If bacon goes down, it's full on doom.. |
Billxam, ABATE, AWHA
User ID: 56270897 United States 04/13/2020 06:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78761991 You better buy a bigger gas tank - at 50 cents a gallon soon, get some underground tanks. Trump said in his briefing today that he had talked to Russia, Saudi's and Mexico and they had agreed to cut production, so that low gas price might not last much longer. in the long term that sounds like a win for all but im not an economist. It will stabilize the oil market, my concern is that in my area the stores are only about 60% stocked and limit purchases, So what happens when all of the people who were laid off 3 weeks ago or more get their money and storm the stores. I wrote a warning thread but it didn't get any reply's last night, I bumped it this morning but still nothing, Oh well at least I tried. Good information in your thread, 5 stars. More importantly, what happens when they all show up to stand in line for 3 hours. Proud to be UnV'd There is one constant in life: If you build something worth having, someone will try to take it or destroy it. Proud member of A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, Americans Who Hate Aging, proud supporter of attractive women. |
ADEND
User ID: 78791354 04/13/2020 06:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Went to Home Depot to pick up a door I special ordered a while back and some cleaning supplies, they had a lot of toilet paper next to the cleaning supplies. I bought one package. Then to Walmart, they were out of the milk, ham and soup I needed, but had plenty of the big packs of toilet paper. I bought another package. Finally went to a regional grocery store, they had the soup, ham, and a different brand of milk that costs about 25% more than what I normally buy. They also had plenty of TP, but I couldn't justify buying any more. Over all good on TP and produce, about 70% down on dairy, 80% down on canned goods, 40% down on meats as far as normal stock goes. Prices seem 5-15% higher than 8 weeks ago, but there are almost no good sales. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 76485720 United States 04/13/2020 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | COVID-19 to have 'immediate and drastic' impact on Canadian meat supply: industry group TORONTO -- Some of North America’s largest meat producers have been forced to close their plants or reduce production amid the spread of the novel coronavirus, prompting industry leaders to warn of “immediate and drastic” effects on Canada’s supply chain. [link to www.ctvnews.ca (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76438489 United States 04/14/2020 08:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here’s the thing. The big boys are publishing these stories just as the government Covid checks are being deposited. U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads Disruptions are expected in the production and distribution of products like pork, and localized shortages could occur. [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77888403 United States 04/14/2020 08:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Here’s the thing. The big boys are publishing these stories just as the government Covid checks are being deposited. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76438489 U.S. Food Supply Chain Is Strained as Virus Spreads Disruptions are expected in the production and distribution of products like pork, and localized shortages could occur. [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] Sure sounds like a set-up |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76438489 United States 04/14/2020 10:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Free Groceries Go Fast at DC Distribution Site So many people lined up to get free groceries outside a school in Northeast D.C. on Tuesday that the site had nothing left to give within 30 minutes. Cars lined up for blocks and people with carts stood far apart at Kelly Miller Middle School in Ward 7. More than 300 families came looking for help. [link to www.nbcwashington.com (secure)] |
Storm2come
Natural Law always wins in the end User ID: 24761162 United States 04/14/2020 11:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Free Groceries Go Fast at DC Distribution Site Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76438489 So many people lined up to get free groceries outside a school in Northeast D.C. on Tuesday that the site had nothing left to give within 30 minutes. Cars lined up for blocks and people with carts stood far apart at Kelly Miller Middle School in Ward 7. More than 300 families came looking for help. [link to www.nbcwashington.com (secure)] match lit + throw towards free shit army - free shit = BOOM Thread: Partial crustal shift and the Sun / earth , Updated safe zone video pg. 111 Thread: Om frequencies, which one works for you?? If someone produces wealth and money, you have no right to tell them how to spend it.- Ayn Rand |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78420178 United States 04/15/2020 02:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From the main Covid thread EndGameWW3 Quoting: Dettro @EndGameWW3 · 19s Staffing shortage at Delaware chicken plant forcing growers to 'depopulate,' dispose of millions of birds: report [link to fxn.ws (secure)] #FoxNews |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78798806 United States 04/15/2020 09:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ag Secretary: US food supply is strong, safe Quoting: JohnTheRevelator111 78792215 •Apr 15, 2020 ""Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is telling Americans the U.S. food supply "is strong, resilient and safe," despite the coronavirus pandemic and bare shelves that people are seeing in supermarkets. (April 15)"" WOULD YOU BET YOUR LIFE ON THAT? [link to youtu.be (secure)] When the AG acknowledges it. It is time to panic. I’m also going to add how the CDC and Surgeon General all said we didn’t have to have masks..now where are we? Making our own damn masks. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77419895 United States 04/17/2020 02:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tyson Foods. It’s starting here in the heart of the country, heart of the Midwest. Are you ready for $20/lb ground beef? If you can even find some. I’m telling you this because I work for a huge trucking company that is nearby them and that’s all we do is haul for Tyson Foods. The worlds largest meat packing plant is at the Tyson plant in Dakota City, Nebraska. Right on the border with Iowa and South Dakota. Over 4,000 workers are at this plant. They now have 30 confirmed cases to in just TWO days. They have set up a huge tent outside where they are testing workers as we speak. This is just much like the Smithfield plant in Sioux Falls that started off like this and then has exploded to more than 1,000 cases. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77388894 This situation is developing... PS you better make sure you FULLY cook all of your meat from here on out. I like a rare steak as much as the next guy, but it’s too risky right now. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77419895 United States 04/17/2020 05:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There are many Food Companies facing this like , this Quoting: Goofy for God AbiMar Foods closes Abilene plant after 9 employees test positive for COVID-19 [link to ktxs.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 75803238 United States 04/17/2020 06:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Smithfield Foods CEO Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76485720 “The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply. It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running. These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our nation’s livestock farmers. These farmers have nowhere to send their animals,” said Kenneth M. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer, for Smithfield. [link to www.smithfieldfoods.com (secure)] This one freaks me out. Half the shit in my freezer is from Smithfield. Bacon, sausage, Ham.. If bacon goes down, it's full on doom.. smithfield is garbage. buy some real bacon 1/4" thick on up from a small outfit. |
Yellow Bird in TX
User ID: 78769062 United States 04/17/2020 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The difference between my trip last week to the grocery store and today was pretty telling. All staples today were about out. This was a few hours after the truck in the AM by the way. All chips and soda were fully stocked. Produce was fully stocked. Any item that could last more than a week was depleted and about out. Also marked up about 50-100% more than normal. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77562398 What is your general location? We need to know locations. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 77419895 United States 04/17/2020 10:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Riots in the streets I’d this happens! US Running out of Frozen Pizzas Amid Ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic [link to popculture.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78663919 United States 04/18/2020 08:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3 test positive for virus at Foster Farms plant in Kelso PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There has been a lot of attention nationally on a South Dakota meat processing facility where hundreds of employees have tested positive for the coronavirus. Although there isn’t an outbreak of that size here in the Pacific Northwest, a meat processing plant in Kelso, Washington reported that a small number of its employees have tested positive for the virus. [link to www.koin.com (secure)] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77888403 United States 04/18/2020 09:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Also, some seed companies are no longer selling seeds to customers: Quoting: ElleMira Territorial Seed Company: Attention Customers: Due to extremely high demand we are unable to accept new orders for a limited time to ensure current orders can be filled and shipped as quickly and safely as possible. If you have already submitted an order, don't worry! We are putting all our resources towards meeting our commitments of getting your order processed. Please check our website for updates and click the link below to sign up to be notified when we start taking orders again. Thank you for your understanding in these difficult times but know our dedicated staff is working diligently every day because they understand your personal food security is essential now more than ever. [link to territorialseed.com (secure)] Johnny Seeds: At this time, we are accepting new orders only from commercial farmers shipping to the U.S. and Canada. [link to www.johnnyseeds.com (secure)] Seed Savers Exchange: We are temporarily not accepting new orders. Due to a sharp increase in seed orders, we are not accepting new orders at this time. We are still shipping previously placed orders and will open ordering back up again once we catch up. Burpee: [link to www.burpee.com (secure)] Thread: Crazed Michigan Governor Now Tells Home Depot & Lowes to Shut Down Unnecessary Garden Centers - UPDATE video page 3 it's happening All of the above is quite disturbing. Glad im a seed saver.Though some are hybrid cherry tomatoes,no telling what will pop up. I certainly cant come anywhere close to growing what I would need,but a few fresh things are nice. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 77888403 United States 04/18/2020 09:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I do.Look up self watering buckets.A lot easier and no pumps to fail or chemicals to balance. [link to youtu.be (secure)] |
tkwasny
User ID: 77839169 United States 04/18/2020 09:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sudden surge from 5 million preppers occasionally refreshing their inventory to 300 million panic preppers scared into being hoarders. Just like the ammo scare of 2013. The manufacturers didn't have the manufacturing capacity to keep up with the maniacal demand surge. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78663919 United States 04/18/2020 11:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The new normal again. Work until you drop. Bush Beans facility suspends weekend production following two confirmed COVID-19 cases The facility has been closed since April 16 and will remain closed through the weekend, the company said. Additional personal protective equipment will be issued to employees, and temperature screenings at the beginning of shift changes will be implemented when the facility reopens. [link to www.wbir.com (secure)] |
jikwan
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 78663919 United States 04/19/2020 10:02 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Americans may soon lose beer, seltzer and SODA as CO2 supplies go flat because of drops in ethanol production during the pandemic - with 34 out of 45 US plants cutting down Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78663919 [link to www.dailymail.co.uk (secure)] “CO2 suppliers to beer brewers have increased prices by about 25 per cent due to reduced supply, said Bob Pease, chief executive officer of the Brewers Association” |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78663919 United States 04/20/2020 07:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is from a post in the main Covid thread. The Food Chain’s Weakest Link: Slaughterhouses A relatively small number of plants process much of the beef and pork in the United States, and some of them have closed because workers are getting sick. Article: [link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] Original post: Thread: Covid19/2021-22 OMICRON/ VIRUS "IHU" FRANCE:P13310/NEWEST VIRUS: "NEOCOV" HIGH INFECTION RATE+1 IN 3 DIE !?! P13315 (Page 8612) |
MoonSlice
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jikwan
User ID: 78659852 Thailand 04/20/2020 04:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | has there been any real "proof" of this disruption in food supply since this thread started on 4/10? Quoting: MoonSlice heres just 2 instances i can find 200 more if you want Suspension of visa processing for Mexican seasonal workers hits U.S. farms, fisheries March 19, 2020 at 1:19 a.m. GMT+7 American farmers are bracing for a shortage of seasonal workers following the State Department’s suspension of routine immigrant and nonimmigrant visa processing in Mexico, including for temporary migrant laborers, beginning Wednesday. The delay in visa processing for farmworkers comes just as harvest season begins in Florida. Companies responsible for feeding the country are already expecting fewer available workers to manufacture, deliver and unpack groceries as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies. [link to www.cbc.ca (secure)] COVID-19 restrictions on migrant workers will be devastating, Ontario farmers warn [link to www.seattletimes.com (secure)] Last Edited by jikwan on 04/20/2020 04:28 PM COVID-19 JUST TESTED POSATIVE FOR FRAUD |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 78663919 United States 04/20/2020 10:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Starting Tuesday, roughly 300 workers from 50 Amazon warehouse facilities across the U.S. will refuse to work Workers in more than half of Amazon's 110 U.S. fulfillment centers have reported cases of coronavirus, according to two workers rights groups, Athena Coalition and Hedge Clippers. [link to www.newsweek.com (secure)] |