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They should put out a call for Americans to come pick the produce to save the nation. I will go.
Rep. Thomas Massie Claims US Is ‘Weeks’ Away From Seeing Food Shortages
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) says that the country is "weeks" away from seeing food shortages. "We are weeks, not months, away from
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We are weeks, not months, away from farmers euthanizing animals that would have been sold for meat/food. Also, fruits and vegetables are going to rot in the fields. A drastic change in policy this week could ameliorate this inevitability.
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“So the question is: Why is the price of meat going up in the supermarkets and the price of cattle going down at the auction ring? It’s because our supply line is brittle. You have to take cattle, steer, beef, whatever, hogs, to a processing plant. And these processing plants, like much of industrial America right now, are shutting down because of absentees, which has been exacerbated by the unemployment program the federal government has instituted.”