Thomas Massie is Predicting Real Food Shortages in America

[CarlinAnnArbor]

And we're just weeks away! I am stocking up (not hoarding)

He makes a good case. The country will curse the people who put us thru this.

This interview begins at 10:06

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[OldLady]

I hope not many people listen to him, because it's going to start the hoarding all over again. I don't understand why that farmer they were talking about suddenly "can't afford" to hire people to pick his crops just because he might not be eligible for the free money. Agriculture is considered an "essential business." What's his problem? Here's a good article:

From Food Industry Executive:

Consumers are stockpiling shelf-stable goods
Consumers in areas where coronavirus has hit are filling their cupboards with shelf-stable foods like canned goods, dried beans and rice, powdered milk, and plant-based milk. According to Nielsen, sales of such products rose dramatically in the week ending March 7 — dried beans sales went up by 63%, rice by 58%, chickpeas/garbanzos by 47%, powdered milk products by 126%, water by 42%, and canned meat by 58%.

Although the panic-buying in recent weeks has caused temporary product shortages, the nation’s overall food supply is in good shape to weather this storm. And some food companies are making changes to their operations in response to increasing demands. For example, Campbell Soup announced on March 4 that it would increase soup production. And, since restaurants across the county are closed, Tyson Foods has shifted operations at its processing plants to fill grocery supply needs instead of restaurants. They’re also “running slaughterhouses at full capacity and on weekends” and expect to balance out supply and demand soon.

How Is Coronavirus Impacting the Food Industry? (Updated 5/29/2020) - Food Industry Executive

Originally published on March 5, 2020. Coronavirus is affecting businesses across industries and across the globe, and the food industry is no exception. In light of the outbreak, food companies …

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[OldLady]

Three meat packing plants had to shut down because workers had Covid, two in Iowa and one in Pennsylvania. You want the Virus on your steak? There are more than three meat packing plants in the country. Their biggest problem right now is workers not showing up. More jobs for those unemployed, hey?

 

[Zander]

Fear!! FEAR!! FEAR!!!

Are you afraid yet?

 

[skye]

Fear!! FEAR!! FEAR!!!

Are you afraid yet?

 

[Likkmee]

UM Yeah. OK
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241627101.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/us-coronavirus-outbreak-agriculture-food-supply-waste

Same here since the hold on flights and the ports. The export growers are damn near giving food away. 4 pineapples for $1
Mangos $16 for 50 lbs.
Uncountable others.
Helps with the lack of employment in these times. Unemployment help is about $400 a month for blue collar and tourist-hotel restaurant-guide-mini bus operators and at least the electric, insurance and mortgage/car loans have payments suspended for 3 months....or until ?
OH. That's all nationalized essentials anyway. Evull socialist stuff.There's no ac or need for it in these parts so $400 a month is food and cooking gas and cell phone internet stuff Cable TV is mostly all Mexican Slim capitalism so most said " cut that shit off' and just use the internet like I have for 20 years. TV is an idiots toy" Boob Tube/Idiot box named by the fifties and sixties crowd is more true today than back then.
Everyone here is fairly chill.Us little tradesamn shop owners are in a hurt but we all make more in a couple months than the average carpenter does in nearly a year so FUCK US if we were sloppy with funds. The young assholes with the boats, Harleys, Quads and shit are in a hurt because the lenders for that nonsense are all private

Down South, in the Bigg Shitty, it'll be utter chaos. Country folk can do ok no matter what.
Lotsa horses on the road these days.mountain bikes too. like the old days

 

[Likkmee]

Fear!! FEAR!! FEAR!!!

Are you afraid yet?

Only of redheads with that " go ahead. Try it.. I'll neuter you right here~look !"

 

[satrebil]

Three meat packing plants had to shut down because workers had Covid, two in Iowa and one in Pennsylvania. You want the Virus on your steak?

Der... what? Please inform me what virus is going to survive on my grill @ 400 degrees.

 

[OnePercenter]

We don't have a food shortage, we have a distribution problem. I've been saying that for years.