The president and CEO of Smithfield Foods Kenneth M. Sullivan issued a stark warning on Sunday that increasing numbers of closures of meat processing plants in the U.S. due to COVID-19 Chinese coronavirus outbreaks among workers has put the nation “perilously close” to meat shortages.
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-Rurik
Smithfield is a chineese owned company I try to avoid their products if I can
ReplyDeleteIsn't that owned bythe ChiComs...
ReplyDeleteGooks brought out Smithfucks about 8 years ago because of the all pigs they had to virus killl in chinkville. Pork traiffs to chinkville were lowed after the company brought. Biden and his bastard son helped get purchase done.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to lose 30 pounds. When there's a spinach and kale shortage you'll have my attention.
ReplyDeleteHaha.
Bought up a bunch of bacon, pork chops and pork loins last night.
ReplyDeleteRead about some of the plants slowing or closing down and got little further ahead of the curve. Grabbed another 3 lbs of bacon and a couple other items when shopping the other day. (not Smithfield!)
ReplyDeleteI have a good stock of adult beverages, but miscalculated on mixer.
While they are getting restocked, never thought I would see the shelves as bare as they are these days. Guess I can scratch that cultural appreciation trip to Cuba or Venezuela off my list!
PoppaG
Ken Sullivan is full of himself. Smithfield may be a large producer but there are many smaller producers who have run at a fraction of their capacity because they didn't have a larger market share. I try to buy most of my pork form a regional producer that supplies country stores and independent grocers. It is better quality at about the same price as the local grocery stores.
ReplyDeleteOoooooh Noooooooo!!!!
ReplyDeleteNot BACON......
Running the numbers on warehouse inventory, there will be shortages. Stop processing today, some cuts will be gone in 1-2 weeks. Beef in total 30-38 days. Dairy products 60 days if it lasts that long.
ReplyDeleteWithout ethanol plants, there is not distillers grain to feed chicken, pork, beef, dairy. If a large part of last years crop is still in the field (remember, it was wet, and probably didn't get as much sun to make feed as energy dense as normal.) Which means we need more to make the same pounds of product as previous "normal".
If banks won't lend to farmers who already were not making money at low grain prices, may see a good chunk of barren ground. Lots of us are old, and our kids don't want the life. Some of us are Old, and won't let the kids try to run it.
Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Jerry
At least at the start, not a meat shortage so much as a meat processing shortage. Everything is going to be stacked up at the in-docks at the plants and in trucks and then at farms.
ReplyDeleteSo farmers are going to be ready and willing and happy to sell us quarters and halves for a great discount.
For a while.
Not acording to my freezer.
ReplyDeleteWell for me bacon is not a real problem as there are feral pigs around.
ReplyDeleteWell bacon availability as we have some feral pigs around. Just make sure to cook pork well done. Trichinosis is prevalent in rooting animals like bears and hogs
ReplyDeleteJust out of curiosity, is Texas still infested with wild pigs?
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
I cure and smoke my own bacon.
ReplyDeleteAll I need is bellies and a couple of those are in deepfreeze.
Sooo much better than the store bought stuff.
maxx
Sucks for a lot of folks, but we have a freezer with a butchered feral hog and pair of deer, nicely packaged. A country boy WILL survive. Bacon - not so much though, I need to get a few packages locked away.
ReplyDeleteNow if power goes out, then I'm screwed. I have some canned meats, but not nearly as much as the frozen.