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[–]astronautrob 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It's funny how articles will describe "The food chain as breaking", but when you read it's usually only about the meat industry having issues. This article is almost exclusively about pork. Not to say meat, including pork, is not a big part of or diet and supply chain. But let's be real, meat does not make up our whole supply chain by a long shot. People can go without eating meat for awhile but to say the whole chain is breaking down because meat processing plants are closing is dramatic.

[–]fred_red_beans[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Currently fruit, vegetables, and dairy are not getting from producer to consumer either:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/4/23/21232676/coronavirus-agriculture-food-supply-chain-farmers-excess-production-op-ed

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/florida-fruits-vegetables-rot-business-coroanvirus/67-1a6cbf8d-2438-4bbf-9ece-21fd6117809d

Not to say that the supply chain issue won't rectify itself though. Where there is demand, markets tend to open up whether they be legal, grey, or black. We humans certainly can be adaptable.

[–]astronautrob 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes this is definitely true, the whole food supply chain is under stress. My comment was more of an attempt to point out the inflammatory titles of articles. The title of this article was "Food supply chain is breaking" but the article only goes in to meat productive, specifically pork. The two articles you posted are great info and the titles are much less inflammatory which I appreciate. But saying the FOOD supply chain is breaking is dramatic. Meat supply may be breaking but grain, and other Staples, etc., are under stress like the rest of the country but aren't "breaking". The inflammatory titles of these articles are what gets me. Most people these days only read titles, let's be real. But when you read in to these articles you see it usually isn't as frightening as the titles suggest.

Another side of this I think is this fake pandemic is making people become conscious of things that have been going on for years. Look at this article, https://www.google.com/amp/s/civileats.com/2019/08/20/study-finds-farm-level-food-waste-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/amp/ This kind of stuff happens every year, this is not new at least concerning fruits and veggies. So again to my original point, the food supply chain is not breaking the meat supply chain is breaking.