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Originally posted by pedropcola:
First off, none of us would actually starve even if ALL MEAT EVERYWHERE was unavailable. Not that I want to be a vegetarian but it won’t kill you. Probably the opposite in fact.

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
This may be an issue. At the beginning of this my dedicated freezer broke and I had to throw food in it away....a buddy of mine actually got a new one and let me have his old one last week. Because of our money issues I haven’t restocked it. I’m wondering now, though, if maybe dipping further into the emergency funds may be appropriate

Food supply chain is breaking, Tyson foods chair says as processing plants continue to close


https://www.foxnews.com/food-d...coronavirus-closures


https://twitter.com/AnaSwanson...173854228489/photo/1

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Originally posted by pedropcola:
First off, none of us would actually starve even if ALL MEAT EVERYWHERE was unavailable. Not that I want to be a vegetarian but it won’t kill you. Probably the opposite in fact.

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Originally posted by Plugugly:
Tyson is two counties south of me. Next county east is George's. I work for another one of Tyson's competitors. Production of poultry products is normal.

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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
Looks like a badger to me.

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Originally posted by whanson_wi
That badger should be dropped off in the White House press pool, about 10 seconds before the briefing goes live. The press snots would get an education, and we'd get entertained.

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Originally posted by Excam_Man:
The process workers are mostly Mexican around these parts. The company was taking their temp when they come to work.
The workers used ice packs to mask their temperature! They want to work, so they can send their money back to their families in Mexico.

18,000 hogs a day.
The real problem is the two week delay.
Normal market size is 280 lbs, delay that by 2+ weeks (gaining 5 lbs a day) now you have 350+ lb pigs. So some will die due to heart attacks, from the added stress during loading and shipping. The deads become fertilizer.
But the real problem is for the farmers. The new stock has no where to go, since the hog barns are still full of over grown market pigs.

Things need to open back up or things will get a little messy.

Another issue facing the farmers, is they're not part of the medical field.
So the ag supply companies temporarily will not sell them N95 masks. Which they need to wear in the barns, due to the fine feed dust.

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Originally posted by midwest guy:

A finished market hog at 270 doesn’t gain 5lbs daily. From 200 pounds to finish average daily gain is 1.5- 2lbs. A hog can be held to a daily weight gain of less than 1lb per day with limiting feed to 3.5 lbs daily.

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Originally posted by Excam_Man:

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Originally posted by midwest guy:

A finished market hog at 270 doesn’t gain 5lbs daily. From 200 pounds to finish average daily gain is 1.5- 2lbs. A hog can be held to a daily weight gain of less than 1lb per day with limiting feed to 3.5 lbs daily.

I'm relaying the info I got directly from the hog farm owner/operator.

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Europe cautiously eyes exit from virus lockdowns

From the Newspaper | Updated April 28, 2020

LONDON: Europe took uneven steps to phase out coronavirus restrictions on Monday as debates rage over how quickly to ease lockdowns that are protecting lives but piling on economic misery.

While schools and shops reopened in some parts of the continent, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson emerged after his own battle with the virus to call for patience in the UK, saying it was too early to follow suit.

Around the world the pandemic has killed over 206,000 people and infected nearly three million, with death tolls highest in the United States.

Well over half of all deaths are in Europe, with the toll hitting 125,000 on the continent Monday.

Yet with some of Europe’s worst-affected countries recently reporting marked drops in their daily death counts, governments are exploring how to relax confinement orders that are taking their own economic and psychological tolls.

Italy, the first European country to go into lockdown seven weeks ago, has laid out partial reopening plans to start on May 4 while Spain and France are expected to announce their timelines on Tuesday.

In Switzerland, Croatia and Serbia, many small shops were back in business Monday, while children in Norway returned to primary school.

With the UK starting “turn the tide” of an outbreak that has killed more than 20,000, Prime Minister Johnson warned against any hasty moves.

Looking thinner and with his blond mane a bit longer after his hospital stay, the 55-year-old said he could not “throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the British people and to risk a second major outbreak”.

Responses varied elsewhere on the planet as leaders grapple with how to balance public safety with personal freedoms and economic relief.

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Cabin fever

Plans to ease restrictions have been met with both fear and impatience from citizens facing a deeply uncertain future.

While some parents in Norway expressed anxiety about sending kids back to school, Catholic bishops in Italy are angry about an extended ban on masses.

Cabin fever got to some Parisians who were out enjoying sunny weather over the weekend, with walkers and joggers crowding paths despite strict social distancing orders.

Germany, which started lifting restrictions last week, has seen signs of growing impatience in small but regular protests against remaining curbs on personal freedom.

Starting Monday, masks became obligatory on public transport and in most shops in Germany, a measure residents described as both necessary and irksome.

“It’s warm, slippery, you can’t breathe well, but if it’s to avoid infection, I’m fine with it,” Emil, a commuter at a Berlin train station, told AFP.

In Switzerland, relieved hairdressers, florists, dentists and others went back to work after a range of businesses reopened in the first stage of the country’s three-phase plan.

“I’m delighted that we’re starting up again. If we don’t work, things are dead,” hairdresser Anita Ayma said in Geneva, wearing a fabric mask and plastic face shield has she worked through a 12-hour string of bookings.

New Zealand was also preparing to begin gradually exit its lockdown after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country had successfully halted a “widespread, undetected community transmission”.

“We have won that battle,” she said.

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