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Originally Posted by ghak99
I'm not sure where to put this, but the packing plant world has some serious rumblings going on in multiple locations. The pack scoured the country and overpaid in multiple regions last week as if they were preparing for something to happen next week. Multiple beef lines are demanding hazard pay and appear to be willing to walk all at once. Multiple pork plants are already scaled back to ~50 of capacity due to worker concerns. If even half of the rumors are true and one side or the other does't cave soon, supply lines could be interrupted while they sort it out.
After seeing how ignorant people got in the last few weeks, it probably wouldn't hurt to put some beef and pork in your freezer if you're getting low and don't want to miss a grilling.
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I read somewhere that it's a SERIOUS supply chain issue.
Major meat suppliers are used to sending a bunch of this stuff to restaurants and when that pipe went dry, they couldn't just get sales contracts/infrastructure in place with grocery stores and wholesale distributors overnight.
That's why we're still seeing shortages in supermarkets - the actual processors oftentimes have a limited relationship with those guys. So they have meat/animals that were essentially earmarked for restaurant use and no real way to funnel it to grocery stores for consumer purchase.
Just another of the 'well ****, we didn't think of that...' results of just turning an economy off overnight.
The disease of "why can't you just..." has created a whole lot of brain rot.