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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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This sums up the dairy issues precisely. Tens of thousands of gallons of raw milk are being dumped into pits and spread on the ground as fertilizer while shelves all across the country remain near empty while being rationed. In the midst of all this some producers are even being paid to quit, forever.
It's a little more complicated with beef and pork. The workers in the plants themselves are going to cause the supply chain issue on top of what you described. Inspectors want hazard pay, workers are moving that direction as well, and now that plants are finding positive cases in line workers shit could hit the fan fast.
Canadian growers have already been warned to expect US plants to tell them to get ****ed via very rarely used contract clauses as the plants cut back to 50% of line production.
There's way more to it, but consumers might get a bit of a shock if very many of the lines get halted for very long.