[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

Yet KC's murder rate is 30 percent higher than Chicago per capita.

Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure Kansas City will never recover from the upcoming depression. There's going to be a huge increase in crime and all of the two decades of work in redeveloping downtown will disappear in a snap.

I'm not a home owner so it's not my problem.

Anyway, in C-19 news, meat shortages are on the horizon.


EDIT: Morbidly funny enough, since February more people have been murdered in KCMO than there have been people dying of C-19. Source

Spoiler!

“Meat shortages will be occurring two weeks from now in the retail outlets,” Dennis Smith, a senior account executive at Archer Financial Services, said, citing industry sources. “There is simply no spot pork available. The big box stores will get their needs met, many others will not.”

Much has been made of the frozen inventories that are kept in warehouses, which could help cushion the blow of plant closures -- as long as they don’t last very long. While there’s hundreds of millions of pounds of frozen meat in U.S. warehouses, the supplies account for only a fraction of what’s typically produced in any given month.

In March, frozen pork inventories dropped 4.2% from February, U.S. government data showed on Wednesday. It was biggest drop for the month of March since 2014, and the decline came before the major slaughterhouse shutdowns that started in April.

“For all the talk of cold-storage supplies, it’s just never a lot,” Bob Brown, an independent market consultant in Edmond, Oklahoma, said by telephone of supplies of pork, beef and poultry. “It’s roughly a week’s worth of production in the freezer.”

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