{"id":28390,"date":"2020-04-17T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28390"},"modified":"2020-04-17T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T01:52:35","slug":"the-free-market-and-the-food-desert-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/17\/the-free-market-and-the-food-desert-ctd-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Free Market And The Food Desert, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a little concerned about the food supply and processing plants shutting down<\/a>, this WaPo<\/strong><\/em><\/a> article will do nothing to calm you down:<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0coronavirus<\/a>\u00a0has sickened workers and forced slowdowns and closures of some of the country\u2019s biggest meat processing plants, reducing production by as much as 25 percent, industry officials say, and sparking fears of a further round of hoarding.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Several of the country\u2019s largest beef-packing companies have announced plant closures. …<\/p>\n

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This week there probably will be around 500,000 head processed at U.S. plants still in operation. That\u2019s 25 percent less beef being produced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some of the slowdown is because of facility closures. Two of the seven largest U.S. facilities \u2014 those with the capacity to process 5,000 beef cattle daily \u2014 are closed because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the consequences are not how I would have predicted them, because of course I’m not a freakin’ expert<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first problem is we don\u2019t have enough people to process the animals, and number two is they can\u2019t do carcass balance because restaurants are down,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s selling? Freaking hamburger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Restaurants typically use the expensive stuff \u2014 strips, ribs, tenderloins and sirloin, Bormann said, while retail takes the chucks and rounds and trims. With restaurants mostly shuttered, \u201call of a sudden 23 percent of the animal isn\u2019t being bought because food service is gone,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a good article, worth a full read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a little concerned about the food supply and processing plants shutting down, this WaPo article will do nothing to calm you down: The\u00a0coronavirus\u00a0has sickened workers and forced slowdowns and closures of some of the country\u2019s biggest meat processing plants, reducing production by as much as 25 percent, industry \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28391,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28390\/revisions\/28391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}