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We're seeing one of the ugliest inefficiencies of animal agriculture rearing its head: it's tragically inept at responding in real time to volatility in demand, prices, or production capacity.
Slaughterhouse closures have ghastly implications. 1/4 https://www.businessinsider.com/sick-workers-closures-hit-meat-suppliers-sparking-shortage-fears-2020-4
Slaughterhouse closures have ghastly implications. 1/4 https://www.businessinsider.com/sick-workers-closures-hit-meat-suppliers-sparking-shortage-fears-2020-4
"In the animal ag industry, once the production clock starts ticking, it can’t be stopped. You can’t put a barn full of chickens on pause at five weeks of age until the price of chicken rebounds, and you can’t ask your hens to temporarily stop laying." 2/4 https://www.wired.com/story/alt-meat-trounces-animal-meats-massive-inefficiencies/
Here are two stories of many to come in the weeks and months ahead showing the implications of this system:
"Farmers say they may have to kill and discard baby pigs as slaughterhouses close and the industry faces losing $5 billion" 3/4 https://www.businessinsider.com/pork-farmers-disaster-may-kill-pigs-to-cut-losses-2020-4
"Farmers say they may have to kill and discard baby pigs as slaughterhouses close and the industry faces losing $5 billion" 3/4 https://www.businessinsider.com/pork-farmers-disaster-may-kill-pigs-to-cut-losses-2020-4
"Staffing shortage at Delaware chicken plant forcing growers to 'depopulate,' dispose of millions of birds: report". 4/4 https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/delaware-chicken-company-attendance-kill-chickens-coronavirus
Addendum: How, exactly, does one "depopulate" tens or hundreds of thousands of birds at once? All of the options are brutal. Suffocating them in fire-fighting foam and cutting off circulation until they bake alive are both approved methods. https://www.wattagnet.com/articles/25922-how-ventilation-shutdown-works-in-poultry-depopulation
