From Spain to Germany, farmers warn of fresh food shortages

Post by grumple » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 10:56 PM UTC

Zenst wrote: post #10

toomuchtodo wrote: post #3

Tangentially related, NPR aired an interview the other day with undocumented migrant workers (in the US) living very close together when traveling (sleeping sitting up together in a van) and having very limited access to water for bathing and hygiene when lodging at farms where they were working picking produce; it's likely this causes grave loss of life in the migrant community, and decimates produce farms economica…

Undocumented migrants have for all effect become the modern day equivalent of slavery without the associated compasion. Many happy to lambast such people and yet, be first to complain if their avocados go up in price or out of stock. Hopefully, some level of amnisty and clean slate is driven here as currently without that, will only shoot themselves in the foot on many levels. After all, many live day by day, kinda h…

Post by random314 » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

xienze wrote: post #284

random314 wrote: post #66

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Why do you get a chuckle? Can you explain?

Because it’s seemingly impossible to pay farm workers real money but fast food workers? No problem!

Post by imtringued » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

sct202 wrote: post #276

baybal2 wrote: post #68

Coworkers in Shenzhen are already saying that more fancier foods are already getting scarcer in the inland China, and prices are going up by day. China has done a massive livestock slaughter campaign when the quarantine was declared. That has actually depressed the food prices quite a bit for the first months, but after that, the prices have shot up. This is how they got that much meat: https://mustsharenews.com/wp-c…

Worst case with meat shortages, they'll just have to eat the corn and soy they were feeding to the animals or process the grains into grain based meat substitutes. In general grain production is very automated so there won't be as much of an issue with labor issues in the US or South America impacting the global supply of grain compared to fruits and vegetables.

Post by fock » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

baybal2 wrote: post #97

yunusabd wrote: post #90

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Your second link goes to a still image. I assume you mean this [1] video? Though I don't see how that supports the statement that China has spent a big portion of its national reserve. [1] https://twitter.com/laurie_garrett/status/122072527639456563...

China imports a gigantic amount of food, and ports were first to be hit by disruption . As a person who works in OEM electronics in China, I can tell at least that. So, at any normal day, China would've been eating 30-32% of world's food by value, while producing 20% of it by itself. Agriculture has been on shutdown for the past 2.5 months. Farms have slaughtered a large portion of their livestock, and a big portion…

Post by GhostVII » Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 10:59 PM UTC

shoulderfake wrote: post #344

Maybe Americans can experience a few days of hunger here and there and finally get a glimpse into what a lot of the world they invade goes through regularly.