2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees

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Post by oavioklein » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 5:37 AM UTC

2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees
wcvb.com

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Post by vanniv » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 5:49 AM UTC

It is unconscionable that our state governments are intentionally creating a famine.

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Post by mrb » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC

Americans eat 24M chickens per day. So 2M killed is only a fraction of the number eaten in a single day.

However it's still deplorable that we can't find a way to not waste this amount of food.

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Post by d1str0 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 5:53 AM UTC

vanniv wrote: post #2

It is unconscionable that our state governments are intentionally creating a famine.

Wat

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Post by msie » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:00 AM UTC

Just today I saw the news about famine in West Africa. Sigh...

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Post by cmauniada » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:08 AM UTC

msie wrote: post #5

Just today I saw the news about famine in West Africa. Sigh...

We live in a bubble, I feel so out of touch with how people live in many of the other places in the world. Last October I visited Pakistan and what I saw there really made me think about the scale of globally inequality that’s just allowed to “exist”. Not just in food, but so many other places in our lives we take for granted.

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Post by vanniv » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:09 AM UTC

d1str0 wrote: post #4

vanniv wrote: post #2

It is unconscionable that our state governments are intentionally creating a famine.

Wat

You know that thing, where people die because the food runs out? That's called "famine"

And just like Ireland was decimated intentionally by the potato famine, America is about to be destroyed intentionally by the coronavirus famine.

Those who would have absolute rule never really change their methods.

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Post by aaron695 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:11 AM UTC

msie wrote: post #5

Just today I saw the news about famine in West Africa. Sigh...

These two things have nothing to do with each other.

I feel when people do this it devalues both issues.

It just adds a fog that costs lives.

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Post by sandworm101 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:13 AM UTC

I don't get it. If they had enough employees, then these processing plants wouldn't kill 2M chickens?

I think these birds were doomed. A more accurate title might be "Processors throw away 2M Pounds of chicken meat due to lack of employees."

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Post by Lazare » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 6:23 AM UTC

vanniv wrote: post #7

d1str0 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wat

You know that thing, where people die because the food runs out? That's called "famine" And just like Ireland was decimated intentionally by the potato famine, America is about to be destroyed intentionally by the coronavirus famine. Those who would have absolute rule never really change their methods.

There is no famine. Nor is there going to be a famine. (Edit: In the US, which was the context of the news story, the comment, and my response.) We're discussing news of 2M chickens being killed and not processed into meat, which while unfortunate, is in the context of the over 20M+ other chickens eaten every day in the US.

The sheer disconnect in scale between the news story at hand and your paranoid comments is mind boggling.