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

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

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Post by FindMySocks »

Lazare wrote: post #10
vanniv wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 min…

Nah man, he's not referring to food. He's referring to that delicious crack. So moreish.

Supplies are limited now though, so we're gonna have a crack famine the likes this world has never seen!

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

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Post by bpodgursky »

Lazare wrote: post #10
vanniv wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 min…

There is absolutely going to be a famine: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-...

It won't seriously hurt Americans (we have money, surplus, and net food production), but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The point isn't that this is a catastrophic amount of chicken right here, but that it's indicative of a general degradation of supply chains that will predominantly hurt the global poor, and lives will definitely be lost.

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

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Post by sytelus »

I don't remember who but someone (Naval?) had this quote that generations 100 years from now will think of us as utterly barbaric for eating animals. When I look around how we treat animals as if they were just sacs of meat, its amazingly heart wrenching. In Alaska I saw a casual 4th of July competitions where you throw dead fish and other person catches it. Sometime fish fall apart and all its guts spread out during these games while audience literally laugh at that scene. I wonder how people get so heartlessly cruel that not only they are killing animals for entertainment but also enjoy when their bodies fall apart? What is their internal justification system? A devout Christian explained to me that its their God given right to be superior to animals and God has instructed them to consume these animals. In a Chinese restaurant I had hard time explaining someone that fish is not really a plant. It seems minds can be programmed to shield away from any cruelty. Perhaps that's how people working in Nazi camps justified cruelty towards Jews: they aren't really living beings like rest of us, they are something else quite lower so no need to take all these to heart.

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

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Post by newyankee »

cmauniada wrote: post #6
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.

Pakistan is a lot of human created issues though. They have the most fertile land in the subcontinent along the indus river. However they have had absolutely no population control measures unlike India and Bangladesh which are almost at replacement level fertility. Throw in a backward society, mismanagement, lack of democracy and you get this.

My point simply is that the hunger is not merely because of shortage of food.

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Post by Karishma1234 »

msie wrote: post #5

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

You will be surprised to know what many poor countries would ban this chicken even if USA were to deliver it for free in their country. (To protect their local chicken industry jobs).

India theoretically could import wheat from USA and Sugar from Brazil and save millions of $$$ and billions of liters of water. However India puts import restrictions to "protect jobs". The poverty of many in these countries is not god designed by a a result of "my country first" policies that Trump champions.

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Post by dmitriid »

sytelus wrote: post #13

I don't remember who but someone (Naval?) had this quote that generations 100 years from now will think of us as utterly barbaric for eating animals. When I look around how we treat animals as if they were just sacs of meat, its amazingly heart wrenching. In Alaska I saw a casual 4th of July competitions where you throw dead fish and other person catches it. Sometime fish fall apart and all its guts spread out during…

I hate to break it to you, but in general our treatment of animals is way better than a 100 years ago. Animal shelters? Animal cruelty laws? Etc.

That fish throwing contest? Oh, it's almost definitely older than 100 years (as are dog fights, dolphin slaughter, goose pulling, cock throwing and other wonderful traditions from around the world).

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

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Post by hkeide »

sytelus wrote: post #13

I don't remember who but someone (Naval?) had this quote that generations 100 years from now will think of us as utterly barbaric for eating animals. When I look around how we treat animals as if they were just sacs of meat, its amazingly heart wrenching. In Alaska I saw a casual 4th of July competitions where you throw dead fish and other person catches it. Sometime fish fall apart and all its guts spread out during…

It's hard to survive in a healthy way for most of the world without eating animals unfortunately. Animals die in nature all the time, in much worse ways than the clean deaths they would get in a meat processing plant. Death is part of the cycle of life, and it seems we are forgetting that since we've become so far separated from nature these days.

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

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Post by mongol »

sandworm101 wrote: post #9

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."

I think the word prematurely is missing
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