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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,423 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:44 PM Apr 2020

Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages

Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages

The Associated Press

April 24, 2020, 9:33 AM

BALTIMORE (AP) — Coronavirus-related staffing shortages at chicken processing plants will lead farms in Maryland and Delaware to destroy nearly 2 million chickens.

The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the plants are unable to keep pace with the number of birds that are ready for harvest. They had been placed into poultry houses as chicks several weeks ago. The chickens will not be processed for meat.

The trade group the Delmarva Poultry Industry said that every poultry plant on the Delmarva Peninsula has struggled with a reduced worker attendance. The reasons include workers being sick with the virus and people following guidance to stay home if sick.

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Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 OP
What a shame. That could feed so many hungry in our country. jimfields33 Apr 2020 #1
I need to revise my post. mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 #3
So, farmers, how do you like trump's immigration (legal and illegal) plans now? Kind of ... SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #2
You name it... Newest Reality Apr 2020 #4
JFC Ferrets are Cool Apr 2020 #5
Go ahead and shoot me now. we can do it Apr 2020 #6
Would you like to buy the chickens? mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 #7
I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. we can do it Apr 2020 #8
There's an old saying customerserviceguy Apr 2020 #10
What do you want the farmers to do? jberryhill May 2020 #11
Not another fucking penny to ever bail out these drump loving assholes again. we can do it Apr 2020 #9

jimfields33

(15,786 posts)
1. What a shame. That could feed so many hungry in our country.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:47 PM
Apr 2020

It’s so damn tough right now. Any light at all at the end of the tunnel?

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,423 posts)
3. I need to revise my post.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:52 PM
Apr 2020

I had posted a cartoon from this morning's batch depicting Mitch McConnell as Marie Antoinette. I quickly though to myself that there isn't anything funny about hunger.

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Yeah, I can't make fun of this. People are going hungry, but this is happening.

I don't know what the answer is. These are chickens. They are not a package commodity ready to sell for taking home and cooking. First, you've got to get people out to the farms to get the chickens. Then they have to be moved to a central location for distribution. Then, you have all those feathers to contend with.

There are a lot of intermediate steps involved.

SWBTATTReg

(22,114 posts)
2. So, farmers, how do you like trump's immigration (legal and illegal) plans now? Kind of ...
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:48 PM
Apr 2020

brought this all on yourselves.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. You name it...
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 02:53 PM
Apr 2020

Eggs, milk, beer, chickens, etc...

Lots of food here!<-----------------------NO! Destroy!-------------------------->People, (men, women, children) who are hungry and starving.

Ya'll go hungry. We will dump it. Now, that's a GREAT America, for sure.

Something is VERY wrong with a system where destroying food is the answer to distribution problems rather than getting it to people who need it, food banks, etc. Give it away if you can't sell it.

Now, if we had a compassionate and functional federal government, something could be arranged, I imagine and even quickly. But no!

we can do it

(12,184 posts)
6. Go ahead and shoot me now.
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:08 PM
Apr 2020

But fuck these asshole farmers. Dumping milk, plowing under beans, destroying chickens. People are starving damn it😡. Fuck every last one of the greedy assholes doing this.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,423 posts)
7. Would you like to buy the chickens?
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:12 PM
Apr 2020

The farmers are already in the hole, having raised the chickens from eggs or pullets, I don't know which. I'm sure they'll sell them to anyone who can bail them out.

One question though -- what are you going to do with them once you have them?

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
10. There's an old saying
Fri Apr 24, 2020, 03:54 PM
Apr 2020

"Don't cuss the farmer with your mouth full."

We may not have the availability of food to stuff our mouths full soon.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
11. What do you want the farmers to do?
Sun May 3, 2020, 12:57 PM
May 2020

They don’t have anywhere to take their produce and they don’t have the means to take it anywhere.

What, specifically, would you suggest doing with a couple of thousand chickens when the entire point of raising them is that Perdue comes by with a truck every couple of months and takes them away.

Do you know anything about how raising chickens works?
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