U.S. Could Be Weeks From Meat Shortages With Shutdowns Spreading

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43. Ummmm .... where do you think that meat went ...

1. its hard to get figures newer than 2018, those figure are actually less than two full years, old
2. At the same time: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/americans-meat-consumption-set-to-hit-a-record-in-2018/
3. Vulture capitalists stockpile commodities for disaster exploitation.
4. If the packers dumped that kind of supply on the market don't you think farmers would have sat back quietly with lowered pricing on their herds.

Chickens have a six or eight week process to market, hogs a half a year, beef is a year.

Why would farmers have screamed of Trump's China treaty squabble, but not over dumping 2,500, 000,000 pounds of it - particularly since the export market to China is 90% about pork??? And that we don't export US chickens to China, we import Chinese chickens to the US. This surpus occurred before, during and after we cut off Chinese chicken imports to the US, temporaily.

https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Dang-thats-a-lot-of-meat-AM-professor-says-as-US-surplus-grows--489031331.html