Meatpacking woes lead farmers to consider euthanizing hogs, holding back market-ready cattle | State & Regional | omaha.com
Great article on ranchers starting to kill their livestock. Can’t sell them and can’t afford to feed them.
Per our local butcher pork production down 30% and beef down 25%. Plenty of livestock but no one to process the animals. So meat packers aren’t taking animals and farmers who can’t afford to feed animals rejected by meat packers are turning to killing them.
More benefits of the command economy?
Time for people to put on masks if they’re scared and let the rest of us get back to work.