My family are currently in positions of plant manager and quality assurance manager in poultry plants. I can say for certain that the current situation is more dire than most people think- and we may see a near total collapse of the food supply. Covid has thrown a wrench in every industry- especially food processing. Ranging from plant closures due to outbreaks and now government overreach with vaccine mandates.
The vaccine mandates in processing plants are not discussed at all, most likely due to the contempt our ruling class has for rural, working-class Americans.
The current situation with mandates is from multiple fronts: USDA inspectors and the factory workers. For context, USDA inspectors are federal employees that are paid for by processing plants and necessary for operation- without them these plants cannot run due to federal law.
Currently, there is a large shortage of inspectors. There are roughly 6,500 inspectors nationwide across all meat processing industries, with a roughly 500-700 inspector shortage. My family has been running into issues with these inspectors being stretched thin already.
The inspector at this Midwest plant is responsible for 3 total plants normally, but currently he is inspecting 9 total plants at the same time. This is dangerous for both the wellbeing of the inspector, but most importantly the quality of the food produced.
On top of that, the USDA is covering up their shortage. On their jobs page, they list a measly 57 openings for inspectors. They cover this up by only listing their positions for a week or two at a time to prevent people from realizing this dire shortage.
These inspectors have received a memo stating that they have until Friday, Nov. 19 to get vaccinated (despite the actual deadline being Dec. 4). The problem is that a sizable plurality of inspectors refuse to be bend to government vaccine mandates (roughly 25-35%).
If upwards of 35% of inspectors are fired come Dec. 4, we are looking at roughly 2,200 inspectors nationwide disappearing. This will be catastrophic. To be clear, I stand with those refusing and will fight with them.
Likewise, if a plant is stretched thin on quality assurance personnel to protect the quality of meat, that will lead to a complete shutdown of these plants until they can be fully staffed. We are looking at this being compounded with the inspector shortage.
If this happens, many plants will not be able to run. Meaning, no meat in the store and no food for children in public schools. Some of the biggest customers of the plant my family works at are public schools and prisons, as well as national chains.
This could result in children becoming malnourished at schools, as well as families having a very hard time putting food on the table. Now, how bad is the current situation, pre-mandate?
Managers at this plant have already had to jump on the line and help produce chicken due to lack of employees. This isn’t due to low pay or benefits- they stand as a beacon of hope and stability in the community. They value their workers but are on the verge of losing it all.
Likewise, corporate is already discussing sending corporate managers, including the CEO, to help relieve the already damaging constraints by working on the line with everyone else.
Only 25% of the plant is vaccinated, meaning the company will be forced to give weekly testing for all their locations, which will cost hundreds of thousands per year, or fire their hard-working employees.
If this plant, like hundreds of others across rural America, shut down it will be the final nail in the coffin of these towns and a total collapse of the food supply.
This is exacerbated by the fact that these employees oftentimes have no other skills besides working in food processing. Without this job, they won’t be able to feed their families and the towns they live in will die.
We are looking at a multi-dimensional planned disaster: people losing their jobs, food processing being destroyed and risking famine, and the total decimation of rural communities who rely on these jobs to support their families. It is completely avoidable, but they want this.
It doesn’t stop there: we are looking at a fertilizer shortage, with prices increasing 200% on ammonia. This spells disaster for family farms:
Global, Domestic Fertilizer Prices Continue to RiseVarious logistical issues continue to plague fertilizer production, although at lesser levels than in October. Some countries are limiting exports, which is pushing prices sky high.https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2021/11/12/global-domestic-fertilizer-prices
While this isn’t meant to serve as a doomsday prediction, I urge people to be prepared for potential supply chain collapse- especially regarding food. Please, protect yourself and your loved ones. They are trying to purposely destroy our food supply.
As stated above, most people do not hear about food processing plants (except regarding cyberattacks earlier this year). This is a huge blindside to the American consumer who may soon not be able to get any meat at all, let alone hyper-inflated priced meat.
We are facing a total disaster. If the mandate goes into effect, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of families losing their livelihoods and millions of people becoming malnourished. And its all planned.
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It does look possible, but only IF we can eliminate the underhanded skullduggery and outright thievery that has taken place in past elections.
How can America run out of Poultry (chickens) when we still have the Republican Party full of them!!??
I agree no shortage of chickens... many come without feathers.
Colonel, the unasked question often overlooked is how many Jews looked to escape from Poland and other invaided, occupied Nations to be refused entry into Fellow Neutral Nations at the time of their attempted flee? Most all were refused entry and forced to return. As for the Chinese, America is not without guilt in the massacre of millions when refusing to back Chan Kai Chek in the rightful retrieval of Chinese Nation especially when He was an American Allie against the Japanese. We are not alone in this shameful burden as all European Allies share the guilt and shame. We had our forays into Cambodia covertly to stop the North Vietnam Advances South, but were denied interference in the atrocities of Pol Pot. The bottom root of all such terrible atrocities lay solely within the decisions made by Politicians in that time, combined with a combination of Media/Political Controlled releases of specific information and the disinterest of Other Nations Citizens concerns over the humanity of others, no matter Moral, Religious or Potential Future Repercussions. Responsibility begins and ends with "Self."
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
You have a fundamental problem with interpreting the facts and history... it is often biased by an anti-American view of history First, the Jews fleeing Germany and occupied Nazi territories were not under US jurisdiction. These refugees were under the jurisdiction of various international laws, treaties, and conventions regulating war and its casualties. Neutral States were barred from the unilateral acceptance of refugees... they would lose their neutral status if they violated the international law opening them up for invasion by the Nazis.
Next, the US supported Chan Kai Chek's Nationalist movement short of providing direct military intervention... Formosa is the result of US policy in supporting the Nationalist's claim as soverign over China. It took decades of Marxist influence in Congress and several Democratic Administrations to change our pro-nationalist China policy and we still have a defense compact and treaty guaranteeing Formosa's soverignty. Any slaughter of China's population was the direct policy of Maoists and the communist government of China... not the US... shame on you for suggesting such garbage.
Pol Pot, N Viet Nam, Korea, and a host of other Marxist insurgencies were met by American support for the targeted nation... trillions of dollars in aid, training, and political support were freely given to nations under siege by the Socialist International and their Marxist armies. There isn't a continent in the world where America has not supported liberty and the spread of democracy with its treasure and blood.
Your attempt to saddle America with GUILT for the actions of despots and the Marxist movement... is the result of a twisted view of history. You have swallowed the MARXIST's VIEW OF WORLD HISTORY and their propaganda. Your diatribe of guilt is the gibberish of the uninformed and misinformed. Such distorted history sends mixed signals to our youth and the world, regarding our nation's purpose and history. It confuses our children and the marginally informed. It promotes the view that America is an imperialist power working to subvert and dominate the world for its own purposes and wealth.
I suggest you take your propaganda and bash America rhetoric elsewhere... You are entitled to your own opinion but not too your own facts.
Do we agree that America's mistake in several wars was, is, that we send our troops but do not give them permission to win?
Yes, and the reasons are primarily twofold... one is the greed found in the Military-Industrial Complex and the other is Marxist ideology.... too, ware down their enemies thru decades of conflict.
But the politicians always have to interject their own "methods", even when they have little, or NO knowledge of military stratagy; they seem to find joy in tying each soldier's good arm "behind his back", so he cannot do the job as he was trained to do.
I thoroughly agree... Marlene
Even the barbarians were in it to win......they took continents and ruled them for long periods
Who are we putting into the barbarian category, Vikings, Huns, Romans, American Indians, Mayans, Incas, Greeks, Turks, Mongols, Cythians, Egyptians, Templars? They fought with what they had in a style that worked to get them to victory. I guess face to face is too bloody, brutal for our sensitive little feelings today, we are so much more sophisticated as we take out entire innocent families from a drone!
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