MSNBC news report on the coming meat shortages

[SoonerPride]

Due to numerous plants having to shut down over COVID-19 transmission (not just the Smithfield plan in South Dakota) consumers should expect in a week or two rationing at your grocer limiting the amount of meat you can buy, Like 1 package of hamburger per person.

Not to alarm anyone, and certainly not to stoke you to go out and panic buy or hoard, just a heads up as to what will likely be coming next.

[Voltaire2]

1. now would be a good time to consider a plant based diet. nt.

[MoonRiver]

5. Yes!

[SoonerPride]

6. +1

[mindem]

13. Ag workers (produce) are getting sick

and dropping out too. Scary times. I'm doubling the size of my garden and I'm going to be doing a bunch of canning, etc.

[Voltaire2]

15. it is easier to grow and harvest plants

but yes, shit be troubling, leaders be idiots, what could possibly go wrong?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. My dog is not a herbivore.

[Voltaire2]

28. your dog comes from a long line of critters that have thrived living with humans eating

whatever the humans were eating. But indeed it will be tough on the dogs. Might I suggest squirrel? They will love you forever.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. I have lots of squirrels but he's a 250 lb mastiff.

[Revanchist]

2. I've had a deep freezer full before this even started.

I have half a lamb, an unused Easter ham, and normally buy at a grocery store that offers 5 for 19.99 on meat that's close to the sell by date.

[rzemanfl]

3. I was just at Publix where they are rationing paper towels by the package, not

by the number of rolls in it. Pissed me off, but these days everything does.

[ornotna]

4. Already happening here

Limit 2

[ScratchCat]

7. Maybe,

But it doesn't appear they will be closed all that long. Others have months of supply too.

[Phoenix61]

8. Good, maybe people will stop eating so much

of it.They may even learn how to live without bacon and sausage for breakfast, a half pound burger for lunch and a 16 oz rib-eye for dinner.

[Progressive Law]

9. My recent heart attack made me learn the hard way. :(

[Phoenix61]

14. I'm so sorry that happened. I hope you're

recovery is going well.

[Progressive Law]

17. Thank you. It's day to day. It was a scary time two months ago when I had the attack.

[Mossfern]

26. It will get better for you

I had a major heart attack 25 years ago - lost 10-15% of my heart. At this point I'm healthier than I've ever been and at 71 run circles around some that are 20 years my junior at the gym.

How are you doing? Was your attack painful? Did you go to cardiac rehab - it was a gas exercising with all those electrodes taped on.

I'm sorry folks, but it's not often that I get to commiserate with a fellow MI survivor.

[Progressive Law]

33. thank you

My attack wasn't painful. I just lost consciousness and collapsed. I didn't know what happened.

When I went to the emergency room, the doc told me I had a heart attack. One of my arteries was almost fully blocked. The doctors put a stent in it.

[Drahthaardogs]

10. I buy 1/4 beef at a time

Lasts me 18 months. I am in good shape!

[econron]

11. Wait a Minute!

I thought that Ricketts, Reynolds and Noem have been protecting the food supply. These Republicans Governors said so and that's why they didn't interfere with the plants. Guess these morons were wrong. Grand Island, Sioux Falls, and now Waterloo.

[link:https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/grand-islands-rate-of-covid-19-cases-is-higher-than-michigans-close-to-louisianas/article_0748b81b-471c-55b2-bec1-542d6558001f.html|

[link:https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/15/cdc-sioux-falls-smithfield-foods-becomes-largest-coronavirus-hotspot-us/5138372002/|

[link:https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/1-dead-of-covid-19-in-black-hawk-co-tyson-now-classified-as-having-outbreak/article_eee55055-2ebb-51d8-8678-b8696880fcc4.html|

[Voltaire2]

16. About 20 years ago republican leaders started believing their own bullshit

they transitioned from mere spewers, to evangelists.

[lame54]

20. Even if it's to their advantage...

Republicans STILL won't do the right thing

[Mossfern]

12. My husband's out shopping now

No chicken at all!
I'll see what he comes back with.
He said that he did get halibut.

[ooky]

18. Smithfield is warning us.

If we don't soon start testing all our supply chain workers each day when they come to work, we are risking shutting the entire supply chain down. One day its going to be meat, another day something else. Then its going to be truck drivers and transportation delays and shortages. Then the wholesalers and retailers shuttering. It's going to be anywhere a breakout can occur, and its all interconnected. Governors can only do so much. Every community has got to look at its own supply chain industry and get engaged now.

And all the while this shitty president sits back on his fat lazy ass and does nothing but try to make everyone fight each other.

[lame54]

19. It won't be just meat...

Factories are out of the public eye and precautions are expensive

There will be more factory shutdowns

[dameatball]

21. Most types of canned meats have been sold out online for a while now.

[jmg257]

23. Grabbed pork chops ham and bacon this AM...thanks to post I read here.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. One pack of hamburger per person?

Is that regardless it of how many people are in that person's family? A pack of hamburger goes a lot further for a single person versus a family of four. Another issue I have with these limitations is that a lot of us are buying for our nuclear families plus our older parents right now.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

25. This might push people back to take out orders from restaurants

If they can't buy the food they want at the stores.

[clutterbox1830]

27. I was watching the stream from abcnews.com and cut away

For no particular reason I was watching this stream on ABCnews.com website and right before Cuomo was respond the reporter's question they cut the stream and went to a commercial. Once the commercial was over they cut to another broadcast feed in the UK.
AND some ppl think only think that Fox News is the only major media network.

[Hekate]

30. Just did a big Costco run yesterday & don't plan to go back for a couple of months if I can do so...

In regards to protein for my husband and me, I bought 2 jars chunky peanut butter, a small cheese qtray, 3 rotisserie chickens to cut up and freeze, and a cut of ham (not Smithfield). I also got some prepared main dishes. Notice I'm counting PB and cheese as protein; already have lots of beans and will get eggs later.

When it's time for smaller consumables like eggs and bread, I'll go to Trader Joe's.

My ability to shop has been severely lcurtailed by my knee replacement in mid-February, so when I did a TJ's run 2 weeks ago it was a big deal. This Costco run was a 2-cart excursion that kind of gave my husband the wim-wams, but I was ruthless -- because of the timing of my surgery I never did get stocked up for the pandemic the way I wanted to do, and the closure of Smithfield was yet another siren going off.

I finally, finally feel like I have enough of everything (canned, dried, and frozen) to simply shut the door on the world for a couple of months if need be. I feel very fortunate. Best of luck to all of you.

[roamer65]

31. I get meat from a local butcher.

I’m not worried.

[KWR65]

32. This report will just lead to panic buying. There is only a 5% reduction in meat supplies. n/t