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This is insanity. wsj.com/articles/farme…
"Producers stuck with vast quantities of food they cannot sell are dumping milk, throwing out chicken-hatching eggs and rendering pork bellies into lard instead of bacon. They can’t easily shift products bound for restaurants into the sizes, packages & labels for supermarkets."
"Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms Inc., which last week said demand from its restaurant customers was down 60% to 65%, has begun breaking eggs rather than hatch them and raise the chicks for slaughter. Other poultry companies are taking similar steps, industry officials said."
"As much as 7% of all milk produced in the U.S. last week was dumped, Mr. Rodenbaugh said, and he anticipates that percentage will continue to increase...Howard Bohl, who milks 450 cows in east-central Wisconsin, said he sent about 20 cows to slaughter last week."
"Executives at Sanderson have contemplated euthanizing chickens and burying them on farms rather than feed them, process them and sell their meat at potentially unprofitable prices, Mr. Sanderson said, though right now the company isn’t taking that step."
Important to note that this is also happening with vegetable crops:
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