Thread by @funkybrownchick

This. 👇👇👇

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1248750060680216577

Growing up in rural Illinois and having milked a cow (...and having family members who still grow their own food...), this has been on my mind since the beginning.

I've reminded friends who grew up in cities: "Food doesn't grow at grocery stories. It 'grows' on the land and in oceans and seas."

It takes a shitton of people, and a healthy workforce (that isn't being, you know, deported) to get food from the land, seas & oceans to grocery stores.

Plus, a bunch of that food, especially meat, requires reproduction. Because, you know: some animals are mammals, just like humans.

If you've seen shortages as groceries stores, that's just an early signal of the problem. Here's your #SexEd + #foodsecurity lesson for the day.

Think about it this way: By the time eggs get to you, someone had to own, feed, and otherwise tend to a healthy hen (because that's what female chickens are called ... and male chickens don't lay eggs). 🐔

(Wouldn't it be cool if male chickens were called "menchickens" like bridegrooms, groomsmen or whatever, but I digress.)

Then, once the hen lays eggs, you need someone to travel to, and collect them from, the farm. Those eggs have to get from farms through a supply chain that packages them into those little cardboard carriers (which have their own production and supply chain, too).

All of this requires workers, and not just the folks at grocery stores. Because, again, food doesn't grow at grocery stores.

Domestic farmworkers are not only battling possible deportation, the orange dude also wants to lower wages. (Where are their claps? 👏)
npr.org/2020/04/10/832…

Since these farm workers, and the farms, aren't right next to your grocery store (...and likely aren't even in your town, truckers...) you need truckers.

Same for milk, which was also mentioned in the article @AdamSerwer shared.

Just like their fellow mammals, humans, female cows (not male cows) provide milk. Like humans, they can only do that after pregnancy / giving birth.

Now, most cows are artificially inseminated with sperm from male cows (bulls). A limited number, at that.

To recap ...

With eggs, we're eating something a hen laid. (If you're anti-abortion because you don't understand differences between pregnancy tissue, a zygote, a fetus, and a baby BUT you eat eggs and fully understand that an "egg" is not the same thing as a "chicken", you're an asshole.)

With milk, we're drinking breast milk. Not another woman's breast milk, mind you (... which would be weird as fuck in its own right). We're drinking breast milk from a completely different species of mammal: usually a cow or goat. 🐐 🐄

I should really be vegan. But, as I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, I grew up in rural Illinois. I know my way around farms and I know where food comes from. (It's tasty!)

But our food supply could take a hit because of the way Trump is handling #COVIDー19.