I'm going to tweet excerpts from a NYT story that has made my blood boil. It's about how AMericanm farmers are destroying crops because it is now unprofitable to export them. In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons
and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil.
The closing of restaurants, hotels and schools has left some farmers with no buyers for more than half their crops. And even as retailers see spikes in food sales to Americans who are now eating nearly every meal at home, the increases are not enough to absorb all of the
perishable food that was planted weeks ago and intended for schools and businesses.
The amount of waste is staggering. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day.
The amount of waste is staggering. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day.
A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week.
