Why The U.S. Almost Ran Out Of Meat
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- The coronavirus pandemic has been especially crushing for the meat supply chain. Over 20,000 processing plant workers have contracted the virus and 74 have died. As plants have had to shut down due to the labor disruptions, producers were left with thousands of animals ready for slaughter. Some even resorted to euthanasia. Experts predict 2020 losses to be upward of $20 billion for the industry.
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Why The U.S. Almost Ran Out Of Meat
this pandemic has really shown how fragile most of US processes have become.
Danekarl: You haven't seen anything until you investigate how fragile the HUGE automated farms in the midwest are! There are several disaster scenarios that could virtually eliminate food in the USA!
danekarl ye
glasslinger like what?
@@glasslinger I wonder what would happen if we have swarms of locusts attacked the farms like it's happening in other places in the world?
PLANdemic
That harmonica sound in the background drove me nuts.
Yes, why was there a harmonica in the video? It just made the video very uncomfortable.
they’re trying to replicate the isolated farm / country vibe i think
I want to kick the producer in the nuts.
YESSSSS! I’m like WTF!!
yeehaw
What the hell are those back ground sounds.
Its their brainwash tactics
The harmonica sounds?
I thought its only me who encountered that and getting irritated 🤣🤣
What is that sound. Sounds like I'm playing a game and I need to be careful or I'll die
@@worldofaesthetics2441 😂😂
That’s there answer for every problem in this country. “Our focus is on the absolute cheapest possible price for the consumer.” Look where it has gotten us.
@robert booth. I was about to comment the same. This eternal quest for the cheapest price for the consumer is causing problems in every industry and all along the supply chain. Producers are resorting to environmentally damaging and non-ethical techniques to produce more. Processors are cutting corners, overworking their staff and paying them next to nothing. All to get the food as cheap as possible to supermarket. Since it's cheap, we over buy but end up throwing away half of it. Same at restaurants. Every plate is supersized for only 10 or 15 bucks. We just don't find any value because everything is relatively cheap. Right now beef prices at my local supermarket has gone up more than 100%, but we have not dropped dead. Meaning the notion that food has to be really cheap is misplaced.
robert booth well said
If you guys want to pay higher prices let me know. I can purchase them and mark up the price and sell them to you. Deal? :)
Mr. Booth: FEAR NOT! You soon will be paying MUCH more for your food! Indeed, you may not be eating meat in the near future unless you are rich! Be careful what you wish for: You may get it, and NOT like it whatsoever!
Lies! They want more for themselves and less for us. This is why the difference in price.
Does the neighborhood butcher's slightly higher prices look more reasonable now?
I wish we had one. The last one closed a few years ago. I grew up going to the butcher and farms for eggs, fruit and veggies.
If only I had a local butcher still in business in my area still . For those who do you guys know you got the meat
My local butchers are still around. Yes, their prices are higher, but they generally have better cuts of meat.
All the ones near me ran out of meat
I can't look at these videos :/
THere's too much harmonica music in the background.
😂😂🤣🤣
Not enough cow bell
It's a bittersweet symphony.
Also, government compliance makes it difficult for farmers to sell directly to consumers. You need a USDA inspector to oversee the processing. So it makes only big processors and big farmers able to absorb the cost of the USDA inspector (50-70k per year).
Thankfully there are still a few farmers who sell cattle to individual buyers and we can slaughter and process our own meat.
What about open farmer markets?
The whole point is to stop the farmers from selling direct.
This is a good thing to stop diseases from spreading
Just like the guy was saying for integrated poultry 2:25
Never seems to effect the fast food industry. Can’t find beef in your grocery store but you can find it at Burger King.
It's not all beef tho.
First lesson of economics is scarcity!
Bruh, you’re right
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The demand shift to the right while the supply shift to the left. No wondering why the price is high
_artificial_ scarcity
Mark Dawson yes
I can't understand this...we have no shortage of meat HEADS...
lol..good one
There may be a shortage in the grocery store but there's an abundance in the White House.
What noise is that in background Everytime they show cattle photo
mind control
Seems like Americans might have to take a break from hamburgers and hotdogs for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
there's plenty of meat left it's called human flesh
@@marcellofunhouse1234 zombies mode activated
So are these Americans going to eat? Veggies
Yep and eat vegetables instead. So they will all be healthy after some months and medical costs will shrink.
@@redwhite_040 Yep. Veggies, grains, beans, potatoes, mushrooms, fruit, nuts, and seeds. Vegans have lower rates of chronic diseases and obesity.
Dollar tree dollar steak
That would definitely be a hit!! I suppose
Stop trying to revive your dead channel through stupid comments.
Dumping of products show the supply is fine, it’s the production side where workers are getting sick
You are doing like without meat we will starve to death , we all survived indoors for 2 months , no meat for a few months is bearable.
Lack of iron and b12 absorption might be an issue.
Many people live years/entire lives without meat. Is is possible if you care enough about yourself.
@@Ilovegrunge123 2 cups of low fat milk and your daily need of b12 is fine. u should look this page about the daily need of b12 and were u find it ... and u dont need so much meat couse our body use vitamins. and store not a big amount of em or nothing at all. and daily need for "adults" is around 2,4 MICROGRAMS daily.
ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/
About iron: needs and daily intakes: ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iron-HealthProfessional/
as u can see plenty of iron source even without using meat.
@@bearinch most people worlwide hasnt even so many average fat population than usa
So....Americans have to eat healthier and less polluted foods for the environment? Shocking.
if we rand out of meat their are always meat substitutes some of witch you cant even tell the deference in. so we would be okay without eating meat as long as we had meat substitutes.
@John This guy has never heard of Chicken, Pork, Lamb, Sheep, Fish, etc.
if you really want us to us time travel to destroy the internet we will
Michael Van Zandt ok. Have your gmo soy, soy boi.
have you ever tried non meat product believe me some of them do not taste much deterrent. the point i am trying to make is if we had to we could go to meat substitute to deal with the problem.
And to add insult to injury you need a federal inspector at every meat processing facility so you're telling me that one Federal inspector can expect several thousand animals a day at a facility no way
Every time I see footage of meat processing, I cut down my meat intake. I might as well go total vegan at this point. It's horrible!
I don’t get how they’re so comfortable showing caged hens and pigs. I’m not a vegetarian or anything like that but pigs and hens need to be able to roam otherwise their welfare is at high risk
Are you kidding? Their 'welfare'? They are literally food.
Then meat cost would be 30-40$ for pound
Seems like they main issue gov not let more companies open meat processing plants why is there only those big four??? 🤔
Economies of scale, barriers to entry. Did you not listen to the guy?
because the big 4 has enough money to buy lobbyists to change laws to cut out the little guys.. monopoly!
Why? Have you ever stood downwind of a cattleyard? Or driven through Hereford, TX with the windows down?
Please. Just another industry looking for a bailout.
They deserve it more than airlines lol
My supermarket is loaded with food. Where is this happening, in Antartica????
I work at the meat processing factory Smithfield, you guys should see how crazy it is here right now, huge plastic dividers between every machine and every production line, mandatory face shields and masks and all that, Also they are paying every employee an extra $5 per hour on top of the base pay to keep people from quitting left and right. They sent every high risk person home that was deemed to old or immune compromised. So they are super super desperate to hire in replacements for the ones they had to send home.
The increase of wages is the rising price we are paying
Look, I love a good burger, or steak as much or more than the next guy. But eating less factory farmed protein is probably better for me, and society as a whole anyway.
Communist
Kidney failure from prescripťion caused my decline in meat eating.
The DPA did not force the plants to stay open, it did rid them of liability for COVID-19 issues in their plants (read the act).
i'll process a cattle at my house .. send some over lol
I dunno how true this is I am a sanitation worker at a meat plant and we have not stopped even working more hours to keep up with the closures of the other factories so I'm very confused about this
I'm in LA. I went to the store yesterday and the meat department was fully stocked. Videos like this makes meat more expensive. Seller she public demand incease due to fear of shortages. We don't even have a limit on purchase. Stop it!
California produces a lot of cattle. I can imagine in states that don't produce cattle this becomes more of an issue. And it's not like they're lying in the video. Packing plants production has gone down. So there is going to be less meat, somewhere.
Chadd Williams this over dramatization make meat more expensive. I've seen meat go up in a snap of a finger. Lucky I don't eat much of it. But did buy (1) steak on sale yesterday. Its been about 7 months. Some has become to expensive that it's sitting on the shelf.
Ooof, so sad to see how animals are kept in such tiny tight spaces
How can we treat living things like that
I eat meat, so I’m part of the problem
But damn
Not all countries raise food animals like that though.
I've ordered groceries throughout this year....the stores didn't run out of meat. The prices went up, and up.
You understand how that works right? As supply decreases The price goes up. Not everyone is then able to afford the same amount of meat. So demand goes down and shortages never happen. If prices stay the same. Then people buy at the same rate and then there becomes a shortage issue
@@naddarr1 the stores were cleaning out the shelves, not restocking them immediately,so that they could get rid of all the OLD inventory. You do realize some items are on the store shelves for years, so this was their opportunity for getting rid of everything. Now the new inventory is dated with a 2023 expiration date, so they are either planning another store sell out in 2 years or scientists are inserting nanotechnology in the products or as the conspiracy theorist claim "by then there will be less people to feed"
Serious issues are ahead of us.
Marketing cost? Thats BS you don't have to market anything to eat meat
Turn on a tv for an hour or 2 and tell me how many ads you see for burgers, steaks, etc. It's not advertised specifically as just meat. But there's a lot. And you may not notice it but often they are fully or partially funded by these meat companies
Why is only America struggling with this?
I wonder if these changes on the meat supply chain will cause the price of meat to exceed that of plant based alternatives. If it does, I bet most consumers wouldn't be too picky and opt for the cheaper option.
I donno. I have dozens of pictures of the meat isles.... the only. Thing there is beyond meat.
I hope not communist
@@hepthegreat4005 beyond meat is grown lab cells right?
Thinking about the livestock that got euthanized before being processed into meat brings tears to my eyes. Knowing that it will increase meat prices in the aftermath makes me weep openly. I guess I might need to start raising quails.
There aren't many things I agree with donny chump on but using the defense production act to reopen the plants was the right thing to do. Allowing meat prices to spiral out of control would be a national tragedy.
This is a good news for the vegan
As a vegan, i support meat eaters and the economy. Fyi im vegan due to weightcutting in wrestling
Higher prices?
Vegans eat insects, bugs and other parasites..there's worms inside of strawberries,raspberries as well as in some vegetables...so much for claiming to NOT eat animals
My area of Oregon is not experiencing any meat shortages or price hikes.
Lots of small, family-owned ranches and farms around here.
No reliance on factory farming or corporate monopolies.
America becoming vegan after this. It's gonna be fun to watch this.
No meat=people starve to death
@@MqKosmos I'm vegan sense birth i'm 28 now and healthy and still alive.
We can only hope. The lower the meat, dairy and egg consumption, the better.
@@MqKosmos Millions of long term and life long vegetarians prove you wrong. India is about 40% vegetarian if I remember correctly. There are plenty of long term vegans in the world too.
Damn! I will lose weigh!! 😂😂
I litterally just talked with a friend about possible covid related food shortages, now I see this
If possible get more intimate with where your food comes from. While that doesn't neccessarily mean courting the old farmers daughter (though lets not rule that out) it's good to get your produce direct from the grower. Check out local farmers markets or if there is a local vegetable farm, see if they offer vegetable hampers for sale.
It also works for meat. You can get great cuts of meat or even a whole quarter of beef for great prices, and the farmer and ranchers get a much higher cut of the profit.
CNBC is watching you
@@evilbred974 you
@@metalbob123 okay
Did u have the Google now mic on ?
It's sad seeing animals all hoarded up but they are so delicious
I figured out how to lower meat prices and reduce the need for graveyards at the same time.
America still dealing with covid in 2021
My prediction
The whole world not only america
Genius
that would be because Americans do not listen and are too rapidly returning to work. america is to centered around making money and not on taking care of its citizens .
@@noidea6558 not the whole world.. my country is currently in lvl 1 with 0 cases for past 3 weeks
Is it just me that hears the music in the background and is singing...
"You took the long way home"
Looks like a perfect breeding ground for infectious diseases 🧐 I don’t see these farm animals social distancing
Imagine when we have a virus that affects farm animals and pets
😂
@@danielmonterrosas7563 whats funny?
I love non veg but for USA its time to shift little bit to vegan food come on
Its not gonna harm us i know
Changing habits is very hard but believe me But Results would be so much better
Less heavy weight champions running in stores and Less health problems
When I see camera footage of how factory animals are treated - I don't want to eat that. Trump forced factories to stay open wtf
I believe in freedom of choice. Still people should switch to veggie meat.
That's the scale of economy.. price for cheap meat, unfortunately.
[Chicken on a pig's back writing on a billboard] EAT MORE BEANS
"Is going to be a shortage"? Have they been to the grocery store lately? hamburger $6 a pound
Joy Myers at $6 a pound, shortage goes away as buyers disappear...supply and demand meet only for those willing to pay the NEW market price...
That damn harmonica
Parks and Rec predicted it... Poor Tom's Bistro...
The main takeaway from this. Lawyers are worse than the pandemic. We already knew that.
No cap I’ve seen the prices rise crazy ....
Love these
"Store shelves are empty while food rots in the fields."
It's almost funny.
It's the people's fault. Regardless of what we do death will come to us all by the way more people died from distress
I don't want to know what goes on inside a meat processing plant. Everything looks so gross and workers looked stressed and MISERABLE. I just like my ground beef at the grocery store wrapped up in plastic on the styrofoam tray.
My local meat market is selling the lowest quality meat for $10lb. If that ain’t price gouging I don’t know what is.
Buy what you can while you still can!!
You can buy half or a whole cow from a farm, if you know a butcher they will cut it down for you.
what i’m not understanding is why production was not shifted more to super markets sooner ?
Cause they weren't expecting them to close all of a sudden and you raise your livestock at least a couple months before they're slaughtered. You can't just build a pandemic that happens once every 100 years into the supply chain predictions.
I don't know about you guys but i don't mind paying 2.99 or 3.99 per pound instead of 1.99 so that all this corruption and manipulation comes to an end.
Look like I gotta buy a big freeze huh
USA needs to lower the dam prices of everything in stores so people can buy meat I for one am not going to buy hamburger at $10.00 dollars for 3lbs that's nuts
My friend bought a meat and share some and drop off to my door. Sadly the market he went to their poultry area almost sold out. Only hotdogs and eggs were still stock up.
Why is a majority of our meat supply dependent on these massive "Meat Plants"? While I agree that looking into meatless alternatives would be a great idea and as a professional cook I love the idea of playing around with vegan/vegetarian dishes, I think we also seriously need to rethink how we get our meat in the first place. Would be nice to see more local butcheries selling from farmer to consumer. That's the way my family in North Dakota has always done it. I rarely ever had non-local meat until I moved away from home. A farmer is selling a grass fed (like a majority of cows here) beef cow, my family will team up with a couple other families to buy the whole cow and we split the meat from the butchery. Ends up being roughly the same price as the supermarket, sometimes cheaper, sometimes a little more, and far better quality both in the meat and in how it was raised. Not to mention supporting the local economy. The same goes for your produce, grains, dairy. Go to the farmers market for your produce, buy local dairy. Grains are sometimes harder to come by locally but if you have a local mill buy from them. Some local groceries sell small batch local grains as well depending on where you are. Make a conscious effort to buy local, not just "Made/Grown in the USA". That's not good enough.
Local butchers and farmers are doing much better now-mine has sold out months in advance (very small operation). Get your meat local, that focuses on regenerative agriculture and proper animal rearing - much better for you than vegan slop to begin with. And better for the soil and the environment.
In most places a farmer cant sell his meat directly to consumers, it has to go to a processing plant first. So unless someone changes the law, that won't happen.
@@scottyhaines4226 That's a shame. We can't buy meat from the farmer here either, as far as I know, but we have the farmer send the animal to a local butchery/processor and buy from them. We should restructure our meat supply through more local butcheries rather than massive meat plants. The way it used to be.
@@vitaly6312 It's the same here. Local butcheries are busy busy busy. A farmer friend of ours got some pigs for cheap from South Dakota that they were going to euthanize instead of process. We teamed up with a few other families to buy a few and had them send to the butcher. Averaging $2-3/lb. Lucky in ND as far as I know we don't have these massive feedlots like other states do. All the local meat I've ever eaten has been pasture raised, good grass fed flavor, the way it's always been here. Corporate farming isn't a thing here either, as far as I know, was voted down a few years back.
I work at king soopers for clicklist and we run out of meat a lot. People buy it in bulk and then there’s not enough for everyone.
I hope so also!
give Australia a call
It’s sad
Live pigs & cows? I will buy.
Just remember, we never really had a food shortage. But a supply chain disruption that created an effect of a food shortage. We have plenty of manufacturing production capacity for us to have to even supply have true food shortage.
90percent comments about harmonica
10percent comment on meat price hike
How about they cut down on the military budget a liiiiiittle bit and use some of that money to divert all the excess food towards the poor
A broken supply chain? Interesting, maybe we need to consider redundancy as opposed to attempting to develop efficiency!
It's time to retire those lean six sigma folks and "just in time" logistics.
Let's me guess, someone what us to buy more from Australia ?
Plenty of cows in the field, I don't know what u guys are talking about, they wouldn't buy and freeze that stuff & wouldn't pay that hazzard pay for workers at time of national emergency.. told us at the stock yards "that the people would rather wait and give 10 dollars ah pound for chop meat." that's what them city slickers say that buy for the butcher houses, and they won't pay grass fed beef prices to the boys in Arkansas so I guess u will be paying higher and higher for meat instead of paying us Arkansas boys that high ASS grass fed prices.
Not a vegan, but really you can go with out meat,
But most of the Employees are Undocumented IMMIGRANTS and they been very Sick, working next each ether forces to work, but not Body Cares to Legalize all of those Workers!!!!!!! Cheap labor, huge Profit.
keep theses places shut down and tax meat higher, push for ethical animal rights and sustainable plant base alternatives
Vegetarians save money.
@mango puppet channel Yes they do. A whole food plant based diet is much cheaper than buying meat. Beans are cheap. Rice is cheap. Potatoes are cheap. Oatmeal is cheap. Bananas are cheap. Pasta is cheap. Etc.
Vegetarians save money. Vegans save the planet. Just kidding, but the less animal products we eat, the better. Animal agriculture contributes more to climate change than all transportation combined! There are many other major environmental problems caused by animal agriculture. A plant based diet conserves fresh water supplies, for example, compared to animal agriculture. The Amazon is being burned to raise cattle and grow more soy to feed cattle. About 80% of soy is fed to cattle.
It is more costly to be vegetarian as the struggle to imitateeat products
@@khankrum1 If you eat meat imitation products, yes. But if you eat plant-based foods in their original form, it is cheaper to eat a plant-based diet.
Be asian 1 spoon of meat = 1 cup or rice
I love how they made this look like we made it past the worst and this is like two years ago lol
I dont mind not eating meat I'm vegeterian and I'm proud !
I haven't met a vegetarian who isn't proud. Pride seems to be top importance. Btw, even plants eat meat. th-cam.com/video/O7eQKSf0LmY/w-d-xo.html
More processors means competition which drives down prices for the consumer
The NWO & Cargill planned for this back in 2010.
Ok if their practicing proper sanitation and food handling procedures how are they spreading the disease within the plant? Isn't this exactly what those procedures where put in place for?
This is what i don't understand... everybody in the US leaves on the edge of bankruptcy.
It because we're busy paying for the world's problems.
This video is great news.
At first I signed off my emails with my son "buy toilet paper" , then I went to "buy meat" . TheReaper!
The best news of the decade
Good Luck to the future children learning 2020 history in the future
Total revisionism for select few profits..typical..
Woooot thumbs up if you butcher your own meat! I'm gonna be eating prime beef for dayssss
That’s a really good idea.
down 15% = "almost ran out"
got it.
Just more fake news from CNBC
Smaller processing plants... more processing plants. We need to help the producers make more money and encourage more direct to market sales.
BEYOND MEAT gang
At least THIS will keep the meat eaters to stop committing indirect murder
Paritosh Mehta well your murdering plants
Great time to ditch meat! Such a cruel, dirty, and unnecessary "industry".
@Peter Torbay Do you feel superior making fun of an autistic person? Go tell vegan Patrik Baboumian how "small" he is.
2:29 Think about it. Supply is still at peak, demand has plummeted but the prices are stable wtf?
Theives?
No shortage in our area...ok...I had to wait a week for chicken feet🤔 but that's not unusual!🤗
It's like $25 for a pound of bistec.
In a year from now this will all be forgotten about and nothing will truly change people will always go back to the cheapest option possible
In just few months, nations put to its knees by this Pandemic..
I don't know what will happen if it goes beyond another few months..(ಥ_ಥ)
Don’t forget that Smithfield is wholly owned by WH Group in China :)