Why 1 Million Pigs A Week Could Have Been Euthanized Even During A Meat Shortage | Big Business
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- When COVID-19 outbreaks closed meat processing plants across the US, a meat shortage and unprecedented meat prices soon followed. With no plants taking animals, some farmers were forced to euthanize their herds. But what exactly caused this break in the supply chain and could the industry have avoided it? Business Insider visits a farm in Minnesota facing this devastating reality and another in California that was able to avoid it altogether.
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Why 1 Million Pigs A Week Could Have Been Euthanized Even During A Meat Shortage | Big Business
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Using Switzerland as a price comparison is rather lame.
As I Swiss man I found it funny
Using Australia would have been a better example.
@@manitoublack Canada even better
Should have compared to China
Oh wait everything is cheaper in China lol
Why?
Aside from the ethical implications, this just goes to show how dependent we are on an industrial supply chain, and any disruption in the chain has ripple effects that hurt plenty of people.
And how poorly designed it is.
Maximum efficiency with the least regard to disturbances is not sustainable in any world
That's the whole idea behind economies of scale.
@@festivebear9946 the design is sound the disruption happened only two times in a hundred years it'll be just fine.
@ryan miller rural farmers rely on a big part cities to make profit lol
@ryan miller LOL, tell that to the co-op that just killed 3400 pigs. The city people were going to buy and eat those. Enjoy laughing at your neighbors misery to "own" some city folk. (P.S. I deliver for small farms in the big city, guess what, all the rich city people that you'll call master the rest of your life ate fine this pandemic.) Jokes on you all around.
If the pig is bigger than 280 pounds, they wont take it..
Sometimes I don't understand 1st world problem
I think that a combination of factors lead to requirement like that. Maybe the quipment can't handle it?
They do take them most pigs anymore are 300 to 350 pounds Last summer me and my dad took a load of hogs to the JBS plant in worthington mn and we had a 394 pounder they won’t take him because there cut of was 350 so they take them to special plants that are set up for that
John Claus Van Damn you’re right!
Jack Ten Napel Yeah same for cattle my family raises beef and some of our cattle can’t go to the sale barn because they’re too big. I think you get fined for cattle that are too big I’m not super confident either way we’re stuck with cattle we can’t sell
It's efficiency and automation. 280 Lbs is the optimal weight for the least amount of feed and the most amount of meat, thus, the slaughterhouse is designed for this specific weight. With machines hyperspecialized and calibrated for this exact weight. Something larger would break the machines.
It really, really is a 1st world problem.
Love how they compared US meat prices to Swiss ones to prove that US prices are low...yeah all prices are low next to swiss prices
Would move to Switzerland any day if they'd have my broke ass. Most beautiful place I've ever been.
Give it for free lmao I’ll take a couple of them
Poor pigs and farmers, they are having a difficult time during this outbreak
TH-cam continues to show Asians eating like kings and Queens
Pigs are always having a difficult time
Fingering Things ✔️ The farmers will be alright unlike the pigs whom have had their lives taken from them as babies , killed at 6 months old, the farmers will find another way to survive
@@veganvocalist4782 name checks out.
@@veganvocalist4782 my poor bacon
For those who are familiar with the metric system:
On screen at 1:09: "Beef tenderloin price: US: $37.48 per kg // Switzerland: $63.93 per kg"
At 2:41: "All the pigs Mike or any farmer sends to a plant have to weigh about 125 kg."
At 2:46: "If it gets above 135 or 150 kg, the plants are just not configured to take animals of that size."
At 3:09: "This diet should slow him down to about half a kilo a day and we're usually; they're gaining approximately one kilo a day at this stage."
At 3:17: "But even on a diet they were growing beyond the 135-kilo-mark by the day. It was a no-win scenario."
At 5:30: "Belcampo is home to 3,000 grass-fed organic cattle. They have 12,000 hectares to roam and live seven to ten times longer than conventional cattle."
Thanks us metric folk needed this!
Just go vegan
@@traceymarshall5886 vegan is imperial system
@@fffuuu vegan is the bomb
Never ever here in switzerland is one kg of beef tenderloin 64$, for 64$ you get here 3-4 small steaks
I switched my proteins to eggs, beans, yogurt, and tuna. Still eat some chicken
eggs are chicken.I know what you mean though.
I just eat potato
Hello Their how they chicken? That’s like calling cow milk cow it’s easier to get then skinning the cow and getting the meat out
Same, I just hate cooking so I've switched to beyond meat since you can just heat it up. Once in awhile I'll cook some venison that we get from hunting season or grab a burger if I'm traveling but I haven't bought meat from a store in months.
Martin Shepherd Don’t you get his point? Eggs come from chicken, apples come from appletrees.
When iowa finally gets show in the news
Exceptionally well shot, written and presented video. Kudos !
There was a video where one facility decided to mass euthanize their pigs by literally steaming their pigs alive. They sealed the warehouse and pumped steam into the building. You can hear the animals scream, and it wasn't a quick death.
Nice.
They actually kill most pigs by gassing them in chambers anyway. Its mandatory in places where humane kill laws exist even though there's nothing humane about it. The workers drag and kick them to move them around (how do you think workers get animals they've tortured their whole lives to move from point a to point b when they know point b ends in death) They're thrown into cramped chambers and then lowered into the ground while they scream and try and climb on top of eachother in a desperate attempt to breathe.
A reason to go vegan
@@traceymarshall5886 no it's not
Eat or die that is the name of the game in this world and plants are alive to so vegans you are just trying to feel better by eating something that cant scream and yes plants feel pain and some plants have defense mechanism which active when they get hurt
It is very insightful of the programme that you all have done. Thank you so much for that.
how about giving it away to communities or families who wants to raise them?
Pretty sure the communities and families don't have the extra space to take not even 5% of that total. It's an absurd ammount of pigs. And the logistics of that would be very costly as well.
Even in a small family ranch they tend to be efficient with their space usage, wich means they don't have the space for keeping extra pigs out of nowhere
They probably allowed people who actually have the means of picking up and transporting pigs by themselves to come take some, but that only makes a dent on the total.
Do you have extra space and resources for a 300 lb animal, especially during a pandemic?
There probably are some that were placed elsewhere, but if they don't have the logistical capacity to operate the plants, they definitely dont have the capacity to place millions of animals.
😂🤣😂🤣
@Jason Tempel Sure, if YOU wanna pay for it ... or go beg Hollywood trash to pay for it but don't go asking regular people for money during this pandemic ...
Or eat them
Love the video, great work.
Horrific. Our food chain is already starting to take a hit, I've been noticing it at the local grocery store over the past several weeks, and I KNOW it's only going to get worse.
I was just at the grocery and it was packed full of food on the shelves and people everywhere buying large quantities of food for thanks giving
Thanks for that, well done!
That's what happens when you make only one individual industry hold of your food rather than small multiple Farms
I've been slowly transitioning to purchasing meat at the grocery store from once a week, to once a month.
To be healthy you should eat chicken/turkey 3 times a week, pig 1 times a week, and beef once every 2 or 3 weeks.
Would you consider going Vegan for 22 days Tyler ? 🌻
@@veganvocalist4782 I've done a week, with little education, so I didn't enjoy it much. I'm sure if I were to attempt now I'd do better. I just love the taste of meat too much to go hardcore vegan at the moment.
Yup, only chicken if I must.
Genuinely believe we have to make meat a delicacy rather than common food again.
@@pandaflash6663 it's true your body needs the proteins that are in different types of meat, just don't eat it every single day and you'll be healthier than someone who doesn't eat meat.
i feel so bad for these animals , like imagine the abuse they go through just be slaughtered :/
I have been a meat cutter for over 26. I'm helping in a processing center. We are booked 1 full yr out just like every other center that I know of. In 26 years I have never seen anything close to this. I tried to tell people 2 yrs ago and they laughed. They aren't laughing anymore
Working with a large DYI retailer I can see disruption in the supply chain as it rolls from one product to another. Not only is there production disruption, there is a transportation and delivery schedule disruption.
Most consumers don't see, or understand how big the disruption is. Most are so self entitled and absorbed they will literally complain about others out buying the things they think they need and do os while they are buying them. They will say stuff like why are they out, don't they know there is a shelter at home order, or why they think that thing they are buying is essential as they buy something that will neither feed, shelter, or protect them.
Its that american attitude of rules don't apply to me just my neighbor that has our infection and new hospitalization rates still climbing and the EU approaching zero banning american flights from entry.
I have grown saddened at how myopic and self centered so many of us are and I hope they are the ones who suffer alone in death and not the rest of us working to keep them alive and able to buy essentials for life and the crap they don't need, or really even want, yet feel its ok to complain if we don't have it. Its sad, its pathetic, and its the reason we pray you stop adding more of you genetic material to the gene pool.
I think it may lead to an increase in demand in beyond meat products.
@Robat Mr Not proven to be any worse for you then regular meat that causes increased risk for heart disease, cancer and anxiety (stress hormones in meat are shown to raise human anxiety levels and exacerbate depressive symptoms,believed to be caused because most serotonin production happens in the stomach.
@@Max-pv2xn in high quantities every is bad if you eat or drink to much of it even water shut up and does numbers are increased by very little they use the to scare people why do you think there is never a percent
mosesmc52 it’s already happening . Places like Mc F.....krs and KFC have sold out in days and even hours in some cases
Bella overcooked meat*
That's crazy I thought Belcampo sounded familiar, when I was a teen I tried to get a job out there cause it wasn't far from where I grew up. That's awesome.
"Intentional inefficiency" so that we can always pay way more for our food...yay
Raise your hand if you saw this coming and still have beef, pork and chicken in your freezer from March. Because that would be me.
Me
I was just thinking of plant-based Impossible Meats when the producer asked her question. 🤯
Matthew Jay have you tried them yet ?
Vegan Vocalist Yeah, they’re good. It has the mouth-feel and taste of meat. I cook spaghetti and vegan meatballs for supper.
Matthew Jay oh right ok , was wondering what they were like 😊
1:23 I like how he says apparently. 😂😂
Good one
What a time to be vegetarian
@Joyce Woodruff actually he didn’t
@Joyce Woodruff God gave people the right to choose what to eat and not have others screaming at them about it
I was actually glad to ve vegetarian because in my hone country there were many meat scandals this year
Yeah, not happening, im not eating soy meat or whatever the hell Impossible meat is.
They are also doing it on potatoes, grains etc.! What a time to be an American! Thanks to Trump for his lies!
th-cam.com/video/ALtfQVbHtM0/w-d-xo.html
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EXCELLENT WORK BELCAMPO !! This is exactly what the American economy needs to do to survive and return the food economy back to the family farms and business's.
Speaking as a trucker that delivers to the distribution centers. Such as Walmart, Kroger, Food Lion and the rest. Before the stopped production. I would be taking a full load of beef to a Walmart or another one. Where we drop loaded trailers and pick up an empty one. What was happening was I would get there with a loaded trailer. Drop it. Then have to wait for their local driver to bring a empty trailer back from the landfill. They were not selling enough meat, so their distribution centers were not shipping it to the stores. So every full trailer they got of fresh beef, chicken or pork. They would take one to the dump. It wasn't spoiled meat, nothing wrong with it. They just didn't have any more room to store it. So, throw it away. Of a trailer full. Is 42,000 pounds of meat. Yeah, they threw it away, all over the country they were and are doing this daily.
Horrible. Could you take some to your family or people you know in need?
@@dreamchaser5758 Nope, once delivered it belongs to Walmart or the company it was delivered too. They decide what to do with it. Most wont give it away for 2 reasons. 1, the most obvious. They want people to go to the stores and pay for the food. 2 They are afraid that if they give anything away. And one person gets sick they can be sued.
Sell them private and live
So a wet market is what you’re saying. *BAT VIRUS INTENSIFIES 🦠*
I mean, that’s 1000000+ pigs you’re selling live which is another logistical challenge of its own
you would maybe be able to sell a couple hundred pigs privately, but no where close to a million
Alright, nearest town has a population of 500 people and we need to get rid of 5000 pigs. Let's have everyone in the surrounding 4 counties drive 2 hours over here and buy an unbutchered pig. Seems rather impractical.
There are not really selling the pigs most big companies have there own packing plants so they can do everything cheaper and faster
I'm sure a lot of animal lovers would like to take them in.
Too late now. Wonder what they do with them once they’re dead
@@twdjt6245 bury em.
@Gay Fish bc of chemicals in the euthanizer they cant
How many millions of “animal lovers” are equipped to handle a 300 lb, soon to be 700 lb pig?
Dang I would have taken some for dinner and be stocked on meat
Sort of why our family have been eating organic meat for the past 8 years already. Better for the environment and better for people. Thanks for the video.
Seeing the conventional meat industry is just disgusting. 60 Years ago, a piece of meat every Sunday was enough but nowadays we're eating a piece of meat even for breakfast. Disgusting, not just ethically, but also ecologically...
60 years ago you ate meat at every meal
Disgusting. Animals shouldn't be put in these concentration camps in the first place.
people need to make a living in this industry, without it they would be without a job. Some people eat meat if your vegan you can stay vegan but don't hate on farmers trying to make a living.
@@timothyyu8742 oh really,come to India ,only some handful people are in this industry,rest 1.3B people are still living without going in this industry
*meat factories getting shut down*
Vegans: 😃👍👍👍
*Animals get euthanized when stranded*
Vegans: 😲😯😮☹😳
Yea I didn’t think this through 😭
They were gonna be killed anyway so your point doesn’t really stand. Meat factories shutting down is still positive.
Plant based, whole foods eating has many benefits.
Poor piggies! 🐖😥💔
Nah it doesn't have creatine
"Whole" foods? Also plant based food is great, but not enough to survive on for yall idiots when stores go empty dempty xxx
@@starshot5172 Beans and rice do very well.
Check out a documentary called 'Processed People'.
this reminds me of the wild hogs issue in texas. so I have to ask.... in a place where ppl are legit starving and food insecurity is an issue... we have no other local alternative that could address the issue?
Lmfao even if I live in the city with the most coronavirus cases in canada we still have a bunch of meat in the stores
Yeah we have it easy lmao
It doesn't matter if the place has cases a the factory which produces it
It's not about your city, it's about the cities and places where the factories are. New York could be 100% infected, and they would still have meat as long as their meat factories in Iowa or whatever haven't shut down
*Cow Laughs*
We need more companies like Belcampo. So tired of companies like Smithfield (to be clear, I still eat their pork products) et al who made this happen. These companies need to plan for breaks in the supply chain.
Texans down here waiting for you
Me: They should've done it sooner
*PETA has entered the chat*
that is so sad :(
Fertilizer
@DMoney Industry even if they were going to be killed it's sad that they were wasted
Try grass/free range feeding or selling to farmers in the state for breeder stock.
Unfortunately there isn’t enough land to do free range anymore and on top of that, grass feed beef does not taste near as good.
This is a very stupid problem to have. How did we came to this in the first place. Couldn't they do an auction for those poor pigs instead of just killing them?!
Know some People say there's nothing wrong with a pig. But haven't you seen the way this animal lives. I tell you it's suicide it's a suicide.
That's why you cook them, don't eat them raw.
They live a big pen with about 65 other pigs with food and water at all times maybe you should work in a hog confinement before you start judge them
@@jacktennapel8468 A friend of mine had a pig farm and what i saw made me turn vegetarien. They were all kept individually into small crate not even big enough to turn around or move at all, and when i got inside the farm they started to scream... they wanted to be out. Pigd are verry intteligent and the way we are raising them for the meat industry is more than disgusting.
shad0wx0x0 you where at a Farrowing facility the reason they where in small caged is the little pigs don’t get squashed yes maybe all things are not the best but after the baby pigs are gone they go back to big pens where they can walk around and do what she wants
shad0wx0x0 Have you considered going Vegan ? If you need more evidence for instance what goes on with dairy ( cheese , cream , butter etc ) and egg production then watch Land of Hope and Glory or Farm to Fridge . Male chicks are minced ALIVE because the industry can not make money from them
0:14 i remember a quote "u are what u eat"....i think its right
coldogno7 bit harsh
Then you are plant
WOW
Perhaps it is best to dismantle the corporate business structure in the entire food processing industry. If current disruptions cause shortages and higher prices -- consumers would be better served by local supply chains and more local food processing.
Why don’t they give it to people dying of hunger 😩😩😩😩😩
Go to their farm and pick a pig of your choice :D
I think your average person would have no clue how to slaughter and butcher a live animal especially a 300lb one.
@@MrZachgonz Let alone have the guts to do it. Most people in 1st world countries suffer from being sheltered and are mentally incapable of hunting, gathering or cleaning their own food.
@@BeckyNosferatu and turn into vegans because they're too sensitive which is bullshit
I’m going vegetarian
no you're not, quit seeking attention.
Go all the way. Go Vegan!!!
@@Omar-em7rl exactly
The Power of Zen lol stop wimping out and go Vegan 🌱 😂
Vegan Vocalist my situation is not completely straight forward unfortunately. Otherwise I definitely would.
Numbers were mind blowing.
9 billion slaughter per year
1.5 million dollars in loss due to 4 week shutdown.....wow.
Are livestock insured?
Are livestock getting slaughtered at farms and cold stored?
likely not cold stored, just disposed of since theres no storage to put them in. Livestock is not insured, theres no way to do that for all of your herd. Maybe a fancy show cow or something but no insurance company is going to insure an animal that may get sick and die one day.
Meat distribution in my country is like farm to meat market/super market.
Eat veggies and stay healthy instead
@Robat Mr no your comment is not true. medical studies show processed meat causes cancer
@@traceymarshall5886 have you heard of a story that a kid died from malnutrition because his vegan parents didn't let him eat meat
@@skelet8337 stop spreading fake news..i told my parents i didnt want to eat meat when i was a kid and i chose to become vegan at 7 years old. More than 35 years later - guess what??? Im still alive, zero health problems and no i didnt die of "malnutrition". So you can stop spurting out incorrect information you know nothing about because i am a prime example that children do not die from malnutrition on a vegan diet. Yet in america parents kill their children everyday with mcdonalds and kfc and turn their precious snowflakes into obese fat kids with heart disease due to eating processed meat. The WHO have confirmed processed meat causes cancer!!!
It sounds like a good time to turn Vegan.
The problem with the vegan culture is that it has a whole lot problem with mental illness, nutrition deficiencies, hyperbolic "moralism", and consists of individuals that you likely shouldn't even touch with nippers. In the end eating insects, artificially lab-produced products and plants isn't precisely preferrable nor healthy in the long run.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 i dont know any vegans with mental issues.....however is killing animals normal to you?
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 ive had zero health issues being vegan. Where are you getting your medical data that being vegan has health issues?
why must turn to vegan , well most asian country have so many plant based food choice , i guess non rice eater that eat meat the most 😂 , most rice eater,their mom must be cook vegetable soup and some fish or egg 😂
@@traceymarshall5886 yes, we've been killing animals for a long ass time
0:56 9 billion animals every year??
that's more than all the humans living on earth.
yes, pigs are easier to grow and they only live 8 years.
That is insane
To answer your question about non-meat purchases? No. I do not replace meat with soy products. I live a short drive from about 6 grocery stores, and we have Hottingers Meats about 30 minutes drive from home. If all of them have no meat, I guess I'll have a salad.
The only way that I could tell the deference between Mike and his hogs was the simple fact that he had a shirt on and was standing upright. if he was on all fours & hadn’t had that shirt on, he would’ve totally blended in with the hogs. 🐖 🐽
i'm going vegan
I feel happy every day after becoming vegan.
lol. Are you one of those meat eaters that think meat just magically appears in the grocery store? Like all things humans touch, we create a brutal efficiency out of it. Fact of life. If you are an omnivore and intelligent, you'll figure out how to efficiently create food.
probably some partial substitute to veg alternatives, but this would most likely be more prominent within certain consumer demographics (location, younger ages group, religion, gender? etc)
I’m down to have robot meat processed and meat packing plant.
The big takeaway from this would be, let’s get back to the small farmer vs the big corporation farms, local butcher shops vs huge specialized meat packing plants. The world really doesn’t need huge corporations in order to be successful, we can do it with mom and pop operations as we did in the past
The only way High time people see the inside/behind
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@Activate Kruger plant are living creatures aswell and vegans dont care
UNO reverse card
Hannah Waterman they can feel pain. There’s a documentary somewhere i forgot. They feel it very slow though.
Hannah Waterman lol then I guess you have just been trying to communicate with a Plant 🌱😂
@Hannah Waterman www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6168395/Plants-feelings-Shrub-leaves-warn-neighbours-danger-nervous-system.html Lies. All it takes is a google search. That was the top one.
You call 17$ per pound affordable? Here in Rwanda pork is 1.7$/kg and beef is 2.8$ /kg
That's tuff
I don’t even like pork I still don’t know why people buy it
Glad we never ate pork here
It cost $2-4 per kilo in Philippines 😬
For me Abbie, (and thanks for asking anyway), when there is no chicken or other meat there that I would buy at times, I would go without, so my opinion may not really matter. I like your question though! I am a person that enjoys eating meat and DO, as eating meat has become a staple and the norm in our society. Processed and deli meats are easy to buy / prepare and consume. Chicken meat is EVERYWHERE.
I'm a lay person; a consumer. I buy chicken and chicken products ( we can't really avoid it ). It's on all our grocery shelves, in one way or another. But Abbie, when I'm at a grocery store, I'm not looking at such things like that. I'm looking at what I need more than what I want, and wonder if I have enough freezer space to store it.
Working in retail, I'm guessing many people buy day to day, or week to week. I'm a single guy and have only one frig/freezer, so I look at other ways of keeping foods for longer periods of time.
I guess my words are long already.
U stop happening in the future by not eating meat 🙏
Wel start yourself
@@nielsrooiman772 I do not eat meat 🙏
Eeeu pork
Farmers around the midwest called around to farmers and and families and gave away their pigs instead of cutting a ditch and killing their pigs. The farmers then put the pigs on their farms and slowly self butchered and didn't let them go to waste. Both needy and non needy got a cut.
Well the loss is a write off vs selling for a cheaper price it will depend upon how you look at it
I guess the industry isnt going to recover anytime soon as the world is shifting towards vegan/ vegetarian lifestyle to reduce the carbon footprint. Sad to see industries going under but I guess times change.
This industry to go under is not sad - it is about time..the people can work in plant based industry instead
@@traceymarshall5886 well I was a vegetarian since I was born cuz I'm a hindhu but I think the industry can still exist but scaled back as there are thousands who's livelihood depends on meat production. I hope they find jobs elsewhere when it does down
Go Vegan and leave the animals alone.
I love. Your. Video. It’s. Posible to. Star. A small slauter company. How. Can be posible to do.
I opted out when I heard more money
Switch to alternative meat😌
liverpool8899 They are so realistic, I can’t eat them but then I have been Vegan now for over 16 years but anyone wanting the taste and texture but do not wish to be involved in the mass abuse and taking of life of others anymore , it’s perfect and although it’s still junk food it is a much superior healthier option 🌻
Vegan Vocalist 100% vegetables isn’t superior compared to vegetables and meat combined
Love meat, as long as it's available I only eat a salad on the side. Last week a piece of broccoli screamed when i bit into it. I'm staying away from that stuff...
How many of those workers died? 1 or 2? Let's shut down then...
If there was none of one type of fresh meat available, I either just changed the kind of meat I got from the meat section or I bought canned (as minimally processed as possible) OR vegetables or fungi that could serve as a meat substitute, like portabella mushrooms. Or potatoes (white or sweet).
G O V E G A N!
No
Yes
9 billion animals are slaughtered every year in one country. That is insane.
This is the meat they sell at dollar tree lol
They don't want to lower the price so the people may find out how much we are being over charged for basic supplies.
Expert guest: That's ONE million pigs
Host: That's MILLIONS of pigs
Plant was closed for 4 weeks.
starving us peasants by design. stores are still empty.💀🍻
It’s about control and depopulation
And where is Tyson, and other processing brands to help them?
@Eric Vasquez Lookup Tyson's portfolio, they profit BILLIONS each year in pure take-home after overhead. This only disrupts an agenda. They could give each of their farms a million cash and still not feel it.
My dad Hauls hogs and he sat for 4 hour waiting to unload
Yes it would lead me to consume other plant based options if they were affordable. But knowing it won’t taste like meet I’d probably go for a protein shake meanwhile.
This is dangerous. When you automate all these jobs, people are going to get angry.
If it were possible, they would have automated it by now. But like the video says, animals are all shaped differently and machines are not good at handling soft, squishy, non-uniform things. You need a person to work the knife around bones and funny shaped organs, fat and meat cuts.
They just rely on illegal/low wage workers who they can just fire if they dare demand pesky things like better treatment and medical care for injuries on the job.
Sorcerer's Apprentice yes thus is fact as they actually can not get anyone to do this line of work because of the amount of stress it causes having to kill others so they use people seeking asylum from war torn places who have already been traumatised and often have already lost their family members . Which is slavery and creates extreme mental health problems for these unfortunate souls . It is abuse on ALL levels to Man and animals
Not really. They could easily hire Americans to do the work, it would just cost far more than hiring illegals for shit pay. That’s the worst part about the pro-illegal immigration position, companies and contractors exploit illegals for cheap labor and that wigs out the economy.
Back in the 80s Australia had a wool glut, the world had turned to synthetics, and the high-quality wool Australia roduced was not wanted. Attempts to control the price had created the wool stockpile, and the government solution to the problem was brutal. The flock reduction scheme paid $6 to kill a sheep...
I was on a family farm. My older brothers talk about it as the day they shot all the sheep, and how they went through every gun on the farm till they all failed and they were out of ammo. It was just awful. Farmers would sneak into arbitrary stockyards in the middle of the night to offload sheep, so they wouldn't have the kill them and have the abortoir slaughter them. Some sealed off sheep transport trucks with tarps and pipe the truck exhaust into the chamber and take the scenic root to the pit.
It is despair for everyone.
Yet another reason to be a hunter and harvest your own protein. I haven't bought meat from a grocery store in years and my freezer is packed full. Going into winter I usually have enough protein for 2 years.
Yet another kind of pressure that needs to be put on wild ecosystems isn't it? Did you know domestic animals way outpopulate the total wild animals on the planet? We're already overfishing the oceans that's not enough let's start hunting everything out of the forests and fields too.
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This completely explained the bullshit that meat producers and growers have used to drive up prices on beef and pork. Between 1900 and 1985 meat and pork prices were very affordable and only high end beef products had the premium price, but still not as ridiculous as today. A pound of ground beef in 1900 avg. About 20 cents a pound and in 1985 about 90 to 99 cents a pound. Today its over 3 dollars a pound. Pork has seen the same. And this is because the u.s. government has allowed a lot of our beef and pork to be sent overseas to be processed. Then you take the reduction in the animals produced and the processing plants that littered the u.s to be closed and companies absorbed by the Rich 🤑 to limit production with the constant production cycle and you get people that have absolutely nothing to do with the industry to sit back and get even more rich by controls. The entire u.s.ecomomy is based on false supply. Food which was once a hands off bases to allow people to at least be able to put a decent meal on the table has been turned into a cash cow ( no pun intended ). This false inflation is a national disgrace. Go into your super market and take a close look at everything. A can of corn, the most prolific staple in our diet has went from 10 centa can to over a dollar. Sure you can go to stores like Aldi's ( and i do suggest you do ) and buy a can for 48 cents but stay away from save a lot veggies because that stuff is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to taste. But it shows that how they limit the supply to drive up costs. No way in hell should food be allowed to be sold in this manner. People have become blind to what these companies are doing. I can go to a good sized grower we have here in Michigan and buy an entire head of cabbage for 65 cents. And that is one head. Krogers buys hundreds of thousands of heads and sells them at 65cents a pound. A head of cabbage can weigh in at 10 to 12 lbs. Thats 6 bucks or more. And do you think they paid 65 cents a head. No they paid 10 to 20 cents a head. Nobody needs or deserves that kind of profit on food. These so called social justice warriors are a joke. This false pandemic is another nail in our lifestyle. Do we have a problem with COVID-19 , yes. A pandemic , no. But thats another story that i will touch on. I can tell you this. Do some real research on COVID-19 and you will find a lot of big surprises. They should call the videos by business insider, big business insider. They are not going to tell you the truth. They are going to tell you what matters to them and them alone.
Hi Abby, in response to your question... my family and I didn’t really switch to any other sources of proteins. We just moved over from having beef to chicken and pork, and if those weren’t in stock or affordable we chose to stick with our pinto beans, eggs and canned meats like tuna and salmon. But going through this time it changed our views on how dependent we are on meat in our daily diet and we want to change that to having a mostly plant based diet, and treat meat like a once a week sort of thing.