startribune.com
>able hens being euthanized due to lack of demand
>go to grocery store
>egg prices haven't dropped
capitalism is efficien-
Able hens being euthanized due to lack of demand
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Luke Adams
"farming" is quite literally organized crime. Theyre fixing prices before our eyes and were supposed to feel sympathy for them because they killed a bunch of chickens so we can pay double for eggs
Hunter Peterson
This is why we need National Socialism.
Thomas Gomez
i fucking LOVE when people manipulate the free market
Kayden Bailey
so those werent his hens? whats a contract farmer
Owen Ward
what difference does it make
Gabriel Green
someone who farms contracts
Eli Powell
that people came and gas'd them, the article atleast makes it seem like the lad didnt really want that, poor contract farmers
Nicholas Price
strange, egg demand was actually booming at 9 april, people couldn't get enough of them, and prices were skyrocketing
wonder why minnesotans didn't want any eggs
Sebastian Gomez
Thomas Parker
You should offer to keep the surplus chickens in your room
Tyler Miller
The farm animal industry is just a never ending animal holocaust.
Kayden Phillips
Essentially a feudal serf.
Henry Evans
wondering what this retard is going to do when he needs to pull 61 thousand chickens out of nowhere because the lockdown is over
Ethan Wilson
farming is an extremely cucked industry. as a farmer you now pretty much hold none of the gains and all of the liability. As a contract farmer, you're paid to raise the chickens and extract the product, but none of it is yours. If the price of X commodity skyrockets, you are still locked into your contract.
Jonathan Walker
Farmers destroying their production to keep prices up happens almost every year
Nicholas Evans
Almost all farming these days. You might raise chickens for Tyson. You own the land (sort of, it's on a mortgage) and the buildings, but Tyson will tell you what the barn has to look like. You get all the liability of expanding based on their demands, and then get paid a fixed price to deliver.
You are essentially a serf, but you don't see it that way because the big Agra firm helps you get your workforce, who are all third worlders who you work like slaves of terrible wages each summer.
Jaxson Rogers
How is this legal?
Caleb Kelly
People who make milk for 6 oz school cartons of for 5 gallon bags for restaurants are dumping milk.
The problem is that there aren't containers. These farms aren't set up to package eggs into dozens. Many sell to bulk restaurant supply stores and all they have is pallets.
All the packaging is made in China, but the supply chain is fucked on both sides since China locked down and now restaurants are closed.
So yeah, people are dumping meat, milk, and eggs all over because they don't have the right packaging. Also, there isn't enough cold storage.
Since the US taxpayer will cover big agra's loses, dumping makes sense. This will bankrupt tons of poor serf like contract farmers, but no one gives a shit about them.
Unfortunately, you will pay more for food because Chang can't slave away to make the containers you need and no one will make them here because they lose $0.00003 per unit in profit margin.
BTW, all the money for crop insurance or various tax credits comes from criminally underfunding social security and Medicare. Boomers basically mortgaged that shit doing tax cuts for the elites, so get ready to lose your guaranteed old age UBI you pay 13.5% for.
David Sullivan
That's basically Uber's business model and also most companies that grow hy franchising (your run on the mill fast-food place, for example). You own your thing (sort of) and you take all the risks, big daddy tells you what to do and then takes his cut
Henry Perry
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Thomas Scott
Gov doesn't want small and medium farmers to crash and burn but also doesn't want to do anything.
Xavier Wood
damn son
Sebastian Baker
That actually is efficient. Now they have dog food they can use instead of eggs they can't use. The only way to avoid the famines communists love to cause is to build redundancy into the food production system.
>they don’t have the equipment to grade eggs for the retail market
That's government regulation preventing farmers from selling to consumers. Of course, if we didn't have those regulations we'd end up like Wuhan's seafood market.
About 60% of federal spending is already going to benefits like social security, medicare, and medicaid. If that's criminally underfunded, it's impossible to fund them enough.
James Williams
Really sad to think about
Lincoln Kelly
That's Capitalism for you.
Carson Evans
>who are all third worlders who you work like slaves of terrible wages each summer.
If we continue like this, we will indeed be in literal hell soon.
Jace Ward
And that's only one holocaust of many on this planet.
The only way any but the most basic of creatures survive, is through constant, relentless murder.
I wonder if life is required to be like this everywhere in the universe.
Blake Johnson
These people are grifters or willing thralls to grifters. How can anyone sane defend this?
Liam White
It would not be the case on a non-industrial planet. We are a species of predators, which is fine, but with our machinery we have swollen our numbers to unthinkable levels. To sustain this requires constant high-speed slaughter of prey animals, as opposed to the more gentle pace of killing of prey animals that would take place if our numbers were more natural,
Jackson Taylor
I think you underestimate how many hundreds of trillions of lifeforms there are on this planet, all constantly feeding on each other. Humanity killing ~70bn farm animals annually is a drop in that bucket.