Honestly, this is the kind of stuff that freaks me out. Even if you don't eat a lot of meat - the last thing we need right now is food to start disappearing off of shelves. And this is likely just the squeakiest wheel of a tenuous food supply chain.
I've heard that this summer's produce harvest is going to be a massacre - the migrant workers farms rely on won't show up. And if they do, the temporary housing available is incredibly dangerous.
I've seen plenty of references to the food industry facing significant issues, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know how large, small, or sustainable these problems actually are.
The silver lining is that most of the more fragile and complex food products are "luxury" products, relatively-speaking. The farming of grains and the like is heavily automated at this point; I don't think we need to worry about actual starvation.
This article is short on explaining the consequences. What steps will be taken to prevent virus from spreading at the facilities, people from getting sick and, as a result, ending up dead? I really hope that this doesn't boil down to "Trump ordering people to die for the meat industry".
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 15.9 ms ] threadI've heard that this summer's produce harvest is going to be a massacre - the migrant workers farms rely on won't show up. And if they do, the temporary housing available is incredibly dangerous.
An interesting article: https://www.thestreet.com/.amp-phildavis/phildavis/news/why-...
You are not going to send in the national guard to man these plants if the workers get sick or walk off the job.