Anyone worried about the "meat shortage"?

I'm not one who does well without red meat. I eat several peoples share of beef. If I had hunting land I would harvest what I needed, but I don't. As @WrongHanded said- it may be squirrel (& skunk )meat for me if it happens... The other other other , uh meat.
I'm not shy to eat squirrel , just not much eating on one. No, I doubt I'd eat skunk but I did "remove" 9 from my 1 acre last year alone. They're a plague here.

anyone hear of the upcoming gas shortage?
meat shortage?
toilet paper shortage?
fruits and vegetables shortage?
milk and bread shortage?
ammo shortage?

panic buying doesn't mean there is a shortage.

Armored farmer said:

There's no shortage of meat.
Common sense is in short supply.
We're being played.

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worthy of a repeat.

Shortage or not is isn't going to stop me from buying a hog direct from a farmer trying to offload some. Got some room in the freezer and they are going cheap. Nice to have the fat on hand for next year's deer too. My friends keeping worrying they'd screw up the butchering. I keep telling them it is allreay dead, not much you can due to harm the hog more than that.

JERRY said:

anyone hear of the upcoming gas shortage?
meat shortage?
toilet paper shortage?
fruits and vegetables shortage?
milk and bread shortage?
ammo shortage?

panic buying doesn't mean there is a shortage.

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I can speak with authority :
*as a shareholder in an ethanol plant.....there is no fuel shortage. *as a farmer, the feedlots are full
*milk is being dumped....I've SEEN IT.
*grain storage facilities are full....I have one.

I found out yesterday that our 1 YO siberian/mamalute mix successfully hunts rabbits, so probably gonna be ok

Plenty of venison in my freezer. I'm good for a while.

Armored farmer said:

There's no shortage of meat.
Common sense is in short supply.
We're being played.

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X3...

I'm not too worried. My son works at a butcher shop and hunts or fishes when he isn't working. He just brought us some grouse and pheasant from last fall, to make room for the 3 pigs of his he just slaughtered. He also brought some pork sausage.
Of course, he brings all this over when I'm having a gout attack....

I hear possum is good ...let's start a pay it forward thread for meat...

No shortage of meat.... The supposed problem is in the processing plants where the butchers have become sick, thus for no meat being processed. (If one believes the media.)

I did not harvest a deer last season but that does not bother me too much.
I can go out fishing, bring home something to eat, though it will not be the red meat that most crave. I will not poach!

What I worry about is the farmers well being, and the possible pestilence of that killer wasp that could wipe out the honey bees therefore destroying the food chain for most everyone!

1976B.L.Johns. said:

No shortage of meat.... The supposed problem is in the processing plants where the butchers have become sick, thus for no meat being processed. (If one believes the media.)

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Here's the dirty little secret the media doesn't report. A high percentage of workers at these meat packing plants are border crossing folks that live in what could be called large group homes. After arriving in a community to work the packing plants, rent a house then fill it with 10-to-20 people. Not what the officials would call social distancing. Not all have their own transportation so are transported to the plants packed in vans. Media would make you believe they spread the virus by working next to each other in crowded plants, while that may be partially true, it's the living conditions at home.

The other issue we have become a victim of is "Just in Time Supply Chain Management". While it is efficient and cost effective, there is never an inventory cushion to absorb the unforeseen glitch that comes along. We've seen it in almost every segment of the economy. Producers are happy to produce, but the rest of the supply chain doesn't have the flexibility to handle spikes and dips for demand.

The media resorts to lies, it's the only way they can get people to watch. truth I'd better then fiction.

Media sensationalism in my area has precipitated events like this recently.

https://www.kens5.com/mobile/articl...rant/273-99de4e7e-62dd-4ba6-acc0-941473ad13f5

Plus the most numerous grocery chain HEB re-instituted meat purchase limits last week after a surge of panic buying the media helped fuel. Note the geographic selectivity it was re-implemented showing the panic buying behavior was localized, not state wide. But see it spun based on "reduced production".

https://m.sacurrent.com/Flavor/arch...ting-meat-purchases-due-to-reduced-production

Now Costco has done the same nationwide. Pinch down on the panic behavior soon enough to not break the supply chain like was done 5 or 6 weeks ago here.

I've been to HEB, Sam's Club, and Walmart in my area and all had well stocked meat departments this past weekend. Sam's Club, WM, Target, Sprouts, and others in this area have not (yet anyway) seen a need to re-instate meat purchase limits here.

MCgunner said:

Just noticing on the news about a meat shortage. Anyone worried about that? ...

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Worried?
In my neighborhood, the squirrels seem more nervous.

And the rabbits.

Armored farmer said:

I can speak with authority :
*as a shareholder in an ethanol plant.....there is no fuel shortage. *as a farmer, the feedlots are full
*milk is being dumped....I've SEEN IT.
*grain storage facilities are full....I have one.

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Can Confirm

I am not worried about anything. If I start worrying about stuff, meat is way down on the list.

JERRY said:

worthy of a repeat

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1976B.L.Johns. said:

No shortage of meat.... The supposed problem is in the processing plants where the butchers have become sick, thus for no meat being processed. (If one believes the media.)

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troy fairweather said:

The media resorts to lies, it's the only way they can get people to watch. truth I'd better then fiction.

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Well I dont believe the media much either and worry even less. But one of the few local places to work (local as in an hour drive) is a massive tyson processing plant. We get chicken poo from them by the tandem load for our fields. It looks more like a city than a typical "plant". They actually call it a complex. It went down when 20 workers tested positive. More have tested since and its still down. That complex process 250k chickens a day. Like it or not that is the situation. I do not know about all the rest on TV but I see that one daily.

somethingbenign said:

My friends keeping worrying they'd screw up the butchering. I keep telling them it is allreay dead, not much you can due to harm the hog more than that.

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That's funny. My family has asked me the same thing and gotten the same answer. It's odd because they all deer hunt and process those and they all have cattle and tractors to lift with. I tell them I'm no butcher and don't know the steak cuts but if they want a couple freezers full of ground beef then we can do that.

Rembrandt said:

Here's the dirty little secret the media doesn't report. A high percentage of workers at these meat packing plants are border crossing folks that live in what could be called large group homes. After arriving in a community to work the packing plants, rent a house then fill it with 10-to-20 people. Not what the officials would call social distancing. Not all have their own transportation so are transported to the plants packed in vans. Media would make you believe they spread the virus by working next to each other in crowded plants, while that may be partially true, it's the living conditions at home.

The other issue we have become a victim of is "Just in Time Supply Chain Management". While it is efficient and cost effective, there is never an inventory cushion to absorb the unforeseen glitch that comes along. We've seen it in almost every segment of the economy. Producers are happy to produce, but the rest of the supply chain doesn't have the flexibility to handle spikes and dips for demand.

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In some cases that may be true. The pork plant my younger son works at (he is sanitation crew, and thus right in the middle of all this) is still running at full capacity, and he is getting 60+ hours a week, so you pork lovers in Indiana and Ohio needn't worry. Kinda funny how as an offshoot of their having worked in Agriculture, (both boys grew up working on farms) they both work at butcher shops.

Not worried. It's artificial, short term, and hyped by the MSM to keep the idiots watching. Don't be one of the idiots.

Nicky Santoro said:

Not worried. It's artificial, short term, and hyped by the MSM to keep the idiots watching. Don't be one of the idiots.

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spot on.

Boar, Roe deer and moose meat in my freezer. One more pack of meat and i won't be able to close the lid.

To the people thinking about killing hogs or beef this time of year you better give some thought to how your are going to cool it.You can't pile a freezer full of warm it will spoil and/or make a bloody mess,If you can spread it out in several freezers and make sure you move it around it should be OK.Thats why people that do there own kill in the late fall and winter unless they have access to a cooler.Another thing I see people on other forums that have never hunted say their buying guns and bows to get deer if meat get hard to buy.There's going to be some very disappointed people. A lot of places if everyone starts shooting every deer they see its not going to take long till its very hard to get one.It always amazes me people that don't hunt think there nothing to it.