WKBW-TV reports:
Some new numbers are showing that the U.S. has more than 2.5 billion lbs [1.1 million metric tons] of meat in cold storage warehouses, and it's all because Americans aren't eating enough to keep up with supply.
Another reason is that the trade situation is chipping away at global demand.
[...] The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the industry will produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat this year.
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:42AM (4 children)
The smell will be even better if/when those cold storage start to break down with nowhere to move the stuff.
Tell you what: better use that protected American steel to build barbecues, folks, they'll be more expensive but the meat should be cheap (if it will actually be cheap is a thing yet to be seen).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @07:26AM (2 children)
Remember when all the unions wanted tariffs? I do, because I used to debate them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:41PM (1 child)
So, is the Meat Cutter's union hurting today? No? What's that? There's no meat cutter's union? No ranch hand union? Few people who work with food, on the hoof, all the way to on the table, have unions representing them.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday July 27 2018, @02:29AM
Dunno about lower down the chain, but at the retail grocery level, a lot of 'em are AFL-CIO. And when the union decided it was time to strike, the union achieved very little for said meatcutters, but sure enjoyed the union's cut (which is to say, 100%) of the wage increase. (Friend was a union meatcutter, so I had a ringside seat.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:04PM
exactly, I'm afraid they'd rather build more refrigerated warehouse space than sell meat at lower prices.