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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:15AM (10 children)
If you have unlimited storage, your 'reasonable' seems... well.. reasonable.
But the question is 'Do you actually have unlimited storage'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:35PM (7 children)
Hmm, sounds like a complicated question. Can't we just all have a nation-wide cookout this weekend to tackle this problem?
A co-worker who loves to cook was telling me about the ability of food to bring people together. Maybe a national cookout weekend is what we need.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:55PM (6 children)
What would you prefer: have a national cookout or left/right spat each other on Soylentnews? Wait, don't tell me, it's inconsequential!
'tis true. This is why your (the free-and-the-brave) masters will not allow it, even if that meat is to rot in the storage.
You must troll each other and must not [soylentnews.org] come together; they'll have no power over you if you realize you have more in common between you than between you and the political/corporate ruling classes.
(grin - or is it?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:45PM (5 children)
Why can't we have the national cookout, and serve liberals? Nothing could ever get conservatives and liberals any closer than eating the liberals!
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:55PM (3 children)
You're in a bad mood today, old man :) And remember, you are what you eat, so eating liberals might make you--gasp--reasonable, humane, and unselfish! And we can't have THAT, oh no, Cthulhu FORBID!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:00PM (2 children)
Eating cows hasn't made me herbivorous. I'll take my chances.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:14PM
Yeah, but eating all that shit has turned you into a complete shit for brains. You didn't get the best of that deal, let me tell you...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:20PM
No, but you started the emit bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:08PM
One must put a limit in what the pigs eat. For the sake of pigs' health, if nothing else.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:24PM
If you're going to JIT, and you have unlimited storage, then clearly you're a Java developer.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday July 27 2018, @02:39AM
Observationally, a week's supply in the retail pipeline is about normal. So, a couple billion pounds or so. Or, a couple percent of the annual total. And if for some reason the supply got a little ahead of the demand (and carcass storage space), just cut back on slaughter operations for a day or two and it'll catch up; I'm sure they do such calculations all the time.
Problem with flinging around these OMG numbers is that most people have ZERO sense of the scale of feeding a nation of some ~340 million hungry mouths.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.