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posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-a-meat-wave! dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:15AM (10 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:15AM (#712967) Journal

    If you have unlimited storage, your 'reasonable' seems... well.. reasonable.
    But the question is 'Do you actually have unlimited storage'?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:35PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:35PM (#713077)

    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)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:55PM (#713085) Journal

      Can't we just all have a nation-wide cookout this weekend to tackle this problem?

      What would you prefer: have a national cookout or left/right spat each other on Soylentnews? Wait, don't tell me, it's inconsequential!

      A co-worker who loves to cook was telling me about the ability of food to bring people together.

      '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?)

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      • (Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:45PM (5 children)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:45PM (#713123) Journal

        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)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:55PM (#713221) Journal

          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!

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          • (Score: 4, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:00PM (2 children)

            by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:00PM (#713258) Journal

            Eating cows hasn't made me herbivorous. I'll take my chances.

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:14PM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:14PM (#713367) Journal

              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...

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            • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:20PM

              by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:20PM (#713441) Journal

              No, but you started the emit bullshit.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:08PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:08PM (#713428)

          Why can't we have the national cookout, and serve liberals?

          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

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:24PM (#713102) Journal

    If you have unlimited storage, your 'reasonable' seems... well.. reasonable.
    But the question is 'Do you actually have unlimited storage'?

    If you're going to JIT, and you have unlimited storage, then clearly you're a Java developer.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday July 27 2018, @02:39AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Friday July 27 2018, @02:39AM (#713529) Homepage

    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.

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