With 5 meat packing plants closed, over 30% of the national supply chain is shut down,
I noticed this yesterday at the grocery store for the first time. No pork ribs. No pork roasts. No sheep at all. Poor choice in beef, and no grass feed at all. Still plenty of other ground beef.
I bought what I could, but I guess this is going to be a big issue as the meat that was already in the supply chain run down.
I don’t know…I guess I will have to eat more cheese and eggs.
This is going to be like toilet paper. As soon as this came out everybody is going to start hoarding meat. I pick a bad month to go carnivore.
So now we know, this was all part of the evil PETA plan. 
And yes, some hoarders will be doing their thing. Some people can no just chill out. Those plants should be allowed to reopen once they get sterilized, but the USDA inspectors have been cut back drastically in the last 3 yrs. so it will take a good while to get them back up and running.
The plants aren’t shut down by force, food production is essential. They’re shut down because some of them are having too many get sick.
Back to Farming in the 1930’s and Rabbit Stew…mmmm!
Must prepare for the soup lines, train the Jack Russell to do the Mr. Bojangles Dance while the weeny dog begs for coins in front of a hat. As the evil Space Bunny cracks whips in the background!
Save bones for bone broth and fat?
”…Farms in the 1930s were diversified, growing a variety of crops in the fields, vegetables in the garden and fruit in the orchard. Small farms usually raised chickens, eggs, hogs, and cattle, as well as keeping horses and mules for work, and sometimes sheep for wool and meat. Some farmers kept bees and harvested the honey. Women baked their own bread. During the Depression, this self-sufficiency carried over into their social life. One-dish suppers and church potlucks were important ways to have fun and share food. On radio and in women’s magazines, home economists taught women how to stretch their food budget with casseroles and meals like creamed chipped beef on toast or waffles. Chili, macaroni and cheese, soups, and creamed chicken on biscuits were popular meals. …” “…Life was different in the 1930s. Person after person – like Millie Opitz (left) – will tell you that they never went hungry despite the fact that they never had much money. And Helen Bolton (right) can still quickly list all of the tasks she had to do to keep food on the table.The Apetz brothers hunted rabbits to put a more meat on the dinner table. Delbert Apetz says, “We had a brooder house [for chickens]. My uncle and dad, they’d go out rabbit hunting (now this is in the winter time). Be rabbits hanging there, dressed all the way through that and any time you wanted something to eat you’d cut the string on the rabbit and bring it in the house, fry it or cook it and make soup or whatever you want. We ate a lotta, lotta rabbits. But that’s what we had to eat.” Still, it was a constant work to put food on the table, and sometimes the food was covered with dust when the wind blew dust through the cracks in the house. …” …More
I’ve been maintaining a 30 day food supply for several months including more meat than usual. I’ll shop Monday. Fresh vegetables will be the most important but I’ll top off eggs, meat, coffee and cream if available. There are 4 places I’ll shop if necessary. Government’s got to let people go back to work. I’ll lay low at home and try to avoid becoming part of the herd even though I’m well prepared to fight off an infection.
