well, you eat a lot of meat, sarge.
Posted on 05/01/2020 4:34:03 PM PDT by RandFan
Just a few closures of meat packing plants are putting the entire meat industry on the brink of collapse. A congressman who also raises cattle sounded the alarm for years that burdensome regulations needed to go. Now will Congress act in time?
Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) is gaining bipartisan support for his PRIME Act, which stands for Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act. The bill has been sitting in the House and the Senate for nearly a year, meaning it could be fast tracked to President Donald Trump if the political will is there.
The legislation lifts restrictions on over 1,000 mom-and-pop meat processing plants that aren’t allowed to supply restaurants, schools, hotels, and the like. Yes, you read that right. The American people are dependent on a few big businesses that enjoy great advantages thanks to regulation.
Massie has proposed this common-sense solution for years to no avail. Apparently nobody was listening, just like when he opposed the $2.2 trillion stimulus package in late March. However, since Tyson Foods board chairman warned the supply chain was “breaking,” and Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open, Massie is no longer being ignored.
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It will happen through the DPA but the legislation can provide the foundational principles for the EO.
thx
Meatpacking is indicative of the perverse incentives globalists and printed Federal Reserve debt have forced on American industry.
- Its highly centralized to squeeze every penny of cost. This is to allow commoditization with ruthless retailers like Walmart, COSTCO, etc… to serve the debt of everyone in the chain.
- Of course, this extreme centralization and monopoly results in “factory food” and causes extreme tail risk and fragility of the supply-chain.
- As we see now, this system exposes American farmers, who never signed up for this risk, to massive risk nonetheless.
- The business can’t be exported, so they instead bring foreign labor to their plants. Every major meat-packing plant is 100% staffed by Somalis, Hondurans or Guatemalans. the poorest of the poor
- Wages are low, so the families of these immigrants live on SNAP, Medicaid and Welfare. Meatpacking labor is a government subsidy to Agri-business.
I can buy meat from local farmers, who process it at one of these 1000 local, family-run slaughterhouses. They know each of their customers, and are true artisans. From now one, 100% of my business is going to these people.
Not sure what this has to do with anti-vaxx or diseased herds. It just gives small, family processors an equal shot at selling into the huge foodservice market.
“Some anti-vaxxe, libertard bill that will lead to diseased cattle herds in a few years?”
Someone wee in your Rice Krispies or something?
Are you one of those people who also believes that peanut butter stays in the colon for 30 years?
Your all nuts, I don’t know of anything that stays in the bowels for more than 48 hours unless you have a real problem taking a dump, in that case I would advise you see your PROCTOLOGIST.
Interesting to know but I still won’t eat CRAP; spotted owl maybe, bald eagle absolutely, LIBERAL-NO WAY!
Just heard a podcast by some homesteaders talking about this. Apparently there are contracts that bigger farmers sign with specific processing plants. They almost have to do this to protect themselves against lawsuits. When that processing plant gets closed, they legally cannot take the meat elsewhere, and because of their younger animals coming up in their own chain, the animals must be destroyed. They aren’t even allowed to sell the animals live to another farm. It is ridiculous and crazy, all because of regulations and lawsuits.
Thanks for passing that on.
The USDA should be closed!
You are correct. The way I read it, there is no anti-vax in the bill. It gives powers currently held by the Ag Dept to the states. Right where it ought to be. That is why I posted the bill’s text.
No it won't because Meat is not what causes it, carbohydrates do.
I got it. I guess a lot of people have not seen “Beverly Hills Cop” with Eddie Murphy.
Trump just invoked the DPA ordering all meat processors to stay open.
>>>By the time the average American is fifty, he’s got five pounds of undigested red meat in his bowels.
That statement is pure vegan nuttery.
well, you eat a lot of meat, sarge.
The order he made does NOT force them to stay open. You have been mislead by a news reporter that hasn’t read the order.
Good luck finding such a grower.
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