Current Events > U.S. farmers may have to euthanize 10 million pigs

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"Some grocery stores are limiting meat purchases yet pig farmers around the country are having to make the unthinkable decision of having to euthanize their livestock. The National Pork Producers Association estimates up to 10 million hogs could be euthanized between April and September. And this could lead to some farmers facing financial disaster."

"The association says since meatpacking plants have been closed, farmers are unable to sell thousands of hogs. At current plant capacity levels, approximately 170,000 market-ready hogs per day can't be sold."

"The only humane option is to euthanize them, a tragedy for farmers who work to produce food for people. Destroying these animals and the food they represent goes against every farmer instinct," the association said in a statement."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/us/hog-farmers-euthanize-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

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Open the plants back up. This is unacceptable.

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more blood on trumps tiny hands

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Thanks Trump

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Doom_Art posted...

Thanks Trump

Trump tried to prevent this by forcing the plants to stay open. He did what he could.

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Euthanize them? Why? There are Americans going hungry that could really need some bacon or pork rn

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Crazy. Cant they just give the meat away?

Duncanwii posted...

Trump tried to prevent this by forcing the plants to stay open. He did what he could.

your gimmick has grown old.

You were funnier when you pretended to be clueless, not evil.

So just let them live their lives free range, or they'd rather do this than pay to feed them?

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Airhammy posted...

So just let them live their lives free range, or they'd rather do this than pay to feed them?

There's a video in the link. Pig farmers don't have the capacity or financials to feed hundreds of pigs.

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Duncanwii posted...

Open the plants back up. This is unacceptable.

they tried that, plant workers refused to work when it will just kill them. should we have the military point guns at them and see if that helps?

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Duncanwii posted...

Trump tried to prevent this by forcing the plants to stay open. He did what he could.

That fat blob didn't try preventing anything

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Duncan you should go work at the pig farms if its bothering you so much

Spellcaster posted...

Euthanize them? Why? There are Americans going hungry that could really need some bacon or pork rn

This. Let us eat them

Time for Duncanwii to have another week off

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DanSmithK7 posted...

your gimmick has grown old.

You were funnier when you pretended to be clueless, not evil.

This.

@Duncanwii pls respond

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Odoylerules posted...

Crazy. Cant they just give the meat away?

They're farmers, not slaughterers. They raise the pigs and when the pigs are "market ready" they sell them to the next group that presumably turns them into meat.

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DanSmithK7 posted...

your gimmick has grown old.

You were funnier when you pretended to be clueless, not evil.

The country is already too deep in the mud to add famine and mass starvation to the fire. If humans won't work then make robots to do their jobs, keeping the food chain running is too important to society to just shrug our shoulders and go "oh well."

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Holy fuck Duncan can you just shut the fuck up for once.

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Its pork. Nothing of value is lost. Call me when they start doing this to cows. Since cows not only give you beef but milk.

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Did Duncan get banned again

soulunison2 posted...

Did Duncan get banned again

One can only hope.

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Capitalism is a well functioning system.

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Duncanwii posted...

The country is already too deep in the mud to add famine and mass starvation to the fire. If humans won't work then make robots to do their jobs, keeping the food chain running is too important to society to just shrug our shoulders and go "oh well."

Sadly, its not that easy. Also meat isnt the only source of food. Farmers are practically giving away their crops right now because so much is going to waste
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All that bacon gone to complete waste.

I will be damned.
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i just saw tiger king, so my first thought was "why not give it to all of those big cats out there"

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Duncanwii posted...

The country is already too deep in the mud to add famine and mass starvation to the fire. If humans won't work then make robots to do their jobs, keeping the food chain running is too important to society to just shrug our shoulders and go "oh well."

then put your money where your mouth is, put on your big boy pants and head to a meat packing plant and offer to pack some of those pig corpses. Do your part.

@Duncanwii

Duncanwii posted...

The country is already too deep in the mud to add famine and mass starvation to the fire. If humans won't work then make robots to do their jobs, keeping the food chain running is too important to society to just shrug our shoulders and go "oh well."

Shut the goddamned fuck up

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruitand kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.

And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificatedied of malnutritionbecause the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Relevant again as ever today.

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Butterfiles posted...

Capitalism is a well functioning system.

What part of this do you think would change under a different economic system

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RIP Piggies.

Part of mean wants to believe there was a way to save them, but 10 million pigs is a lot of pigs and these places don't have the resources to keep them. It's not like we have each and every animal sanctuary in the country ready to take in a thousand pigs. Just fuck, this sucks.
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Just a bluff, sad theyre trying to force workers back into plants

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Who cares? Let them clone 10 million more.

Yall hating on dunc but hes not wrong. Add another trillion to the debt for good measure and now we gotta kill 10 million pigs we could have used for food.

I love how no one actually refutes what duncan says and just insults him and the mods don't care.

People would rather watch the world burn rather than let workers feed their families.

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Spooking posted...

Poor piggies. :(

Why? Euthanasing them is a far better fate than what they normally wouldve had.

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why don't dey just donate dem lol, wtf is wrong with dem smh tbh
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Give the pigs jobs

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kayoticdreamz posted...

I love how no one actually refutes what duncan says and just insults him and the mods don't care.

Hes not wrong but it goes against the anti trump agenda

One_Day_Remains posted...

Shut the goddamned fuck up

Hes right though.

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You would think the people who really want the country to re-open would be the first to hop on these jobs that no one is doing. It's almost like they want other people to risk themselves so they aren't inconvenienced.

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