{"id":53011,"date":"2020-05-06T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53011"},"modified":"2020-05-06T07:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T12:42:46","slug":"wheres-the-beef-not-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53011","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s the Beef? \u2013 Not on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Where\u2019s the Beef? \u2013 Not on the Horizon<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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The reports continue to come in that there\u2019s a real problem with the U.S. food supply. From McDonald\u2019s reviewing their supply chain for beef to the pleas of ranchers already staring at feeding issues with last year\u2019s poor harvests the signs are there for a major supply dislocation in beef going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kroger is limiting the amount of beef and pork<\/a> people can buy. My local Winn-Dixie has had limits on large cuts of pork for the past couple of weeks. Pork loins have been gone for weeks now, so no pork jerky for us, which is a tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Wendy\u2019s<\/a>, which doesn\u2019t use frozen beef, is reporting more than 20% of their stores are out of beef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephens analyst James Rutherford noted 18% of Wendy\u2019s restaurants were \u201ccompletely sold out of beef items as of Monday evening,\u201d reported Bloomberg<\/a>. <\/p>

\u201cBy our count 1,043 Wendy\u2019s units were selling zero beef items yesterday evening,\u201d but within the figure, about 128 restaurants were still selling beef chili. Rutherford added that the shortage varies across the country and said some restaurants still have full menus, while states like Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Connecticut, and New York are \u201cfully out of fresh beef.\u201d The note also said Wendy\u2019s is \u201cmore exposed\u201d to meat shortages because of its reliance on fresh beef compared with its competitors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you subscribe, like I do now, to the idea that this Coronapocalypse is mostly a cover story for the failures of the global financial and political system to usher in a new round of totalitarian control then destroying the most vulnerable, yet important, part of our food supply would be a key strategic goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My talk with Patrick Henningsen of 21st Century Wire<\/a>\u00a0recently covered the motive, means and opportunity for why this perspective should be our default setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where\u2019s the Beef? \u2013 Not on the Horizon The reports continue to come in that there\u2019s a real problem with the U.S. food supply. From McDonald\u2019s reviewing their supply chain for beef to the pleas of ranchers already staring at feeding issues with last year\u2019s poor harvests the signs are there for a major supply […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[7762,319,21273,16963],"class_list":["post-53011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-beef","tag-food","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-tom-luongo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53012,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53011\/revisions\/53012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}