With several large meatpacking plants shuttered, farmers are left in the lurch. Though smaller plants are stepping in, it’s only a partial solution to a problem expected to have effects into 2021.
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If we stop eating any animals, the planet will be saved, and peace will come, and your life as well. One day the meat industry will disappear, humanity will not kill animals for food, that day will come very soon, deep down everyone knows meat is the root of all illness, yet they can't give it up, till they are on the death bed, then it's too late, so quit eating meat now.
Is there another way he could sell the pigs while excluding the packers?… example, selling directly to the public…
sorry dude but you make your living off murder and your business model is a toxic poisonous mess for everyone involved and there are no positives – you need to go out of business.
Pigs aren’t food. U don’t farm animals.
These are sentient beings that have the desire to live!!! We dont need meat to live healthy lives. I dont feel bad for the farmer. I feel bad for these beautiful animals that have been tortured and murdered to please a human taste buds. Im sorry that their only rescuers is their death!!!
Vegan its the least we can do!!!
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2 things to say: First I feel so sorry for the farmer and his family because Almanzo Wilder was right; farmers feed the world and when there's food shortages everyone suffers. Second, will everyone in the comment section please stop being so negative and critical and rude?! Think about the situation from a different perspective and just think about contentment, helping someone out, struggling to survive, and being thankful for what you do have? Thank you.
Never sorry I gave up meat!!!
Should have tried to sell them individually there are a lot of people that know how to prepare a Pig
Look up pandemics and animal agriculture. Might not be such a bad idea to scale back meat production (and consumption).
Eating pork is a sin but I say this.
We need butchers and forget the plants
Americans only care about their economy.
Pigs are dirty and you should NOT eat them 🥴
I don’t eat meat 😂
WHERE'S THIS GUY STIMULUS!
Positive news to US workers please hehe
I learned how to can meat last year. Now I'm not buying any meat at all until this pandemic passed hopes it will end soon
Pigs are not God's gift of food to the world dude. Pigs aren't even food. According to the Bible, eating pigs is sinful, not getting rid of them. You should not be surprised that you are losing your ass.
The inevitable fate of all things swine. 😼
#BanFactoryfarming!!! IT'S BARBARIC AND ONLY SICK PSYCHOPATHS COULD SLAUGHTER SO MANY ANIMALS. SORRY BUT IT'S TRUE. WHY ARE WE KILLING ANIMALS FOR CHINA? I READ THAT THE MEAT ISSUE IS A LIE THEY FORCED PEOPLE TO GO BACK TO WORK FOR CHINA SHIPMENTS. PLEASE LOOK INTO IT. (SORRY FOR CAPS)
Stop trying to making animal agriculture seem like a good thing. It's an enviornmentally destructive, industry which abuses animals and human workers alike. Go VEGAN!
So sell the pigs at $1.00 lb live weight to anybody that will come and pick up…Why kill and waste them when there are families that cant afford store prices?…Are people really that greedy and selfish, killing pigs because you cant make money from them, why not donate them to food banks and homeless shelters?…Thats the problem with people, all they care about is the all mighty dollar…
I did feel sorry for the guy,but when you said this is God's gift for food…. really,God is not mocked. Jesus told us not to eat swine so how is it God's gift to us
This is so fucked up. Find a new business. I do not feel bad for farmers at this time. I literally hope they lose their businesses lol.
Sorry but God says do not even touch a pig let alone eat them. So you say its gods gift, yes that's to clean the filth off the face of the earth. They are scavengers.
STOP EATING PRODUCTS FROM MEAT "PLANTS"….AND JUST EAT PLANTS ! YOUR HEALTH WILL THANK YOU. PIGS ARE NOT FOOD, UNLESS YOUR STOMACH IS BUILT TO PROCESS RAW MEAT, LIKE CARNIVORES HAVE EVOLVED TO DO. MEAT CAUSES ACID TO INCREASE IN THE BODY AND YOU WANT A BODY THAT LEANS MORE IN THE DIRECTION OF ALKALINITY. GO VEGAN FOR 2020 ! IT WILL HELP YOU BEAT THIS GERM.
That "Meat Science" professor sure sounds like she's paid by the large meat processors.
Pigs were given to us by God as food? The Bible says NO SWINE. Period.
You have to feel sorry for those poor pigs! Look at the way they are living! Crowded all together! Ughh!
BBQ is the answer.
I am glad they cannot continue to murder innocent animals to make us sick.
wow he grosses $100k/wk
G4 is coming
What those pigs endure in their mean lives and the horror of their deaths, both before COVID-19 disruptions and now, matter not to the pigs. The farmer's risible talk of God's will regarding the pigs is disgustingly transparent….his God cares not for the suffering of animals…His God cares that Randy's income is undisturbed.
Good!!!! Shut it down. Leave the pigs alone
Our town holds a Smithfield plant and they continue to have cases and the company refuses to let us know just how many. So the cases are now climbing back up when they had stopped. The moment other states opened more than half the town went on vacations to those states and that has caused another spike. Its getting bad. They dogged pritzker but his ways worked where as the other states who rushed have shown us that was wrong.
Stop eating meat. These animals live in hell until their horrible but blessed death . On the plus side you will feel better, lose weight and live longer. It's a win win.