| farmertom311 - 5/26/2020 05:26 It’s partially (mostly) responsible for it because we’ve so concentrated the production that we shut a handful of plants and cripple the whole country. We shut down a few plants and crippled a major part of What few of the hog farmers are left. If this was 50 years ago and the majority of hog farms 100 sows or smaller and packing plants more spread out To accommodate this more spread out production it would not have been as easy to cripple the meat industry in this country as it has.
So out of all that what I got is that "vertical integration" had nothing to do with the mess were in.
What you're say is that having fewer and larger packing plants opposed to more and smaller packing plants is "partially (mostly) responsible for it" which I'd still disagree with.
IMO, select govt bodies and media are mostly responsible for the mess were in, they have people that are more likely to get killed in a car accident on the way to work scared to leave their house over a virus that a lot of people never even know they have.
Would we have been better off with more smaller packing plants? Maybe, but it takes a lot of little plants to replace the plants that do 20k/day and those smaller plants operate at a higher cost.
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Piggies.
