While the Jewish media is spending all of their time dissecting Donald Trump’s comments about disinfectants and ultraviolet light, America is on the brink of a potentially major food crisis. Not only are there fears of meat shortages, but due to restaurant and business closures, huge amounts of produce is being left to rot as Americans flood food banks.
Tens of millions of pounds of American-grown produce is rotting in fields as food banks across the country scramble to meet a massive surge in demand, a two-pronged disaster that has deprived farmers of billions of dollars in revenue while millions of newly jobless Americans struggle to feed their families.
While other federal agencies quickly adapted their programs to the coronavirus crisis, the Agriculture Department took more than a month to make its first significant move to buy up surplus fruits and vegetables — despite repeated entreaties.
This is another example showing how the federal government bureaucracy is totally incompetent. These bureaucracies are filled with worthless paper pushers, affirmative action hires and other retards. They are slow to react to any type of real problem or crisis.
You would think that the Department of Agriculture whose sole job is to focus in on this one single industry, would have known that by locking down the economy in such a draconian fashion, that there would be a major disruption in the supply chain. Obviously by forcing restaurants and businesses to close because of the doomsday virus, this eliminated huge amounts of product demand. So now you have farmers who grew all this food with far fewer buyers on the market. It’s very similar to what has happened to the oil market where oil went below zero because demand for the product evaporated.
The USDA could have stepped in immediately to buy as much of this food as possible and began distributing it to food banks so it wouldn’t go to waste. While hardly ideal, it would have helped the farmers, kept people fed and temporarily propped up the supply chain until the economy reopened.
Instead, they only started buying product recently while giving some farmers money who have already been forced to destroy crops. What they should be doing is trying to buy as much of the product as possible and redistributing it to hungry people. Just giving farmers free money is a waste of resources and is not going to solve anything. It is basically rewarding farmers for destroying food. This could have been avoided had they been on top of things and started buying surplus product shortly after the lockdowns were ordered.
The whole situation is insane. We shouldn’t even be having this conversation. We need to reopen the economy and begin evaluating how we can improve our food supply chain. It is obviously not very resilient considering all the problems we are seeing. But considering how the government bureaucracy has reacted so poorly to this crisis, it indicates that a huge part of the problem is the government bureaucracy itself.
