Using hindsight 20/20, wasn’t it a great idea for the Obama administration to allow the sale of America’s largest pork processing company to a billionaire from Communist China? This is yet another example of just how drastic the decisions of the globalist elites have been for America. Now that multiple pork and chicken processing plants are shutting down over a public health emergency, the New York Times is running full-page articles about the looming food shortages, which are somehow all Trump’s fault.
The Times is trumpeting a letter from the halfwit CEO of Tyson Foods. “The food supply chain is breaking,” writes John Tyson. The explanation for this insurmountable problem is that the illegal aliens working in the company’s handful of giant chicken processing plants are coming down with the Chinese coronavirus. Therefore, the plants that keep the store shelves stocked in the US “must” be shut down. Millions of chickens will have to be exterminated because Tyson can’t afford to house and feed the chickens it has already purchased. Meanwhile, poultry farmers will suddenly have nowhere to sell their chickens.
The story is pretty much the same for Smithfield Foods, owned by Wan Long, a foreign billionaire with direct ties to the Communist Chinese Party in Beijing. Sick illegal alien employees, plants shutting down, hogs will be culled, hog farmers have nowhere to sell their herds of pigs.
The beef industry hasn’t announced any similar problems yet, and that problem won’t likely be as bad. Independent ranchers are moving herds to summer grazing spots now (if they haven’t already). Large feedlots don’t have that option, but so far, the cattle industry hasn’t announced any major disruptions.
All of this illustrates the folly of allowing our nation’s food production to be handled by a small handful of companies which are staffed by illegal aliens and run by people who are idiots or who are outright enemies of America.
None of this has to happen. In fact, our pro-America president has already enacted the Defense Production Act and deemed them an essential business to keep the meat processing plants open and running, even if it’s only in a diminished temporary capacity.
Whatever happened to that plucky, can-do spirit of American CEO’s to adapt and overcome any problem?
Billionaire John Tyson apparently does not have that spirit when it comes to running the chicken company that he inherited from his daddy. He seems to have more of that globalist-Obama spirit: “Oh, well. Guess there’s nothing we can do. Better wait for the government to solve it.”
Seriously, do you know any independent small business owner who is not thinking of any and every solution to keeping their business open right now? What the hell is wrong with these people? Well, I suspect we know what’s wrong with the Chinese billionaire.
Before anyone panics and buys all of the chicken at the grocery store like it’s the last shipment of toilet paper, here are two solutions to this problem just off the top of my head.
First, use the National Guard. I know the libertarian potheads will start panicking and claiming that Trump or the governors of states with Tyson processing plants will claim that we’re now under “martial law” if this happens, but whatever. We’re already under martial law in states where mothers are being arrested for taking their children to the parks. Having unarmed guardsmen chopping up chickens is not martial law.
Have the guardsmen put on masks, gloves and plastic aprons and go to work. Members of the US military learn how to operate and work on advanced radar systems and biomedical equipment in accelerated courses – some as little as two weeks. I think they can figure out how to cut up a chicken.
And if most Americans had the choice between no chicken on the store shelves and chicken breasts that look a little wonky because they were cut up by a Navy reservist, I think we’d all take the wonky chicken (sorry, Navy guys, gotta poke fun at ya!).
Second solution: Staff the chicken plants with bored American teenagers. The only caveat is that Tyson would have to pay them minimum wage – no illegal alien wages for American teens! The case fatality rate worldwide for healthy under-20-year-olds remains at zero. They’re basically immune to the Chinese virus, have no chance of dying from it if they don’t have underlying health conditions, and it will go a long way toward promoting herd immunity if they catch it and shrug it off.
Set up gender-segregated dorms and let teen workers live at the plants for a month, so they can’t infect their grandparents. It would be like summer vacation for them, except they’ll be getting paid for jobs that they normally can’t get because of illegal immigration. The kids aren’t in school anyway. It would be cool for them to tell their grandchildren one day, “I did my part to help save America during the Chinese bioweapon attack back in the year 2020!”
Those are two simple, workable solutions to the “coming food shortage” just off the top of my head.
