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Fuck this part of the current situation the most. I'm sure the dairy farmer side of my family will know some so deeply affected. Routinely dumping loads of milk is just as hard as culling herds for whatever the reason -- those are the money and lifeblood of the operation after all.
The unfortunate reality is that rural America should now be realizing they need the urban centers to sustain their livelihood as , while urban America should be realizing that the rural plight is just as much their plight. No pandemic needed, but it certainly speaks the message obnoxiously, beating the dead horse to a pulp. Unfortunately politicians will always find ways to keep us divided by manipulating our emotions.
Yeah seems odd they need to dump them. Can't afford to feed them with lack of revenue I guess? And yeah there really needs to be better laws when it comes to food and items in general, companies should be allowed to donate extra, and even encouraged to. But with the way things are now there's too much liability BS involved.
Revenue is partly it, but animal suffering can also be a real concern.
First we have to recognize these are carefully orchestrated operations, be they a family farmer with a modest operation with a couple hundred heads, to the massive CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations) which would likely mean 2500+ pigs. Regardless whether they grow their own feed or purchase in bulk amounts, they aren't likely to have enough on hand to feed animals longer than they had ever planned. And because feed that isn't used relatively promptly can mean wasted resources that have to be dumped, this won't be something that can be fixed or for plans to be adjusted. It's the nature of the operations - it's quite equivalent to "Just In Time" logistics. It's costly to feed hundreds if not thousands of animals, and more difficult is that the farm likely has a steady stream of piglets, calves, etc to keep an efficient operation running... this makes space a concern.
If it were only a handful of farms, there are logistics/means to move that much product for donation or whatever. But when it's practically all the farms, then even the small town butchers will be unable to process all those animals in a region (for, say, frozen meat back home or getting it out to others) and again the logistics of getting all of a given area's meat supply to customers directly just doesn't exist. And there's also the fact that the restaurant (bulk) and home (consumer) markets apparently maintain separate supply chains; I've heard this isn't the norm but on that I've little knowledge.
Also, you have this weird obsession with liability and regulations in your recent posts. These various regulations in place tend to be because of food safety lessons we've learned over the years -- safety issues that, if glossed over, could mean more needless deaths.
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