@stevieb wrote:
@Greeneyedlady21 wrote:
@ID2 wrote:
Buy from your local farmers. I haven't bought any of my produce, fruit, meat , pork or chicken from a grocery store in many, many years! There's never a shortage and its nothing but PURE food. Do a little research and take a visit to your locals, help the little guy while you're at it.
You do know that there are many people in this country who don't have local farms or farmers or have no way to access them if they do? Do a little research?- that's rather insulting.
The entire premise of this post, that there isn't a shortage where the OP shops (in NYC)-same thing applies. In this country of all places, you cannot have what ends up being a myopic view. I don't mean that as an insult, it just is myopic to assume that everyone's situation is like yours. In a huge country, with countless variable factors.
@Greeneyedlady21 Agree... We're all having different experiences now days and it seems that months into this no one is making any effort at all to coordinate the availability of food and other essentials, so that some areas have more than they need and other areas have far less than they need... And I'm sorry, but while all perspectives and ideas are welcome, the notion of going in with a slew of others to purchase livestock and arrange for its slaughter and distribution is, for me, just not a practical solution... More to the point, if some authority had been created to manage this situation at all competently it would be completely unnecessary... I'd add that along with not chastising each other for sharing ideas goes the concept of not passing judgment on those who might have just about had enough of all this and are saying so, by assigning them value-loaded labels like 'whiners'...
Practical (translated often as 'easy') isn't getting meat in many people's freezer. Sometimes because we didn't think ahead, anticipate a situation, or plan for it, we are stuck with solutions that are less than easy or practical. It's really not hard to find people to split whole livestock with. Facebook is full of groups that share how to do it, and with posts on local FB sites from farmers who can hook you up with a half or quarter as there are others that want less than a full head. They have all the answers as to cost, processing, date for pickup etc. You pretty much just have to commit to showing up at the specified time and place for pickup. It's just like warehouse shopping, if the package is too big, you split it with your mom, your neighbor etc.
I'm not really into 'an authority created to manage this situation'. It would be some federal government agency already in existence, or thrown together, and be less than effective.
The best solutions come local, from the people on the front lines of production of food, and those consuming it. It needs to be looked at on a more local level first and foremost, to cut out so many hands in the pockets making it more expensive and more complicated and slow. It would solve local issues in supply chain (for food anyway), which are quite obviously different in different areas.
And windy terms like 'value loaded labels' is just another form of whining. If one has had enough, it might be better to stop being part of the problem and start being more of the solution, or sit it out. We can be as tired of the quantity of posts, the speculation, the topics, and the 'not for me' solutions offered as we want. It shouldn't stop others from sharing what they see, know, experience, suggest, tried, hear, read, or thought of.
There are forums on here that I used to like to participate on, but the majority of the posts on them are now boring to me and not what I want to see the forum focused on. But others seem to respond and enjoy the way it has gone. My solution is to scroll on by what I know I'm not liking or what I'm tired of seeing in that particular forum and respond where I do have interest. It really isn't all that complicated.
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