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I don't understand the slaughtering of livestock. I understand the meat packing plants are at reduced capacity, but to say the there is a surplus of meat is what I don't understand. I know restaurants are closed, but people are still eating. I have bought as much meat in the past month that I normally would buy in a year. My chest freezer, my house refrigerator freezer and my RV refrigerator freezer are all full. My neighbors are looking for meat and when they find meat they are buying more also. My smoker is now running about two times a week where normally I would only use it once a week.
The only one I really know for sure is hogs. The United States exports well over 1/4 of its hog population to China. It’s a luxury expense there, not like here. Once this blew up in China, imports of pork sank like a stone. Because of that, and the closure of the restaurant industry as a whole (massive waste and generally larger portion sizes ) there is a surplus of a lot of things.