Showing posts with label food crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food crisis. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Opinion | Trump Said Democrats Will Take Away Your Hamburgers. He’s the One Who Might. - The New York Times

Deporting a crucial segment of the country's meatpacking work force and cutting off the supply of replacement workers wouldn't simply drastically reduce production; it would halt processing at every stage — from feedlots to the packinghouse floor. This would break the supply chain for Big Macs and Whoppers, for bacon and lunch meat, for Fourth of July hot dogs and Thanksgiving turkeys… 

"If Trump's policies go through, the industry will die," Ms. Cordova said. "Frankly, nobody in this country wants to do that work." 

For Americans to continue to eat meat, we must break ourselves of Trump's diet of hate…

Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Putin’s attack on the grain deal was despicable. It also shows he’s desperate

Over the weekend, Russia signed a deal with Ukraine to allow grain exports to resume from three Ukrainian ports, thereby easing the global food crisis. Before the ink was dry, Russian forces fired precision missiles into the port of Odesa as grain was being readied for export...









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