Disrupt the Disruption

dis·rup·tion

/disˈrəpSH(ə)n/

noun

disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process.

"700,000 pigs unable to be processed every week" (Reuters)

700,000

Every week. 

Because restaurant closures disrupted the supply chain. Because regulations make it difficult for farmers to quickly and efficiently change their distribution to grocers. Farmers falling ill, new generations of animals about to be born, processing and meat packing is backed up, and farmers do not have the resources to have twice the amount of animals on hand.

Shut down has absolutely, without question, had a broad reach beyond anything we can fathom, and the fallout is going to be DISASTROUS.

1) our healthcare system was not properly equipped to handle this pandemic and so

2) our entire country is probably going to collapse from the means of containment.

We need to keep the spread at bay, but we are also facing mass poverty, famine and dozens of other major issues as a direct result, which is WHY we need to get the wheels turning to a degree. 

We will absolutely decline as a whole if we do not. I don't know about you, but I don't want to end up having my home at risk of being looted for resources.

It doesn't stop there, though. 

People who use WIC and SNAP will likely no longer being able to put enough food on their tables with the fall of factory farming industry. Sadly because these factory farmers are the only affordable options under those programs. Literally everything is slighting the lower class.

One solution I can come up with: 

Find your local farmers and butchers, buy local and direct if you can afford to. Help them move their products and help relieve them of the pressure to distribute, and also allow the underprivileged to have access to their only option.

Step it up everyone, disrupt the disruption. We can do this together.

P.S. EDITED WITH UPDATE 05-14-2020

I find it inherently interesting that this article was published IN FEBRUARY... "Before" the outbreak.

“The secretary knows that only when America’s cattle producers are financially distressed will they acquiesce to government mandates that infringe on their freedoms to choose how they will produce their cattle. The strategic use of cheaper, undifferentiated imports from Brazil and Africa will cause that financial distress by destabilizing the U.S. cattle market."