Really, IDGAF. I'm killing birds and my friends are killing hogs. Believe what you want.
Ok, I do care, and happy to verify my bona fides if you need it. I'm the president of #3 and #9 on the list below. I'm the current president of the Iowa Poultry Association, the Secretary of the United Egg Producers, and chairman of the UEP animal welfare committee. Our eggs hit the shelves in about 1500 big box stores. You've probably had our product at Subway, Burger King, Holiday Inn, etc.
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I like POA, because I like flying. I've met some good friends and confidants here. Even got to fly with some, and have several in my logbook.
@Ted DuPuis checked me out in the 310 and remains a great friend. I've had an amazing flying career, but am a complete NOOB compared to the experience of many here.
You can match my ugly mug in this video flying
@flyingcheesehead and
@SixPapaCharlie around showing out a bit in the Conquest.
I don't like POA for all the silly people who think they have an opinion when they should just STFU and learn.
None of the above really matter, and at the end of the day I'm just some guy on the internet. Sorry all for the tinkling match, but this is the most stressful time in my career, and I'm ****ing ****ed. Will we have shortages? I really don't know. Depends upon the economy and how deep the recession is. I do know for absolute fact that my company makes a metric crap ton of protein, and it is going to take a year+ to get back to the level of production we were at just two months ago.
@Art Rose , you can believe whatever you want, but I KNOW we will have less food this fall than we did the year prior. Guaranteed.
BTW, even in crisis, our company is paying it forward. What are you doing?
https://www.nwestiowa.com/scnews/si...cle_bfa342ea-8670-11ea-8875-fb1a87370ce9.html
/rant off/
Eggman
Maybe the time has come in this country that factory farming, massive power grids, over seas manufacturing, and a whole host of other practices finally get the attention they've needed for many decades.
We've now witnessed an entire world economy brought to it's knees by a tiny little bug. As someone here already said..... We need to question whether or not our reaction to this bug is more harmful than the bug itself. My opinion...... It sure is, and it's becoming more ridiculous the longer we, the people, allow this to continue. This continued rhetoric about food shortages, and all the other foolish gloom and doom based on theoretical predictions needs to stop.
You said you were ****ed. You're not alone. Why don't we put that down for a minute, stop throwing around credentials, and all the other position justifying statistics, and the basic bull crap. Let's try to bring some perspective to the situation. Here's a couple of examples......
A big ole factory farm has cornered the chicken egg market. They own a million egg laying chickens. They have every aspect of that egg product nailed down to perfection. Introduce one bug into the chicken population. The product everybody depends on is gone. We've seen it happen. There's no common sense reason for this situation to ever occur.
During the Great Depression, the small family farm allowed the farmers to continue right along without a major disruption of their food supply. Eggs, no problem. We have enough extra for a couple of the neighbors too. Back then, the city folks were the ones who suffered from the food shortages.
You can name practically any other commodity, (corn, swine, wheat, cattle, etc.), that factory farming has taken over, and you can predict the same potential catastrophic situations. We've already seen it happen.
Power grids...... At the turn of the 20th Century, electricity was generated locally. If you lost power over there in Podunk City, you lost your power, but my lights never blinked. Then, we started allowing consolidation of the small local power providers, and eventually progressed into the massive power grid system that we have today in the US. The Western, Eastern, Texas, and the Quebec grids. A solar flare, or any number of other relatively innocuous situations can literally put the lights out. Sure, the power companies do pretty good most of the time, but it's coming, and they know it. Don't want you to know it though. And it's not going to come from some stupid virus in the system like the media would have you believe. It doesn't work that way. And we call it progress.
Over the past decade or so, we've witnessed an ever increasing number of co-gen plants being installed in critical facilities, and more and more localized power generation installations. Some are using natural gas, wind, solar, geothermal, or any number of other localized power generating solutions. Honestly, I believe that eventually we'll see local facility, or neighborhood, power generated by something possibly like thorium reactors, or any number of other generation schemes. Depends on technological advancements. That would make sense.
Next, we could move to discuss over seas pharmaceutical production, or rare earth materials, or any other number of other mistakes we have allowed to happen. There's not enough room here to open it up for the attention all these issues deserve.
Yes, this is a wake up call, and it goes a bit deeper than a simple little internet **** match.
