{"id":753985,"date":"2018-07-24T08:23:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=753985"},"modified":"2018-07-24T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T12:23:45","slug":"cruelty-and-suffering-in-cold-storage-2-5-billion-pounds-of-meat-piled-up-in-u-s-warehouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=753985","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty and Suffering in Cold Storage: 2.5 Billion Pounds of Meat Piled-up in U.S. Warehouses"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The USDA projects the industry will produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat this year. Cold-storage warehouses are filling up as a result. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JACOB BUNGE:<\/strong><em> &#8216;Meat is piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses, fueled by a surge in supplies and trade disputes that are eroding demand&#8230; Federal data show a record level of beef, pork, poultry and turkey being stockpiled in U.S. facilities, rising above 2.5 billion pounds, according to agricultural analysts&#8230; The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the industry will produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat this year. Cold-storage warehouses are filling up as a result. The USDA last month estimated a total 2.5 billion pounds of red meat and poultry in U.S. cold-storage facilities as of the end of May, running 8% above the prior year period \u2014 and just slightly below the record.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>U.S. consumers\u2019 appetite for meat is growing, but not fast enough to keep up with record production of hogs and chickens. That leaves the U.S. meat industry increasingly reliant on exports, but Mexico and China\u2014among the largest foreign buyers of U.S. meat\u2014have both set tariffs on U.S. pork products in response to U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and other goods. U.S. hams, chops and livers have become sharply more expensive in those markets, which is starting to slow sales, industry officials say&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/finance\/markets\/meat-piles-up-in-us-warehouses\/ar-BBKWg7B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oHGW-WyhT_M?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACOB BUNGE: &#8216;Meat is piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses, fueled by a surge in supplies and trade disputes that are eroding demand&#8230; Federal data show a record level of beef, pork, poultry and turkey being stockpiled in U.S. facilities, rising above 2.5 billion pounds, according to agricultural analysts&#8230; The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,19,25],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-753985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-health","category-welfare","tag-exploitation","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753987,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753985\/revisions\/753987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/753986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}