How do we fix the U.S. SupplyChain in the wake of COVID19?

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Robotics will certainly be in the near future for many firms. JBS bought a robotics company a couple of years ago. But i would prefer we discontinue the drive to concentrate food production into fewer hands, I prefer retuning to a more localized sourcing of our food supply.

Cancel the usda organic food regulations and allow local organic growers back in the business rather than it be dominated be corporate interests. Do away with the USDA meat inspection regulations, it's not like they are keeping anyone safe from tainted meat anyway, too many recalls to make that claim. I would trust my local non USDA inspected meat packer long before I would trust USDA inspected meat from the grocery store. I know most of the employees, and I trust them.

 

And that could very well turn out to be the case in select instances but as it stands right now no such higher court decision has declared any of these shutdown ordinances unconstitutional. There will undoubtedly be no shortage of lawsuits challenging this very question however my guess is most will never be heard and the ones that do will have a quite limited score.

Because for a couple hundred years now state federal governments have held through legislation the power to maintain public health and safety. And while a few challenges here and there have prompted courts to hold government to a very specific scope in enforcement nonesuch have resulted in a blanket ruling that would allow anyone today to point to precedent and say stay at home ordinances are unconstitutional. The case law thus far just doesn't support that. Granted this is our first major pandemic in basically 100 years and things may change but until they do labeling these ordinances as unconstitutional is an opinion which does not excuse one from following them nor does it shield them from penalty.

 

Thus the 50 plus lawsuits mostly against democrat governors. So far judges have decided in favor of the constitution.

 

Would you mind posting a handful of those 50, I'm not aware of anything fitting the description I was commenting on.

 

Why would anyone with a brain give any credence to anything said by Rachael Madcow?

Free Markets/Free Choice: As Food Supply Chain Breaks Down, Farm-To-Door CSAs Take Off.

Images of some American farmers dumping milk, plowing under crops and tossing perishables amid sagging demand and falling prices during the deadly coronavirus pandemic has made for dramatic TV.

But it’s not the whole story.

“We had a reporter call here and say, ‘We want to see some produce rotting in the field and milk going down the drains,’ ” said Judith Redmond, a longtime farmer in California’s Capay Valley, northwest of Sacramento. “And I said, ‘Well, actually, that’s not what’s happening in the Capay Valley.’ ”​

Redmond, a founding partner of the 450-acre, organic Full Belly Farm, is busier than ever trying to ramp up production to meet soaring demand.

Locally sourced food has been something of a higher-priced luxury, but for now it might be an higher-priced necessity.