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Did you know that 1/3 of US beef and pork production is slaughtered in the US, the carcasses cut in half lengthwise, frozen, and shipped to China where it gets thawed, processed into cuts, refrozen, and shipped back to the USA for domestic consumption?
The US lumber industry is similar. The logs are loaded onto ships and sent to lumber mills in China where they are sawed into dimensional lumber and chemically treated before being shipped back to the USA for domestic consumption.
The USA does not have have the processing or storage capacity onshore to deal with the sudden halt in the flow of these products. There is already a massive lock up in the supply chain.
These massive hog factories and cattle feed lots are likely already killing massive numbers of animals and bulldozing them into large pits.
The JIT globalized system has some serious issues.
