It’s not rocket science. Moving 60k pigs from Tennessee or a mountain of potatoes in Idaho to wherever the masses of hungry people are takes so many tricks/trains etc. It’s just mass/volume and distance/fuel type arithmetic problems. Moral arithmetic is blind to logistics
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Sorry to be the gadfly but distribution is a political question. We could deploy the national guard to handle distribution. A military organization is a logistics institution. We are choosing a political (moral) path. We are single tracking the trolley problem.
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Sure we could. My point is most people don’t even seem to realize that it *is* a problem at all. You can’t have opinions on how to solve a problem you don’t even recognize as existing.
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Some good news on that front I think?https://twitter.com/nlpnyc/status/1254814458268069889?s=21 …
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Err if people don’t understand it maybe that’s because the system is stupid/counterintuitive? Rather than complain about people not getting stuff maybe it’s more productive to ask why they don’t?

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He said “it’s interesting”, not “he hates these idiots”. And it’s not about “counterintuitive”. It’s not like The Right Answer requires a subtle trick or insight. If anyone with two brain cells simply thought about the actual problem, they’d realize it’s not so simple.
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In general I agree, but if the food suddenly needs to be destroyed *due to COVID*, surely that implies a supply chain already exists that would get it to within reach of consumers?
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the current biggest problem is that restaurant consumption of food products has massively decreased, while demand for regular groceries from the public has skyrocketed - yes, there is/was a functional supply line to restaurants, but without the same volume, supplies are piling up
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I'm hoping that more people start to understand logistics and supply chains as a result of our current TP shortage. And maybe how operating businesses at very low margins reduces resilience.
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