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Meanwhile: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-dest... > In W
by nicwolff 7y ago
Meanwhile:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-dest...
> In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil.
which brings to mind John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath:
> The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.