U.S. Food Crisis: Pandemic and Winter Storms join forces

Incomplete list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of February, 2021:

Winter storms result in truck stops across the U.S. shutting down their restaurants

Mid-West farms have lost most of their fertile soil (completely gone for one third of farms)!

Pandemic restaurant shutdowns create market for used restaurant equipment

Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings continues to grow, as farmers are facing both changes in consumer demands, fluctuating commodity prices, and now, the struggles of life amidst the pandemic.

ARIZONA: Silent video, by Staff Sergeant Dillon Davis, of Arizona National Guard operated drive through food pantry on 19FEB2021:

CALIFORNIA: Longtime food stop on I-80 between San Francisco and Sacramento SHUTS DOWN

Retailer caught importing 48.4 tons of illegal beef tallow from China

Restaurant violations and shutdowns in San Bernardino County

CONNECTICUT:

Connecticut Air National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Steven Tucker.

Connecticut National Guard delivers food for drive though operation at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, 04FEB2021.  Since April 2020, more than 8-million pounds of food has been distributed to the public!

GEORGIA: 17-thousand chickens die in a Forsyth County farm fire

HAWAII:

U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Anthony Nelson.

On 09FEB2021, more than 30 U.S. Air Force Airmen came together and packaged 73-thousands-5-hundred pounds of food with the Hawaiian Foodbank.

ILLINOIS: Thousands of Pandemic food cards being issued to children

IOWA: Restaurant shutdowns continue

MISSISSIPPI:  Ranchers forced to buy food for their cows after winter storm ruins fields of grass

NEW YORK:  Animals killed in fire at Baldwinsville farm, non-profit organization for at-risk kids

New York Farm Bureau wants citizenship for farm workers who came to the country illegally

List of restaurant shutdowns in New York City

OREGON: With so many illegal drugs now legal in Oregon you’d think the food industry would be booming with druggies suffering the munchies, yet, alarming number of restaurant shutdowns reported in the central part of the state

TEXAS: 

Photo by Captain Nadine Wiley De Moura.

Texas Army National Guard delivers food and water in response to winter storm, 20FEB2021, near Camp Wood. 

Families in 66 counties will get automatic SNAP replacements for food damaged during winter storm

WASHINGTON:  Sergeant Alec Dionne’s Washington National Guard food report, 01FEB2021:

Washington DC:  Trump increased funding to farmers

WISCONSIN:  As 5-hundred local farms disappear, a Fremont family battles to keep theirs running amid declining sales

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