Another from The Slimes

[Jolly]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/politics/schools-labor-supply-shortages.html

From a contact within the industry, I knew the food problem was coming. From years of screwing up school lunch programs, we need to do a few things:

1. Cut out the pre-prepared crap. Go back to cooking most of your own food, from scratch.
2. Cut down on choices. Fix one lunch or breakfast. Period.
3. Shit-can some of the Do-gooders menu choices. Fix foods kids will eat. I'm not saying we should go to unbalanced diets, but when things are scarce, some food is better than no food.The
4. Buy local, if possible. If farmers know they have a market, they will truck farm.
5. Get politics out of the process. The county (parish) in which I reside had a great prison truck farm. It raised enough fresh veggies for the inmates and overages went to the food bank. A business owner that funded the new sheriff's election campaign, took over the contract for the three prison and jail kitchens, shutting down the truck farm. Food costs which were supposed to go down, have gone up. Inmates are complaining about pre-fab food, and less quantity.

[Mik]

We had a prosperous prison farm in my county as well. Now they have the land but very little is done with it.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Another from The Slimes:

Buy local, if possible. If farmers know they have a market, they will truck farm.

That should just be a universal aspiration anyway. Aside from lefty feelgood nonsense, it's better nutritionally and places less dependence on the supply chain.

[Jolly]

About the supply chain... One of the reasons shelves were bare of canned goods during the early pandemic stages, was too many institutional 1 gallon cans and not enough small consumer cans processed at the canneries.

In the current shortage, things are flipped. The wholesalers tried to guess at what they needed the canneries to do and guessed wrong. And we didn't have enough to do a surplus of both