I'm going to throw out a few statistics here that I gathered, and if I made any mistakes, please let me know. But from what I've looked into, from what I've seen, in the United States alone, we consume over 600,000 head of cattle per week, 2.4 million hogs per week, 4.7 million turkeys per week, and 173 million chickens per week, which amounts to roughly 100 billion pounds of meat and poultry that go through roughly 800 federally inspected plants each year. Does that sound about right? Yeah, I don't have those numbers in front of me, but that does sound like you're in the right ballpark there. And that's just meat. We're not even talking about all the produce. I don't even have those numbers. So this is an enormous amount of food that's dependent on this very specific and highly integrated supply chain that relies on scientific methods, advanced technologies, and advanced processes. So what I would love to understand is where and how have we seen this process get disrupted in recent (18/41)
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