animal, it takes equipment, it takes a regulated process for that product to get into commerce. It's heavily regulated by the Food Safety Inspection Service to ensure the quality and the safety of that product. And it's not as though you could donate a bunch of pigs to a food bank and let them harvest them themselves. It's just not something that can be done. These are super expensive facilities. I've seen these processing facilities, but in the case of these farms that, for example, have turned over lettuce, why have they done that if they don't need to send it to a third party facility? Well, again, some of that is their established channels for commerce have been disrupted. And so maybe they had contracts with restaurants or other food service companies that their demand has gone down significantly because we all know that in most parts of the country we're social distancing and you can only do restaurants through takeout, curbside, that delivery, those types of things. And then big (24/41)
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