{"id":26102,"date":"2020-04-28T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26102"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:00:32","slug":"a-hand-out-not-a-hand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/28\/a-hand-out-not-a-hand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hand Out, Not A Hand Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/tyson-foods-chairman-warns-food-supply-chain-breaking-n1193256\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyson Foods chairman warns &#8216;the food supply chain is breaking&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The chairman of Tyson Foods is warning that &#8220;millions of pounds of meat will disappear&#8221; from the national food supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak forces food processing plants to shutter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The food supply chain is breaking,&#8221; John Tyson wrote in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An advertisement in the papers?  Why run an advertisement in the papers, especially the <em>New York Times<\/em> and the <em>Washington Post<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Unless it&#8217;s a call for&#8230; government action in the form of money or a special guest worker program or something.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I used to be young and cynical, but that&#8217;s back in the days when I was a foolish optimist.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/368781\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapundit<\/a>.  See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/04\/what-happens-if-we-break-the-pencil.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powerline<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\">UPDATE:<\/font> Well, they got something: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-04-28\/trump-says-he-s-issuing-order-for-tyson-s-unique-liability\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump to Order Meat Plants to Stay Open in Move Slammed by Union<\/a>.  Maybe not what they wanted.  (Link via <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/369056\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instapundit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Foods chairman warns &#8216;the food supply chain is breaking&#8217;: The chairman of Tyson Foods is warning that &#8220;millions of pounds of meat will disappear&#8221; from the national food supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak forces food processing plants to shutter. &#8220;The food supply chain is breaking,&#8221; John Tyson wrote in a full-page advertisement published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26110,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26102\/revisions\/26110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}