#3: Supply Chain

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by Seth Pringle6 views·Updated Oct 24, 2021
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  1. Hi, welcome to my presentation on the bacon supply chain
  2. as linked to the pork industry in the United States.
  3. My name is Seth Pringle and let's get started.
  4. So to start off, we have bacon demand.
  5. Several supply changes have arisen surrounding the pork industry as
  6. of late.
  7. According to your research article by Plan intensity.
  8. Over the past 40 years, pork supply chain has been
  9. shifting towards vertical coordination.
  10. Not vertical coordination is when producers will buy out supply
  11. suppliers businesses and therefore they cut out the middleman and
  12. decrease the prices it takes to supply.
  13. Thanks. Mhm.
  14. Some other improvements that have helped to meet demand on
  15. pork. Our technological improvements, for example, the alteration of animal
  16. genetics produce leaner hogs to to cater to a diverse
  17. group of consumers.
  18. Also, producers and marketers have induce risk sharing agreements that
  19. have to stabilize an unstable pork market.
  20. Why did demand change?
  21. Well, simply demographic has changed.
  22. In America, ethnic populations have increased faster than the average
  23. growth rate of the total population.
  24. So a variety of pork products now being produced and
  25. consumed. Mhm.
  26. So I came back to the topic of demographics.
  27. There's one race has consistently consume more pork than other
  28. racism. America and that would be african americans.
  29. Cosine is deemed as soul food And that originated by
  30. the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and 70s, African
  31. Americans consume nearly 92 Within their population density of Pork,
  32. meaning that 92% of the population consumes some variety of
  33. Pork Contrasting this with white Americans, only 79% of them
  34. airport population density, higher ethnic values may surround pork for
  35. black americans due to history of racial capitalism.
  36. The transatlantic slave trade.
  37. According to Herbert Kobe in his book, what the slaves,
  38. eight enslaved people were given 3 to £4 of pork
  39. per week supplementing with quote unquote soul food staples like
  40. corn, bread, catfish and quick greens.
  41. Today this day seemed as a movement within black and
  42. race culture within America.
  43. It may be said.
  44. This committee has higher exchange value for african americans.
  45. Within the context of higher rates of poverty, White Americans
  46. consuming 90 um have lower rates of poverty.
  47. Additionally, can close the doors and the age of exploration
  48. introduced pork to native americans.
  49. Um, Native americans figured out a poor quality, took a
  50. year's time to feed and then they would be able
  51. to feed their family throughout the winter.
  52. So eventually they started stealing pigs from settlers.
  53. There was this ability to feel one family that allowed
  54. native americans to give pork high exchange about you.
  55. Now with the supply chain in the context of COVID-19
  56. Um, Bacon set had a high record of 700 $7.09
  57. in August.
  58. That's nearly 50% increase over the past 10 years from
  59. August 2011 when it was nearly $5.
  60. Some reasons might have happened or because of the african
  61. swine fever, which has been significantly affecting chinese production In
  62. which China actually holds 50% of um Hi populations around
  63. the world.
  64. Um, They've lost nearly 40% of their swine inventory between
  65. 2019 and 2021 due to the african swine fever.
  66. According to farm Palestinians dot com, raising chinese imports has
  67. slowly increased U.
  68. S. Prices on pork in recent years.
  69. Covid 19 is off so called strife in the U.
  70. S. Pork industry.
  71. According to the denver china dot com.
  72. When schools started to lose or started to close, bacon
  73. was bought much less.
  74. This caused producers to cut back on the boat when
  75. they bought.
  76. Additionally, many major meatpackers were forced to shut down due
  77. to COVID-19 outbreaks, Farmers were then forced that then their
  78. herds to cut back on the cost demand for pork
  79. has now.
  80. Restudied supply has been struggling to get back to reach
  81. that demand.
  82. And again as immigration steadily increases the demand for pork
  83. and variety has increased as consumer preferences have also changed
  84. as the increasing diversity has entered the country in the
  85. recent years.
  86. Okay. Yeah.
  87. Also within the United States, there's been a rise of
  88. what is called environmental racism in north Carolina Pig population
  89. in North Carolina has risen threefold from three million to
  90. nine million pigs over the last 330 years and I
  91. quote from interview by the garden, that scent is so
  92. bad, you can't go outside, you can't go outside and
  93. click anything because the flies and mosquitoes takeover.
  94. The process is disproportionately affect african americans.
  95. Hispanic native americans.
  96. Yeah, Us pork industry relies on foreign labor and currently
  97. is in a labor shortage Even without COVID-19 challenges the
  98. labor shortage threatened to increase production costs and keep food
  99. prices for consumers to keep costs down.
  100. Producers rely now on Visa programs, existing visa programs are
  101. designed for seasonal agriculture and reform is needed to address
  102. the animal care and other requirements of year round livestock
  103. agriculture. The M.
  104. P. P.
  105. C. Wants to reform the H.
  106. Two A.
  107. Visa to make it easier to bring in labor of
  108. other countries to the american pork industry.
  109. Do you have C.
  110. W. Commended a new effort by the National pork Producers
  111. Council to exploit the coronavirus outbreak to cut jobs for
  112. american workers through a needless expansion of the U.
  113. S. Guest worker program.
  114. Basically we saw this as a displacement of american workers
  115. and a fattening of corporate profits.
  116. All right, that would be all for my presentation on
  117. the bacon supply chain.
  118. Um As you can see in this presentation there are
  119. some juxtapositions too.
  120. Um Patrick roberts sends black Marxism where as the U.
  121. S. Pork industry becomes more largely depend on foreign born
  122. workers. This focus on labor reform and exploitation of minority
  123. lands or the form of liberalism and capitalism that cedric
  124. Robinson defense also implications of Marxist ideas of the free
  125. labor can be drawn specifically to this mode of production
  126. and labor reform that is being pushed for but M.
  127. P. P.
  128. C. But again, people are seeing this as a needless
  129. expansion and exploitation of the guest worker program.