NOT GOOD: Tyson Foods chairman warns that ‘the food supply chain is breaking’: In recent weeks, the poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country.

This needs immediate attention, but it also calls into question the wisdom of having a relatively small number of huge processing plants staffed by cheap, often illegal, immigrant labor.

UPDATE: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has a deregulation plan that would let farmers bypass a lot of middlemen to reach consumers more directly.