IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but was blamed for fueling a coronavirus outbreak in the community.
Just back from the grocery store in West St. Louis County, butcher counter was closed, the packaged meats section was out of some stuff. And the canned bean aisle was looking low.
“Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds”, proud member of the GOP death cult.
Trump can bluster all he wants…but how is this a winning hand for the GOP?
Shit getting serious now my Republican Bubbas
No Ribs for the BBQ!
No Bacon!
The end of civilization as you know it
The Senate isn’t doing much so keep the pork plant open and let Castrating Queen Joni join the work force.
critical to the nation’s pork supply
Just a preaching-to-the-choir reminder that we are in this mess right now because of how we treat animals.
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While there are food and egg shortages, this is happening in Minnesota:
My ex girlfriend had a similar operation. Her operation was smaller. She had both roosters and laying hens for fertilized eggs going to a hatchery. Back in 2014 when the company she contracted to lost the supply contract to a food processor, they gassed the chickens and buried them in a deep pit somewhere. The year after that, they were also gassed and sent to a rendering plant. At the rendering plant they grind up the whole dead chicken, feathers, feet and everything.Then they cook the hell out of it for dog/cat food. Feathers are high in protein.
They can’t process the bigger laying hens at food plants because of their size. The chickens in your grocery store are killed at under 2 months of age, laying hens are usually kept until two years or so when they become less productive with laying eggs.
It would take a turkey processing plant to handle the bigger chickens. No turkey plant wants to put chickens through their plants for good reason. They are basically given away for a few cents a pound for pet food. This happens to hundreds of thousands of chickens every year in our state. Millions countrywide. A lot of chickens that could feed hungry and poor people are gassed and buried…or used in pet food.
pssst…turkey bacon. pass it on…
We could live and eat well and treat animals well. It’s possible. But I fear it will just never happen. We’ll keep on this collision course with the collapse of the food supply chain as we know it. Then what? I fear we are going to find out very soon.
You don’t even want to know what they do to male chicks at the hatchery while they are still alive.
With that, I’m going to run some errands. Later.
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While plants have added safety measures, public health experts say social distancing is virtually impossible.
As the plants are currently laid out and operated, yes.
Speaking of corporate pork…
Deregulation, ain’t it somethin’. Another tRump self-inflicted disaster in the making…with Sonny Perdue collecting a taxpayer salary and basically doing fuckall over the nation’s food safety at USDA or any protections for those workers. There are so few inspectors anyway. Even less when tRump became IMPOTUS. Pork is just the beginning. I believe this contagion in workers will be replicated and repeated all over the place, with those working with beef, poultry, fish as well as the crops we all buy at the grocery store. The entire food chain from farm to processing to market is sure to be affected. I say its a certainty with so little attention given to this issue other than to count on the companies themselves to hopefully do the right thing. That’s not at all a given especially since what BigAG got in return for supporting tRump is less oversight of their operations, and that means less protections for their workers as well. It’s one big domino effect.
After forcing so many out of the Dept. of Agriculture if they didn’t agree to move to Kansas and disbanding most of the scientific research done by the agency, its just a matter of time before incidents like this become a mainstay. Add to this story about meat factories and packers getting sick and you also have less workers in the field tilling, planting and harvesting produce due to less immigrant allowed to work here and those that do have no protections for their health if they get sick. There’s little OSHA protections for workers these days under trump. One could predict our food supply on life support as well from all this. This has all been in the undoing of government while our media has focused on tRump’s diversions and antics these last several years. Its a total mess.
Nah, it would defy the laws of physics for the GOP ever to run out of pork…
They have barrels of it.
This is what should scare people…as the farming season goes on we may see less food being planted, less food coming out of food plants, and stores empty of fresh food. Processed foods will start to have issues if they can’t get the basics, which means a real food supply problem. There are already a lot of Americans who have food issues, this is going to exacerbate it for all of us…and the US still sends food aid overseas so this will increase world hunger as well. And, it’s happening because plant owners and BigAg is being greedy instead of trying to take care of its workers, and the rest of us who depend on them.
It’s going to be highly ironic if the US has to get food aid from overseas, I don’t think we’ve ever had to do that, we’ve always helped others. US farms could easily feed all of us, if they are just given the chance to do so…but that would require a competent government that would work to make it happen, and the current one has no interest in that.
We might have to eat that corn instead of turning it into ethanol that nobody wants. (I’m sure someone will soon inform me that the corn grown for ethanol isn’t edible)