Posted on 04/27/2020 6:23:03 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
New York (CNN Business)Tyson Foods (TSN) is warning that "millions of pounds of meat" will disappear from the supply chain as the coronavirus pandemic pushes food processing plants to close, leading to product shortages in grocery stores across the country. "The food supply chain is breaking," wrote board chairman John Tyson in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, Washington Post and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
US farmers don't have anywhere to sell their livestock, he said, adding that "millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities." "There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," Tyson wrote.
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The plant closure near me is actually kind of depressing.
For weeks after the rest of the country, and then we, shutdown it was open as usual. The chicken trucks passed my house all week long headed there. There haven’t been any of those for over a week now.
You are wrong about what President has or has not said about the oil industry. He has commented on the oil industry many times....I have heard him first hand by way of cspan.
“The plant near me WAS open and doing business, until the virus got in there. Now that’s closed too. There are a LOT of chicken houses in my county, not sure what they’ll do now. Those are on a ‘schedule’.”
I have been thru a part of Tx that has a large amount of poultry production. Went by one set of houses several days ago and the truck with cages to haul them away was parked out front, it was still there about 4 days later, I thought that was odd as they usually load and go. I now wonder if plant closure had something to do with it.
I commented also - and vote for major league Demonrat trolls.
Those chicken trucks passing my house have been a fact of life since we moved here. When my kiddos were little they’d see t hem pass and hear the chickens ‘talking’. We’d tell them the chickens were ‘going to a new home’.
Sadly they won’t be going to a new home for a little while. They’re usually ‘contract’ chickens for one of the big poultry names.
Fishing rod is ready to mitigate the coming high prices for protein. I’m not a hunter, may need to rethink that.
If the food supply chain becomes a national security issue you bet your sweet bippy Trump can do something about it. Faster than you can say drumsticks. Just watch.
I have looked and they are there. I've watched a few of them just for fun (way before this pandemic ever started).
Here is one on how to butcher a cow. There are thousands more out there along the same lines.
I used YouTube all the time now to cook. Just over the weekend, I pan-fried top sirloin steaks and finished them in the oven with my cast iron pan. Very easy to follow instructions on the YouTube.
Now for those would-be home butchers, you might need to upgrade your knife set. The ones sitting in the butcher block on the counter top probably won't cut it!
I stopped buying Tyson Foods after it was found out they were money laundering for Bill Clinton. They can close and go under for all I care.
Wonder how Purdue Farms is doing?
ok, so maybe they close for thorough cleaning and put employee testing protocols n place then open up what ever portion of plant they can. This isn’t rocket science! these plant managers seem unable to do their jobs.
“Grocery stores have LOTS of people, within pretty close distance to one another....either while unloading boxes, stocking shelves, cashiering, etc.”
Couple of theories:
1) Production line food workers are very close to each other, for extended periods, indoors (ideal conditions for spread) - and they likely stand next to different people each day, so a hot person could infect many. I know, I’ve been one (for a week, until my wrists were worn out). For grocery workers, not quite as much of that really risky contact.
2) Most of the workers are illegals (or at least that’s been the case). Given that illegals often live in tight quarters, that could also be a factor.
The number you posted only represent a fraction of Tyson’s business.
Tyson contracts with many other trucking firms to broker loads. Many more loads are moved by contractors than are moved by Tyson company drivers.
My close friend is a contract driver/ owner operator for them.
And to everyone else who thinks Tyson is conspiring by closing plants, that is obscene. My friend calls me every couple of days telling me about what is going on. They simply had workers get sick and they responded.
My friend is contracted through KLB out of Arkansas.
Heard about this coming from theBlaze and stocked up in the carnivorous department this weekend.
then the ranchers are stupid - they should find other ways to seel off the animals, plenty of other butchers, small processing services. people are still buying meat. ranchers are just selfish greedy if they are doing what you say - they will pay a bigger price if killing their stock needlessly.
Unless people are starving, that is not going to happen.
Most people are too squeamish these days to ever butcher an animal and eat it. Even a chicken
Plus, it is actually hard work. It takes physical strength.
John Tyson seems ecstatic about it.
He has ALWAYS done that, even before he was elected.
He is not allowed to blow of steam here and there?
The left wants us to be divided, that is how they win, they know this, and unfortunately, our side doesn’t.
They want to point and say Trump is losing support among his core base. They want this, they want this more then anything right now. They already proved they are willing to kill people to accomplish this. Looks at Cuomo, he is Governor Death for what he did to his own people. Housing Covid 19 patients in nursing homes? Seriously?
Trump is real, we get his real thoughts, we don’t get scripted teleprompter dime a dozen rhetoric that we have been fed for the past 30 years. Clinton, Bush, Obama all fed us what their speech writers thought, not what they actually thought.
Please don’t take what I say as gospel about it.
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