More meat woes...
The recent Tyson plant closures mean that about 18% of hog-slaughtering capacity is completely offline. Glendinning says the supply chain has been “dramatically interrupted.”
“If you look at USDA public data, you will see that pork and beef production across the industry is down 20% to 30%. That’s 20% to 30% less meat arriving at your table. That creates a very significant problem for farmers, as well,” he said. “Remember, these folks are growing animals that are going to be ending up on your table, and they have no place to go.”.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tyson-foods-cfo-on-potential-meat-shortage-dont-panic-185758662.html
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USDA Inspector Reported to Die Amid Meat-Plant Viral Outbreaks
Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany, Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) — An inspector from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has died after apparently contracting Covid-19, according to information the federal agency provided Thursday during a phone call with consumer groups.
The USDA didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Two participants on the call corroborated that the death was disclosed on the call.
“If USDA had acted more quickly to ensure worker safety, they could have prevented the disease from spreading across the meat industry as it has,” says Sarah Sorscher of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who was on the call. “Instead, we have massive shutdowns and worker deaths. All that delay and lack of action is going to make it much harder to bring these outbreaks under control.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/usda-inspector-reported-to-die-amid-meat-plant-viral-outbreaks-1.1426096
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TYSON FOODS CLOSES THIRD PLANT THIS WEEK AFTER WORKERS TEST POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
BY MEGHAN ROOS ON 4/23/20 AT 1:19 PM EDT
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A Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Pasco, Washington is the latest Tyson Foods meat processing facility to close after employees tested positive for COVID-19. It joins the company’s largest plant in Waterloo, Iowa and another in Logansport, Indiana in closing despite the company’s stated attempts to implement social distancing measures at the facilities.
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“How We’ll Live With Coronavirus - Millions of years of learned human behavior, not Trump’s tweets, are about to overwhelm the state lockdowns.”
- see https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-well-live-with-coronavirus-11587595308?mod=opinion_lead_pos10
Recovered coronavirus patients in China test positive weeks later
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
April 22, 2020 | 12:39pm | Updated
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Doctors in Wuhan, where the outbreak emerged in December, say the patients all tested negative for COVID-19 at some point during their recovery — but then began testing positive again without showing symptoms as much as 70 days after being cleared.
Chinese officials have not released numbers on how many coronavirus patients are part of the phenomenon, but data from Chinese hospitals obtained by Reuters and other media outlets suggest there are at least dozens.
So far, there have been no confirmations of newly positive patients infecting others, according to
Chinese health officials.....
In South Korea, about 1,000 people have reportedly tested positive for four weeks or more, while officials in Italy found that patients could test positive for over a month.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/22/recovered-coronavirus-patients-in-china-test-positive-weeks-later/
“If you look at USDA public data, you will see that pork and beef production across the industry is down 20% to 30%. That’s 20% to 30% less meat arriving at your table.”
Perhaps for the FluBros, but for most of us out here, we’ll coast through this (temporary) shortage without missing a beat.
Could the virus be spreading by the meat itself?
They now say that pigs are among the animals that can catch this virus.
I’m tellin’ ya, the reason these meat processing plants are all getting infected is PETA deliberately infecting workers. Viral terrorism by the animal rights mafia.