Smithfield Foods shuts two more facilities, including a ham plant in Missouri
“Smithfield, owned by China’s WH Group Ltd., is shuttering a plant that processes bacon and sausage in Cudahy, Wisconsin, for two weeks, according to a statement. A facility in Martin City, Missouri, near Kansas City, that processes spiral and smoked hams will also close.
The Missouri plant, which employs more than 400 people, processes pork from the Smithfield slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, that the company closed indefinitely. More than 200 employees became infected with the coronavirus at the South Dakota slaughterhouse, which produces 4% to 5% of the nation’s pork.
“Without plants like Sioux Falls running, other further processing facilities like Martin City cannot function”
NY City
Cases: 111,424
Hospitalized*: 29,741
Confirmed deaths: 6,840
Probable deaths: 4,059
Updated: April 15, 2 p.m.
Deaths in NYC Reported by New York State: 7,905 (updated April 14, 4 p.m.)
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
congress needs to pass a law that no Chinese firms can own or buy any ‘essential’ businesses - such as meatpackers, farms, hatcheries, fisheries, livestock ranches, agricultural growers, real estate, etc. If they want to buy a donut shop, fine.
China’s next step will be to try to snatch up distressed companies at firesale prices so as to control pricing and production of a foreign country. That can’t be allowed to happen.
DANG! I love ham. #WeAreAllVegetariansNow