Posted on 05/07/2020 8:45:16 AM PDT by blam
United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday said at the White House that meatpacking plants would return to full capacity in a week to ten days.
“I’d say probably a week to 10 days where it’s fully back up,” Perdue said.
Reynolds and Perdue commented during a visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval office as fears of a meat shortage continue. Processing plants struggled to keep going amid coronavirus breakouts.
“I think we’ve turned the corner,” Perdue said. “We see these plants coming back online. Obviously, because of some infected employees, they won’t be full force for a while, but we think the stores will be — you’ll see more variety and more meat cases fully supplied.”
Reynolds thanked President Trump for acting quickly to use the Defense Production Act to declare the plants essential infrastructure. She said that Trump’s action prevented meat producers from euthanizing their stock that could not be sold.
“This is critical infrastructure. It’s an essential workforce,” she said. “And the team and the effort and the executive order, I think, has really maybe prevented what could have been a really serious situation.” The president said he would ask the Justice Department to look into whether meat providers were boosting prices to benefit financially from meat shortages while some meat producers could not even sell their animals.
“I’ll ask the Justice Department to look into it. Okay?” Trump said. “I will ask them to take a very serious look into it, because it shouldn’t be happening that way. And we want to protect our farmers.”
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence said that resources would be surged to the plants to help protect the workers and put critical infrastructure in place.
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Speaking 40 langues???? None. Where is ICE?
Bacon prices up, supply low, lunch meats were more plentiful but FULL prices. No sales even for Mother’s day, except wine and beer. Not even flowers. Can’t eat out, restaurants are full with 10 people, can’t sit together.
Most of the hamburger was the CHUB packs, lowest, bad tasting crap. NO COUNTRY OF ORIGIN EITHER.
Diapers rationed to 2 packages. NO TP OR PAPER TOWELS, a few boxes of facial tissues.
If you need BOOTY wipes better grab what you can. Took me 4 weeks via Prime to get the smallest package, I have GI Diseases and need them. Maybe DIL will get off her Butt and Potty train granddaughter who is 30 months old. Should have done it 6 months or more ago. My boys were by 18 months.
Wendy’s says WHERE’S THE BEEF!
I’d rather be put to good use than euthanized and scrapped.
(Of course, the critters don’t think that way, but I’m just saying...)
I actually nabbed Great Value Ex. Strong TP @ Wally World a couple days ago. Supplies were low, 2 pm. Haven’t seen it at all for at least 5 weeks. The only other option was a few 4-packs of their cheapest house brand. (WARNING, Will Robinson!)
Slightly OT: yesterday at Aldi, regular canned vegetables and dried beans were limit of 4 of each type. I was going to stock up, instead of planting a garden. I still will stock up, at a different store or a little later. I’m no prepper, but I watched “The Coming Convergence”, the other day, and they explained that if the super volcano that was discovered in the middle of the ocean blows, it will kill at least one third of the fish and sea animals in the world (Sounds familiar, from Book of Revelation), and that if Yellowstone blows, the moon will look dark blood red, the stars will not be able to be seen, and the sun will be seen as through a haze, like sackcloth -— ditto, Revelation). All of which will make growing food, at least outdoors, impossible. I believe the Book of Revelation, and though, of course, I don’t know when its prophecies will come true, I know they will. And BTW, when Jesus said “wars and rumors of wars”, Bible scholars say this means world wars and wars in multiple areas of the world, at once.
Aliens will take you to their planet and you will be on the menu....
Why do you feel the need to sh!t on any good news?
And that’s funny? ...Why?
The idea that meatpacking plants will be back to 100% in 7 to 10 days is ridiculous. Earlier this week the CDC had said there are 119 meatpacking plants in 19 states with Covid among their staff. Those have been closed down. You can order them reopened, require the workforce back to the job, replace the dead ones, and all the rest. But until their money runs out and they're faced with eviction or starvation then a certain percentage of the workforce won't show up. That will delay returning to full production. And they'll be faced with a constant percentage of their workforce coming down with Covid and needing to be replaced. All of that is going to take longer than 7 to 10 days so it'll be a while before they're back to 100%. On the plus side there's no evidence that Covid can be transmitted through the food chain so there's that.
| BS tends to tickle my funny bone.
Yep. It’s a misstatement or fake quote. Iowa Gov. Reynolds was in on this and the goal is to get the plants on line with the understanding that they will operate at sharply reduced capacity, possibly for a long time.
The overall meat processing facilities were already too few before the CV stuff.
There has been record high numbers of pigs being raised in recent months.
A lot of processing facilities have company owned housing (high density) for their immigrant workers. I suspect the infections are from shared housing, at least a significant percent.
I believe they said it on camera so it's hard to fake that.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds was in on this and the goal is to get the plants on line with the understanding that they will operate at sharply reduced capacity, possibly for a long time.
I don't see the output being sharply reduced since there is no requirement to change their work lines or working conditions. The only limiting factor is workforce, and both Iowa and my own state of Missouri have made it clear that meatpackers can either work or starve. If they don't go back to their jobs then they don't get unemployment. So any holdouts will be forced to go back when their money runs out.
There are indeed many added workplace restrictions, at least in Iowa.
The end of this short article describes some of the steps:
If Yellowstone blows, none of us will survive. It's just that simple.
Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)
" The evidence from the Toba eruption indicates that the world's population of Modern Man was reduced to a total of around 10,000 adults."
Just tell yourself you can’t Die until all the Bacon is gone. It will give you a reason to Live.
They had an episode of “Last Man on Earth” where a couple of Survivors found a Freezer full of Bacon and didn’t tell the rest of the group. They ate most of it before they were caught.
Not really. Here are the CDC Recommendations for meat and poultry plants. Almost none of it is required. The work environments should be configured so that workers are spaced at least six feet apart "if possible". Use physical barriers like curtains or plexiglass between workers "if feasible". Plants "should consider" ensuring adequate ventilation for workers. Other steps to limit employee congregating around things like timeclocks or break rooms "should be considered" or done "if possible".
I don't know if you've ever seen a meat processing plant but the worklines are elbow to elbow, facing another employee across the processing line. That isn't going to change unless they are required to do so because doing so would make plants less efficient and less profitable. And they aren't required to do so.
“I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a meat processing plant but the worklines are elbow to elbow, facing another employee across the processing line. That isn’t going to change unless they are required to do so because doing so would make plants less efficient and less profitable. And they aren’t required to do so.”
Been awhile since I have been in a big plant but you are correct on the setup. They could set them up with lots of spacing etc. but that would be much less efficient, that may be coming, more expensive, but not impossible to do, would add some cost to meat not sure it would be prohibitive expense/cost to retail. That steer is an individual thing not standard like a bolt, screw or car fender so it takes a human not a machine (at least right now) to cut process efficiently.
Perdue said meat packing plants would be back to 100% in less than two weeks. Getting back to 100% in any time frame is impossible if the production lines are changed.
“Aliens will take you to their planet and you will be on the menu....”
To serve man....IT’S A COOK BOOK!
one of my favorite twilight zone episodes. Rod RIP sir your work was genius.
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