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.
Id say probably a week to 10 days where its 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 weve turned the corner, Perdue said. We see these plants coming back online. Obviously, because of some infected employees, they wont be full force for a while, but we think the stores will be youll 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 Trumps action prevented meat producers from euthanizing their stock that could not be sold.
This is critical infrastructure. Its 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.
Ill 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 shouldnt 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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