Having Bear Steaks on the grill, tonight.
Posted on 12/18/2020 8:44:11 PM PST by blam
Meat packers across North America are bracing for a resurgence of coronavirus cases, trying to avoid the shutdowns that left supermarket shelves empty earlier in the pandemic.
Cargill Inc. has temporarily idled one of its beef plants in Canada after some employees tested positive, and will keep the plant shut at least through next week. JBS, the world’s top meat producer, sent thousands of vulnerable U.S. workers home on paid leave, while Sanderson Farms Inc. said it’s now facing higher absenteeism at its plants than earlier in the pandemic.
Producers of everything from beef to chicken are looking to prevent the sort of disruption that shut several plants during the spring, curbing meat supplies when consumers were stocking up their fridges. Executives now say companies are better prepared, having spent millions of dollars to reconfigure factories, implement social distancing and distribute the protective equipment workers need to stay safe while keeping the food supply chain running. A labor union executive warns that efforts to keep plants running comes at a cost, with extra hours taking a physical toll on workers.
“I don’t expect to see the same issues,” Jon Nash, head of protein for Cargill in North America, said in an interview. “Generally speaking, our industry is better prepared to handle the challenges. We know what we are dealing with.”
“We know a lot more than we ever did and I think our food supply chain is resilient to the point we will be O.K,” he said.
Closely-held Cargill, the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader, said Thursday it was temporarily shutting down its beef processing plant in Ontario due to “an abundance of caution as our local workforce deals with the community-wide impacts of Covid-19.” It hasn’t yet decided when it will reopen.
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Maybe we should start using the plant-based meats that just happen to be owned by the billionaires and globalists.
What does John Thune (S.D., Cargill-ADM) have to say?
And, at this time, I am about feeling “Screw ‘em.”
I wonder if any Chinese have been newly hired; I think China has a long term plan to continue an assault on the U.S. that may extend to Canada.
Maybe someone should manufacture a vaccine.
Aren’t they mainly Somalis and Mexicans?
All those false-positives sure come in handy when you have to keep the scam up!
I am getting the meat sweats just thinking about it.
I’m sure the bugburger plants are immune.
Prepper ping
That’s going to end well.
Just like transfats were supposed to be so good for us because butter was bad, dontcha know?
Babylon the Great quarantine lockdown. Forced Vaccination propaganda.
There is no pandemic.
During the March...Madness, a package of 80/20 hamburger jumped 66% overnight at a local WalMart.
I’ll have to take a look at the current price next time I’m in the meat section.
There’s a chain of supermarkets called Hannaford’s.
They have round roasts on sale next weel for $1.99/lb, save over $2/lb.
Guess who’s got freezer space and a pressure canner?
Agenda 21
Why aren’t your freezerS and cabinets full already? ... said the ants to the grasshopper s.
Just bring in a new batch of wetbacks every 14 days.
(do they ever test them for all the other likely diseases they may be carrying)
Having Bear Steaks on the grill, tonight.
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