CNBC: Tyson Foods chairman warns ‘food supply chain is breaking’ as coronavirus forces plant closures
* Meat processors, including Tyson, Smithfield and JBS, are closing U.S. facilities after workers test positive for Covid-19.
* “The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods Chairman John Tyson wrote in a full-page newspaper ad that ran on Sunday.
* More than a dozen packing and food processing workers have died after contracting Covid-19, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Tyson Foods expects that millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the food supply as the company temporarily shutters beef, pork and chicken plants due to local coronavirus outbreaks.
Meat processors, including Tyson, Smithfield and JBS, are closing U.S. facilities after workers test positive for Covid-19. Meatpacking workers often work shoulder to shoulder for hours at a time, increasing their risk of exposure to the virus.
Tyson placed a full-page ad in The New York Times, Washington Post and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Sunday addressing the plant closures.
“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Chairman John Tyson wrote.
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Local mom & pop meat packer won't close. It is a small operation that just automated. They butcher non-standard animals. That is their supply chain won't break. So we're good here in fly over country. The people on the coasts will starve.
ReplyDeleteVegans, Elderly and African Americans are at risk for COVID. They more often have zinc deficiencies.
ReplyDeleteWhen a person takes a regime of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in a properly prescribe d dosage given by a doctor, they should be taking zinc supplements, too.
Using Hydroxychloroquine without zinc is like Michael Jordan doing a layup with a basket ball.
Having a zinc deficiency (20% of the planet) and but no HCQ, is like having a basket ball sitting next to the court side line and no player to dribble and dunk it into the hoop.
Eat more beans and potatoes.
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