Republican Kentucky Rep Thomas Massie warned just days ago that struggling farmers faced with economic Armageddon could soon be forced to start euthanizing their livestock even though the US is facing potential food shortages.
It's already happening.
As restaurants, bars remain closed in several states Meat Purveyors CEO, Pat LaFrieda, tells 'Fox & Friends' the supply system is not broken and there is plenty of meat available.
Allen Harim Foods, a Delaware-based chicken company, is reportedly being forced to kill up to 2 million chickens before they can be slaughtered and packaged for consumers.
In a letter received by the company’s livestock growers, Allen Harim said the chickens were being “depopulated” due to coronavirus-related staffing shortages at its processing plant, which is making it impossible to “harvest the amount of birds” they were previously able to handle.
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Not because they have the virus they want to quit or be laid off so they can get full pay plus $600 a week. So workers are just no showing up for work. They are getting paid a premium rate plus hazardous pay.
ReplyDeleteIs this also owned by China?
ReplyDeleteBottom line...it is human nature to take advantage of a good thing. There is a street gutter slang for people who come into instant money, but it is a short lived experience and in the end those who "pilfer" end up as bad off as before. These are people who shirked responsibility at young ages and never took the world seriously. Trust me, they are reaping what they sowed and they will revert to from whence they came.
ReplyDeleteThe seagulls at the landfill will be fat and happy.
ReplyDeleteIt was the same group that extended unemployment for almost 2 years back during the O'bama administration. Why go back to work if you can sit home and get paid more money doing that that working.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is more than just Allan. The other large chicken companies are doing the exact same thing. Chicken catchers are refusing to catch, and the people who work in the plants are refusing to show up. They're not sick, they're collecting unemployment. They're destroying the chain for a bit more cash. They should never get their jobs back- I hope they get blacklisted by the entire industry.
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