The board chairman of Tyson Foods is warning that "millions of pounds of meat will disappear" from the national food supply chain as the coronavirus outbreak forces food processing plants to shutter.
"The food supply chain is breaking," John Tyson wrote in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
"There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," he wrote in the advertisement, which was also published as a blog post on the company's website.
In recent weeks, the major poultry producer has temporarily suspended operations at plants across the country. The company halted operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is crucial to the nation's pork supply.
“The food supply chain is breaking,” Tyson Foods warns in a full page ad in NYT today pic.twitter.com/5cyusH6L9V— Ana Swanson (@AnaSwanson) April 26, 2020
"In addition to meat shortages, this is a serious food waste issue. Farmers across the nation simply will not have anywhere to sell their livestock to be processed, when they could have fed the nation," John Tyson wrote.
This is what happens when sick workers go to work. Whether they just don't take things seriously or have to for financial reasons or to prevent being laid off.
ReplyDeleteAnd $600 extra a week will keep them from returning
DeleteOr when a corporation is looking for a bailout
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DeleteNO 11:35 this is what happens when low wage people can make twice their normal income from being out of work because of a claim of (or from being afraid of catching) "the virus" ha ha.
ReplyDeleteJust because people are in lower pay jobs does
not make them stupid.
The stupid ones are the pols that didn't see this coming.
The Dems are surly evil but you can't say they're dumb, they planned this.
Trump should have never let this happen. It sounded good on the surface but this is what we get from it.
When 95% of your work force can't afford to take a day off this is what you get. These local chicken companies are using cheap uneducated foreign workers on their lines and continue to make enormous profits. They put us all at risk
ReplyDeleteAll points above are important since we are watching a massive reset to Capitalism as we used to know it.
ReplyDeleteThe greed of big business is showing its ugly eyes and it effects all of us regardless where we are on the "food chain".
Sad indeed.
This is what is going to cause the riots and social unrest! When families don't have access to food and the kids are hungry - the riots start. Our government should be doing all they can to make sure access to food is available and it does not necessary have to be animal meat products.
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DeleteGreat.. just wait for the run on meat... will make the toilet paper shortage look like a walk in the park..
ReplyDeleteNot gonna be any $$$ to buy any either !!! Govt taking way toooo Long !!
ReplyDeleteBank accts are Breaking !!! No $$ from incompetant Govt !!!!
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