WASHINGTON/CHICAGO: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (Apr 28) ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the ...
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk workers required more protection.
The executive order, released Tuesday evening, said the closure of just one large beef-processing plant could result in 10 million fewer individual servings of beef in a day. Unions were not impressed. Some farmers said it was too late because pigs had been euthanised already instead of the pork going to market.
The senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said if action were not taken, the vast majority of processing plants could have shut down for a period of time, reducing capacity by as much as 80 per cent.The order was little consolation for farmers such as Henry Moore of Clinton, North Carolina, who in recent weeks aborted thousands of unborn piglets and euthanized newly-born because of closures of packing plants.
US meat companies slaughtered an estimated 283,000 hogs on Tuesday, down about 43 per cent from before plants began shutting because of the pandemic, according to US Department of Agriculture data. Processors slaughtered about 76,000 cattle, down about 38 per cent."When poultry plants shut down, it's for deep cleaning and to save workers' lives.
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