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2020-04-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain
Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Smithfield Foods on Wednesday closed two more plants in Missouri and Wisconsin

  • Plant in South Dakota closed after becoming the biggest single source of infection in the United States

  • CEO warns that packing plants are a 'bottleneck' in the US food supply chain

  • Closures threaten to raise the price of pork or cause temporary shortages

  • Smithfield was purchased by Chinese meat packing giant WH Group in 2013

  • FDA says there is no evidence of virus transmission through food or packaging
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-16 11:02|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ]  Top

#1 Did we just had a article the other day on this in which the South Dakota plant is reopening?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-16 13:59||   2020-04-16 13:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Chinese owned? Interesting...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-04-16 15:16||   2020-04-16 15:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Yesterday, Procopius2k. The operative sentence:

In fact, the plant will reopen in a matter of days.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-16 16:27||   2020-04-16 16:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Good thing there's no pork production plants in Michigan!
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-16 17:40||   2020-04-16 17:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Other than Lansing.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-16 18:29||   2020-04-16 18:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ^Late Snark O' The Day entry!
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-16 18:31||   2020-04-16 18:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Other than Lansing.

That's a meaty one!
Posted by SteveS 2020-04-16 19:25||   2020-04-16 19:25|| Front Page Top

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