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2020-05-12 Economy
US processing plants quadruple pork exports to China despite COVID-19 slowing down production by up to 40% and warnings of meat supply shortages for Americans
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Meat exports to China have quadrupled despite companies in the US warning of supply shortages for American consumers amid the coronavirus pandemic

  • President Donald Trump last month ordered meat processing plants across the US to remain open to protect the nation's food supply

  • An analysis of government data, however, has shown the plants have increasingly been exporting to China while Americans face shortages

  • Smithfield Foods, owned by China's WH Group Ltd, Brazilian-owned JBS USA and Tyson Foods Inc temporarily closed meat plants in the US due to infections

  • Closures and slowdown in production have reduced pork slaughter capacity by about 35 to 40 percent and beef slaughter capacity by about 30 to 40 percent

  • While the number of pigs slaughtered each day has plunged since mid-March, shipments of pork to China more than quadrupled over the same period
We objected when China confiscated American PPE factories over there, keeping the production for themselves...
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
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#1 Words fail.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 00:58||   2020-05-12 00:58|| Front Page Top

#2 President Donald Trump last month ordered meat processing plants across the US to remain open to protect the nation's food supply

I guess the greedy b@stards can always claim he never specified which nation.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-12 01:02||   2020-05-12 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Master demands his dinner.
Posted by Phusotle Dingle5823 2020-05-12 01:22||   2020-05-12 01:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, on the positive side, at least now we can expect some public outrage over working conditions in these places.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-12 01:52||   2020-05-12 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 For the first time, Mr. Wife yesterday said our local Kroger grocery — here in Cincinnati, where Kroger is headquartered — lacked frozen chicken breast strips and cubes. But he brought home the six pounds of ground beef I requested for making chili, a variety of frozen meals, and said there was no shortage of cold cuts. But unlike China, pork is not a key ingredient in my house.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-12 02:15||   2020-05-12 02:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Forced divestiture time for all Chinese holdings.
Posted by Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-05-12 07:00||   2020-05-12 07:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Very collectible these days.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-12 07:04||   2020-05-12 07:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Well since Smithfield is owned outright by the CCP, how is this surprising?
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-12 08:27||   2020-05-12 08:27|| Front Page Top

#9 It's nothing a few export controls couldn't fix.
Posted by Raj 2020-05-12 09:14||   2020-05-12 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Smithfield. Thank Obama.

*that the Cincinnati Chili TW?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-12 11:13||   2020-05-12 11:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Had no trouble getting boneless skinless chicken breasts last week. Cut down 3 lbs into mini cutlets and grilled, made Italian pulled chicken with the other 3 lb.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 11:34||   2020-05-12 11:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Italian pulled chicken

For a second there I thought that was a reference to Fredo Cuomo's self-isolating pastime
Posted by Lex 2020-05-12 11:36||   2020-05-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Ow!
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 11:43||   2020-05-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Whoa Lex, could feel the seams zip with that chin music.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-12 12:17||   2020-05-12 12:17|| Front Page Top

#15  that the Cincinnati Chili TW?

No — Cincinnati chili is readily available all over town, swksvolFF. I do have a recipe, in case we should move away again, but these days I make a tarted up version of my darling mother-in-law’s chili con carne. I posted the recipe in the O Club, in case you want to compare notes. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-12 13:40||   2020-05-12 13:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Love to see it. Never had the Cincinnati, so a bit curious.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-12 13:43||   2020-05-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#17 My Mother made spaghetti with chili, cheese, and onion for us back in the 50's and 60's. We didn't know it was Cincinnati Chili. Sh was from Oklahoma.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-05-12 14:42||   2020-05-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#18 I'll eat any kind of chili, but Texas chili - meat, onions, peppers, nothing else is my fave
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-12 16:24||   2020-05-12 16:24|| Front Page Top

#19 I am told by reliable sources that only Yankees and carpetbaggers put beans in their chili.
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-12 20:28||   2020-05-12 20:28|| Front Page Top

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