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Smithfield Foods closes ANOTHER meat packing plant in Illinois as coronavirus outbreaks threaten to plunge food supply chain into crisis
2020-04-25
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Smithfield on Friday announced it is indefinitely closing the Monmouth, IL plant

  • It comes as a 'small portion' of its 1,700 employees test positive for COVID-19

  • The factory processes 3 percent of America's fresh pork supply

  • Smithfield now has four plants out of commission due to coronavirus

  • The largest, in South Dakota, processed 5 percent of the country's pork
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Posted by:Skidmark

#17  Buy local from your butcher. Avoid the latter packaged junk.
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-25 23:39  

#16  Affects pork products. Better stock up on bacon.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566   2020-04-25 23:27  

#15  Yup.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-25 20:11  

#14  They were busy allowing the ChiComs to purchase Ports. This was small potatoes treason
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-25 15:26  

#13  Many in the Ag community were surprised the sale was even considered. Imagine their shock after the approval was so quick. "Hey, this is kind of a big deal, should this even happen?" "Nah, It'll be fine."

The Age of Flexibility.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-25 15:05  

#12  Sale, US government approved 2013.

Say "thank you Baraq".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-25 14:24  

#11  Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time....
Posted by: Bobby   2020-04-25 14:19  

#10  I believe Smithfield Foods is owned by the Chinese Government.

Sale, US government approved 2013.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-25 13:08  

#9  /\ As far as I am concerned a concerted effort to avoid isolation, containment, and provide notifications equates to 'targeting.'

Perhaps my definition is too broad.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-25 11:58  

#8  As I said before:

Electronics are largely made in China

Virus with asymptomatic but transmissible period breaks out in China

Before travel restrictions, but after outbreak, there's a large electronics show

Representatives of Chinese electronics companies attend show

Virus is spread at show

"Targeted" is BS. It's as shocking an outcome as a syphilis outbreak at a swingers convention.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2020-04-25 11:47  

#7  For many sanitation projects in rural Alaska we use local force account labor, mainly local Yupiks or Athabaskans. We have to go though the I-9s and all the paperwork from the federal government. What a hassle. Then some factory or meat packing site hires illegals, and plant owners call their congress critter to put heat on agency people to not make raids on factories hiring illegals. Corruptiion of the congress and fed govt.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-04-25 11:45  

#6  Seize the company. Done. Oh and charge, jail the manager's for hiring fucking illegals.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-04-25 08:38  

#5  Buried the lede:

the Vegas convention was an "ideal environment for the virus to spread." In addition to the United States, there are at least 63 other countries that attend CES each year.

APM reports that... more than 100 people attended this year's conference from Wuhan, China — where the first outbreak was recorded towards the end of 2019.

Posted by: Lex   2020-04-25 06:16  

#4  Appears the recent CES in Las Vegas may have also been in the target folder:

CES might have helped spread COVID-19 throughout the U.S.

This year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas might have been a catalyst in helping to spread the coronavirus throughout the U.S. And, according to APM Reports, an investigative news publication, there's new evidence to prove it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-25 06:09  

#3  Sun Tzu?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-25 03:42  

#2  49 Pan asked whether Chinese owners visited the plant before the infection spread. The answer is yes. One month before the disease outbreak.

Pork Plant at Center of South Dakota’s Virus Outbreak Had Visit From CCP-Tied Owners
Posted by: Phusotle Dingle5823   2020-04-25 01:17  

#1  I believe Smithfield Foods is owned by the Chinese Government.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-04-25 00:41  

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