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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
2020-05-12
[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

#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  

#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  

#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  

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

#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  

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

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

#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  

#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  

#10  Smithfield. Thank Obama.

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

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

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

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

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

#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  

#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  

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

#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  

#1  Words fail.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-12 00:58  

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