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Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic
Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:32 pm
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving "perilously close to the edge" in supplies for grocers.
Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain, crimping availability of meat at retail stores and leaving farmers without outlets for their livestock.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem said on Saturday that 238 Smithfield employees had active cases of the new coronavirus, accounting for 55% of the state's total. Noem and the mayor of Sioux Falls had recommended the company shut the plant, which has about 3,700 workers, for at least two weeks.
"It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running," Smithfield Chief Executive Ken Sullivan said in a statement on Sunday. "These facility closures will also have severe, perhaps disastrous, repercussions for many in the supply chain, first and foremost our nation's livestock farmers."
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:39 pm to The Egg
The US will not run out of meat. There will be less to choose from at the grocery stores, but you will have meat to buy.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:05 pm to The Egg
That seems a little rash
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:07 pm to The Egg
Screw Smithfield 100% owned by China Smithfield wiki
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:09 pm to AncientTiger
Yep
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:13 pm to The Egg
Their sausage sucks anyway. frick em
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:30 pm to The Egg
So, what happens to the pigs?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:32 pm to Y.A. Tittle
They get to eat for a couple of more weeks.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:54 pm to SixthAndBarone
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The US will not run out of meat. There will be less to choose from at the grocery stores, but you will have meat to buy.
It’s one plant and they are more likely closing it because the price of hogs is tanking. There isn’t going to be a meat shortage, there’s a huge surplus of pork right now.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:59 am to NOFOX
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It’s one plant and they are more likely closing it because the price of hogs is tanking. There isn’t going to be a meat shortage, there’s a huge surplus of pork right now.
I'm thinking they are simply shipping back to China, they recently lost tens of millions of hogs to a different virus.
Smithfield is the worst anyway, absolute garbage meat.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:05 am to The Egg
I'll eat off the Wal mart truck. Like Joe exotics boys.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:11 am to The Egg
I won’t join the riots until the bacon runs out.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 10:48 am to AncientTiger
Glad to know it’s Chinese owned! We need to support USA owned moving forward. Even if it may cost a little more.
Posted on 4/14/20 at 7:11 am to NOLATiger71
pretty misleading article. Sounds like they're shutting down their entire operation.
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