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Smithfield Farms closing major pork plant indefinitely--supply chains are getting tight
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:02 pm
I hope we do not have much more of this.
Chinese owned Smithfield Farms closing plant indefinitely
Waiting on the first idiot here to say this is a planned Chinese attack on America.
Chinese owned Smithfield Farms closing plant indefinitely
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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.
Smithfield extended the closure of its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant after initially saying it would idle temporarily for cleaning. The facility is one of the nation's largest pork processing facilities, representing 4% to 5% of U.S. pork production, according to the company.
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.
Waiting on the first idiot here to say this is a planned Chinese attack on America.
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:03 pm to I B Freeman
quote:
"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."
Smithfield said it will resume operations in Sioux Falls after further direction from local, state and federal officials. The company will pay employees for the next two weeks, according to the statement.
The company has been running its plants to supply U.S. consumers during the outbreak, Sullivan said.
"We have a stark choice as a nation: we are either going to produce food or not, even in the face of COVID-19," he said
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:04 pm to I B Freeman
Keep sucking the yellow man's crank.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:04 pm to I B Freeman
China owned plant in rural America? Shut that fricker down and let an American get funding to operate it.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:04 pm to I B Freeman
Smithfield is fricking garbage
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:04 pm to I B Freeman
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Chinese owned Smithfield Farms closing plant indefinitely
quote:
238 Smithfield employees had active cases of the new coronavirus, accounting for 55% of the state's total
found your problem
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 5:05 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:05 pm to I B Freeman
f
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:05 pm to I B Freeman
do we not have American owned pork farms in this country called America?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:05 pm to I B Freeman
DPA, seize the plant frick China
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:06 pm to Strannix
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DPA, seize the plant frick China
The fascist raises his hand.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:06 pm to I B Freeman
Lots of farmers will have to ditch their products to rot as they won't be able to get them to market.
The fun is only beginning.
The fun is only beginning.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:08 pm to GeauxFightingTigers1
Farmers were dumping milk last week. They blamed the oversupply on schools being closed.
I also heard they were dumping eggs---that I do not understand.
I also heard they were dumping eggs---that I do not understand.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:08 pm to I B Freeman
The chicom lover with a lame response.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:08 pm to I B Freeman
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IB Freeman.
The Commie raises his hand
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:10 pm to Jbird
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Keep sucking the yellow man's crank.
And licking his asshoe
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:10 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Let me get this straight---I am a commie because I oppose the President using the DPA act to seize the property of a private company???
Please tell me how your mind works???
Education has let us down.
Please tell me how your mind works???
Education has let us down.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:10 pm to thebigmuffaletta
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:12 pm to Crimson Wraith
Explain what China has to do with this in your simple mind, please?
Posted on 4/12/20 at 5:13 pm to I B Freeman
You oppose anything that is negative to your Chinese God's.
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