Posted on 04/28/2020 6:53:17 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Tyson Foods executives said in a full-page ad published Sunday that the closure of food-processing plants due to the coronavirus is “breaking” the supply chain.
In a full-page ad published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, board chairman John Tyson wrote that “the food supply chain is breaking," saying farmers will be left without anywhere to sell livestock and "millions of animals — chickens, pigs and cattle — will be depopulated because of the closure of our processing facilities."
"There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed," he added.
In the ad, Tyson said it will waive the waiting period for short-term disability to allow workers who get sick to immediately be paid as well as waiving the co-pay, co-insurance and deductible for doctor visits for coronavirus testing, along with donating more than $11 million in food and meals since March 11.
The company has already closed facilities in Logansport, Ind., and Waterloo, Iowa, while Smithfield has closed a facility in Sioux Falls, S.D., where at least one worker has died from the virus, as well as a JBS facility in Worthington, Minn. The Waterloo, Worthington and Sioux Falls facilities comprise about 15 percent of pork production in the U.S.
At least 182 cases of the virus were linked to the Waterloo plant closure, and three employees told CNN the plant has taken insufficient steps to protect them from the virus, including conditions that made it all but impossible to properly practice social distancing inside the facility.
The company told CNN plants are sanitized daily and Tyson himself wrote in the advertisement that the company performs daily temperature checks and requires the wearing of face masks in all facilities.
IF you thought the run on TP was bad......just wait.
At appliance stores in the PacNW, freezers are sold out.
Tyson was a major supporter of the Clintons
That they are spreading FUD works easily for the Leftist playbook
thanks for that Tyson. Now there won’t be food left.
Do you have anything on the shelves to put in them?
This was obviously done purposely to alarm the snowflakes in this country. Tyson is working in concert with the dems in their coup.
Fear-mongering...
Trump should spring the NDPA on them, just on general principle.
Yes, tons of meat here. Lots of local butchers and “farm to table” places that sell meat. No meat shortages in Oregon.
Tyson is looking to do one or more of the following:
1. Get a massive government bailout.
2. Get the government to approve a flood of new immigrants to work in their plants.
3. Justify massive price increases even though the COVID-19 fiasco has caused a huge surplus of raw materials they use in their business.
Well, I can stock up on a year or two’s worth of rice and beans, and grow my own veggies.
Instead of writing a panic inducing article, how about doing something about it?
Or not.
Tyson, like the media, like the Dems, want to incite panic.
Panic is their only weapon to stir the pot as their candidate has dementia, corrupt financial dealings with China, and sex assault issues.
Tyson just wants more illegal aliens to staff their processing plants.
The stupid son of a bitch doesn’t even deserve a job on the packing line, to say nothing of being CEO.
These “leaders” who can’t even get TP, hand sanitizer or N95 masks on the store shelves need to be ‘depopulated’; don’t tell me someone should be making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and not even be able to produce and/or get to market basic necessities; instead we get people making big bucks who give nothing but lame assed excuses.
This mongrel moron should remember he *IS* the supply chain.
There is never an excuse for not doing your job. Never.
There is plenty of meat, you could open up a spring deer season. Plenty of deer out there. Plus there are always hogs, they are an invasive species, so that is another option.
Here too. I wanted to buy a freezer about a month ago. I had been planning on it awhile but finally had the time to look. All the lower priced ones are sold out everywhere. Home Depot, Lowe’s, Best Buy, Walmart. I even checked a local appliance store...nope.
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