'Your employees will get sick and may die,' one doctor told meat processor JBS early in the pandemic.
that President Donald Trump issued in the spring of 2020 designating meat plants as critical infrastructure that needed to remain open.finding that having a beef or pork processing facility nearby more than doubled a U.S. county's per capita coronavirus infection rates.
The report is based on communications between industry executives, lobbyists and USDA officials and other documents the committee received from government agencies, Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, JBS, Cargill, National Beef, Hormel and other companies. Those firms control 85% of the beef market and 70% of pork production nationwide.
"We only wish that the Trump Administration cared as much about the lives of working people as it did about meat, pork and poultry products," said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union."We understood that poultry plants needed to shut down for deep cleaning and to save worker's lives.
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