President Donald Trump orders U.S. meat-processing plants to stay open despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk workers required more protection by jeffmason1 tpolansek
With concerns about food shortages and supply chain disruptions, Trump issued an executive order using the Defense Production Act to mandate that the plants continue to function.
Before issuing the executive order, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that signing the order, “... will solve any liability problems,” adding, “And we always work with the farmers. There’s plenty of supply.” Unions were not impressed. Some farmers said it was too late because pigs had been euthanized already instead of the pork going to market.
FILE PHOTO: Plant workers produce lean, finely textured beef at the Beef Products Inc facility in South Sioux City, Nebraska, November 19, 2012.REUTERS/Lane Hickenbottom/File PhotoThe order was little consolation for farmers such as Henry Moore of Clinton, North Carolina, who in recent weeks aborted thousands of unborn piglets and euthanized newly born because of closures of packing plants.
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