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cbabe

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Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2025, 09:22 PM

Jan 28

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/meat-processing-industry-worked-with-trump-administration-to-stay-open-during-covid-crisis-according-to-house-report

Meat processing industry worked with Trump administration to stay open during COVID crisis, according to House report

Politics May 12, 2022 4:07 PM EST
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meat processing industry worked closely with political appointees in the Trump administration to stave off health restrictions and keep slaughterhouses open even as the virus spread rapidly among workers, according to a congressional report released Thursday.

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Smithfield Foods to keep US pork plants open, eyes tariffs amid IPO, CEO says [View all] BumRushDaShow Jan 28 OP

Pay to play cbabe Jan 28 #1

Read a Rolling Stone expose in the mid-aughts about Smithfield Foods. Short version: They SUCK. AZJonnie Jan 28 #2

Reuters pretty desperate to turn this into a story about tariffs working for US workers Prairie Gates Jan 28 #3

The focus for this was actually as a "business" report BumRushDaShow Jan 29 #5

Nevertheless Prairie Gates Jan 29 #7

... BumRushDaShow Jan 29 #9

Back in the good old days, I didn't bother with Smithfield IzzaNuDay Jan 29 #4

Yup. OldBaldy1701E Jan 29 #6

8.1 billion in worth and still whining. Still unwilling to pay workers. travelingthrulife Jan 29 #8