Chinese-owned meat packing giant Smithfield Foods

[davischevy]

Chinese-owned meat packing giant Smithfield Foods has closed two additional plants in the U.S. after coronavirus outbreaks, raising concerns about the American food supply chain.
Smithfield announced the closures of packing plants in Cudahy, Wisconsin and Martin City, Missouri on Wednesday, days after its Sioux Falls, South Dakota plant was indefinitely shuttered.
The Sioux Falls plant, where 518 employees and 120 of their family members have tested positive for coronavirus, is now the largest single source of cases in the U.S., and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has dispatched a critical response team to the scene.

[Richard2112]

Yikes! I have family in that area. They had mentioned the closure but I hadn't heard the reasoning until now.

[kingsolver72]

I’m about a 45 minute drive from Martin City.
They have a really good steak house there. It’s been there for years.
This whole thing has put the kibosh on eating out for sure.

[special-K]

That will make a ripple. I'm thinking of the ranchers who will lose the market for their stock

[Killer Bee]

couple more links highlighted within these.. all together there's a fair bit of info..

CDC to inspect coronavirus-stricken Smithfield pork processing plant as closures mount

Coronavirus cases tied to giant South Dakota pork-processing plant surpass 500

Meat shortage coming if coronavirus closes processing plants: Smithfield Foods CEO

[crossfire84]

Just so everybody knows the Chinese own over 80% of all meat plants in the USA and Canada.

[Killer Bee]

good thing I know how to put meat in the freezer without even leaving the property..

I enjoy the convenience but not entirely dependant on it

[special-K]

This will be bad for the urbanites especially. Mt. Airy Meats is locally owned and operated. My freezer stays full as well. They'll just have to open up deer hunting. I can't take a picture without deer running through it. About five minutes earlier I saw a couple turkeys.

[1976gmc20]

Wild turkeys around here are so thick that you almost trip over them. Of course I'm not shooting at them.

Our neighbors raise sheep and also have a slaughterhouse in town. We've started buying beef from them.

This business will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.

[Boog]

[This business will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.]

"I want to live in Montana, marry a big woman, have a pickup and raise rabbits"

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Boog

[This business will get out of hand and we'll be lucky to live through it.]

"I want to live in Montana, marry a big woman, have a pickup and raise rabbits"

We no longer raise rabbits

[special-K]

We have the place on the mountain outside of my mom's town. Dad said he wanted us all to have a place to go when the snot hit the fan. Too bad I haven't been able to keep it up. I really want to put something up there. You can do 24' x 24' without a permit, if not on permanent foundation. We have a great flowing spring, great soil, tons of wildlife, woods, field, and stream. And I know good people to get and give with.

[Boog]

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by special-K

We have the place on the mountain outside of my mom's town. Dad said he wanted us all to have a place to go when the snot hit the fan. Too bad I haven't been able to keep it up. I really want to put something up there. You can do 24' x 24' without a permit, if not on permanent foundation. We have a great flowing spring, great soil, tons of wildlife, woods, field, and stream. And I know good people to get and give with.

You better get going on it

Can you do 24x24 and then add a 12x24 enclosed porch on all four sides?

[LockDoc]

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Three Tyson meat packing plants in Iowa have outbreaks, one of them has been closed for about a week now. It originally had 189 test positive. The latest plant won't say how many employees are infected.

LockDoc

[special-K]

And we have people who won't wear a mask

I don't know about what can be added to a 24' x 24', but I know my county only considers the building's footprint, not the stair going up to the platform of my barn. That fills in the 5' property line offset. I believe I could build porches, but I'd be happy with 24' x 24'. I can go two stories. I could also build other 24' x 24'ers so keep my living space to a minimum and have any occasional indoor needs satisfied by other buildings. It's pretty lax up there, once the building's done and county gone you do what you want

[Steeveedee]

I expect that the way it's going to work out is that the disease is going to get all the way out by hook or by crook, and those of us who manage not to die or be so badly injured but didn't die will die anyway from complications. I'll probably be dead from it when that happens. It's like the bubonic plague on steroids because it has a contamination time of some number of days before the person shows symptoms, during which many other people can be infected. Stinks, for sure. It's going to come down to "either you are immune or you aren't" and that will separate the living from the dead. Maybe those who are left alive will have enough knowledge about disease that they won't allow people to eat stupid sick food, or maybe not. When I consider how poor I'd have to be to eat a bat (I grew up poor) but there weren't any bats available. If there had been, maybe this disease would have appeared 50+ years ago. Who knows?

[special-K]

There are 60 some thousand survivors so far

[davischevy]

According to the statistics I could find, we are still more likely to die from the flu, than Covid-19.

[kingsolver72]

Originally Posted by davischevy

According to the statistics I could find, we are still more likely to die from the flu, than Covid-19.

Yep, all you got to do is look at the numbers.

[Richard2112]

Originally Posted by davischevy

According to the statistics I could find, we are still more likely to die from the flu, than Covid-19.

Agreed. But this has been an eye-opening event. It has caused a lot of people to realize just how much we import and the possible effects of such dependency. It also shows us the reaction of society in an epidemic. It's like black friday at walmart

[special-K]

Our system needs attention for sure. Start relying on simple common sense. Always worked/always will/works for me. The problems are so clear if you still rely on common sense. We are getting by on it now being stuck at home looking for ways to stretch supplies and live minimally.

[Gargoyle]

Is anybody else bothered by the numbers being reported? Why isn't China OVERRUN with covid 19? How could they have possibly contained this thing so effectively when it's a new virus? Something is not adding up.

[Stocker]

Originally Posted by Gargoyle

Is anybody else bothered by the numbers being reported? Why isn't China OVERRUN with covid 19? How could they have possibly contained this thing so effectively when it's a new virus? Something is not adding up.

I think the answer is that you cannot trust the numbers being released by China's government.

[special-K]

How could we possibly know what's actually going on inside Communist China? But yeah, I am concerned by the rising numbers while some are wanting to open things back up. Even whiney cry baby citizens protesting the shutting down. I have this to say to those people:

See that wall? Walk up to it and start reading!

The shortest possible shutdown and length of quarantine will come from the most diligent abidance. If the communist countries are containing it any better, that would be your reason. They know obedience well. Not given much choice... ever