Smithfield Foods closing more plants

[TexasTowelie]

Late Wednesday, Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan said his company is also closing a Cudahy, Wisconsin dry sausage and bacon plant for two weeks, along with a Martin City, Missouri facility that specializes in packing hams.

The company had already closed its Sioux Falls plant amid similar concerns.

“Without plants like Sioux Falls running, other further processing facilities like Martin City cannot function,” Sullivan stated. “This is why our government has named food and agriculture critical infrastructure sectors and called on us to maintain operations and normal work schedules.”

“From farm to fork, our nation’s food workers, American family farmers and the many others in the supply chain are vital to the security of our country,” Sullivan added.

Read more: https://www.capjournal.com/news/coronavirus/smithfield-foods-closing-more-plants/article_1df801c0-7f8f-11ea-9057-abb906a98e44.html

[roamer65]

1. I can go without pork.

Close it so the workers can be safe.

[womanofthehills]

8. What's going to happen is the pork eaters will have to eat beef

So more beef will be flying off the shelves. The small grocery store in my town now only has about a fifth of the beef it used to have.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. This morning I decided to cook some bacon.

The package I had, as it turned out, was Smithfield. I like bacon but it's something I can do without and probably will have to. I think there will be a lot of those things in the coming months.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Best Pork in Minny comes from Hormel.

Black Label and Range Brand are the best Bacon's .

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Actually, I like Nueske's better, from Wittenberg, WI.

It's a bit expensive but a lot cheaper if you actually go to Wittenberg.

[LeftInTX]

9. Wittenberg??

OK....just a little town on the way up north!!! I think it's over near Birnamwood.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. East of Wausau on the way to Green Bay.

It's sort of in the middle of nowhere, a bit south of Birnamwood.

[LeftInTX]

11. I know where it is!!

I never thought I would see it mentioned on DU

They used to have an A&W there......that's about all I remember about it...

I'm from Neenah

We would drive past Birnamwood and my dad would say, "They burn wood over there"...every time he said that there would be smoke..LOL

[Hekate]

5. What about the backlog of living porkers that's piling up? My gods, what a mess we are in. nt

[Sewa]

7. Don't worry they'll become stealth socialist

Trump will be throwing government money at them.

[roamer65]

12. Hmmm...could end being like Orwell's Animal Farm.

[LeftInTX]

6. You will have to pry bacon out of my cold, dead hands (Or whatever the saying is)

Actually bacon kinda looks like it was pryed out of someone's hands.

TBH...I can live without bacon

[katmondoo]

13. I believe Smithfield is owned by the Chinese. I remember they bought the company a few years ago.

I stopped buying Smithfield ham quite a while ago.

[underpants]

14. Yes. WH group in 2013.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferwang/2020/04/16/the-chinese-billionaire-whose-company-owns-troubled-pork-processor-smithfield-foods/

[Amishman]

15. Yup, plenty of local options for me that are way better

John F Martin and Sons puts out really good meats. 99% of the people here will never see them in stores, but you might have your own local equivalent. Find the little guy, support local.