Coronavirus closes meat plants in Canada and the United States as world’s largest pork producer warns of shortages.

CHICAGO — Major meat companies in the United States and Canada have closed plants temporarily due to cases of the new coronavirus and concerns about its spread.

Here are some facilities that have shut or reduced production:

• An Olymel pork plant in Yamachiche, Quebec, shut on March 29 for two weeks, after nine workers tested positive for the coronavirus.

• Maple Leaf Foods suspended operationson April 8 at its Brampton, Ontario poultry plant, following three COVID cases among workers at that facility.

• Harmony Beef in Alberta, Canada, shut its cattle slaughter operations on March 27 for two days, after a worker tested positive for the new coronavirus, prompting some federal inspectors to stay away from the site.

• Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, on Sunday said it is shutting a pork plant indefinitely and warned that plant shutdowns are pushing the United States “perilously close to the edge” in meat supplies for grocers.

• JBS USA shut a beef plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, until April 16, after previously cutting production.

• JBS reduced production a beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, due to high absences among workers, according to the local United Food and Commercial Workers union. The company said high absenteeism led slaughter rates to outpace the process of cutting carcasses into pieces.

• National Beef Packing Co suspended cattle slaughtering at a beef plant in Tama, Iowa, for a cleaning and planned to resume on April 13.

• Aurora Packing Company closed a beef plant in Aurora, Illinois, said Brad Lyle, chief financial officer for U.S. commodity firm Kerns and Associates. A security officer at the plant said it was closed due to the pandemic. The company did not respond to requests for comment.

• Cargill Inc closed a plant in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, that produces meat for U.S. grocery stores.

• Tyson Foods Inc shut a hog slaughterhouse in Columbus Junction, Iowa, the week of April 6 after more than 24 cases of COVID-19 involving employees at the facility.

• Sanderson Farms Inc reduced chicken production to 1 million birds a week from 1.3 million at a plant in Moultrie, Georgia.

 

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My comment: The USA is the second largest pig producer in the world after China.
Germany comes third.

35 million chickens, 424,000 pigs, 130,000 cattle. So many animals are slaughtered, cut into pieces, packed in Tyson Foods companies every week (!!!) – and then offered for consumption in supermarkets such as Walmart or fast food outlets like McDonalds in over 100 countries.

Every second person in the world eats meat from Tyson Foods, a meat producer who is considered to be the world’s largest polluter.

We are particularly pleased with the consequences of coronavirus on Tyson’s businesses.

And we wish Tyson and the rest of the meat mafia around the world the biggest losses the economy has ever seen.

My best regards to all, Venus

 

Famous whistleblower Edward Snowden has a dire warning for everyone grappling with the coronavirus pandemic: don’t let authoritarians exploit the crisis to claim more power.

Snowden told Vice that he sees the rise of emergency laws, increased surveillance, and other ways that governments have suspended civil rights to combat the pandemic as a disturbing power grab.

And, he added, he doesn’t expect the leaders behind it to relinquish the newfound power when the coronavirus outbreak finally recedes.

Snowden argued that a global pandemic was readily predictable, and that scientists and intelligence agencies had long been sounding alarm bells. Imposing new emergency surveillance, he argues, is a particularly disturbing play.

“As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world,” Snowden told Vice.

Ultimately, Snowden fears that the world leaders claiming new emergency authority will hold onto them well after the pandemic ends.

“Do you truly believe that when the first wave, this second wave, the 16th wave of the coronavirus is a long-forgotten memory, that these capabilities will not be kept?” Snowden said.

“That these datasets will not be kept? No matter how it is being used, what is being built is the architecture of oppression.”

England

 

https://futurism.com/the-byte/snowden-governments-use-coronavirus-seize-power

https://www.rt.com/news/485712-police-state-overzealous-reactions-coronavirus/

 

And I mean … All governments, at least in Europe, continue to be tough on the Corona virus, and that’s right.
However, no one is willing to ban meat consumption – at least during the blackout period. And no one talks about the main cause of virus formation.

Even the conservative media warn of viruses and bacteria in factory farming and point this out every day.
Nevertheless: The animal transports go beyond the borders with even looser regulations than before, hunting in Germany is allowed without restrictions, feeding pigeons remains forbidden, with a fine of 1000 euros for non-obedient citizens

The stupid government in Germany wants to introduce the app warning system in mobile phones that send a signal as soon as a registered corona infected person appears.
That’s not all.

The German government expects 40 to 50 million volunteers of the app system !!!

In the first place it is voluntary, then it is mandatory.

The majority of the population does not understand what is really happening. And it doesn’t even understand that it doesn’t understand.
This makes the surveillance system easier than ever.

Animal rights activists will not be spared the future harmful consequences of the current corona measures.

Animal transport, undercover investigations in slaughterhouses, demonstrations against animal exploitation … It seems that more and more means are right to end the fight for the animals.

Our struggle has long become a political issue. We have to stay on the side of animals and fight against systems and governments that want to prevent our fight.

Stay free, stay active! for the animals.

Best regards to all, Venus

Swing and Doll have not forgotten what happened many years ago. The only 23-year-old Koebner came as a student to the experimental laboratories, where the two were kept together with four other chimpanzees in miserable conditions.

 

As babies, they had been locked in tight boxes without natural light. Hepatitis medication was tested on them for six years. At that time it was common to kill chimpanzees after their time as experimental animals.

But it was decided to release them into the wild, which they still had to get used to.

That is why Lisa Koebner spent the following years in close community with the monkeys.

Swing and Doll got used to life outside the cage, but Koebner had to leave them at some point so that the animals also learned to become independent.

When she came back, Doll and Swing showed that they remembered their savior very well.
They receive her with a touching greeting.

Unlike humans, feelings like gratitude and loyalty are highly developed in animals.

Regards and a good night from Venus

The goats normally spend their time on the Great Orme but have been spotted on the streets of Llandudno, north Wales,  where the residents are in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic

The Kashmiri goats that came down from the Great Orme into the town were originally a gift to Lord Mostyn from Queen Victoria.

A herd of goats has taken over a deserted town centre, eating hedges and flowers from gardens.

The goats have been pictured in gardens (Image: Andrew Stuart)

 

The are currently around 110 goats and they are now regarded as wild which means no-one is legally responsible for them, but wardens at the country park do keep an eye.

It is thought that they have come down into the town at this time while they wait for the spring growth of grass on the Orme, and have been wandering the streets because they have been so quiet during the coronavirus lockdown.

Animal invaders: Kashmir goats have occupied the Welsh coastal town of Llandudno. © Photo: Peter Byrne / dpa

 

A city resident said: “I think most people living in the town appreciate them and take great pleasure seeing them in the town. A few lost flowers in the spring is a fair price to pay to be able to see them closely.

“I know they can make a mess but the council are pretty good at cleaning the streets.

(Image: Lilah Mason)

 

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/goats-taking-over-welsh-seaside-18011581

And I mean…Corona is an animal-friendly virus with royal sympathies. Therefore he took over the sponsorship for the noble gift of the queen.

My best regards to all, Venus

We start the Easter day with good news!

 

Received anonymously from Unoffensive Animal Apr 05, 2020

Tonight was our second visit to this location in Lincoln. With just two of us tonight, we had put careful planning into how we could take the maximum number of lives we could carry.

We encountered few obstacles upon entry and were able to save 29 lives.

When leaving the area, we sighted a human on their phone, close to the site. This was a strange sight at this time of night. Were they calling the cops? We didn’t hang about to find out!

All 29 chickens are now living life as they should. They are now truly free-range (as opposed to the pathetic excuse for free-range they previously experienced), their eggs are eaten only by themselves, their bare raw skin will start to heal and, most importantly, they will not be exploited and killed.

https://animalliberationpressoffice.org/NAALPO/2020/04/05/29-hens-liberated-lincoln-uk-2/

 

In the name of the saved creatures, we thank the animal liberators.

Best regards to all, Venus

 

That is why A.L.F liberated a lamb from Easter battles on April 8, in Veneto, ITALY.

“You want to celebrate your god … Ok, but don’t involve innocent creatures” (A.L.F)

Animal Liberation Press Office

We share this opinion, so we wish everyone one beautiful Easter without animal suffering

Venus