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Just to clarify something that seems to be a point of confusion in the current reporting environment, since you mentioned Tyson and meatpacking in there...: Me
by jameshart 7y ago
Just to clarify something that seems to be a point of confusion in the current reporting environment, since you mentioned Tyson and meatpacking in there...:
Meat packing plants are essential businesses. They should be operating. State and local lockdown ordnances are not preventing them from doing so.
The issue about meat packing plants being closed is not that they are being forced to shut by overzealous Democratic governors. They are being shut by their owners, insurers, and occasionally government actors, when - while trying to operate as an essential business - an outbreak of Covid starts to affect their workforce and makes continuing to operate too much of a public health and private liability risk.
Everybody wants meatpacking plants to be open if it's possible to do so. The workers, the owners, the government, and people who like eating meat. But if it can't be done without exposing large numbers of meatpacking and meat supply chain workers to the risk of Sars-Cov-2 infection, then in spite of how essential they are particular plants are going to have to close.
Now it is possible that Tesla will be able to open up and operate and not become a Covid hotspot. But there's definitely a risk that they will, just like the meatpacking plants did. And is that risk worth taking for luxury cars, rather than food?
- Waterluvian 7y agoNot that this affects what you're saying and it doesn't necessarily make for a practical srgument, but it sprang to mind. Do car parts in the supply chain go bad? What about livestock? Like can you literally just keep cattle and pigs and chicken alive longer if demand drops short term?
- twblalock 7y agoGiven the number of farms getting ready to kill their unsold livestock, the answer is no, you can't just keep them around. It costs money to keep livestock fed and healthy, and if they can't be sold then farmers lose money every day. Eventually the farmers need to prevent further losses by killing the animals.
- bentpins 7y agohttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-delmarva-plants-delaware-maryland/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-d... It's not really doable from what I've been seeing. The animals grow to big and living conditions worsen
- late2part 7y agoEverybody wants meatpacking plants to be open if it's possible to do so. Some vegetarians would prefer they close.
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoAnd vegans! I hope some day we can end factory farming.
- jameshart 7y agoHmm. But would your mechanism of choice for the shutting down of an entire industry be the forced closure of businesses due to widespread illness among their workforce?
- piva00 7y agoWhy ask such a leading and rhetorical question in this case? What is it supposed to foster in a discussion?
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoNope. Why do you ask?