Ranks of Absent U.S. Food Inspectors Swell on Virus, Union Says

The infections among inspectors add to the growing concerns about the safety and viability of the nation’s meat supply after several major US factories closed in recent weeks due to outbreaks. PHOTO: Al Jazeera/Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg

25 April 2020

BLOOMBERG QUINT — Almost 1,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture food inspectors, or about 15% of the workforce, are off the job as the coronavirus outbreak left workers sick, quarantined or facing a high risk to health, figures provided by the union showed. The ranks of ailing employees from the USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service swelled as the virus roils the nation’s meat industry, spurring shortage concerns.

The ranks of ailing employees from the USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service swelled as the virus roils the nation’s meat industry, spurring shortage concerns. About 25% of pork capacity and 10% of beef is now off line, according to the United Food & Commercial Workers, which estimates that at least 13 U.S. plants faced shutdowns. The factory woes have spread to Brazil, another major producer an

The inspectors’ union in the U.S. is concerned that a lack of regulation and a system that relies on voluntary reporting from both companies and government employees puts workers at risk. The food-inspection service handles checks on meat, poultry and processed egg products. […]

2 Comments on Ranks of Absent U.S. Food Inspectors Swell on Virus, Union Says

  1. As others have pointed out, the Illuminati plan is to first cut off the dairy & meat supply, to force everyone to become vegan, because vegans are physically weak, docile and easily controlled. And the EU have already sneaked through new laws allowing INSECTS to be used as ingredients in human food.

    They can’t wait to get more insect CHITIN into human brains, where it has long been proven to cause neurological diseases such as dementia. That’s why they push coffee-drinking, because caffeine destroys chitinase, our natural mammal defence against alien CHITIN.

    Meat will be reserved for the wealthy “elites”, using the vast hunting grounds they intend to create in wilderness areas, after driving everyone else into mega-SMART cities, just like in the predictive programming film “The Hunger Games”. That’s also why they encourage “marathon running”, to provide the elites with sport. It’s no fun for them if hunting & killing people is too easy, as with the child sacrifices reportedly carried out on some European estates. It’ll be Serfs & Lords again, just like in the good old days…The New Feudal World Order.

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