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Sep 14, 2020 · In late April, as COVID-19 raced through meatpacking plants sickening and killing workers, President Donald Trump issued a controversial executive order aimed at keeping the plants open to supply...
May 13, 2022 · Large meat manufacturers promoted “baseless” fears they knew were “flimsy or outright false” that shutting down meatpacking plants would cause a food shortage, in order to keep workers on ...
- Paul Blest
May 12, 2022 · The Sioux Falls Smithfield Foods coronavirus outbreak that started in March 2020 proved to be a catalyst for industry talking points and collaboration with the Trump administration in how the...
Apr 30, 2020 · Smithfield Foods Inc. said in federal court that a recent presidential executive order keeping U.S. meat processors open during the pandemic supersedes a worker advocacy group’s efforts to enforce virus-related worker safety measures.
- fhussein@bloombergindustry.com
- Legal Reporter
May 12, 2022 · May 12 (Reuters) - Top U.S. meatpacking companies drafted the executive order issued by President Donald Trump in 2020 to keep meat plants running and convinced his administration to encourage...
May 12, 2022 · The report is based on communications among industry executives, lobbyists and USDA officials and other documents the committee received from government agencies, Tyson Foods, Smithfield...
US President Donald Trump has ordered meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation's food supply amid the coronavirus pandemic. He invoked a Korean War-era law from the 1950s to...
