Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages

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Farms to destroy 2M chickens due to plant staffing shortages

The Associated Press

April 24, 2020, 9:33 AM

BALTIMORE (AP) — Coronavirus-related staffing shortages at chicken processing plants will lead farms in Maryland and Delaware to destroy nearly 2 million chickens.

The Baltimore Sun reported Friday that the plants are unable to keep pace with the number of birds that are ready for harvest. They had been placed into poultry houses as chicks several weeks ago. The chickens will not be processed for meat.

The trade group the Delmarva Poultry Industry said that every poultry plant on the Delmarva Peninsula has struggled with a reduced worker attendance. The reasons include workers being sick with the virus and people following guidance to stay home if sick.

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1. This is what these plants deserve. Didn't plan around how they were going to get workers.

Idiots. That is one of the key criteria when you plan on building a plant somewhere, that water, land, resources such as available LABOR, etc. are there in that area.

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2. From the article:

The trade group the Delmarva Poultry Industry said that every poultry plant on the Delmarva Peninsula has struggled with a reduced worker attendance. The reasons include workers being sick with the virus and people following guidance to stay home if sick.

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3. Thanks. There is a history of failing to attract enough orkers, ...

and yet, the powers that be, still chose that particular area to build, maybe because of other reasons, because of better prices for feed, etc., but if you can't get workers...when rump slammed the doors on immigration (legal or not), a whole pool of workers disappeared, and I'm certain that they won't want to return here to the US, being that the US is again, number 1! (in CV-related cases...

We are winning so much in rump's world.

And, being that meat processing plant workers are falling sick too in South Dakota, MN, and KS?, this is a double whammy. People aren't going to be flooding into these places to work, especially since they don't pay really that decent of a paycheck, nor offer much in benefits (if any) for such a messy job.

It's been too long since I've looking at the meat processing plants looking to hire in Joplin, MO so I'm not up to speed on this area terribly much. But most people I have talked to who have worked in the field will never eat that particular meat again (the one they processed at their particular plant). That's why, as a kid, I stayed away from working in this area.