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Trump declares meat packing plants essential businesses, despite concerns from workers
Recent estimates put national beef and pork production at a 65% decrease, journalist H. Claire Brown tells KCRW. Meanwhile, the CDC reports that 3% of the slaughterhouse workforce has tested positive for COVID-19.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1 min readRecent estimates put national beef and pork production at a 65% decrease, journalist H. Claire Brown tells KCRW. Meanwhile, the CDC reports that 3% of the slaughterhouse workforce has tested positive for COVID-19. Claire Brown reports on how the pandemic is affecting farmers, livestock, prices and supply within the meat packing industry in her work for The Counter.
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- 32:11Working with meat processing plants is like ‘dealing with the DMV every day of your life,’ says rancher Meredith Bell
- 40:03‘First we get lost, then we have lunch’: Melissa Clark on childhood summers in France
- 48:302 LA restaurants help feed low-wage workers and first responders
The full episode
2 of 5Meat supply, slaughterhouses, French classics- 0:00Animals and workers are packed shoulder-to-shoulder in meat processing plants
- 22:31Trump declares meat packing plants essential businesses, despite concerns from workersYou’re reading this
- 32:11Working with meat processing plants is like ‘dealing with the DMV every day of your life,’ says rancher Meredith Bell
- 40:03‘First we get lost, then we have lunch’: Melissa Clark on childhood summers in France
- 48:302 LA restaurants help feed low-wage workers and first responders