{"id":2276,"date":"2020-04-29T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presbyterianmission.org\/food-faith\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2021-01-30T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T18:11:59","slug":"slaughterhouse-meat-processing-workers-risk-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/meat-and-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaughterhouse: Meat processing workers risk Covid-19 infection"},"content":{"rendered":"

*** May 7, 2020 UPDATE:\u00a0<\/strong> Meatpacking plants have become national hot spots for the novel coronavirus. Of the<\/span> 25 largest clusters<\/a> of COVID-19 cases in the United States, six are tied to meat processing plants (the rest are prisons and nursing homes). At least<\/span> 48 workers have died from the virus, and another 11,000 have been sickened. ***<\/strong><\/span>
\nSee <\/em>– Meatpacking More Dangerous Today Than a Generation Ago,
\nAmplifying COVID-19 Crisis<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Meat is on my mind today. It may be on yours as well.<\/h3>\n
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Photo credit: Civil Eats – civileats.com<\/p><\/div>\n

TAKE ACTION BELOW<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysts are expecting shortages of meat<\/a> in groceries by next week. Yet, the president of the United States says the food supply is fine and in breaking news<\/a> passed an executive order to keep meat processing plants open despite worker deaths. Union leaders are not happy<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n

Indeed, perspectives on meat are diverse:<\/p>\n