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Dive Brief: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to recommend that frontline essential workers, as well as people age 75 and older, be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The recommendations were made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Sunday, which voted in favor 13-1. ACIP voted that the roughly 30 million Americans that fall into the frontline essential workers group, including those in food production and manufacturing, should be in Phase 1b...

Pandemic Is Starting to Hit North American Meat Plants Again Isis Almeida and Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg News Signage is displayed outside the Cargill Inc. meat plant in Chambly, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, May 11, 2020. The case-ready facility for beef, pork, chicken and sausage has shut down as the company is “concerned about the number of cases in the community and among our employees,” according to a May 9 statement. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloom...

The Straits Times Coronavirus pandemic is starting to hit North American meat plants again Cargill Inc has temporarily idled one of its beef plants in Canada after some employees tested positive.PHOTO: REUTERS PublishedDec 18, 2020, 10:30 am SGT https://str.sg/JaHL They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account. Share link: Or share via: Sign up or log in to read this article in full Sign up All done! This article is now fully available for you Read now Get unlimited acce...

By 12/17/2020 The biggest U.S. meat processor, Tyson Foods, said on Wednesday that it had fired seven management employees at its hog slaughter plant in Waterloo, Iowa, following allegations that plant manager Tom Hart had organized a betting pool over how many of the plant’s employees would become ill with COVID-19. The dismissals resulted from an outside investigation, financed by Tyson, into the allegations, which were part of a lawsuit filed by the family of a Waterloo wor...

Cargill to idle Canadian meat plant after COVID cases Isis Almeida and Marcy Nicholson, Bloomberg News Signage is displayed outside the Cargill Inc. meat plant in Chambly, Quebec, Canada, on Monday, May 11, 2020. The case-ready facility for beef, pork, chicken and sausage has shut down as the company is “concerned about the number of cases in the community and among our employees,” according to a May 9 statement. Photographer: Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg ...

Dive Brief: New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer is calling for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Tyson Foods for making misleading disclosures to investors by "flagrantly misrepresenting its poor pandemic response." Stringer asked for the probe in a letter sent to the SEC Tuesday.  As comptroller, Stringer is investment advisor and a trustee of the five New York City Retirement Systems, which are substantial long-term Tyson shareholders. He said the companys ...

Inside Clean Energy: The Solar Boom Arrives in Ohio Overwhelming demand is turning the state into a solar hotbed, despite a decade of policies hostile toward renewables. December 17, 2020 Solar photovoltaic power plant farm installation on Long Island, New York. Ohio now ranks 28th in the country in installed solar capacity, but ranks 14th in projected new capacity coming online in the next five years. Credit: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Related By this time next year, ...

Share it For months, food companies and trade groups have been sending letters and lobbying state and federal officials to secure vaccine prioritization for food workers in manufacturing plants.  "Worker absenteeism remains a concern in manufacturing facilities, posing a threat to the maintenance of consistent inventories of life-sustaining products," Michael Gruber, vice president of regulatory and government affairs at the Consumer Brands Association, wrote in a letter to the Centers for Di...

/ Meatpacking plants were among the first coronavirus hot spots in Missouri. Across the country, at least 45,000 workers in these plants have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to the Food and Environment Reporting Network. More than 200 have died. Annessoir Annelus — a refugee and pillar of the Haitian community — was one of them. For the 27 years that he lived in the Kansas City area, Annelus never lost his connection to his home country, Haiti. And he passed that co...

The next U.S. agriculture secretary must rebuke the meat industry Neal Barnard, Another View contributor Trump declares meat plants critical infrastructure during coronavirus Replay Video UP NEXT More and more, it’s clear just how troubling the meat industry is. It endangers the lives of workers, produces products that cause heart disease and cancer, contributes to climate change, and keeps animals in deplorable conditions until they are killed. Now, a lawsuit is alleging tha...