Frontline meat and poultry workers should be among the first to be vaccinated after health care workers and those in long-term care facilities, according to federal guidance approved by the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Priority.
In a vote on Sunday, the CDC recommended that frontline essential workers be in the “Phase 1b” of allocation of the vaccine designed to offer protection against the novel coronavirus. The so-called Phase 1b group is estimated to include about 49 million people, or nearly 15% of Americans.
The committee defined frontline essential workers as first responders, teachers and other education workers including day care workers, food and agriculture workers, correctional facility staff, postal workers, public transit workers, and people who work in manufacturing and in grocery stores.
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NEW YORK (AP) – A federal advisory panel recommended Sunday that people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers should be next in line for COVID-19 shots, while a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals as the nation works to get the coronavirus pandemic under control.
The two developments came amid a vaccination program that began only in the last week and has given initial shots to about 556,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Earlier this month, the North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute), the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), and the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) lobbied state governors to consider workers including inspectors and livestock producers be given very high priority regarding the distribution and administration of COVID-19 vaccines.
President-elect Biden announced that Tom Vilsack, former secretary of ag under President Obama, âBiotech Governor of the Yearâ from Iowa and Dairy Checkoff funded millionaire will be his choice for United States Secretary of Agriculture.
Here at Missouri Rural Crisis Center, we have a 35-plus year history of fighting for independent family farms, resilient rural communities, and a food supply that is diverse, democratic and fair. Unfortunately, Tom Vilsack would be one of our last choices for Secretary of Agriculture, and we say that because of history.
A brief history of Vilsack:
⢠In 2001, as governor of Iowa, Vilsack was named âBiotech Governor of the Year.â Through biotechnology and lack of enforcement of anti-trust laws, the seed and chemical industries have become highly concentrated and now are largely owned by foreign multi-national corporations.
GREAT BEND TRIBUNE Kuckelman, Perry elected to KLA leadership positions Pictured are Kansas Livestock Association President-Elect Phil Perry (left) from Oskaloosa and KLA President Jerry Kuckelman of Manhattan. - photo by COURTESY PHOTO
TOPEKA – Members of the Kansas Livestock Association (KLA) elected Jerry Kuckelman, a cattle feeder from Manhattan, as president during the group’s annual business meeting Dec. 17. The membership chose Oskaloosa rancher Phil Perry as KLA president-elect. Kuckelman and Perry will lead the 5,700-member organization during the next year.
Kuckelman is the president and chief executive officer of Innovative Livestock Services (ILS), which consists of eight feedyards in central Kansas and south central Nebraska and an extensive farming operation. He began his career as a cattle buyer for IBP, then transitioned into feedyard management where he spent 27 years, with most of that ti