Meat processors wrestle with worker shortages as US economy reopens from COVID-19
With protein demand soaring, companies like Tyson Foods are offering employees better benefits and flexible hours as they consider wider use of automation throughout their businesses. Published June 9, 2021 Paula Bronstein via Getty Images
For Tyson Foods, the onset of the summer grilling season and consumers return to restaurants has the beef, pork and poultry processing giant preparing for strong demand for its protein-rich offerings.
But the upbeat outlook is being tempered by understaffed processing lines at some of its 140 plants amid struggles to attract and retain new workers a snapshot of the ongoing labor shortages rippling throughout the food industry and other sectors of the U.S. economy.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been warned about the growing threat of ransomware attacks and how it could be potentially damaging for the United States food industry.
According to Politico, the warning from security analysts at the University of Minnesota came just one week before the latest ransomware attack hit the industry. The publication reports that the latest cyber attack forced the shutdown of meat plants that process more than a fifth of the nation s beef supply in the latest demonstration of hackers ability to interrupt a critical piece of the U.S. economy.
Virtually no mandatory cybersecurity rules govern the millions of food and agriculture businesses that account for about a fifth of the U.S. economy. And now, the risk has become real.