When coronavirus hit America's meat industry
The Story of Money
Manuela Saragosa
4.4 • 400 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This was supposed to be a record year for the US meat industry. But when coronavirus hit the meat-packing plants, it exposed a vulnerable link in the supply chain. We take a look at how our meat gets from the farm to the supermarket, and ask what the fall in production could mean for the US-China trade truce. With the FT’s Gregory Meyer.
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Further reading:
Coronavirus: return to work divides US meat industry (paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/f6e2b4ad-4a62-4c6f-8348-38704e3e81f6
Tyson Foods warns of sales declines and rising costs (paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/f0b4f894-cd46-44f2-b7b0-10707de449db
John Tyson laments breakdown of meat system his family pioneered (paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/82c2f5fa-1070-4388-853b-a2ed430fbf04
Pandemic accelerates shift to meat substitutes (paywall)
https://www.ft.com/content/0127984a-6def-4040-9bca-002b6ffd4e0a
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| 0:31.6 | Meat processing plants are not typically places seen or visited by the general public, |
| 0:38.0 | and you might not know what's going on inside, but you might be tipped off by the intense smell of the process of |
| 0:47.0 | slaughtering animals and turning them into meat. |
| 0:49.2 | There's a Tyson Foods beef plant outside of Pasco, Washington. |
| 0:52.8 | It's the second largest employer in the county. |
| 0:55.4 | It is a largely windowless factory |
| 0:58.1 | that looks like almost like a warehouse perhaps |
| 1:00.5 | with some additional exhaust. |
| 1:02.1 | It's flanked on a couple sides by vast stockyards |
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