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A local sheriff also calls Tyson’s response to COVID-19 “inept, reactionary and dysfunctional”
Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order for meatpacking plants to stay open and operational, despite being. Meat plants across the country have announced temporary closures due to worker illness and sanitation issues, which could possibly lead to a meat shortage, something big agriculture and the federal government want to avoid.
The Sheriff of Waterloo, Iowa also spoke out against the push to reopen plants, telling Rachel Maddow that Tyson Foods has shown “inept, reactionary and dysfunctional responses” to calls to shut down the Waterloo plant. “We know that 90% of those tested is because of the Waterloo plant,” said Sheriff Tony Thompson. “It incenses me.”
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