NC agriculture officials: No meat shortages for now, plant worker safety is priority
Story Date: 4/30/2020

 

Source: Aaron Sanchez-Guerra and Tammy Grubb, NEWS & OBSERVER, 4/29/20



With coronavirus outbreaks in at least 13 North Carolina meat-processing plants, worker advocates this week said President Donald Trump must do more to protect workers if he wants to keep plants open. The president issued an executive order Tuesday, invoking the Defense Production Act and declaring the plants critical to food supply chains during the pandemic.

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