USDA to probe beef market after Tyson Foods slaughterhouse fire

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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue ordered an investigation into widening p...

CHICAGO - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue ordered an investigation into widening prices between cattle and beef on Wednesday after a recent fire at a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in Holcomb, Kansas, shut the plant.

At the same time, beef prices climbed as buyers for restaurants, food service companies and grocery chains scrambled for meat. But the USDA’s investigation “demonstrates the government’s understanding of the extreme strain placed on the cattle industry by the plant fire,” said Jennifer Houston, president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.

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First raids on the chicken factories and now fires in a beef plant.....soon we’ll all be beggin’ for that Impossible Whopper, 🤢🤢🤮

fire in a plant, rubber and metal in chicken JustTysonThings

Wait, we still have a USDA?

A vörös hús ennyire veszélyes volna?

putsssss

patersonjeff we need the iceman on the case.

The president lives on KFC and McDonalds so I’m assuming the USDA has limited standards...

GMO products

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