Canada has blocked imports from the biggest U.S. pork processing plant, a facility run by Smithfield Foods (SFD.O) in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the company said on Friday.
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Factory farming is immoral and plain wrong, so I’m happy to see this. We should only be consuming Canadian animals which we know are treated better.
We should only be consuming Canadian animals which we know are treated better.
This is how people brainwash themselves into feeling good about committing cruelty and violence. This specific method is finding an example that is even worse, and living in that tiny margin between an atrocity, and a slightly smaller atrocity. I managed to go for years being an “ethical consumer of animals” before I stopped lying to myself.
It’s not even true that Canadian animals are treated better. We have some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world. For example, if it’s -31C out, and you know that animals will die suffering exposure on the truck that you’re loading to haul for 16 hours with no food or water, that’s perfectly okay. Not only is it not a crime, it’s business as usual.
So, the suspension was due to three strikes on sub-quality goods delivered, and unrelated to the tariffs.
I’m imagining that where there is some interpretation of quality and rules, American suppliers will find all countries stricter while their government plays chicken with trade wars.
USDA will allow plant to continue feeding Americans is the news here.
This can only be a good thing. I read that series on Arstechnica about the Boar’s Head listeria contamination. “Heavy meat buildup on walls”
Yeah, nobody should be buying Boar’s Head anymore.
