The Trump administration approved faster line speeds at chicken plants. Those facilities are more

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

likely to have covid-19 cases.

The Trump administration allowed 15 poultry plants to increase slaughter line speeds during the pandemic, an action that boosts production and makes it more difficult for workers to maintain space between one another. It also appears to have hastened the spread of the coronavirus.

Now the outgoing administration is rushing to finalize a rule that would make the faster line speeds permanent and expand them to dozens of other poultry plants — a move at odds with views held by President-elect Joe Biden.

“Whether it’s cattle, whether it’s beef, whether it’s pigs, whether it’s chicken, they’re moving down that line faster and faster and faster to increase the profit rate,” Biden said last year. “People are getting sicker. .?.?. People are getting hurt. The very thing we should be doing now is making sure these people are protected, that they have space 6 feet apart, that they have shields around them. Slow the process up.”

Since 2018, the Trump administration has issued — or reissued — temporary waivers that grant permission to 54 poultry plants to increase line speeds. These plants are allowed to speed up lines from 140 to 175 birds per minute, a 25 percent increase.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-trump-administration-approved-faster-line-speeds-at-chicken-plants-those-facilities-are-more-likely-to-have-covid-19-cases/ar-BB1cruKc?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[machoneman]

1. Permanent my butt! Joe can reverse almost any Trump perogative not...

..enshrined by a law voted upon by the House, Senate or both.

[secondwind]

2. I sure hope so!!!!!!!

[sakabatou]

3. Profits over people again

[LiberalArkie]

4. The workers are the ones who need the vaccines.

[FormerOstrich]

5. They justified

the increase speed as essential to keep the supply chain. Then they increased exports. The workers weren't getting sick to provide for Americans. But for profits. All about money.

[nam78_two]

6. It will ensure that these wretched animals have ever more horrifying

Deaths. The more we understand of animal intelligence, the less justifiable this is.

[HUAJIAO]

7. Sorry I had to chuckle for a second

Been reading.. trump breaks law in call to Raffensperger
Trump to fly to Scotland'
Trump screaming in west wing.
Trump, threatening to loose proud boys on America
Trump to continue to defy election..
etc
etc
etc.

And amidst all that I suddenly come across--

" Trump administration approved faster line speeds at chicken plants. "



I know. It is not funny. It was just the context.

[Massacure]

8. Why does the government regulate line speed in the first place?

It seems like an odd regulation to me and I'm curious what the rational is behind it.

The government should require six feet of space between workers, masks, face shields, plexiglass barriers. If those requirements are met, why bother worrying about line speed?