The world’s leading meat producer, Tyson Foods Inc., announced the closure of its largest pork packing plant in Iowa this week as the company transitions towards insect farming to produce
“meat alternatives.”
The meat giant also indicated that four additional plants would close by mid-fiscal 2024, just days after announcing the closure of two major chicken plants.
“After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to permanently close our Perry, Iowa pork facility,” spokesperson said in a statement.
“We understand the impact of this decision on our team members and the local community.”
The closure of the Perry, Iowa, pork-packing plant comes just weeks after the Biden administration announced plans to use American tax dollars to convince Americans to “eat more bugs” to help “save the planet” from “climate change.“
The new push for a “meatless future” is part of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” agenda to not only eradicate meat and dairy from our diets, but also destroy farmers‘ livelihoods in the name of stopping global warming.
This comes as Tyson Foods recently announced it was partnering with a Dutch bug-protein company to implement “insect farming” infrastructure across the United States.
“Today, we’re focused on more of [an] ingredient application with insect protein than we are a consumer application,” Tyson Foods CFO John R. Tyson said in an Oct. 17 statement.
“The insect lifecycle provides the opportunity for full circularity within our value chain, strengthening our commitment to building a more sustainable food system for the future,” Tyson’s CFO said.
The shift from meat to insect protein aligns with the WEF’s so-called “environmental concerns,” as it claims that insect consumption uses less water and land than traditional meat farming.
Moreover, insects would be fed livestock waste to help reduce pollutants emitted into the atmosphere, before ultimately being sold for human consumption.
“As one of the largest food companies in the world, we look to create value in what is not consumed as human food,” a Tyson Foods spokesperson told Fox News last year.
“We see the partnership with Protix as an extension of that.”
“No or low footprint protein is the goal and we see the partnership with Protix as another way to accelerate progress towards that goal.”
The announcement of the meat plant closure comes days after Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos confirmed he was plowing $60 million into research and development of “alternative proteins,”
“Alternative proteins are an imperative if we are to stay within planetary boundaries, if we are to feed 10 billion people within those boundaries,” Andy Jarvis, the director of the BEF’s “Future of Food” initiative, told Bloomberg.
Tyson Foods food quality closed its facilities over the last few years, including two in Virginia and Arkansas in May 2023.
It also planned to eliminate about 10% of corporate jobs and 15% of senior leadership roles.
Tyson President and CEO Donnie King announced the closure of the following plants in 2024:
- North Little Rock Arkansas
- Corydon Indiana
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Via https://disswire.com/tyson-foods-closes-major-meat-plant-as-it-transitions-to-insect-farming/
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Sounds like Tyson is in trouble, and the “alternative protein” excuse is a ruse. I question Bezos’ involvement, and this Dutch outfit that is following recommendations of the WEF. Where did they get the idea of 10 billion human beings on the planet, or the idea that it’s the WEF’s, Bezos’, Tyson’s, or Protix’ job to feed them bugs?
What is the BEF? Is the Biden administration looking to lose this year’s election? Let’s see President Biden put his mouth around the bugs he’s funding with US tax money. Wanna bet that money is targeted for bug growing subsidies?
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BEF is a sustainability products index. See https://www.b-e-f.org/ It’s part of a scheme for Wall Street billionaires to buy and sell ecosytem services. By capitalizing nature, they create a new platform to raise debt on.
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Did you mean “scam” to trade ecosystem services?
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That’s exactly what I mean.
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Good catch Katherine.
As soon a I saw the title my immediate thoughts were “Oh great! More subsidies, more job losses, the consumers pay taxes for the subsidies and for the product so they are all going to be poorer and the billion dollar corporates get richer at the expense of everyone else.”
I find it risible that these CO2 fanatics can call themselves environmentalists when everything that they promote to “save the planet” is actually destroying it further. If they were up in arms about plastics and destruction of forests(which are, with the oceans), the largest carbon sinks around the globe, destructive over fishing, urban sprawl – tearing up thousands of miles of countryside to accommodate electric outlets for EV’s (which only the wealthier people can afford)Bird choppers and miles of PV panels(not acres, but miles) I might have some respect for their views, but they aren’t doing any of this.
I will not be eating deep fried Kentucky Crickets or mashed mealy bugs, but if the WEF has it’s way, starvation is on the menu. By getting rid of the small farmers who feed 72% of the world and concentrating all the food in the billionaire class, the collective west at least will be grubbing(no pun intended)around for food, while the ROTW(Rest Of The World)if they have any wherewithal will be aligning themselves with the SCO, BRICS+ other multi polar organisations ensuring they at least have natural food available.
I could go on, but you get the gist.
Rant over!
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Mohandeer, We are on the same page. I have to wonder how even the billionnaire class will obtain the basic resources to support their luxurious lifestyles.
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The billionaire classes will always have the means by hook or more likely crook holding the food and other resources for ransom leaving us with no other choice but to enrich them & keep them secure and comfortable and they will be the “state” and masters while we will be the slaves. It has always been so.
If I live to see it, I will go elsewhere in the world but not in the collective soon to be subordinated west.
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The carbon trading market allows Wall Street billionaires to capitalize (ie raise debt on) the carbon trading market, Mohandeer. As far as I can see, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the environment.
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The Carbon Trading/Offset scam is of course just another way to acquire wealth at the expense of others and the common denominator about the wealthy is that they can just not ever have enough. I’m sure we can all quote many instances where this has been proven to be the case. Wall Street itself is just another fraud wrought against the plebs.
As Katherine would say(and I’m sure Shelby and Auntie) “we are on the same page”.
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