Foster Farms: Feds say Union Pacific must deliver grain to California chickens
Source: Associated Press
Feds say railroad must deliver grain to California chickens
By JOSH FUNK
January 3, 2022
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered Union Pacific railroad to make sure a livestock producer gets the grain it needs in California to prevent millions of chickens and hundreds of thousands of cattle from starving.
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board told the railroad it must improve service to Foster Farms to keep it from running out of feed for livestock it raises. It’s is the second time in the past year regulators issued an emergency order related to delivery problems at Foster Farms, which is based in Livingston, California, as the railroad struggled with a shortage of crews.
This time, however, Union Pacific blamed the weather for its problems. Spokesman Mike Jaixen said last month’s extreme cold and blizzard conditions slowed deliveries in 20 of the 23 western states the railroad operated in, and additional problems are possible because of the forecast for more severe winter weather.
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Foster Farms called on the STB to get Union Pacific to give priority to grain trains heading from the Midwest to the livestock producer’s facilities in Traver, Turlock, and Delhi, California.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-transportation-california-omaha-28652f6baad4048b30315d9e6a58a3e7
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run out? Obviously using a Just-in-Time inventory system for their feed is not working out. Who cares if animals die as long as the big corporations save a few dollars?
Corporations like Foster Farms suck. They house thousand of chickens, in ammonia filled warehouses, who never see daylight. Yet they label their chicken as humanely raised.
More chickens are raised and killed for food than all other land animals combined, yet not a single federal law protects chickens from abuse. Sigh........ 
