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hlthe2b

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5. Meat processing workers ARE most certainly included in the AG worker category.

Reply to KS Toronado (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 5, 2021, 05:43 PM

Jan 2021

Not your butcher at Safeway but actual meat processing workers.

Meat Processing workers have been subject to some of the worst COVID impacts and while largely immigrant workers, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has allowed their big R-contributing employers to ignore safety factors, speed up the lines, and generally abuse the living hell out of them.

So, yeah, they absolutely SHOULD be getting the vaccine ASAP.

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Why should farmers be allowed to cut in line for the vaccine? [View all] KS Toronado Jan 2021 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2021 #1

maybe it's about meat factory workers KayF Jan 2021 #2

Nope, meat cutters or butchers are factory workers, not farm or ag workers. KS Toronado Jan 2021 #3

Meat processing workers ARE most certainly included in the AG worker category. hlthe2b Jan 2021 #5

False. TwilightZone Jan 2021 #6

Yes. It is targeted to meat processing workers who have had some of the worst COVID impacts hlthe2b Jan 2021 #4

Yes, meat processing workers should be toward the front of the essential workers group. KS Toronado Jan 2021 #7