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Business/Economics, U.S.

Hunger Games 2023: Chickens & Cows starving to death, blamed on Union Pacific, Climate Change, Labor Shortage?

06 January 2023 (14:49-UTC-07 Tango 06) 16 Dey 1401/13 Jumada t-Tania 1444/15 Xin-Chou 4720/06 январь 2023 года

For the second time, the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) ordered railroad logistics company Union Pacific (UP) to deliver feed to the Foster Farms operations in Livingston, California.  Millions of chickens and hundreds of cattle are in danger of starving to death, due to ongoing logistics problems with deliveries of feed!

The first time UP was ordered to make the deliveries it blamed lack of employees, now it blames climate change!  UP claims snowy weather, in December 2022, disrupted deliveries to 20 western states.

This latest ‘order’ by the STB is specifically about deliveries to the industrial food producer Foster Farms, which lodged a complaint with the STB.  Foster Farms claims it is being forced to buy much more expensive feed in the meantime. The feed is more expensive because it is being hauled in by tractor-trailers, of course this means Foster Farms will pass on the extra cost to the consumers.

The delivery problems involving UP are not new, the STB got many similar complaints about UP delivery problems in Spring 2022.

More recent problems for UP:  UP joins three other railroad operations to halt STB arbitration order concerning rail shipping rates

Unions, rails clash over hiring data as UP faces regulatory heat

UP under fire for excessive use of embargoes

U.S. Hunger Games 2022: AGED INFRASTRUCTURE CUTS OFF WATER SUPPLY TO ARKANSAS SCHOOL/CITY, NATIONAL GUARD DEPLOYED!

Global Hunger Games 2022: STARVATION IN YEMEN? 36-TONS OF FOOD THROWN AWAY, FISHERMEN PREVENTED FROM FISHING!

Business/Economics, International, Technology, U.S.

H5N1 spread its wings, again. Hong Kong reporting the killing of thousands suspected of being infected

Hong Kong officials reporting that in just the past few days they’ve had to kill 17,000 chickens from China, because one tested positive for H5N1.

Hong Kong seems to be the jumping off point for global spread of H5N1, because of their large poultry markets located in an area overcrowded with humans.

In 2008 Hong Kong killed tens of thousands of chickens after finding some infected with H5N1. Most of Hong Kong’s chickens come from China.

But before anyone gets too upset, there are vaccines for H5N1, and since 2003 H5N1 killed about 331 people around the world.  It’s the new bio-terror weaponized version of H5N1, created by scientists paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars, that should have you worried.