Speaker 1: To prevent hoarding. Some stores in the US are limiting
Speaker 1: how much customers can purchase in terms of meat. Some
Speaker 1: Wendy's restaurants are out of hamburgers, for example. Some meat
Speaker 1: packing plants have briefly shut down because a bunch of
Speaker 1: workers were infected with the coronavirus. Now you've no doubt
Speaker 1: heard that President Trump has used the Defense Production Act
Speaker 1: to order meat processing plants to stay open to protect
Speaker 1: the food supply. Well, there's more news about the meat
Speaker 1: that you eat, or should I say there is news
Speaker 1: about the meat that you might not be eating. Meat
Speaker 1: buyers in China have greatly stepped up the amount of
Speaker 1: meat that they're buying from America. The reason. China's own
Speaker 1: supply of pigs is being decimated by a disease, so
Speaker 1: that Chi coms are wanting to pay premium prices to
Speaker 1: import meat. Smith Field Foods, a Chinese own company operating
Speaker 1: in the US, is shipping off more meat to China,
Speaker 1: so as Tyson Foods. Meanwhile, meat producers in America are
Speaker 1: war aarning grocery stores to be prepared for some disruptions.
Speaker 1: By the end of May, they say there might not
Speaker 1: be enough meat to meet the U S demand, so
Speaker 1: you get it. China is all about putting China first,
Speaker 1: which is why you should breathe a sigh of relief
Speaker 1: that we have a president who puts America first. Competition.
Speaker 1: Anybody see how that works.