JBS
Swift recalls 6.5 million pounds of beef tainted with salmonella, by Ann
Corcoran, 10/5/18.
A week ago it was Cargill in Ft. Morgan, CO recalling beef
that was believed to be responsible for at least one death and scores of
illnesses from E.Coli. (See here that
a Tennessee family is suing Cargill!).
Greeley, CO-based JBS USA is the American food processing company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A., a Brazilian company that is the world’s largest beef producer. A Brazilian meatpacker is changing America!
Foreign-owned Big Meat hires Lutherans to help them find and retain refugee labor. That is the crux of this story and not in my wildest dreams did I think that money was directly changing hands between the meat industry and a federal refugee contractor, in this case Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Also see my ‘health issues’ category here.
We
recently told you about Cargill here when
they settled a religious discrimination suit with Somali refugee workers.
JBS Swift is headquartered in Greeley,
CO. I took this photo in the summer of 2016 on my tour of refugee-overloaded
towns. See here how worried JBS was when Trump lowered the refugee cap. Big
Meat braces for refugee shortage:
This week it is JBS Swift
headquartered in Greeley, CO that is recalling even more than Cargill.
Both JBS and Cargill hire
extensively from the refugee population with the help of the nine federal resettlement contractors and
the US State Department.
From Food Safety News: (hat
tip: ‘ManxCatsRule’): JBS in massive beef recall over 16-state Salmonella
outbreak with 57 illnesses
Raw ground beef is the
probable source of a new 16-state Salmonella outbreak involving 57 illnesses,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
announced Thursday, along with a massive recall.
The recall is for more
than 6.5 million pounds of beef products from JBS Tolleson Inc. in Tolleson, AZ. The trace-back investigation by FSIS,
the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state health and
agriculture agencies have identified JBS as the common supplier of the various
raw, non-intact beef products.
Consumption of food
contaminated with Salmonella can cause salmonellosis, one of the most common
bacterial foodborne illnesses. The most common symptoms of salmonellosis are
diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever within 12 to 72 hours after eating the
contaminated product.
The illness usually lasts 4
to 7 days. Most people recover without treatment. In some persons, however, the
diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. Older
adults, infants, and persons with weakened immune systems are more likely to
develop a severe illness. Individuals concerned about an illness should contact
their health care provider.
See my file on JBS Swift by clicking here. Don’t miss this 2017 post! Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is
one of the nine federally funded resettlement contractors.
No
surprise of course, but I thought my Texas readers might like to know. If you
missed it the other day, see my post about the numbers for fiscal year
2018 that just closed on September 30th. Texas
was the number one resettlement state in the nation in FY18.
From Houston Public Media: Texas Sees Major Cuts in Refugees from
Iraq, Syria in 2018 - Texas welcomed 67 percent fewer refugees in fiscal year
2018 than in 2017, down to 1,697 people from 4,768.
Some
of the starkest drops in refugee arrivals were from Iraq, Iran and Syria,
majority Muslim countries. Iraqi refugee resettlement dropped from 949 to 25 in
Texas. The number of Syrian refugees went from 455 to just one in fiscal year
2018.
Sobia Siddiqui, CAIR TX - Sobia Siddiqui, communications coordinator for
the Council on American-Islamic Relations Texas Chapter, said the cuts are
discriminatory.
“Our president ran his campaign and one of his strongest and most vocal
points is that he called for a ban on all Muslims,” said Siddiqui.
She
said there are refugee families in Houston who can’t be reunited with family
members facing dangerous situations abroad because of the ban.
“There’s
a lot of anxiety and uncertainty about if people will be able to have their
families rejoin them back here in the United States or even in Houston,”
said Dan Stoecker, CEO of The Alliance, which offers refugee services in
Houston.
The
Alliance is
a subcontractor of the Ethiopian
Community Development Council, the smallest, and likely most
vulnerable to a federal budget cut, of the nine refugee contractors that
monopolize all resettlement to the US.
In
2016, I excitedly reported that the State of Texas withdrew
from the US Refugee Admissions Program, but you can see that without a
follow-up legal challenge by the state it was a meaningless move. The
contractors now run the program in the state!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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