Just so this is clear... I am not arguing that we should be shipping meat to China.
1. I am saying you introduced this as a red herring to what I had been discussing.
Covid's impact on meat industry workers.
There are several of these meat processing plants that only export their output.
Why should the workers be forced to labor under the Defense Production Act to ship meat to unfriendly foreign countries?
Sounds like the owners lobbied the politicians with cash with the sole consideration of making a profit.