The presumptive Democratic president nominee said during a Yahoo News Town Hall that workers were being sacrificed in order to increase profits.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said that the conditions in meatpacking plants have to be safer for workers as the U.S. tries to keep the food supply chain viable during the coronavirus pandemic.
Biden was asked if increased meat prices to pay for improved worker safety was an acceptable burden to place on the American people. Last month, President Trump announced he was using the Defense Production Act in order to keep meatpacking factories open and secure the supply chain. This raised concerns from unions that there wasn’t adequate protection from the coronavirus in the facilities, as multiple plants had to shut down because they became public health issues for both the workers and the communities in which they lived.
“It’s not about how expensive or how cheap food is,” said Andrés. “Food has to have the right price. Right now, the way our farm bill works, we are subsidizing certain segments of our food production and others that we need more, like fruit and vegetables, are not having the same opportunity and benefits of being subsidized by the federal government.
“Our food policy needs to be one that protects the people that produces those meals,” said Andrés. “Cheap food at the expense of unhealthy workers and an ecosystem that is deteriorating every day, I don’t think any American I know wants that. They want a good America that is clean America, that is a healthy America and so we can keep looking at the future with good food, one plate of food at the time.
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