Tyson Foods last week announced it will be shutting down its pork plant in Perry, Iowa, leaving over 1,000 workers facing unemployment.
Last year the company closed two poultry plants in Virginia and Arkansas. The food giant said it expects to close at least three more meat facilities in 2024, according to USA Today.
While it has yet to confirm the reason for the closures, the company appears to be backing away from meat production which is considered a threat to the environment due to livestock emissions. Tyson Foods is instead investing in a more environmentally friendly option — insects.
In October Tyson Foods announced its partnership with Protix, a bug food business located in the Netherlands. The food giant revealed that the two companies decided to construct a sizable facility that will be utilized to produce insect food, in addition to a financial investment in Protix.
“The to-be-built facility in the U.S. will house an enclosed system to support all aspects of insect protein production including the breeding, incubating, and hatching of insect larvae,” said Tyson Foods in a statement. “In addition to ingredients for the aquaculture and pet food industries, processed larvae may also be used as ingredients within livestock and plant feed.”
Protix, which was named one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers in 2015, produces over 14,000 metric tons of insect food annually to “fight climate change.” Globalist governments and the World Economic Forum (WEF), which welcomes the day when “we can all buy a bag of edible insects at our local grocery store,” have made eating insects for the weather a major objective.
Amid these calls, America’s beef inventory in January was the smallest since 1951 after dropping 2% from 2023, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Last year’s herd declined 4% from the year before.
Last month Texas cattleman Shad Sullivan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that this is by design, and that American cattle farmers are being deliberately left to flounder as part of the globalist “climate change” agenda.
“The overreaching problem is globalism,” Sullivan said. “It’s the global elites claiming that climate change is ruining the world and that we must implement sustainability, which is just production and consumption control across the world. We see it going on all over.
“Because of this, we are becoming vertically integrated in our system. The beef cattle industry is the last bastion of freedom. And so we have to take the bull by the horns, so to speak, and stop these global elites from implementing all of these . . . sustainable regulations that they claim that cattle are ruining the planet. And we have to stop that and make sure people understand that sustainability is nothing but communism,” Sullivan continued.
The rancher warned that if the globalist agenda is not stopped in its tracks, Americans will find themselves eating insects in the next 20 years.
“As we know, two of the four major meat packers have invested heavily in bugs. One, Tyson Foods, announc[ed] two weeks ago that they’re going to build a $500 million plant for crickets. So this problem is real, but it’s a liberty and freedom issue. That’s where we have to focus, we have to stop this.”
