Smithfield Foods CEO Kenneth Sullivan is griping about the media and elected leaders pointing out the risky work conditions to which the meatpacker has subjected its vulnerable workforce amidst coronavirus. While China’s pork-capitalist pawn in America has time to go off on Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker for fourteen pages and accuse “critics in the media” of being “detached from the realities of this worldwide pandemic”, Sullivan still hasn’t found time to actually talk to the media in Sioux Falls, where his unsafe pork plant sparked one of the biggest coronavirus outbreaks in the country:
…during the pandemic, for example, KELO.com News has made numerous requests for interviews, information, and clarification about the epidemic to Smithfield’s media representatives. Smithfield has not answered our inquiries over the past five months [Todd Epp, “Smithfield Foods CEO’s 14-Page Letter About Its Response to the Coronavirus,” KELO Radio, 2020.07.27].
Keep crying, Ken… but maybe take some time to cry directly to Todd Epp and other local reporters who, far from your accusation, have been keenly attached to the realities of the pandemic since March, as they’ve seen their own industry hit with financial losses and layoffs on top the Trumpist insults you throw at them and who would still be glad to talk directly with you and add your statements to their stories.