The Brazilian Association of Animal Proteins (ABPA) warned, in a statement, that, unlike the promise made yesterday by the truck drivers’ leaders, there was still no release of live loads at various stops of the strike movement on the roads. The organization reports that it has received reports from producers with trucks transporting stationary animals in blockades across the country. “There are cases of animals with more than 50 hours without food,” the statement said.
According to the association, the circulation of feed trucks is also blocked in several places, which would take food to the farms scattered by small properties of the production poles. “The situation in the producing farms is very serious, with a lack of inputs and an imminent risk of hunger for the animals.” The country’s poultry and poultry production chain started Thursday with 120 cold storage plants – producers of chicken meat, turkeys, swine and others. “More than 175,000 workers are suspended throughout the country.”