{"id":767,"date":"2022-07-26T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T20:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farmstand.chee.studio\/lawsuit-against-smithfield-for-lying-to-public-will-move-forward\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:26:51","slug":"lawsuit-against-smithfield-for-lying-to-public-will-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/lawsuit-against-smithfield-for-lying-to-public-will-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Judge denies pork giant\u2019s motion to dismiss case<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smithfield Foods lost its bid to dismiss a case alleging that the meatpacking giant repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to protect its bottom line at the expense of its workers\u2019 health and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El <a href=\"http:\/\/farmstand.org\/es\/resource-materials\/order-denying-smithfields-motion-to-dismiss-fww-v-smithfield\/\">decisi\u00f3n<\/a> from Judge Heidi M. Pasichow, released on July 22, means that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Smithfield-Complaint-Packet.pdf\">caso<\/a>, filed by the advocacy group Food &amp; Water Watch in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, will proceed. The group is represented by itself and Public Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and especially in the early stages of the global health crisis, Smithfield has mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to bolster its image and keep its production plants operating at full capacity despite the grave risk to workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When major COVID-19 outbreaks struck Smithfield plants in 2020, the company told consumers that closing processing plants to protect workers\u2019 lives would result in national meat shortages. It also reassured the public that its pandemic safety protocols were keeping workers as safe as possible <b>\u2014<\/b> a claim it continues to make to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit alleges both claims are false. The country was never in danger of a meat shortage: at the height of the pandemic, Smithfield increased its exports and held billions of pounds of meat in warehouses across the country. The company\u2019s fearmongering led to record sales <b>\u2014 <\/b>and profits. Meanwhile, Smithfield has consistently failed to implement essential safety measures at its processing plants, and workers still face dangerous working conditions, particularly as new COVID variants emerge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the company sought to have the case dismissed, a congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov\/files\/2022.5.12%20-%20SSCC%20report%20Meatpacking%20FINAL.pdf\">informe<\/a> exposed the role that Smithfield and other meatpacking giants played in inciting panic about the national meat supply, and documented how companies like Smithfield aggressively lobbied the federal government to keep plants running with \u201cglaringly deficient\u201d safety protocols, endangering workers\u2019 lives. The report also revealed how Smithfield actively impeded state and federal policies that would have better protected all meatpacking workers, including its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile Smithfield told the public it was doing \u2018everything in its power\u2019 to protect its workers, the company was actually cutting backroom deals with federal regulators that halted life-saving safety precautions from being instituted at its plants,\u201d said <b>Emily Miller, abogada de plantilla de Food &amp; Water Watch<\/b>. \u201cWe are grateful that the court will provide us an opportunity to make our case, and to deliver justice for workers and consumers who continue to be harmed by Smithfield\u2019s reckless behavior and incessant fearmongering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSmithfield lied to consumers about workers\u2019 protections from COVID-19 and even made up a story about an impending national meat shortage\u2014all to justify continuously operating its slaughterhouses at full tilt at the height of the pandemic, no matter how many workers or people in the surrounding community got sick,\u201d said <b>Abogada Ellen Noble de Public Justice Budd<\/b>. \u201cPublic Justice is glad that the court quickly denied Smithfield\u2019s motion to dismiss, recognizing that Food &amp; Water Watch has properly alleged violations under the DC Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) and should have an opportunity to seek discovery and prove its case. We look forward to doing just that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food &amp; Water Watch is also represented by Berger Montague and Towards Justice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward Judge denies pork giant\u2019s motion to dismiss case Smithfield Foods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[41],"issue":[19,17],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-workers","issue-consumer-rights","issue-worker-justice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward - 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