Casa Blanca reduces slaughter and places 350 workers on unemployment insurance

The Casa Blanca (Fricasa) meatpacking plant in Paysandú has sent 350 workers on unemployment insurance. According to El Telégrafo of Paysandú, after learning that the plant was involved in the Conexión Ganadera case with a debt of US$25.5 million, producers and consignors drastically reduced the supply of cattle to the plant—cutting the slaughter rate from around 1,000 head per week to fewer than 200. According to the local paper, the company is not giving up and is speeding up the search for solutions to resume its usual slaughter pace.