Consequences Of Cyberattack On World's Largest Meat Producer

Food writer Corby Kummer spoke with Boston Public Radio on Thursday about the cyberattack against JBS, the world’s largest meat processing company.

“Plants were closed down because they were unable to schedule workers and it interrupted the entire supply chain,” he said. “The idea that you’ve got cattle and need a slaughterhouse to be open to continue the supply chain, that’s being broken and it can impact farmers as well as raise meat prices.”

The result of this cyberattack could cause waste, Kummer noted. “Probably these slaughtered animals are not going to meat, just euthanized, and buried the way the supply chain disruptions of the early pandemic did last year,” he said. “It’s dangerous to be subject and this vulnerable to a cyberattack.”