bell. staying on the subject because business leaders in industry bodies have been reacting to the news the government is to offer temporary visas lasting until christmas eve to 5000 foreign hgv drivers and 5500 poultry workers in a bid to limit disruption in the build up to christmas. other measures include sending nearly1 million letters to drivers who hold an hdv licence to encourage them back into the industry hgv. this follows calls from the food and drug industry for emergency measures. it s struggling with a lack of farm and factory workers and of course the truck drivers as well a lack of those and carbon dioxide shortages, all of which has had the british meat supply chain near breaking point. let s talk this through with nick allen, chief executive officer of the british meat processors association. good morning. good morninu. association. good morning. good morning- your association. good morning. good morning. your reaction association. good morning. good morning. you
vineyard and nantucket steamship authority was hit by a ransom attack. while the safety of its vessels was never threatened there were big delays and ticketing problem still going on today. no word on how much data that hackers were able to access and all of this coming on the heels of the cyber attack of the colonial pipeline and the world s largest meat processing plant, experts say there is literally no company and no sector of the economy that is immune to these ongoing problems. john: dozens of these attacks every day. laura, thank you. let s bring in fox news contributor daniel hoffman who spent several years living in russia as the cia chief of station. thanks for being here. the concern obviously as we saw our meat supply chain greatly affected, prices going up and american people directly affected by that. without the attack on the colonial pipeline, gas still above $3 per gallon now. what about other critical infrastructure?
ransom like colonial pipeline did. colonial paid $4.4 million, saying they were given no other option. my question going forward, is it incentivizing these criminal gangs to hack, because the companies have insurance against the hack? meaning the criminals know they re going to get paid. what about the thought of making it illegal to provide that insurance? i think that s where we are and where we need to be. there s a debate about this and a fair one that these are sort of negligible payoff to protect the system and why should the system go down all the time. i think we re at the stage given the frequency we ve seen and the boldness of these attacks, whether it s half of our grid in new england and the east coast, one-fifth of our meat supply chain, that we need to prohibit
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The global casing market is expected to record a value of US$5.90 billion in 2024, increasing at a CAGR of 2.48%, for the time period of 2020-2024. The factors such as increasing meat consumption, growing world population, escalating the fast-food market, rising demand for processed meat and rapid urbanisation would drive the growth of the market. However, the market growth would be challenged by the risks associated with diseases from natural casing and availability of alternative options. A few notable trends may include accelerating catering services, rising penetration of artificial casing and demand for enhanced flavours in sausages.
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