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The Cost Of Being “Essential”

From NPR's Embedded: The workers who produce pork, chicken, and beef in plants around the country have been deemed "essential" by the government...

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Trump to order U.S. meat processing plants to stay open despite coronavirus fears

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday plans to order meat processing plants concerned about coronavirus outbreaks to stay open to protect...

America’s Mass Hog Cull Begins With Meat to Rot in Landfills

The mass culling of America’s hog herd is starting as a wave of shutdowns at processing plants creates livestock gluts that farmers can...

Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector

CHICAGO (Reuters) - With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to...

Meat Supply Threats Grow With First Brazil Shutdown

It’s no longer just the U.S. that’s facing a meat scare. Top exporter Brazil is seeing its first plant shutdown, meaning the coronavirus...

JBS to Shut Down Minnesota Pork Plant After COVID-19 Outbreak

JBS SA, the world’s top meat company, will shutter its pork processing facility in Minnesota following an outbreak of the coronavirus, adding to...

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