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Chinese-owned Smithfield Foods shutters two more meat processing plants in Missouri and Wisconsin after massive coronavirus outbreak closed South Dakota factory, threatening the American food supply chain
Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Smithfield Foods on Wednesday closed two more plants in Missouri and Wisconsin

  • Plant in South Dakota closed after becoming the biggest single source of infection in the United States

  • CEO warns that packing plants are a 'bottleneck' in the US food supply chain

  • Closures threaten to raise the price of pork or cause temporary shortages

  • Smithfield was purchased by Chinese meat packing giant WH Group in 2013

  • FDA says there is no evidence of virus transmission through food or packaging

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-16
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