The United States may lack meat, warn the largest pork producer in the Nation
Coronavirus farm processing plants, which probably disrupt grocery supplies.
The biggest producer countries pork products revealed on Easter Sunday plans to close its Sioux Falls, South Dakota plant indefinitely because of an outbreak ofcoronavirus among his workers. Therefore,Smithfield Foods WARNING IS public that the United States are moving towards a frightening meat shortage. Etc.
Smithfield announced in a companyPress release that the"Closing this facility, combined with a growing list of other proteins from plants that especially our industry, pushing the country dangerously close to the edge in terms of food."
"It is impossible to keep our groceries stored if our plants do not work," CEO and President Kenneth Sullivan cited in the announcement. "These facility closures will also have serious repercussions, possibly devastating and disastrous for many in the supply chain, first of all, our farmers of our country. These farmers have nowhere to send their animals."
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The outbreak of coronavirus has a very dangerous stress on the essential institutions and workershealth care, first response, andgrocery store employees. However, food processing plants workers from which the goods shelves of the grocery store come from the original are neglected.
It is not only the closure of slaughterhouses and meat processing plants that disrupt the American food supply. Dairy farmers also sent warning of serious slots signals in the supply chain that leads them to get rid of unsold milk and other dairy products spoil.
Sullivan noted that Smithfield Foods has continued to run their facilities for one reason: "To support the food supply of our country during this pandemic." He added: "We believe it is our obligation to help feed the country, now more than ever."
"We have a crucial choice as a nation we will produce food or not, even in the face Covid-19," Sullivan concluded.
Smithfield Foods noted at the end of theirPress release that "byU.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)No evidence of food or food packaging is associated with the transmission Covid-19. More information about the 19-Covid Smithfield answer can be foundhere. "
