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  • Global Food Supply Chains Beginning To Erode, Crisis Looms?

    04/16/2020 8:46:33 AM PDT · by blam · 111 replies
    The Gold Telegram ^ | 4-16-2020 | Tom Lewis
    As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days. It was announced yesterday; the world’s biggest pork producer is closing a primary U.S plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak amongst employees. Smithfield Foods Inc. will halt its pork-processing facility in South Dakota, which accounts for 4% to 5% of U.S pork production. The company also warned that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls. This is just one of the latest examples of the coronavirus beginning to disrupt...