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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
2020-04-16
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
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