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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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Posted by:Skidmark

#7  Other than Lansing.

That's a meaty one!
Posted by: SteveS   2020-04-16 19:25  

#6  ^Late Snark O' The Day entry!
Posted by: Frank G   2020-04-16 18:31  

#5  Other than Lansing.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-16 18:29  

#4  Good thing there's no pork production plants in Michigan!
Posted by: Bobby   2020-04-16 17:40  

#3  Yesterday, Procopius2k. The operative sentence:

In fact, the plant will reopen in a matter of days.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-04-16 16:27  

#2  Chinese owned? Interesting...
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-16 15:16  

#1  Did we just had a article the other day on this in which the South Dakota plant is reopening?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-16 13:59  

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