Tuesday, April 28, 2020

US Food Supply Chain Has Begun Breaking Down; COVID-19 May Soon Block Meat Delivery to Stores

Our nation's food supply chain to grocery stores is starting to break down due to the coronavirus, the New American website reports today (April 28, 2020).

Farmers have been plowing under crops that have no markets to ship them to, and area food banks say they cannot get enough food to continue operations.

John Tyson, chairman of the board at Tyson Foods Inc., warned about the impending crisis in a full-page ad published April 26 in the New York Times and other newspapers in which he warned, "The food supply chain is breaking."

Tyson said the prospect of closing down pork, beef, and chicken plants because of the coronavirus has made the U.S. supply chain "vulnerable."

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