The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Canadian meat producers has put normal operations out to pasture. Pork and cattle farmers are grappling with how to care for a growing number of animals as issues at processing plants unravel, leaving ranchers with increasing costs and losses.
For a pork producer like René Roy in Quebec, it’s been increasingly difficult to find solutions. “These pigs should go to slaughter, but now we keep them, so it means more feed,” he said. “And we’re not getting that money back because we’re not able to sell them.
It’s a two-fold problem here.” The Canadian Federation of Agriculture has warned that some pork producers are teetering on euthanasia as a consequence of the overcrowding and financial losses that