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Experts worry US food supply may be at risk because of plant closures due to coronavirus

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Industries all over the world are struggling because of the coronavirus. The latest here in the U.S.: the meat industry, with the closure of multiple pork processing plants this month Smithfield Foods has closed its plant in Sioux Falls, after at least 200 people who work there, tested positive for COVID-19.

That plant alone represents 4-5% of America’s pork production, about 18 million servings a day, Smithfield’s CEO says. He adds, the closures are quote “pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply.” At least two other pork plants closed this month, in Iowa and Pennsylvania, and that's not all. “There's been another big plant in Greeley, Colorado that is a big beef slaughter plant that has had to shut down

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