Tag: food supply

• Tuesday, May 5th 2020 - 06:46 UTC

  Dramatic boom of flour sales by lockdown baking

  

  A mill is producing a month's worth of flour every week to keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic. Supermarket shelves have been stripped of flour by shoppers either panic-buying or taking to lockdown baking.

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 07:33 UTC

  Trump orders meat processing plants to remain open to protect the food supply

  

  President Donald Trump ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States, despite concerns about coronavirus outbreaks, drawing a backlash from unions that said at-risk workers required more protection.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:03 UTC

  Brazil's Minerva and Alibaba agree on five-year beef supply deal to China

  

  Brazilian food company Minerva SA has signed memorandums of understanding with China's Alibaba and another five clients in the world's most populous nation to supply frozen beef for a period of five years.