Tag: Smithfield Foods

• 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.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  US pork supply “on the edge”: Smithfield Foods shutters South Dakota major plant indefinitely

  

  The world's biggest pork producer is shuttering a major United States plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak among employees, with the company warning that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls.