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If you thought the toilet paper shortage was bad, just wait. Meat may be next in America. 1., John H...
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If you thought the toilet paper shortage was bad, just wait. Meat may be next in America.
1., John H. Tyson, chairman of the board of Tyson Foods, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the company to shut all the stores across the country.
“This means one thing,” he wrote. “2. As pork, beef, and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain.”
The ripple effect will make its way to consumers, Tyson noted, as “There will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen our facilities that are currently closed.”
The Tyson plant in Waterloo, Iowa, was one that closed, having been linked to 182 cases of the coronavirus, which is nearly half the entire county's total. In addition to that facility, pork processing plants for Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and JBS in Worthington, Minnesota, also closed indefinitely earlier this April.3.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported record-high red meat, beef, and pork production in March. However, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, representatives of more than 250,000 industry workers, slaughter(屠宰) capacity is trending down 25% for pork and 10% for beef as 13 plants have closed. 4.
In a report, Julie Niederhoff, an associate professor of supply chain management at Syracuse University, was optimistic. “We’re not going to run out of food. 5.”
Also, Niederhoff claimed that the state of the food chain remains enough, despite shortage of a particular brand or type of food.
A.Demand from consumers is rising as many are sheltering at home.
B.The food supply chain is fragile.
C.The government will take some measures.
D.Because some of its 100,000 workers have fallen ill.
E.The COVID-19 pandemic is very serious.
F.These three plants make up about 15% of pork production in the U.S..
G.We’re going to run out of maybe your one particular favorite food.
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