Mass pig cull to begin in US with meat headed for landfills
JBS abattoir prepares to slaughter about 160,000 pigs a day nationwide
28 April 2020 - 19:36
New York — The mass culling of the US’s pig herd is starting as a wave of shutdowns at processing plants creates livestock gluts that farmers can no longer sustain.
Starting on Wednesday, about 13,000 pigs a day will be killed at a JBS abattoir in Minnesota, according to US Representative Collin Peterson. Rather than cuts being turned into hams and bacon for stay-at-home shoppers, the carcasses may be dumped in landfills or go to rendering plants...
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