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Farmers are dumping millions of gallons of milk. Burying thousands of onions. Plowing vegetables back into the soil.
The pandemic has created staggering amounts of food waste, even as people struggle financially. It's tragic and dystopian. w/ @mcorkery5: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
The pandemic has created staggering amounts of food waste, even as people struggle financially. It's tragic and dystopian. w/ @mcorkery5: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Over the last couple weeks, the pandemic has caused chaos across the whole food supply chain. Here's @nkulish on the overwhelming demand facing food banks, which have struggled with a shortage of donations and volunteers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/business/economy/coronavirus-food-banks.html
At slaughterhouses, workers are forced to stay in close proximity, raising the risk of infection. @mirjordan and @itscaitlinhd on the dangers facing poultry workers: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/coronavirus-chicken-meat-processing-plants-immigrants.html
And as many as 75 percent of independent restaurants could go out of business, as @kimseverson and I reported last month. The almost total shutdown of restaurants across the country is the main reason farmers are now destroying fresh food. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/dining/local-restaurants-coronavirus.html
