"In WI and OH, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in FL, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-destroying-food.html

"The amount of waste is staggering. The nation’s largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons of milk each day. A single chicken processor is smashing 750,000 unhatched eggs every week."

"The quarantines have shown just how many more vegetables Americans eat when meals are prepared for them in restaurants than when they have to cook for themselves.

'People don’t make onion rings at home,' said Shay Myers, awhose fields straddle the border of Oregon and Idaho."

"A week ago, Rose Hartschuh, who runs the farm with her family, watched her father-in-law flush 31,000 pounds of milk into a lagoon. It took more than an hour for the milk to flow out of its refrigerated tank and down the drain pipe."