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Supply Chain: "Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables"

"Covid-19 and climate change are testing a food system that critics say has lost its resilience."

"In Florida, farmers are tossing away thousands of pounds of zucchini and leaving tomatoes to rot on the vine. In California, they're plowing under squash. In Wisconsin, dairy producers are dumping milk down drains. And in at least eight states, the coronavirus has sickened and killed workers at meat processing facilities, forcing operations to a halt.

A single pork processing facility, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is now the biggest Covid-19 hotspot in the country, with more than 600 workers ill.

With no place for their livestock to go and unable to afford feed, farmers are being forced to euthanize animals they raised for slaughter."

Georgina Gustin reports for InsideClimate News April 19, 2020.

Source: InsideClimate News, 04/20/2020