Smithfield Foods shuts US bacon, ham plants as coronavirus hits meat sector

Smithfield Foods Inc, the world’s largest pork processor, said on Wednesday it would shutter two U.S. plants that process bacon and ham, after closing a separate hog slaughterhouse because of an outbreak of the coronavirus among employees. The latest shutdowns show the domino effect that can occur when the closure of a major slaughterhouse removes…

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