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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