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Tyson Foods warns food supply chain is breaking due to coronavirus pandemic

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April 27, 2020

Tyson Foods, which closed plants in Waterloo, Iowa, and Logansport, Indiana last week to test workers for COVID-19, has warned that "millions of pounds of meat" will disappear from the supply chain as food processing plants close on account of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a CNN report.

John Tyson, board chairman, wrote that the food supply chain is breaking in a full page advertisement in The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and warned that products will not be available in grocery stores. Tyson said millions of animals will depopulate because of the closures.

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