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Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
CHICAGO (Reuters) - With the pandemic hobbling the meat-packing industry, Iowa farmer Al Van Beek had nowhere to ship his full-grown pigs to make room for the 7,500 piglets he expected from his breeding operation. The crisis forced a decision that still troubles him: He ordered his employees to give injections to the pregnant sows, one by one, that would cause them to abort their baby pigs.
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In Minnesota, farmers Kerry and Barb Mergen felt their hearts pound when a crew from Daybreak Foods Inc arrived with carts and tanks of carbon dioxide to euthanize their 61,000 egg-laying hens earlier this month.
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, along with both U.S. senators from a state that provides a third of the nation』s pork, sent a letter to the Trump administration pleading for financial help and assistance with culling animals and properly disposing of their carcasses.
「There are 700,000 pigs across the nation that cannot be processed each week and must be humanely euthanized,」 said the April 27 letter.
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居家令的背後,肉蛋生產面臨的情況,如上文所述,損失慘重!
這麼下去,雞蛋豬肉雞肉牛肉都漲價,好日無邊!昨天去超市搶了兩盒雞蛋,漲價了50%以上。
幸虧我種了榨菜,還能吃上榨菜絲。今年打算再養幾隻雞,答應娃的寵物工程,現在要按照生蛋工程進行。 |
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