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Opinion: Livestock Farmers, Without Options, Turn To Euthanasia

With meat packing plants and supply lines disrupted by the coronavirus, hog farmers are having to euthanize animals that were intended for food.
Young female pigs stand in a pen at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio, U.S.

Andrea Hoehn of Waseca, Minnesota, told us this week, "I just want to wake up from this nightmare."

Many may feel that way right now. But the experience of the Hoehn family, and other livestock farmers, may be distinctly telling and tragic.

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