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Farmers Find Ways To Save Millions Of Pigs From Slaughter

When COVID-19 infections forced pork companies to close processing plants, some farmers predicted that it would force them to euthanize millions of hogs. The actual number has been much lower.
So far, fewer pigs than feared have had to be euthanized due to the coronavirus shutting down pork plants.

A month ago, America's pork farmers were in crisis. About 40 percent of the country's pork plants because they had become hot spots of coronavirus . Pork producers who had been shipping, collectively, almost half a million hogs to those plants suddenly

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