From Farm to Table: Is the Food Supply Chain Breaking?
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I really need something to eat. |
| 0:05.8 | With this situation going on, it's, you know, it's too much. |
| 0:10.0 | But at least we have somebody that has feeding us and giving us food. |
| 0:13.4 | New tonight, President Trump signing an executive order to keep meat processing plants open |
| 0:17.5 | amid growing concerns about the nation's food supply. |
| 0:20.6 | We've been hearing a lot of things lately about how the pandemic is affecting our food supply |
| 0:25.2 | chain. |
| 0:26.2 | We have seen lines of cars, sometimes for miles. |
| 0:29.9 | We're waiting at food banks. |
| 0:30.9 | You know, we're hoping that the line isn't tremendously past 2000. |
| 0:36.1 | We know where we're going to cut off and hopefully get everybody as much food as we possibly |
| 0:40.7 | can. |
| 0:41.8 | With millions of Americans newly unemployed, more and more families are turning to soup |
| 0:46.6 | kitchens or food pantries to get by. |
| 0:49.9 | And then you hear something like this. |
| 0:52.9 | Our hogs have been backing up for over four weeks now. |
| 0:56.5 | We're exhausting, you know, every plan, every resource to prevent farmers from having to |
| 1:03.0 | euthanize our hogs. |
| 1:04.3 | So we're definitely in a terrible situation of peril right now and we're asking for help. |
| 1:11.5 | That was Jen Sorenson of Iowa Select Farms talking about the possibility of having to |
| 1:17.6 | kill hogs because farmers can't maintain them anymore. |
| 1:22.1 | The national pork board is estimating that one and a half million hogs will have to |
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