Run at food banks as some farmers destroy food

Some farmers are destroying their crops and dumping fresh milk despite the skyrocketing demand at food banks across the country.

After weeks of concern about shortages in grocery stores and mad scrambles to find the last box of pasta or toilet paper roll, many of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with another ghastly effect of the pandemic. They are being forced to destroy tens of millions of pounds of fresh food that they can no longer sell.

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Stuart Henderson