"Food supply chain is breaking," Tyson Foods chairman warns amid meat plant shutdowns
"As pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain," Chairman Tyson wrote in a letter published Sunday as an advertisement in newspapers including the New York Times.
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