Beer, milk, and produce: All the food that's been dumped during the pandemic
weekly as its usual restaurant supply chain has been disrupted. Those destroyed eggs get sent to a plant where they are turned into pet food.The New York Timesthat an onion farmer in Idaho has had to bury one million pounds of onions in a large ditch.
"People don't make onion rings at home," the farmer, whose largest customer is the restaurant industry, told the Times.With a loss of restaurant and international buyers and the shuttering of some pork packaging plants, hog farmers are facing a glut. , Business Insider's Kate Taylor reported. "The National Pork Producers Council said ... that farmers will lose almost $37 per hog and almost $5 billion collectively for every hog marketed for the rest of 2020, citing economists Dr. Dermot Hayes and Dr. Steve Meyer. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the NPPC said analysts predicted farmers would earn roughly $10 per hog," Taylor wrote.
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