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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 3529135, member: 1737"] [B]Smithfield Foods closes ANOTHER meat packing plant in Illinois as coronavirus outbreaks threaten to plunge food supply chain into crisis[/B] Smithfield said in a statement on Friday that it will indefinitely close its plant in Monmouth, Illinois after 'a small portion' of the 1,700 employees there tested positive for COVID-19. The Monmouth plant processes approximately 3 percent of the U.S. supply of fresh pork, and also produces bacon. It follows closures of Smithfield plants in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where 5 percent of American pork is processed, as well as in Wisconsin and Missouri, and closures of multiple Tyson Foods plants and dozens of others across the country. [ATTACH type="full"]53532[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8255013/Smithfield-Foods-closes-meat-packing-plant-Illinois.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]