Frantic US food banks use driverless cars and jobless workers to survive

United Airlines workers pack food for the Houston Food Bank at the company's airport hanger in Houston, Texas, United States, May 13. — Callaghan O'Hare/Bloomberg

With US meatpacking plants shut down by the coronavirus, one food bank desperate for donations is mending the broken supply chain itself.

Midwest Food Bank, a nonprofit in Normal, Illinois, United States, is raising money to pay area processors to cut and package pork from hog farmers with no buyers.