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.
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