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How One City Mayor Forced A Pork Giant To Close Its Virus-Stricken Plant

NPR | By Dan Charles

Published April 14, 2020 at 2:22 PM MDT

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Smithfield Foods didn't want to stop slaughtering hogs at its Sioux Falls pork plant, even after hundreds of workers got sick with the coronavirus. Then the city's mayor forced the company's hand.

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Dan Charles is NPR's food and agriculture correspondent.

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