Is COVID-19 breaking our food supply chain?
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English - May 13, 2020 22:23 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★ - 26 ratingsDaily News News Entertainment News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Over the last few weeks, it’s become clear that our food supply chains aren’t invincible. We’ve seen major COVID-19 outbreaks at meat processing facilities across the country; fruit and vegetable farms are struggling with labour shortages. But there’s also an over-supply problem that’s hitting farmers really hard. Today, we’re joined by Global News’ chief political correspondent David Akin about how the pandemic has our food supply chains, and if we need to be concerned about food security.
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Over the last few weeks, it’s become clear that our food supply chains aren’t invincible. We’ve seen major COVID-19 outbreaks at meat processing facilities across the country; fruit and vegetable farms are struggling with labour shortages. But there’s also an over-supply problem that’s hitting farmers really hard. Today, we’re joined by Global News’ chief political correspondent David Akin about how the pandemic has our food supply chains, and if we need to be concerned about food security.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.