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If home-cooked burgers seem to taste better than usual lately, it’s not just because they’re harder to get. As the pandemic spurs meat shortages nationwide, the ground beef at many supermarkets is quietly getting upgraded with better cuts that would normally go to restaurants, industry experts said. While ground chuck, round and sirloin is typically …

A shortage of beef and pork could be a plus for two of the largest makers of plant-based meat. Beyond Meat Inc. and privately-held Impossible Foods Inc. are likely benefactors in the wake of closures of major meat-packing plants hit by coronavirus outbreaks. The evidence was on vivid display Tuesday, after Beyond Meat reported fiscal …

A South Dakota pork processing plant took its first steps toward reopening Monday after being shuttered for over two weeks because of a coronavirus outbreak that infected more than 800 employees. As two departments opened at the Sioux Falls plant operated by Smithfield Foods, employees filed through a tent where they were screened for fever …

Nearly 5,000 workers at the country’s meat processing plants have tested positive for the coronavirus, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control. The US agency tested workers at more than 100 meat processing plants in 19 states and found that nearly 3 percent of them had the virus that has killed more …

A nationwide meat shortage is poised to worsen next month, supermarket executives warn — and the Big Apple is facing jacked-up prices and spotty shelves like everywhere else. Supplies of steaks, chicken breasts, pork chops and cold cuts are expected to further dwindle in the coming weeks, as the full force of coronavirus-driven plant closures …

Pig farmers are reportedly killing piglets and giving sows abortions as the coronavirus crisis upends the American meat industry. Some farmers have resorted to such measures as they run low on space to house their livestock now that the pandemic has shut down about 20 processing plants and slaughterhouses in North America, according to Reuters. …

Workers from some of the country’s largest meat plants said they were ordered to work in crowded conditions even while sick and not provided appropriate protective gear, leading the facilities to become hotspots for coronavirus, according to a new report. The outbreaks have caused three major meat producers — Tyson Foods, JBS USA and Smithfield …

Tyson Foods suspended operations Wednesday at an Iowa plant that is critical to the nation’s pork supply but had been devastated by a growing coronavirus outbreak. The company said that the indefinite closure of the Waterloo, Iowa, pork plant would deny a vital market to hog farmers and further disrupt the nation’s meat supply. Tyson …

CHICAGO, April 12 — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving “perilously close to the edge” in supplies for grocers. Slaughterhouse shutdowns are disrupting the U.S. food supply chain, crimping …