America’s Mass Hog Cull Begins With Meat to Rot in Landfills
- Closed JBS plant will be used to euthanize hogs, Peterson says
- He says about 160,000 hogs a day nationwide have to be culled
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The mass culling of America’s hog herd is starting as a wave of shutdowns at processing plants creates livestock gluts that farmers can no longer sustain.
Starting Wednesday, about 13,000 pigs a day will be killed at a JBS SA slaughterhouse in Minnesota, according to U.S. Representative Collin Peterson. Rather than cuts being turned into hams and bacon for stay-at-home shoppers, the carcasses may be dumped in landfills or go to rendering plants.