China owned US pork producer, Smithfield Foods, shut down its operations in South Dakota recently due to the coronavirus.
Actions like this lead to many wondering if China is attempting to undermine the US food supply.
As we previously reported the pork producer warned of meat shortages in the US following their plant shutdowns.
It is interesting that the beef packing plants are not facing a similar crisis.
NBC News reported a couple of days ago that Smithfield Foods, was shutting down two more pork producing plants in the US due to the coronavirus:
