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Healthy pigs being killed as meatpacking backlog hits farms

by Associated Press
| May 4, 2020 12:03 AM

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After spending two decades raising pigs to send to slaughterhouses, Dean Meyer now faces the mentally draining, physically difficult task of killing them even before they leave his northwest Iowa farm.

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