The article is about broken supply chains as the cause of waste, and covid outbreaks at processing plants is one example of problems in the supply chain. Pigs,

The article is about broken supply chains as the cause of waste, and covid outbreaks at processing plants is one example of problems in the supply chain. Pigs, for example, have a fairly short window during which they can be slaughtered for food sale. If there's a glitch in the supply chain, those pigs have to be killed as waste because the next batch is already coming into that window and it's too expensive to keep feeding the last batch for an unknown period into the future. Here's another interesting example with flour. King Arthur flour sales increased by 2,000% in March. > https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/king-arthur-flour-sales-up-over-2000-percent-march-coronavirus-baking/ https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/king-arthur-flour-sal... leading to problems like retail flour manufacturers running out of packaging to put flour in. https://www.businessinsider.com/flour-shortage-baking-quarantine-coronavirus-2020-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/flour-shortage-baking-quaran...