Opinion: With supply lines disrupted, hog farmers are running out of space to house their animals and food to feed them. Now they're turning to euthanasia. 'I won't call it a decision,' one said. 'There was no decision.'
Dane Rhys/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesYoung female pigs stand in a pen at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio, U.S.Andrea Hoehn of Waseca, Minnesota, told us this week,"I just want to wake up from this nightmare."
The Hoehns usually send about 700 hogs a week to the packinghouse. But when the Smithfield plant in South Dakota closed in April, with hundreds of workers testing positive for the coronavirus, the Hoehns had nowhere to send their hogs, week after week. There weren't enough smaller packinghouses nearby. Animal sanctuaries don't have room for thousands of pigs.
The Smithfield plant reopened after deep-cleaning and other changes, but at a much smaller capacity. A few days ago, the Hoehns did what they were sure they had to do."I won't call it a decision," said Andrea."There was no decision."
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