- The San Antonio Food Bank distributed one million pounds of food to roughly 6,000 families on Thursday
- Aerial photos show thousands of cars lined up at Trader’s Plaza for the massive food distribution event
- Each family left with enough food to fill two grocery carts, intended to last them the rest of the month
- ‘The need is that great,’ San Antonio Food Bank President and CEO Eric Cooper said of the huge turnout
- ‘We are moving through food so fast, this is our second big distribution this week, but there are hundreds of distributions that are going on all the time,’ Cooper added
Fears for food supply chain as Tyson meat packing plant in Iowa is closed due to coronavirus ‘cluster’ and truckers admit they are afraid to travel to New York epicenter
- Fears are mounting of weakness in the food supply chain as pandemic unfolds
- Meat packing giant Tyson has closed Iowa processing plant due to cases there
- Smithfield will close a South Dakota plant over the weekend after 80 cases there
- FDA says there is no evidence of food or packaging transmitting coronavirus
- But disruptions in the distribution system could cause shortages in places
- Some truckers admit they are unwilling to go to hotspots like New York City
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