Company forced to kill up to 2M chickens that won't reach market due to staffing shortages
by Emma Colton
| April 15, 2020 11:28 AM

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...ffing-shortages

A Delaware chicken plant is being forced to slaughter up to 2 million chickens that won’t make it to market due to coronavirus staffing shortages.

Allen Harim Foods sent a letter to the company’s livestock growers that chickens are being “depopulated” at its processing plant because of staffing shortages, Fox News reported Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, reduced placements will not make an impact for six weeks, and with the continued attendance decline and building bird inventory daily, we are forced to make a very difficult decision,” wrote Michele V. Minton, the director of live operations at Allen Harim.

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