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Could China's strategic pork reserve be a model for the US?

  • Written by David L. Ortega, Associate Professor of Food and Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
imageThe coronavirus has created a meat shortage in the United States.Sezeryadigar/Getty Images

During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, we became accustomed to face-masked shoppers, social distancing and one-way aisles at the grocery store. But most shocking was the scene at the supermarket meat case.

Some meat processing plants closed or reduced...

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