TY - JOUR AU - Richards, Steven AU - Vassalos, Michael PY - 2020/10/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - COVID-19 amplifies local meat supply chain issues in South Carolina JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Commentary on COVID-19 and the Food System DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2020.101.001 UR - https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/875 SP - 191–195 AB - <p><em>First paragraph:</em></p><p>Before COVID-19, livestock producers across the U.S. had been complaining to Congress about a lack of meat processing options closer to their farms (Swanson, 2015). Publications used examples of farmers shipping their animals hundreds of miles to be processed (Miles, 2012) and placed the blame on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and industry regulations (Linnekin, 2016). Others have warned that decades of consolidation of meat-processing facilities have left fewer reliable options for livestock farmers, threatening the farm-to-table economy (Shanker, 2017). . . .</p> ER -