This is what I get "Video not available in your country". Can you give us a short summary?
Why did they close the pork plants? Not enough interest in pork or because of its association with flu viruses? Maybe it's time to switch to a healthy food.
It started with the largest pork packing plant in America, where it turned out that some 600 people had the virus and the plant had to close. This was in a state (South Dakota) where the governor had refused to close anything, so the virus was spreading like wildfire. Later, two more plants in other states had to close for the same reasons. I think I read somewhere that the plants produced something like half of all the pork produced in the US.
I can't resist the temptation to feed Alan's paranoia. I know it's cruel:
"Founded in Smithfield, Virginia in 1936, Smithfield Foods boasts more than 40,000 U.S. employees with nearly 50 facilities across the country. In 2013, WH Group (formerly known as Shuanghui International Holdings) purchased Smithfield for $4.7 billion; including debt, the deal valued the firm at $7.1 billion, then the largest acquisition of a U.S. company by a Chinese business. WH Group went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange a year later, and furthered its American presence by buying Clougherty Packing, California's largest pork processor, in 2017."
