After weeks of concern about shortages in grocery stores and mad scrambles to find the last box of pasta or toilet paper roll, many of the nation’s largest farms are struggling with another ghastly effect of the pandemic.
They are being forced to destroy tens of millions of pounds of fresh food that they can no longer sell.
The amount of waste is staggering. US’ largest dairy cooperative, Dairy Farmers of America, estimates that farmers are dumping as many as 3.7 million gallons (14 million litres) of milk each day.
