Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs

VERNON, CA - MAY 26: A walks past a mural on the Farmer John slaughterhouse after 153 workers tested positive for COVID-19, on May 26, 2020 in Vernon, California. Los Angeles County health officials are reporting coronavirus outbreaks at nine industrial facilities in the city of Vernon, worrying officials that workers in the plants could spread the virus throughout their communities. The Farmer John slaughterhouse employs 1,837 and is owned by the Virginia-based company, Smithfield Foods, which also owns a meat processing facility in South Dakota that was closed in April after hundreds of employees were infected with coronavirus, and soon after, closed plants in Missouri and Wisconsin because the same concerns. The union representing Farmer John workers is calling for the plant to be shut down. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)