The executive vice president of Smithfield Foods says despite doing everything it could, nothing could prepare the world’s largest pork processor for the disruptions caused by COVID-19.
Dr. Dhamu Thamodaran describes a smoothly operating processing system going into 2020.
“Once COVID hit the U.S., things changed overnight. Every business got affected, whether you were a pork business or any business, everything came to a grinding halt.”
Speaking during the Women in Agribusiness virtual summit Thursday, he detailed how the distribution of food was upset by restaurant closures.
