“The biggest players in the U.S. meat industry pressed ‘baseless’ claims of beef and pork shortages early in the pandemic to persuade the Trump White House to keep processing plants running, disregarding the coronavirus risks that eventually killed at least 269 workers,” the Washington Post reports.
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