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  • 04 DECEMBER 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Butchers deliver sides of pork to venders in Khlong Toei market. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 DECEMBER 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Butchers deliver sides of pork to venders in Khlong Toei market. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 JUNE 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Delivery of fresh pork in Khlong Toey Market in Bangkok. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:     A butchers scorches the hair off of a pork leg in a market near the Thonburi train station in Bangkok.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:     A butchers scorches the hair off of a pork leg in a market near the Thonburi train station in Bangkok.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 DECEMBER 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Butchers deliver sides of pork to venders in Khlong Toei market. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 JUNE 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Pigs' heads and pork offal being delivered in Khlong Toey Market in Bangkok. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 JUNE 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Delivery of fresh pork in Khlong Toey Market in Bangkok. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:     A butchers scorches the hair off of a pork leg in a market near the Thonburi train station in Bangkok.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 AUGUST 2013 - MACAU: A vendor cuts up pork bakkwa in a bakery in Macau. Bakkwa, also known as rougan, is a Chinese salty-sweet dried meat product similar to jerky. Bakkwa is made with a meat preservation and preparation technique originating from China.  Macau, also spelled Macao, is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta across from Hong Kong to the east, bordered by Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south. The territory's economy is heavily dependent on gambling and tourism, but also includes manufacturing.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 DECEMBER 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  Butchers deliver sides of pork to venders in Khlong Toei market. Khlong Toey (also called Khlong Toei) Market is one of the largest "wet markets" in Thailand. The market is located in the midst of one of Bangkok's largest slum areas and close to the city's original deep water port. Thousands of people live in the neighboring slum area. Thousands more shop in the sprawling market for fresh fruits and vegetables as well meat, fish and poultry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM: Men deliver a side of pork to a butcher shop in Hanoi's old quater. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM: Men deliver a side of pork to a butcher shop in Hanoi's old quater. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: FFA members show their hogs on the first day of the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: FFA members show their hogs on the first day of the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 JANUARY 2007 - MANAGUA, NICARAGUA:  Pigs' feet for sale in Mercado Oriental, the main market that serves Managua, Nicaragua. The market encompasses dozens of square blocks and is the largest market in Central America.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 20 APRIL 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   Pigs' feet for sale in the Talat Phlu market in the Thonburi section of Bangkok.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 NOVEMBER 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A vendor burns the hair off of a pig's foot in Khlong Toei Market in Bangkok. Between July and September the economy expanded 0.6 percent compared to the previous year, the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) reported. Thailand's economy achieved a weak 0.2 per cent growth across the first nine months of the year. The NESDB said the Thai economy is expected to grow by 1 percent in 2014. Authorities say the sluggish growth is because tourists have not returned to Thailand in the wake of the coup in May, 2014, and that reduced demand for computer components, specifically hard drives, was also hurting the economy. Thailand is the leading manufacturer of computer hard drives in the world. The Thai government has announced a stimulus package worth $11 billion (US) to provide cash handouts to farmers and promised to speed up budget spending to boost consumption.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 NOVEMBER 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Pigs' feet for sale in Khlong Toei Market in Bangkok. Between July and September the economy expanded 0.6 percent compared to the previous year, the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) reported. Thailand's economy achieved a weak 0.2 per cent growth across the first nine months of the year. The NESDB said the Thai economy is expected to grow by 1 percent in 2014. Authorities say the sluggish growth is because tourists have not returned to Thailand in the wake of the coup in May, 2014, and that reduced demand for computer components, specifically hard drives, was also hurting the economy. Thailand is the leading manufacturer of computer hard drives in the world. The Thai government has announced a stimulus package worth $11 billion (US) to provide cash handouts to farmers and promised to speed up budget spending to boost consumption.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 AUGUST 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A pig's head as an offering at the Ruby Goddess Shrine in the Dusit section of Bangkok. The seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar is called "Ghost Month" during which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. It is common for Chinese people to make merit during the month by burning "hell money" and presenting food to the ghosts. At Chinese temples in Thailand, it is also customary to give food to the poorer people in the community.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JULY 2014 - HAT YAI, SONGKHLA, THAILAND: Grilled piglets for sale at a Chinese restaurant in Hat Yai, Thailand. Hat Yai is the 4th largest city in Thailand and the largest outside of the Bangkok metropolitan area. It's less the 50 miles from the Malaysian border and is a popular vacation spot for Malaysian and Singaporean tourists.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 AUGUST 2013 - MACAU: A butcher cuts meat in a Macau wet market. Macau, also spelled Macao, is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta across from Hong Kong to the east, bordered by Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south. The territory's economy is heavily dependent on gambling and tourism, but also includes manufacturing.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 22 OCTOBER 2012 - HAT YAI, THAILAND:      Grilled pigs' heads for sale in the market in Hat Yai. Hat Yai is the largest in southern Thailand. It is an important commercial center and tourist destination. It is especially popular with Malaysian, Singaporean and Chinese tourists.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: ALIVIA VANRYSWYK, right, from Chariton, Iowa, shows one of her hogs on the first day of the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: FFA members show their hogs on the first day of the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: Cody Birt, from Corning, Iowa, shows one of his hogs at the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: Cody Birt, from Corning, Iowa, shows one of his hogs at the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: FFA members show their hogs on the first day of the Iowa State Fair. The Iowa State Fair is one of the largest state fairs in the U.S. More than one million people usually visit the fair during its ten day run. The 2019 fair run from August 8 to 18.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 NOVEMBER 2016 - GEORGE TOWN, PENANG, MALAYSIA: A butcher cuts pork in a market in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. George Town is a UNESCO World Heritage city and wrestles with maintaining its traditional lifestyle and mass tourism. Malaysia is predominantly Muslim and pork sellers in Penang have their own section of the market so halal consumers don't have to touch pork products.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • Apr 23 - BALI, INDONESIA -  A Muslim family sells chicken satay (barbecued on a skewer) in a street stall in Kintamani, a small town in the mountains of central Bali. Although most of Bali is Hindu, there are some parts of the island with a Muslim minority. Bali's Hindus frequently eat pork satay but Muslims aren't allowed to eat or handle pork.  Photo by Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Press
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 APRIL 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  The main entrance to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Perry, IA. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry reported over the weekend that at least two dozen workers had tested positive for COVID-19. The plant is closed Monday, April, 20 for a thorough cleaning and sanitization. At least five meat packing plants in Iowa have reported outbreaks of COVID-19. In addition to the five plants in Iowa, meat packing plants close to Iowa in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota have reported outbreaks of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2, Coronavirus). The Tyson plant has more than 1,400 workers and is the largest single employer in Perry. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual. The state of Iowa has begun providing surveillance testing of meatpacking plants to more broadly test employees even if they are not experiencing symptoms of COVID-19. State "strike teams" made up of an epidemiologist, an infectious disease nurse and other personnel will advise facilities of preventative measures to take and administer contact tracing to determine who may have been in contact with any infected individual.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 APRIL 2020 - STANHOPE, IOWA: Sides of beef and pork handing in Stanhope Locker and Market, in Stanhope, Iowa. The family owned meat locker slaughters and butchers beef cattle, pigs, and sheep. The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2/Coronavirus) pandemic has spread among employees in the meat packing plants in the Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, forcing many to close or curtail operations. This has resulted in farmers euthanizing thousands of pigs and beef cattle. Pork production has been slashed by about 40% because of the pandemic. Meat lockers and family owned butchering facilities have been swamped with farmers and ranchers trying to sell their livestock to them rather than the meat packing plants, but the meat lockers are backed up by the huge increase in supply. Many meat lockers are now full through the end of the year. Stanhope Locker and Market doesn't have any openings for slaughtering and butchering either cattle or pigs until mid-December 2020.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, talks to a motorcyclist who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, talks to people who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: PEG THOMPSON, wearing a mask because of the COVID-19 pandemic, signals that people in a car want four "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: PEG THOMPSON, wearing a mask because of the COVID-19 pandemic, signals that people in a car want four "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: PEG THOMPSON, wearing a mask because of the COVID-19 pandemic, signals that people in a car want four "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, talks to people who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MARCIE KNOLL, left back to camera, CARA ZANKER, center and KENN OUTZEN, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 APRIL 2020 - STANHOPE, IOWA: Sides of beef and pork handing in Stanhope Locker and Market, in Stanhope, Iowa. The family owned meat locker slaughters and butchers beef cattle, pigs, and sheep. The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2/Coronavirus) pandemic has spread among employees in the meat packing plants in the Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, forcing many to close or curtail operations. This has resulted in farmers euthanizing thousands of pigs and beef cattle. Pork production has been slashed by about 40% because of the pandemic. Meat lockers and family owned butchering facilities have been swamped with farmers and ranchers trying to sell their livestock to them rather than the meat packing plants, but the meat lockers are backed up by the huge increase in supply. Many meat lockers are now full through the end of the year. Stanhope Locker and Market doesn't have any openings for slaughtering and butchering either cattle or pigs until mid-December 2020.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: A motorist in Jewell brings a sack of "grab and go" roast pork dinners into her car in Jewell Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, hands a bag of "grab and go" roast pork dinners to a motorist in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: A volunteer in Jewell thanks a motorist in Jewell Sunday who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners during a fund raiser in the town. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.            PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: GARREN ZANKER, hands a bag of "grab and go" roast pork dinners to a motorist in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.            PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, talks to people who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: GARREN ZANKER, hands a bag of "grab and go" roast pork dinners to a motorist in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.            PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: PEG THOMPSON, wearing a mask because of the COVID-19 pandemic, signals that people in a car want four "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: Motorcyclists wait to buy "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, talks to people who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: KENN OUTZEN and DEAN KOOB, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: KENN OUTZEN and DEAN KOOB, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MARCIE KNOLL, left back to camera, CARA ZANKER, center and KENN OUTZEN, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MARCIE KNOLL, left back to camera, CARA ZANKER, center and KENN OUTZEN, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: GARREN ZANKER, hands a bag of "grab and go" roast pork dinners to a motorist in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.            PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: MISCHELLE HARDY, accepts donations from people who bought "grab and go" roast pork dinners in Jewell during a fund raiser Sunday. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.            PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: People line up in the cars to buy "grab and go" roast pork dinners during a fund raiser in Jewell. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.          PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 APRIL 2020 - JEWELL, IOWA: CARA ZANKER, and KENN OUTZEN, members of the group trying to reopen a grocery store in Jewell, plate up roast pork dinners for grab and go meals. Jewell, a small community in central Iowa, became a food desert when the only grocery store in town closed in 2019. It served four communities within a 20 mile radius of Jewell. Some of the town's residents are trying to reopen the store, they are selling shares to form a co-op, and they hold regular fund raisers. Sunday, they served 550 "grab and go" pork roast dinners. They charged a free will donation for the dinners. Despite the state wide restriction on large gatherings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event drew hundreds of people, who stayed in their cars while volunteers wearing masks collected money and brought food out to them. Organizers say they've raised about $180,000 of their $225,000 goal and they hope to open the new grocery store before summer.           PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 AUGUST 2019 - DES MOINES, IOWA: PETE BUTTIGIEG flips pork chops and pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair. Buttigieg, the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is running to be the Democratic nominee for the US presidency. He spoke at the Des Moines Register Political Soap Box at the Iowa State Fair and then toured the fairgrounds. Iowa has the first event of the presidential selection cycle. The Iowa Caucuses are February 3, 2020.              PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer writes the number of food boxes a client gets during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer writes the number of food boxes a client gets during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA: A volunteer directs a client into a parking spot during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  A volunteer waits for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers wait for a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  Volunteers load food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MAY 2020 - PERRY, IOWA:  A volunteer loads food into a car during a drive through Foodbank of Iowa emergency pantry at Crossroads Church in Perry. Food insecurity has skyrocketed in Iowa because of the pandemic shutdowns. The emergency pantry in Perry distributed all 200 meal boxes in less than 45 minutes. Emergency food pantry use has more than doubled in Perry since March. The Tyson pork processing plant in Perry is the community's largest employer. It had been shut down for deep cleaning because many workers in the plant tested positive for COVID-19. Since the start of the Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and resulting shutdowns, nearly 300,000 Iowans, representing 20% of the eligible workforce, have applied for unemployment benefits in Iowa. Even though the Governor has reopened the Iowa economy, the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 APRIL 2020 - STANHOPE, IOWA: A motorist drives past Stanhope Locker and Market, in Stanhope, Iowa. The family owned meat locker slaughters and butchers beef cattle, pigs, and sheep. The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2/Coronavirus) pandemic has spread among employees in the meat packing plants in the Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, forcing many to close or curtail operations. This has resulted in farmers euthanizing thousands of pigs and beef cattle. Pork production has been slashed by about 40% because of the pandemic. Meat lockers and family owned butchering facilities have been swamped with farmers and ranchers trying to sell their livestock to them rather than the meat packing plants, but the meat lockers are backed up by the huge increase in supply. Many meat lockers are now full through the end of the year. Stanhope Locker and Market doesn't have any openings for slaughtering and butchering either cattle or pigs until mid-December 2020.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 APRIL 2020 - STANHOPE, IOWA: WES ZANKER, and his wife, SHAUNNA ZANKER owners of Stanhope Locker and Market, in Stanhope, Iowa, in front of their store. The family owned meat locker slaughters and butchers beef cattle, pigs, and sheep. The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2/Coronavirus) pandemic has spread among employees in the meat packing plants in the Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, forcing many to close or curtail operations. This has resulted in farmers euthanizing thousands of pigs and beef cattle. Pork production has been slashed by about 40% because of the pandemic. Meat lockers and family owned butchering facilities have been swamped with farmers and ranchers trying to sell their livestock to them rather than the meat packing plants, but the meat lockers are backed up by the huge increase in supply. Many meat lockers are now full through the end of the year. Stanhope Locker and Market doesn't have any openings for slaughtering and butchering either cattle or pigs until mid-December 2020.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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