Two million chickens on several farms in Delaware and Maryland will be “depopulated”—meaning humanely killed—due to a lack of employees at chicken processing plants, according to a statement from Delmarva Poultry Industry Inc.
The reduced employee attendance at the company’s plants is a result of “additional community cases of COVID-19, additional testing, and people practicing the ’stay home if you’re sick' social distancing guidance from public health officials,” the statement reads.
