Risk to canned vegetables, fruit prompts call to keep plants running

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Add vegetables and fruit to the growing food supply crisis caused by the coronavirus hitting processing plants.

As it has with keeping meat plants operating, the Trump administration is being urged to keep canning operations going or risk seeing vast amounts of food plowed under, likely leading to empty shelves at grocery stores and food banks this summer and fall.

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