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While the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected meat and vegetable producers, one butcher shop in New York City is making ends meet and continues to serve its customers.
Michael Kale runs the Marlow & Daughters in Brooklyn. He says it's being operated much like butcher shops were 100 years ago.
"Just like we're putting a lot of effort into keeping our staff healthy and safe and our guests healthy and safe. The worries that you see at bigger processing plants, they're non-existent at our slaughterhouses. The workers were already taking care of before this was happening."
Inside the active storefront regulars rely on the neighborhood butcher as they prepare for their meals, grateful for the comforts of cooking and food during the pandemic.  
"When I walk in there, I know everyone in there and I say hi and talk about our family. I don't do that, you know, in just, any other chain grocery store," said Alex Covington-Gomez a regular at the shop.  
The CDC has reported almost 5,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases across 115 meat processing plants in 19 US states. At least 18 plants have closed while many have slowed production as a result of COVID-19.

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