The CF Industries Holdings Inc. fertilizer manufacturing complex in Ince, U.K. Photographer: Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg One of Britain’s biggest suppliers of carbon dioxide halted output at a plant in England, further reducing local supplies of the gas vital for production of food from pork chops to fizzy drinks. CF Industries Holdings Inc. stopped ammonia production at its Billingham factory in northeast England earlier this week, the company said. It warned in August of the temporary outage , which it blamed on soaring natural gas prices. The fertilizer plant produces CO2 as a byproduct, and had supplied 42% of the UK market. As well as putting the bubbles in soft drinks and beer, carbon dioxide is used to stun animals for slaughter and in packaging that extends the shelf life of food. The UK market has worked to diversify its CO2 supplies since 2021, when a CF production stoppage sparked chaos […]