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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by russtrotter on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:03PM (#22858917)
If this was a simple change of preferences due to all the vegan/vegetarian talking points, I could agree with your premise. The thing I wonder about C19 is that what kinds of agricultural processes involve humans ensuring that beans/corn/greens/starches get from the fields into produce aisles and cans? The same reasoning on shutting down production for infection risk applies there as well.
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Re:U.S. Meat Supply Is 'Perilously Close' to a Shortage, CEO... by dsl on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @12:56PM (#22868326)
Meat has the shortest shelf life of foods, so any impact on the food supply chain will be felt there first.

US Agriculture as a whole employs 22 million people. Of that, meet production is about 500,000. Fruits, vegetables, and grains take an order of magnitude more hands to make it to the table, so to speak.

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