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Re:As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear sh... by Consultant32452 on Monday April 13, 2020 @04:38PM (#22859746)
I work on a team that's mostly offshore in India. One of them remarked that they went to multiple stores and couldn't find any vegetables. Like many Indians, my coworker is a vegetarian. That's just an anecdote, but I worry things are going to get bad there.

There's locust swarms in Africa, and it's potentially heading towards China. I expect there to be widespread food shortages in the coming weeks/months. I'm not sure about how life will be here in the US. We're rich, we're a net food exporter, etc. as long as the processing and other supply chain parts keep mostly working I think we'll be okay-ish. You might not get the exact product you want, but you probably won't face starvation. But in many poor countries in Africa and Asia, I think it's about to get really, really bad.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/locust-outbreak-africa-congo

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-locusts/china-urges...

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