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Honestly, this is the kind of stuff that freaks me out. Even if you don't eat a lot of meat - the last thing we need right now is food to start disappearing off of shelves. And this is likely just the squeakiest wheel of a tenuous food supply chain.

I've heard that this summer's produce harvest is going to be a massacre - the migrant workers farms rely on won't show up. And if they do, the temporary housing available is incredibly dangerous.



The silver lining is that most of the more fragile and complex food products are "luxury" products, relatively-speaking. The farming of grains and the like is heavily automated at this point; I don't think we need to worry about actual starvation.


I've seen plenty of references to the food industry facing significant issues, but I'm not familiar enough with it to know how large, small, or sustainable these problems actually are.

An interesting article: https://www.thestreet.com/.amp-phildavis/phildavis/news/why-...




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