In North Carolina seeing that all the grocery stores are fully stocked and the only shortages are toilet paper, hand soap, masks, and hand sanitizer --- I don't think there will be food shortages. The meat aisles are completely stocked with no shortages despite all the scary media which caused a two day run on meat a little while back. Maybe prices are higher on some meat items, but chicken prices are at the lowest level ever in our state due to a huge over-supply.
notice the same thing here yesterday, store was stocked to the gills. turns out that the meat industry workers that tested "positive" were all non-symptomatic. lol. So what exactly does "covid positive" mean? Squat. fearmongering. How-some-ever, there was an "IF" at the front of that sentence. Suppose that a similar circumatance were to occur in the future involving a threat 10x or 1000x more 'effective'. IF the supply chain were to become disrupted for an extended period of time, what would you likely run out of first, 2nd, 3rd, etc?
I have not been able to get frozen pre-filleted chicken breasts in the local large supermarket the past two weeks in countryside Colombia. They have crowns etc. Oh, one supermarket has added chilled individual package chocolate ring doughnuts.. The smaller one had some fillets though. Thats about it and its a third world country. A well done and interesting bit on what the American regeim was doing in the lost six weeks. Www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52622037/coronavirus-the-lost-six-weeks-when-us-failed-to-contain-outbreak Coronavirus: The lost six weeks when US failed to contain outbreak Having watched Asian and European countries struggle against Covid-19, the US was slow to ramp up testing and order its residents to stay at home. We look at this crucial time period and what exactly was done to prevent the outbreak.
The interesting note about chicken in North Carolina is that we have a lot of poultry farms and processing plants. The plants are no able to sell their supply that normally goes to restaurants. So instead they have been setting up locations (state fairgrounds, DPAC, sports complexes, etc.) and selling 40 pound boxes of chicken out of 18 wheeler trucks. Initially it was first come / first serve with long lines. Now they have you order on-line with a credit card and give you a pick-up time -- much better with no long lines. The prices for a forty pond box vary from $40 to $55 depending on the cut you want. Thighs are the cheapest. Boneless chicken breasts are more expensive. My father-in-law picked up a box of boneless chick breasts at DPAC on Friday. We split it as a family. I should also note that a lot of chicken from these companies is being donated to food banks and charities as well. It is a win-win all around.
My software dev has family in Charlotte, he is there now. I have visited a couple times. Coincidentally I was showing him how to do beer battered chicken (and not lose all the beer flavour by over heating the oil) a week ago. Unlimited cheap craft beer and chicken, could be worse
Yes... that is another thing our state has a lot of now -- craft breweries. The craft breweries were afraid that sales would drop with COVID-19 since a lot of business was done via their on-site barroom facilities. Instead they found their sales went significantly up. Beer and wine sales are up across our state -- as well as hard liquor from state ABC stores. Some are having their highest sales ever. I guess it you are gonna be stuck home with your family then you're gonna be drinking.
Driven by meat, milk, and eggs.... Grocery prices see biggest monthly increase in nearly 50 years https://www.chicagotribune.com/coro...0200513-h2snsiqe6nhdldndeomdvsgjbq-story.html The coronavirus pandemic has folks paying more to stock up at the grocery store and eat at home. U.S. grocery prices saw their biggest monthly increase in nearly 50 years last month, according to the latest report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs increased the most among food groups, rising 4.3%. A separate index for eggs alone increased 16.1%. The index for cereals and bakery products also rose 2.9% in April, its largest monthly increase ever. All six major grocery store food groups increased at least 1.5% month-to-month, the Labor Department said. Overall, U.S. consumers paid 2.6% more in April for groceries, which is the largest one-month jump since February 1974. In the Chicago area, April grocery prices were up 5.8% and costs for food away from home increased 2.1% compared with a year ago. Some of the biggest gains in the food-at-home category were nonalcoholic beverages, up 10.7% from a year ago and dairy products, up 9.5%. Prices for meats, poultry, fish and eggs rose 4.7%. The gains in food prices were offset by dramatically lower energy costs. Year over year in April, gas prices in the Chicago area were down 37.1%. The increase in food prices came in a period in which more than 20 million Americans lost their jobs. Two of President Trump’s top economic advisers recently projected that unemployment will continue to climb, with one official predicting that the unemployment rate will jump to 20% in the near future, the Washington Post reported. This will continue to drive households into food insecurity. The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed market basket of goods and services. It’s based on prices of food, clothing, shelter, fuels, and transportation fares, along with charges for doctors’ and dentists’ services, drugs, and the other goods and services that people buy for day-to-day living.
Whole it just a US problem, perhaps something good from covid-19 will come from this. https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ Just how much food do Americans waste? Here’s some “food” for thought: The United States is the global leader in food waste, with Americans discarding nearly 40 million tons of food every year. That’s 80 billion pounds of food and equates to more than $161 billion, approximately 219 pounds of waste per person and 30-40 percent of the US food supply. Most of this food is sent to landfills; food is the single largest component taking up space inside US landfills.5 In fact, it makes up 22 percent of municipal solid waste (MSW).6 https://www.usda.gov › foodwaste Food Waste FAQs | USDA
What do you have to say to this young man's family? A-Level student found dead 'was fearful of future because of lockdown' https://www.yahoo.com/news/student-found-dead-fearful-lockdown-135437737.html