The leftists are trying to create food shortages. The Biden administration was killing cows and chickens (using flu as an excuse) which drove up prices.
Artificial scarcity is the tool of tyrants, be it food, water, economic opportunity, housing, transportation, education, or any other aspect of life. Subsidies or rationing are but opposite sides of the same coin, and both are antithetical to the open and free exchange in the marketplace.
The greatest distribution of goods and services the world has ever seen came about through the freeing up and opening of markets in commodities and services of every kind, even with some of very dark outcomes, which led to excesses and an almost slavish addiction to the products or services supplied. There is also the prospect of failure in any venture, should the product or service offered prove to be not of popular demand.
BIL drove a rendering truck during COVID in Iowa. Farmers were killing pigs by the thousands due to markets being closed. If you new a farmer, you could get a hog on the cheap. They require a controlled environment, feed and stay within market weight for slaughter. He said one farmer had loaded their hogs into a confined building, raised the heat and fired up 3 or 4 engines to carbon monoxide them.