I find it disturbing that folks are assuming because their grocery store is reasonably well stocked now that this will continue. As if the food shortages during the early days of covid couldn’t happen again.
Ranchers and farmers had to kill huge quantities of pigs, sheep and cattle, because they could not sell them at the right age to restaurants, which were all shut down because of the con-demic. Who is to say that China did not step in and buy some stock at rock-bottom prices, and thereby mitigate the farmers’ losses. Chinese, as is well know, will eat any damned thing, including over-ripe beeves, chickens and pigs that restaurateurs would turn their noses up at. Tough, gamy? It beats bats and snakes. So you have a part of the puzzle right there.