I’m sure the LA Times is patting themselves on the back for stoking panic buying. I’m sure the smart shoppers will snatch up everything within reach.
There are shortages of course, the ones I’m noticing are grocery store sales of any meat and seafood.
I’m not buying Spam yet, but sardines keep forever.
If the US, under Noxious Nixon, had not begun its “War on Natural Resource Harvesters” in the late 70s, there would be plenty of food. But as one result, the US, once a net exporter of food, has long become a net importer of food.
The land was needed by real estate developers, so communities taxed farmers out of business ; the land was needed by locally ‘endangered species, so the farmers were either forced off their farms or forced to sell for pennies on the dollar and ‘wealth’ taxed into near poverty.
Commercial fishermen were scourged as criminals and driven from the sea by regulations so onerous that boats had to carry law and regulatory books ; fishermen were thrown into federal prison for the crime of fishing ; once lucrative fishing grounds were ceded to Canada ; other grounds were permanently closed ; stocks were deliberately killed of by state fisheries departments ; deep water fisheries were sold off to foreign fleets for the tax price of the catch ; it goers on. Meanwhile, grocery stores treated fish like meat and suffered (and continues to suffer) huge seafood losses driving prices sky high.