Setting aside the “I am a hunter with a freezer full of meat” thing for a moment, When I left the NY suburbs a month ago, the grocery meat cases were cleaned out. I mean nothing. Bare as the toilet paper aisle. Not sure that is still the case but my hunting buddies have ripped through their game meat in the last few weeks. We are basing out of rural PA and our big box groceries are hit or miss for meat. Local grocer is also a butcher so they have stock but their prices are creeping up and they get cleaned out every now and then by someone, typically from the nearby city, doing a rural meat / supplies run. That rural store foraging has become a thing, where wealthier people are cruising through small towns and clearing out the small groceries and dollar stores.
There is definitely a demand side issue that is causing hoarding. If they can’t reopen these plants in a timely fashion, that is about to converge with a supply side problem and create a legit shortage. It is going to hit less well off people first and the most so it has me concerned for them. Say what your want about your personal stock of game meat, but We all know there isn’t enough wild game for everyone to go get their own so I hope this issue resolved itself soon.
good points and you are correct. I am fine with a pending meat shortage, we have plenty, but it's not because i'm smart and plan ahead for things like this, i'm lucky that what I like to do lines up how it does in this scenario.
myself aside, what about the rest of the country? world? a meat shortage could be bad news for a lot of people, and yes, the less well off will be hit the hardest.... that's not good.
through this whole thing, I have not worried about my family, but all of the families who are and will be getting effected the worse, by the virus itself or the side effects of it.
I am temporarily out of work right now, and my wife's business is still kind of running, but very low scale compared to normal, it's an inconvenience for us, but i'm well aware of the real burden this creates for a lot of families around the world.
with this whole pandemic there is a lot of selfish thinking going on, it comes in a lot of forms, but we really should all look around us, even if we're doing good right now, be aware that others aren't.
at the VERY least, it seems like it would humble people and give them real appreciation for what they do have, but on a large scale, it doesn't seem to.
it's frustrating to think nothing much good will come out of this, when life goes back to normal, there will be very little humbling or added appreciation, people will still base life off of their current little bubble.
