Meat hoarding is already happening in some parts of the country. The price of bacon doubled in one day, and chicken went up 36%. In the very next story, they showed farmers with enormous piles of unsold produce and ranchers and dairy farmers euthanizing livestock because their sales are down due to restaurant closures and closures of some meat packing plants. There shouldn't be shortages of anything, but once a few lemmings take off toward the cliff... Costco has already limited meat purchases to three packages, and other stores will probably do the same if they haven't yet. In the same news story, they also said Lowes and other big box stores were sold out of freezers for the next few months. You can't keep idiots from being idiots. At least this latest panic waited until the restaurants opened.
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