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Some food industry experts predict that the coronavirus and holiday tumard can lead to another shortage of meat that 2020 is closely approached.

Mars may seem life there is a life where it may seem just yesterday, depending on how you have altered this strange year, but a thing that will surely remain a living memory is all the grocery and supply shortages that we have lived in the first months of Locking Covid-19. OfCleaning supplies andtoilet paper Toplain flour and yeast, basic articles simply disappeared from most shelves of most supermarkets and big boxes of retailers in the middle ofPurchase of panic. (In touch:9 restaurant chains that have closed hundreds of locations this summer.)

An important staple that was also in short quantity during the first wave of the pandemic wasMeat. Not only were people not bought more, but the meat producers are confrontedmajor disruption in their operations that have increased shortages more.Tyson Foods, the second largest chicken, beef and pork processor in the world, had a shortage of staggering labor due to coronavirus infections Among their workerswhile the largest pork producer in the country,Smithfield, had to temporarily close some facilities for the same reason.

During the summer, meat companies have caught up with demand - supermarket shelves were stored and meat pricesstarted falling. However, some experts warn that we are not yet out of the wood and a second shortage of meat could be imminent.

There areseveral reasons to wait for another shortage of meat. First, people are progressing again on the basics of grocery store and meat is very at the top of everyone's list heading in the holidays. The second factor that may lead to an increase in meat prices and a supply shortage is not an American problem alone, but a fear of industry observers across the Atlantic, and it is alsoa shortage of poultry workers.

On aBBC reportThere will simply not have enough workers to meet the usual demand of Christmas turkeys in the United Kingdom this year, largely because of qualified seasonal workers will not travel other regions of the European Union. Provide work.

American producers work to provide better working conditions to their workers. Tyson would haveInvested in protective gear for employees And tried to allow more space for social distancing in their facilities. However, the epidemics of packaging plants with meat are always a possibility because of the nature of their assembly lines.

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