Anyone worried about the "meat shortage"?

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Well, the market is bottle necked at the packing houses, so, the big worry is the surplus on the farmer's end of the supply chain. It's hurting farmers. It is a weird situation.

Yeah, when I lived across the street from Lavaca bay, I ate a lot of fish. :D We have a river here I could be running lines in, but I have a blood cancer that robs me of the energy to mess with my boat.
 
Nope. Put 3 whitetails and 2 wild turkey in the freezer last season. Plus some fish. Gonna try to fill another gobbler tag tomorrow :) We're doing just fine.
 
Nope, I can buy anything I want anytime I need it and if not we have our own cattle, pigs, fish, chicken and game animals.

I'll still buy what we need though because I can't fry liver like my Grandmother could and I have never been much of a fan of cow tongue soup. Easier for us to sell them and go buy the cuts we want.

I would imagine once the freezer its full, folks will quit panic buying meat. After all, some day they might use that spare bedroom stacked full of toilet paper but once they let a few T bones or a beef tenderloin go bad, that will stop that stupidity pretty quick, unless they just have money to burn.
 
I suspected shortages were coming a couple months ago when the runs on toilet paper and ammunition started.

Freezers are pretty well stocked with deer, beef, and pork.....something we always do anyway. Have been stocking up on bacon since this thing started....the one item I don't make when processing our own meat. Wish I'd bought a bunch of baby back pork ribs when they were available....family BBQ's will have to get by with substitute meats.

Couple of cattlemen in our area have reported some rustling, everyone is keeping gates locked and cameras turned on. Wonder what lengths people will go to for food or money.:(
 
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