https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/14/us-food-supply-chain-is-strained-as-virus-spreads.aspxEmpty shelves in grocery stores and shortages of certain foods such as certain meats will not end anytime soon, even when people begin to return to work and put their lives back together. The reasons are many: With the meat industry, for example, SmithfieldenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/14/us-food-supply-chain-is-strained-as-virus-spreads.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9919454/16/2020 8:24:34 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:991945irenekeyser<p>May be this will serve as catalyst to local small farms ,with more demand and less competition from big factory farms , I personally was avoiding supermarket meats for number of years</p> https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2020/04/14/us-food-supply-chain-is-strained-as-virus-spreads.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9914564/14/2020 9:40:53 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:991456quinine<p>Simple solution.  Go on craigslist, to the farm and garden section. Look for a local farmer selling food. There are plentiful ads for home raised  and pasture raised beef, pork, lamb, goat, etc. There are a lot of eggs for sale. This is in the Columbus Ohio area craigslist. I sold 3 goats for slaughter in the last week and a half. THey wanted to buy my pigs too, but those were my breeding stock so I did not sell them. There are many local farms selling packaged meat USDA inspected and ready to go. This can be a great way to support local farms, local economy and stop the reliance on CAFO farms and meat production. &nbsp;I sold the last of my meat chickens in February.  I will have more ready to sell in June. People have been asking for them.</p>