Walk into any grocery store in February and there were aisles of well-stocked shelves with dizzying choices of packaged meats, vegetables, grains, fruits, snacks and treats. The hardest part was deciding which food and which brand to buy.
Contrast that to grocery shopping now. Customers wearing homemade cloth masks are finding those same grocery aisles depleted.
Food shortages at the retail level and milelong lines of cars at local food banks occurred at the same time as news of plowed-under vegetable and fruit crops in Florida and California and dumping of milk in Wisconsin. How did we get to the point of dumping food in the glare of food insecurity for 37 million Americans and an estimated increase of 17.1 million unemployed due to the coronavirus?
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