Tyson Foods: 'food supply chain is breaking' especially with meat

[Averroës Nix]

I can't think of a less sympathetic occasion for pushing vegetarianism than a time when so many farmers are fearing bankruptcy, agricultural workers are out of their jobs, animals are being led to pointless slaughter by the tens of thousands, and Americans are lining up at food banks in record numbers.

The moral or economic case for eating less meat remains as strong or as weak as it ever was, but anyone who isn't already convinced will view those appeals with as much contempt as "the earth is healing itself."

At this point the most likely outcome is somewhat higher prices in the fall, so it's not even as this will make much of a dent on meat consumption except among the American poor, a group in which many more of us may soon find ourselves.