Last year I noticed shortages periodically of beef, pork was cheap. Beef is slightly better now, pork slightly more but not rare. It's become hard to find pork from non-Smithfield sources, maybe because no pig farming around here. Smithfield is owned by the Chinese. That doesn't mean their pork comes from China, they have giant hog farms here so we get the stink. But whenever food gets short in China, the pork around here can be diverted easily. As to the cat food, I've noticed a shortage of the wet kind, which has always been very sus to me. Where do they get so much fish? Could only be from around Asia. Nutritionally I don't think the wet stuff is really "meatier" than the dry, it is an illusory conclusion based on texture. It has a lot of flavorings added. It certainly could cover a lot of mystery meat. Some is baby chicks thrown in the chipper when they are sexed so there will be more egg layers and fewer roosters.
Fun fact: Did some work for a meat product manufacturer 15 or so years ago. They called their comminuted chicken (leftover and unusable chicken scraps/parts which was usually sold to pet food manufacturers) "chicken squish".
Last year I noticed shortages periodically of beef, pork was cheap. Beef is slightly better now, pork slightly more but not rare. It's become hard to find pork from non-Smithfield sources, maybe because no pig farming around here. Smithfield is owned by the Chinese. That doesn't mean their pork comes from China, they have giant hog farms here so we get the stink. But whenever food gets short in China, the pork around here can be diverted easily. As to the cat food, I've noticed a shortage of the wet kind, which has always been very sus to me. Where do they get so much fish? Could only be from around Asia. Nutritionally I don't think the wet stuff is really "meatier" than the dry, it is an illusory conclusion based on texture. It has a lot of flavorings added. It certainly could cover a lot of mystery meat. Some is baby chicks thrown in the chipper when they are sexed so there will be more egg layers and fewer roosters.
Fun fact: Did some work for a meat product manufacturer 15 or so years ago. They called their comminuted chicken (leftover and unusable chicken scraps/parts which was usually sold to pet food manufacturers) "chicken squish".