Empty grocery store shelves have in some ways become synonymous with the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada and the world. The outbreak has turned the food industry on its head.
Lockdown measures and stay-at-home orders have Canadians buying up food items, like meat, at rates that experts say were impossible to predict.
All things considered, Canada’s food supply chain has weathered the unprecedented situation well, according to Lenore Newman, director of the Food and Agriculture Institute and professor of geography at the University of the Fraser Valley. “This is the single biggest disruption to food systems in modern times.