Canadians could see changes in the variety and prices of meat on grocery store shelves amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes are anticipated as key plants across Canada grapple with changing demand and adapting to impacts from COVID-19, the federal agriculture minister said Wednesday. “It’s a possibility that the variety of products that we find on our shelves might be a bit different for a while.
It’s a possibility,” said Marie-Claude Bibeau, minister of agriculture and agri-food, at a news conference. “But I don’t worry that we won’t have enough food.
We might see some differences in variety, and maybe in the prices as well.” Several meat processors in Canada and the United States have either suspended or slowed operations in recent