The coronavirus pandemic has brought attention to how the U.S. food supply chain operates.
Minnesota Farm Bureau president Kevin Paap tells Brownfield he’s hesitant to say anything good has come out of the pandemic.
“But one of the things is I think we’ve got more consumers now that for the first time in their life they’ve experienced empty store shelves (and) consumers now understand that good healthy fresh meat they’ve been eating was maybe walking 70 to 90 hours before that.”
He says that’s an example of the “just in time” food system the U.S.
