Re: meat shortage being framed as food shortage, gmafb. People trying to make dinner out of sawdust and nettles and tree bark during the Siege of Leningrad is a food shortage. Having a meal without meat so you open the canned beans and cook some rice, or whatever, is not. The idea that having our meals be less entertainment to our taste buds is so profound a threat that we have to risk thousands of worker's lives is a precious and spoiled attitude that a five year old can see through. The companies, like Smithfield, are not going to slow down the line to where carvers can be spaced safely.