Photo: Almost empty vegetable shelves at a supermarket in Vancouver, Canada, on March 18, 2020, as people buy more supplies out of fears of food shortage due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Margarita Young/Shutterstock

Commentary: Now’s the time to make long overdue changes to food supply chain


The writer, Yvonne Maffei, is founder of popular blog My Halal Kitchen.


 

There’s nothing like a global pandemic to expose even the tiniest of holes in a massive global supply chain that feeds the world. That’s exactly what COVID-19 has done, much to the dismay of multinational food companies and other Big Food producers.

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