The meat industry says it's now an emergency, with hundreds of workers forced into COVID isolation.
In some supermarkets, meat shelves are completely bare, emptied by a perfect storm of holiday shortages and the COVID effect.
The big grocery chains such as Woolworths and Coles say the stock is often there - the problem is getting it into stores, because COVID is causing high absentee rates among retail staff and distribution workers.
Comment: It bears repeating: Covid is not responsible, they admit as much, these people isolating aren't even sick, this is solely due to the nonsensical, and tyrannical, government enforced restrictions.
Comment: Similar supply issues and shortages have been looming across much of the planet, and for much the same reason, lockdown restrictions. What has also become clear is that these backlogs have a much greater impact than just immediate food shortages, they ripple through the supply chain causing farmers to go out of business, or scale back operations because healthy animals are culled and sent to the dump, and in turn this means that there's even less to go around the following year.
It's likely that the situation will be much worse than simply '12 months of supply chain issues', because governments are making little effort to resolve the problems - that, less we forget began during the lockdowns of 2020 - and crop failures, livestock outbreaks, inflation and government mismanagement of agriculture have yet to be taken into account: