{"id":9577,"date":"2020-03-28T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T21:49:03","slug":"news-press-now-food-companies-weather-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/28\/news-press-now-food-companies-weather-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Food companies weather the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Kozol, News-Press NOW, March 28, 2020<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/12\/312f5da8-6eb7-11ea-b3ef-ef2279c20fff\/5e7b89ddc0de6.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C1201\" alt=\"nor-am cold storage\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1201\" \/>Anyone who visits a grocery store notices barren shelves as COVID-19 fuels panic buying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>But a trip to a food-production facility reveals something different. Employee vehicles fill the parking lot, heavy trucks roll in and exhaust pours from the roof.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Why, then, are there fears of food shortages? Part of it is the open-ended nature of the crisis. Unlike a blizzard or hurricane, this is uncharted territory with no end in sight, said Dr. Brian Cronk, chairman of the psychology department at Missouri Western State University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cA reasonable stockpile for most emergencies is a couple days worth of stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cFor this, we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to last seven more days, seven more weeks, seven more months. So there\u2019s not really an end date on this, which makes it harder for people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/food-companies-weather-the-storm\/article_e14b2e9c-6df9-11ea-b10d-2fefb650efd7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greg Kozol, News-Press NOW, March 28, 2020 Anyone who visits a grocery store notices barren shelves as COVID-19 fuels panic buying. But a trip to a food-production facility reveals something different. Employee vehicles fill the parking lot, heavy trucks roll in and exhaust pours from the roof. &#8230; Why, then, are there fears of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[970,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}