From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 18:34:58 -0000 (UTC), Howard    
   wrote:   
      
   >Boron Elgar  wrote   
   >   
   >> More likely can material shortages, if anything.   
   >   
   >I know packaging was a big reason behind the consumer paper good shortage   
   >last year, as mills had plenty of paper but lacked the ability to get   
   >enough of it on the consumer sized rolls and into the right packages due to   
   >a lot of their production lines being devoted to commercial paper goods.   
      
   Yup   
   >   
   >I thought cat food cans were the same size as tuna and clam cans, though.   
   >Maybe it's a case of which producers have locked in their supplies?  Or   
   >maybe there's a subtle difference in linings or something with pet and   
   >human food?   
      
   China had a lot of shutdowns early on and the US dependency on China   
   to supply damn near everything could have been partly responsible even   
   to recent months.   
      
   What I was trying to emphasize, however, was that I do not think the   
   foodstuffs were scarce.   
      
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