Hurricane Katrina's effect on food prices

by Deidre Woollard, Posted Sep 1st 2005 @ 4:08PM

Everyone is aware of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, but there may be more food-related costs in the future. Not only is the future of one of America's most distinctive regional cuisines in jeopardy, but because of the hurricane, prices on some foods, especially chicken and seafood, are expected to rise. The storm ripped through the country's prime chicken-producing states. Hundreds of thousands of chickens died as farms were destroyed. Also, the gulf's fishing industry has been decimated and so items such as gulf shrimp, oysters and crabs will be scarce, if they are to be found at all in the coming months. It's too soon to know the full limits of the devastation, but it's just one more factor in an increasingly terrible tragedy.

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