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    Can global food systems cope with COVID-19 panic buying?

    Farm Gate host ffinlo Costain sits down with Roland Bonney of FAI Farms and Jo White of Behaviour Change for Animals to discuss the psychology of panic buying and how our food system can adjust to the new normal.
    calendar icon 10 April 2020
    clock icon 6 minute read
    By: Megan Howell
    fresh meat market in a European supermarket
    As news of COVID-19’s impact became more urgent, thousands of consumers went to supermarkets to stockpile essential goods, fearing mandatory lockdowns and quarantines
    empty shelves at supermarkets due to panic-buying during the coronavirus outbreak
    Legacy media and social media played on customers heightened emotional states and contributed to the UK’s buying frenzy in March

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