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Inflation, the still-fresh memory of tangled supply chains, and growing awareness of the amount of food that Western consumers tend to waste is fueling a renaissance of sorts in canned, shelf-stable meat products — and in canned, shelf-stable meat analogues.
For most North Americans the idea of buying a canned meat product invokes periods of deprivation — wartime for some, for others when they were eking by on a first-job starting pay — that they are…