The jobs are not shrinking at all and in fact, food processing facilities are in need of workers. There are more jobs than willing workers right now. The overall economy of food production is not shrinking at all, there is a temporary stoppage
in spots because of Covid-19. A few meat processing facilities have run into labor
shortages because of this temporary situation, so a few brands of meat might be harder to find, but there is no food access problem. There's a hoarding problem that yields temporary spaces on grocery store shelves, but that is not a food shortage. As far as your gardening idea goes, the produce aisles continue to spill over. The only "food shortage" is fun food, frozen food, convenience food. Anyone who wants to actually cook and make meals from scratch can do it. Please show us specifically where there is a real food shortage. Not random empty spaces due to delivery issues, not random products, but a real food shortage. Where is that happening, specifically?
Essential jobs aren't shrinking at all and in fact, essential businesses are looking at labor shortages right now. Lack of willing workers, not lack of jobs, is what's causing a few meat processing plants to temporarily close. All the same, not all meat processing plants are closed. A few meat processing facilities closing temporarily does not a food shortage make. Do you know how vast the meat industry is in this country? A few facilities are a drop in the bucket and those few are making the headlines right now.
3,773 plants process red meat and 2,979 process poultry. It takes a lot more than a few closed plants to make a meat shortage and even then, a meat shortage is not a food shortage.