Yes, we’re canned!

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…