As Long As Ya Gotta Eat...

Summary

• Fish gotta swim. People gotta eat.
• Moreover, the more people there are, the more food is going to be eaten.
• In the U.S. alone, there were 328.2 million in 2019. The global population, meanwhile, was 7.71 billion.
• Let’s discuss four real estate picks related to the "Gotta Eat" theme.
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If you have kids or grandkids, you may have seen the Disney film Finding Nemo.

Released in 2003, it’s the story of a little clownfish with one fin too small. He ends up being scooped up by a scuba diver and carried back to Sydney, Australia, leaving his father frantic to find him – willing to brave sharks, jellyfish, and a whole host of other dangers to bring him back home.

In typical Disney fashion, there are plenty of quotable lines in the movie. But one in particular is running through my mind. Spoken by a pelican who’s set aside his appetite in order to help the main characters, it goes like this:

“Sorry if I took a snap at you at one time. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.”

In other words, we’re each biologically driven toward certain things.

There are some practices we can set aside and survive without. We proved that during 2020, I suppose, saying short- or mid-term “sayonaras” to such things as:

• Eating out
• Going on vacation
• Shopping in person...

I had to end that last one with an ellipses to add in a caveat. Because while certain shops shut down, others did not. Like dollar stores. Liquor stores. Home improvement stores. And, of course, Walmart (WMT) and Target (TGT).

There were plenty of people who fought off shopping withdrawal – or simply indulged in an understandable desire for normalcy – at such places. Maybe you were one of them?

People Gotta Eat (Though Perhaps Not This Much)

If you were one of those people, don’t worry. I’m not here to judge. Everybody got through 2020 how they could.

Maybe it was by taking up a new hobby or gravitating toward online shopping. Maybe it was with ice cream. Or cookies. Or pizza - the latter three of which

Analyst’s Disclosure:I am/we are long UBA, LAND, REG, IMKTA. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.