What Is Your Plan To Make It Through The Worst Global Food Crisis?

[ozcopper]

What Is Your Plan To Make It Through The Worst Global Food Crisis In Any Of Our Lifetimes?

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

We are being warned well ahead of time that it is coming.  Joe Biden has publicly admitted that the coming food shortages are ?going to be real?, and the head of the UN World Food Program is now telling us that we could soon see ?hell on Earth? because the lack of food will be so severe.  Food prices are already escalating dramatically all over the globe, and food riots have already erupted in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.  But most people in the western world are treating this crisis as if it is no big deal.  Many seem to assume that our leaders have everything under control and that things will work out just fine somehow.

Unfortunately, the truth is that everything is not going to be okay.

So far this year, the number of hungry people around the globe has risen to more than 800 million?

    Currently around 811 million people are experiencing hunger. Levels of food insecurity have doubled from 2019, increasing from 135 million to 276 million. Of this total around 48.9 million people are facing acute or emergency levels of food insecurity that require humanitarian intervention.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Much worse is ahead, and David Beasley is openly warning that ?hell on Earth? is coming?

    The UN has warned that there could be ?hell on earth? due to the global economic impacts of Russia?s invasion of Ukraine.

    The Guardian reports that David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), has said that the war has been ?devastating? in conjunction with various other factors.

    He said, ?Even before the Ukraine crisis, we were facing an unprecedented global food crisis because of Covid and fuel price increases. Then, we thought it couldn?t get any worse, but this war has been devastating.?

According to Beasley, we will soon see ?frightening? shortages of food, and those shortages could potentially spark civil unrest in literally dozens of different nations?

    Dozens of countries risk protests, riots and political violence this year as food prices surge around the world, the head of the food-aid branch of the United Nations has warned.

    Speaking in Ethiopia?s capital, Addis Ababa, on Thursday, David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said the world faced ?frightening? shortages that could destabilise countries that depend on wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia.

But most Americans are not paying much attention to this rapidly growing crisis because they don?t think that it will really impact them personally.

For the vast majority of us, a lack of food is something that we have never had to be concerned about before.

During ?normal? times, we could always go to the grocery store and fill up our carts with mountains of super cheap food whenever we wanted.

Unfortunately, things have changed.  Food production in the U.S. is going to be way below expectations this year, and the head of the National Black Farmers Association claims that we will soon see ?a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices??

    Three weeks ago John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, said ?We are in a crisis right now as far as the food chain goes with the farmer in this country,? adding ?We?re going to see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices.?

    In his forty-year career as a farmer, Boyd said he never imagined he would be ?paying $5.63 for a gallon of diesel fuel, $900 a ton for fertilizer, and all-time high prices for soybean seeds.? All of the prices he mentioned are at record highs, pressuring farmers? margins.

Of course we are already seeing widespread shortages of certain products around the country.

For example, Fox Business is reporting on the serious shortage of tampons that has recently started making headlines?

    A spokesperson for Tampax, which is owned by P&G, told FOX Business in a statement that this is ?a temporary situation, and the Tampax team is producing tampons 24/7 to meet the increased demand for our products.?

Meanwhile, the ongoing shortage of baby formula just keeps getting even worse...

    Parents aren?t getting much of a break as the out-of-stock rate for baby formula rose to 73% nationwide for the week ending May 29, according to the most recent data by retail data firm Datasembly. It?s a significant increase from earlier in the month, when the national out-of-stock rate for baby formula stood at 45%.

On top of everything else, we are now facing a shortage of hot sauce?

    In April, Huy Fong Foods, Inc., the nation?s leading sriracha sauce manufacturer, sent a letter to customers about an impending shortage, which would directly impact retailers and restaurants.

    ?Unfortunately, we can confirm that there is an unprecedented shortage of our products,? Huy Fong Foods told Fox News Digital in an email.

These shortages are just a very small preview of what is approaching.

As I have been warning on my website throughout 2022, conditions are going to deteriorate quite a bit more in the months ahead.

So what is your plan to make it through the worst global food crisis in any of our lifetimes?

Have you been stocking up?

Earlier this year, I published a list of 50 basic items that I would recommend having on hand.  The following list is certainly not exhaustive, but it will help you cover many of the essentials?

    #1 A Generator

    #2 A Berkey Water Filter

    #3 A Rainwater Collection System If You Do Not Have A Natural Supply Of Water Near Your Home

    #4 An Emergency Medical Kit

    #5 Rice

    #6 Pasta

    #7 Canned Soup

    #8 Canned Vegetables

    #9 Canned Fruit

    #10 Canned Chicken

    #11 Jars Of Peanut Butter

    #12 Salt

    #13 Sugar

    #14 Powdered Milk

    #15 Bags Of Flour

    #16 Yeast

    #17 Lots Of Extra Coffee (If You Drink It)

    #18 Buckets Of Long-Term Storable Food

    #19 Extra Vitamins

    #20 Lighters Or Matches

    #21 Candles

    #22 Flashlights Or Lanterns

    #23 Plenty Of Wood To Burn

    #24 Extra Blankets

    #25 Extra Sleeping Bags

    #26 A Sun Oven

    #27 An Extra Fan If You Live In A Hot Climate

    #28 Hand Sanitizer

    #29 Toilet Paper

    #30 Extra Soap And Shampoo

    #31 Extra Toothpaste

    #32 Extra Razors

    #33 Bottles Of Bleach

    #34 A Battery-Powered Radio

    #35 Extra Batteries

    #36 Solar Chargers

    #37 Trash Bags

    #38 Tarps

    #39 A Pocket Knife

    #40 A Hammer

    #41 An Axe

    #42 A Shovel

    #43 Work Gloves

    #44 N95 Masks

    #45 Seeds For A Garden

    #46 Canning Jars

    #47 Extra Supplies For Your Pets

    #48 An Emergency Supply Of Cash

    #49 Bibles For Every Member Of Your Family

    #50 A ?Bug Out Bag? For Every Member Of Your Family

Many of the items on this list are now much more expensive than they were earlier this year.

And if you wait, many of them will continue to become much more expensive.

If you don?t like my list, come up with your own.

The important thing is to have a plan.

Global events are really starting to spiral out of control, and I expect the second half of this year to be even more chaotic than the first half of this year has been.

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It is finally here! Michael?s new book entitled ?7 Year Apocalypse? is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.

 

[shinymetal]

That's a pretty good list. I'd add honey and apple cider vinegar and spices, food would get boring without a spice rack.

 

[Administrator]

I'd add some alcohol. Can be used for disinfecting, or drinking.

Coffee. That'll probably be in short supply, or very expensive.

I favor solar power station over petrol/diesel generators. Ideally the ones that can be charged from multiple sources (car, solar, mains ... etc).

 

[jason1]

I think im about as prepared as I can be.
obviously nothing is going tobe perfect.

been stocking food like a madman over the last few months, for any sort of shortage. lol
I have a few months of food, so if the expected food shortage doesnt happen, least i wont have to go buy groceries for a few months ahaha.
my veg gardens got messed up bad by the bloody constant rains, and fruit trees got smashed by hail, so thats a bummer, had to start again on that level, so might buy some hail netting.

at $2.20L for fuel, im not even worrying about generators, as above solar battery storage is the best, build a system, its easy enough and not insanely expensive to build one if you dont go silly and be smart about it.
the premade systems are well over priced and well under spec. so if you can cobble a system up for your self

 

[alor]

face mask and mosquito net can be useful
alcohol base hand sanitizer
jack fruit food powder
minerals supplement
as people aged, the suitable food can become more limited
as people prepared 50 years to 90 years OLD
if you are 120 yrs... there is no need to LOL

 

[Aurora et Luna]

Dear Reader,
A study earlier this year from four prestigious institutions proclaimed that you should eat bugs and spiders.
And not only that. The study ? conducted by BI Norwegian Business School (BI), Chuo University, Miyagi University and Oxford University ? also said that the way to convince people to do this is to have celebrities do it on YouTube videos.
Like clockwork, they are suddenly everywhere. You are welcome to look them up. I personally find them revolting. As in they make me want to revolt.
These are the same folks who pushed for lockdowns, masking, jabs and a war with Russia. Now they say we have to get used to eating bugs because all the other policies they pushed have dramatically increased world hunger. Indeed, it is reaching a crisis point.
For many people, bug eating will soon be the only answer.
One Step Before Cannibalism
I?m going to take it as a given that the evolution of society selected against bug eating. It is not something people prefer over, for example, eating chicken, fish, beef and vegetables. I would further postulate that most people, in general, would not eat bugs unless they had to.
I?m sure there are many venerable bureaucrats at the UN who would dispute the above, but I don?t care.
There is a name for bug eating: entomophagy. Sounds fancy, but ultimately it means living as if there is a famine going on. It is one step before cannibalism and finally eating tree bark.
Sometimes it happens. We call those periods of history deeply tragic. It?s not what we want. The difference this time is that entomophagy is being pushed by top Hollywood influencers.
When it arrives, the famine will be celebrated on social media.
Food Is Already Scarce
Already you have probably observed the changes that are happening. Restaurants are worried about their profit margins and figuring out ways to work around the squeeze. They are serving mounds of bread and pasta and ever less meat. Even vegetable portions are getting skimpy.
They can?t raise prices the way gas stations can. This is because they have a regular clientele that watches menu prices very carefully. Even a 50-cent increase can prompt consumer protest. Then customers end up tipping less, which is a huge disaster for the server staff that make far less than the minimum wage. Then the server staff quits at a time of huge shortage.
As a result, many are trying to find other ways.
In addition, we are hip-deep into the substitution phase of the great inflation. The pricier items at the store are selling much less while the cheaper stuff is selling well. Out with steaks and in with ground beef. Chicken is the going thing and not the best cuts but the cheap ones.
Another trend: home gardening. People very naively imagine that they will beat inflation by growing their own food. What they discover is that this takes more time than one might expect, and it costs too: the tools, fertilizer, water, nets to keep the bugs off and so on. It all adds up.
And yes, there are moments of great delight but it hardly makes a dent in the grocery bill.
A Hungry World
Meanwhile, people in the First World forget how lucky they really are. Many parts of the world today are facing true food and health crises combined.
The world?s largest and most established humanitarian organization to deliver food has sounded the alarm: The world faces a global hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions.
In just two years, the number of people facing, or at risk of, acute food insecurity increased from 135 million in 53 countries pre-pandemic to 345 million in 82 countries today?
We are at a critical crossroads. We need to rise to the challenge of meeting people's immediate food needs at scale, while at the same time supporting programs that build long-term resilience at scale.
The alternative is hunger on a catastrophic scale.
We?ll Be Paying the Price for Years
Of course, the elites want to blame climate change and war but the real culprit traces to lockdowns and the supply chains that were shattered as a result of government actions. What a disaster. We?ll be paying for many years to come for this mess.
And while it is easy to dismiss problems around the world as their issues and not ours, I wouldn?t be so confident. The food supply in the U.S. has been profoundly affected by the labor shortage, regulatory overreach, inflation and massive problems in the transportation sector.
Federal crop insurance makes its own contribution to lessening supply. This is a program that pays farmers whether they produce or not. It was designed to mitigate against weather risk but it can also create a situation in which it is more profitable to take fields out of production rather than deal with the soaring costs of fertilizer, gas and labor.

There are zero attempts right now in legislation to do anything about this. In addition, there are massive restrictions written in legislation that prevent private farmers and ranchers from selling their products commercially unless they use a federal government-approved meat processor.
This is simply incredible. Thomas Massie of Kentucky (one of the few really brilliant statesmen in the U.S. today) has tried to introduce legislation to fix this but it is getting no traction.
Get a Cow
You don?t need this advice because you already know it: It?s a good time to get a large freezer and stock up. Many of my own friends have done this. They are also finding ways around the crazy regulations. This is how people get when they start to fear the future. No regulation will stand between us and the desire to eat.
Let?s deal with the elephant in the room: whether and to what extent all of this is deliberate. I resist conspiracy theories but it is undeniable that many of the elite members of the World Economic Forum believe that the world is overpopulated. And not by just a little but by billions.
Is it possible that this food crisis is all being engineered to reduce global population? Maybe. We know that Bill Gates has long championed population reduction. He has had his way on everything else, so why not this?
One does get the feeling these days of a civilization being wrecked by force. Our longevity has been falling for some 10 years, with life spans shrinking for the first time in centuries. This is a terrifying reality. Combine that with an overall health crisis and a food crisis that seems certain to get worse.
Two nights ago, I watched the movie Mr. Jones that covers the Stalin-created famine in Ukraine. Utterly terrifying. It can happen. Famines are nearly always created by governments. When they come, there is no way out. Not even the bug population is large enough to meet our food needs.
It?s an unjust smear of Marie Antoinette that she ever said, ?Let them eat cake.? But there is no question that many elites and Hollywood celebs are now telling a world dealing with a serious food crisis:
?Let them eat bugs.?
Regards,
Jeffrey Tucker
for The Daily Reckoning

 

[alor]

when all farm animal dna got altered, then there is not much choice left but the bugs life

 

[Shlomo Goldberg]

Holodomor 2.0