tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1252060403874955642..comments2024-03-29T04:54:50.435-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The global food crisis - some people still don't get itPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-5550366352568203632022-04-08T19:25:20.940-05:002022-04-08T19:25:20.940-05:00Don't worry, be happy. This is America the lan...Don't worry, be happy. This is America the land of plenty, the home of the free and the brave. It can't happen here. Pay no attention to the fear porn out there. <br /><br />https://ncrenegade.com/the-great-famine-is-here/Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-28190510874075762262022-04-08T19:16:41.841-05:002022-04-08T19:16:41.841-05:00A quick update and the local store did indeed have...A quick update and the local store did indeed have boneless, skinless chicken on sale except for $1.99 per pound and they had plenty of stock. I picked up 4 large family packs. Not to appear to be a "hoarder" when things go on sale that we need to replace or build stock on I usually stop by 4 or 5 days during the 7 day sale and pick up smaller amounts. What I picked up already will bring us back to full stock level but if I can make freezer room we will add more. Keep on prepping...<br /><br />You might not be concerned about having enough to eat until you don't. So it goes...<br /><br />https://ncrenegade.com/will-famine-emerge-by-year-end-yes/Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-59276276856243868512022-04-07T16:36:50.142-05:002022-04-07T16:36:50.142-05:00I think different areas of the US will have differ...I think different areas of the US will have different shortages. The big national/international brands will be hard to find - this includes most store brands - but more local items will be found in lesser quantities. The other issue will be the junk food/fast food/meals in a box won't be there, and people will starve because they will be either unable or unwilling to eat what there is. The number of people I know (and this is across generations - Silents to Zoomers) who absolutely refuse to eat anything outside of a very narrow band of specific meals boggles my mind.<br /><br />Meanwhile, I'm trying to learn as many different rice recipes I can get my kids to eat as possible...Hightecrebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12105154969289523695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-25719513437401589372022-04-07T12:54:25.130-05:002022-04-07T12:54:25.130-05:00Prog Politics will almost certainly be a fifth hor...Prog Politics will almost certainly be a fifth horseman. There is not yet serious consideration of ending the food to fuel alcohol misallocation, and I recently read of a near Western state giving a ChiCom related company money and tax breaks to build a corn to amino acid processing plant that will consume 17 Billion bushels of corn per year, and export the end products. WTF !!!<br />The US .gov has always used the export production of our farmers to buy peace or cooperation from foreign States. This will have to end, or at least be sharply curtailed. That means famine, war, and a much higher level of invaders crossing our undefended borders.<br />Food and food distribution shortages here will tesult in riots and plundering. The "unexpected failure" of the Food Stamp cards in Birmingham 8 or so years ago looked to me like a test. By the 4th day of the outage, the food stores and Walmarts in the neighborhoods of special privilege had been raided and stripped.<br />Prepare for the .gov to come and help you, you wreckers, hoarders, Kulaks, and opposers of all things good and proper !<br />SARC /<br />John in IndyJohn in Indyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726277544639088808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-52929408543986895002022-04-07T12:16:40.064-05:002022-04-07T12:16:40.064-05:00Peter, I think you are far too optimistic about th...Peter, I think you are far too optimistic about the American food supply. There is not going to be enough here either and global politics will cause some of our essential food to be sent overseas.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993938643115716912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-50568097440420124942022-04-07T11:47:16.856-05:002022-04-07T11:47:16.856-05:00More food for thought...
https://coyoteprimeblog2...More food for thought...<br /><br />https://coyoteprimeblog2.blogspot.com/2022/04/nearly-17-million-dead-chickens-and.html<br /><br />Peak Prosperity on the coming famine and civil unrest in some countries that has already started.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJ9yrkeKYc<br /><br /><br />I volunteered at a local food bank here for over 3 years and only stopped due to some of the over the top restrictions they put in place as the plandemic got underway. I basically spent 1-2 afternoons as needed sorting and stocking incoming donations both corporate and local and helped build the weekly boxes of canned and dry goods that would be distributed with added fresh meat, fruits and vegetables. I was initially shocked at the number of families in this rural "red" county in the mountains of NC had that needed help. They also had a backpack program that supplied the local schools with packages to distribute to the local schools to send home with the children who were on school food assistance program. Those children received both breakfast and lunch 5 days a week at school and needed food aid on weekends.<br /><br />Even here in rural "red" NC there are going to be hungry, angry and desperate people if the system breaks down. If it gets so bad that EBT cards and other assistance programs shut down or even have major delays then "Katy bar the door". People whose children are going hungry will do desperate things.<br /><br />Thinking about why these things are happening will not necessarily stop them from becoming a reality, but if the worst happens and you are lucky enough to see the other side then that might help the remnant from seeing the errors repeated. <br />Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-7954245012568195752022-04-07T10:49:30.952-05:002022-04-07T10:49:30.952-05:00Do you know that the US imports TWICE as much food...Do you know that the US imports TWICE as much food as does China?<br /><br />Food for thought.EasyCompanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02572859874764150477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-16993213740530291972022-04-07T10:43:07.931-05:002022-04-07T10:43:07.931-05:00As I commented on your previous post warning of th...As I commented on your previous post warning of the coming food shortages here locally we had been experiencing a boneless, skinless chicken shortage here locally. My wife and I utilize that chicken as well as boneless center cut thick pork chops that we cut ourselves from pork loins as well as beef from the half a cow we purchased locally to make our daily meals from. I have bought the chicken and pork when it goes on sale and vacuum seal it for the freezer. Suddenly this week one local food store chain is once again advertising the chicken on sale for $1.79/lb starting today. I will see if they have actual supply and purchase more to replace that which we have recently used.<br /><br />We are planting more strawberry and raspberry plants this week. Our early garden is coming along well and we have been harvesting greens from the cold box and our asparagus is providing enough for meals 3-4 times each week. Plenty of ground has been tilled for our later crops of beans, greens, tomatoes, peppers cucumbers, squash and pumpkins. We received our 8x16 foot greenhouse kit and are getting the foundation area prepped to assemble the greenhouse.<br /><br />If you live in or near a large city get out now if at all possible. Rural areas are not often welcoming to new comers and interlopers especially uninvited ones. We live at the end of a dead end mountain gravel road and our nearest neighbor is over a mile back down the road. There are only 5 other house on the 3-1/3 miles back out to an intersection with another mountain gravel road. Our house is almost a half mile down our driveway from the locked steel gate at the property's entrance. Most people do not even know the house is even here.<br /><br />Hard times are on the horizon, harder times than most folks have experienced in their lifetime. Do what you can to sensibly prepare for them for the long term. Food and resources properly stored away can be used even if none of the doom and gloom happen and we enter an era of "free bubble up and rainbow stew". But if prices continue to skyrocket and shortages increase for the long term what you have put away will be a much better investment than your 401K. We will continue to do so. Take the many warnings seriously.<br /><br />Benjamin Franklin said, "If you are failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail".<br /><br />https://www.americanpartisan.org/2022/04/grain-deliveries-by-rail-to-be-partially-halted-devastating-dairy-herds-and-meat-operations-nationwide/Michael Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15337073997302676770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62244302250219283562022-04-07T10:41:32.958-05:002022-04-07T10:41:32.958-05:00The post today includes the following, "The F...The post today includes the following, "The Four Horsemen are real. Not mythical. Pestilence, War, Famine, Death."<br /><br />And yet the question continuing to be asked is, something like, " . . . why are so many readers saying that I am being alarmist?!"<br /><br />I responded in a previous reply several weeks ago. I will not just rewrite what I wrote, but I will list some basic thoughts.<br /><br />(1) Do not assume those of us who disagree with you are not prepared. Long time readers of your blog, myself included, ARE prepared. Yes, . . . we are. Thank you for your concern.<br /><br />(2) Are hard times here? Of course. Is a famine coming? I hope so. Seriously. The world needs it. Beginning with America.<br /><br />(3) I attend gun shows frequently. Most of the people I observe hovering over all the tables set out by the preppers have long lost sight of their belt buckles, years ago. 32.5 percent of American adults are overweight. 36.5 percent of Americans are obese.<br /><br />Shocked by what I wrote in my previous reply several weeks ago, one of the readers of this blog wrote, in reply, "Did you read your post before you hit send?"<br />And,<br />"Do you really think a bit 'O Famine might be GOOD . . . ?"<br /><br />My answer: "Yes". Yes, I do give considerable thought to what I write. And, yes.<br /><br />I am a long time reader of this blog (a very long time reader, as a matter of fact). So I don't write very much, but when I do, it is only after giving the topic a lot of thought.<br /><br />Instead of wringing hands, and running out to supply places, trying to stock up more and more, . . . maybe more thought should be given to WHY these things are happening. [And I mean deeply thinking about why, . . . (not just the usual, predictable, quick, typical replies, which invariably include a list of "blames")].bultaco1495https://www.blogger.com/profile/03049132671108191371noreply@blogger.com