Throughout history, mankind has waged a constant war with starvation.
From the time of the first hunter-gatherers, through the early
cultivation of crops and all the way to our modern, industrialized
farming techniques, we humans have been working to ensure that we can
survive the next winter, when no crops are growing and animals hide in
their burrows. To our ancestors, this was a great challenge, unlike
today. For that reason, the idea of being a “prepper” would seem strange, as they all lived a prepping lifestyle.
Yet somehow, modern western culture has distanced itself from the
reality of needing to grow food. As the number of farmers in our midst
keeps dwindling and industrialized farming takes over, fewer and fewer
people have any idea of where their food comes from. The idea that the
grocery store produces meat and vegetables rather than farmers and
ranchers growing it, might make for a good joke, but the ignorance
behind it is outright frightening.
The United States is the number one food producing nation in the
world; yet we do it with a very small percentage of our overall
population. Farming, fishing, forestry and related activities account
for only 1.8% of the overall workforce. Those people not only produce
the food that we eat here at home, but much that is exported overseas.
We depend on this small portion of our population, plus the others
who work in the food service industry, to keep the rest of us fed. The
rest of us don’t even bother thinking about it. After all, there’s
always food in the grocery store… lots of food. There always has been
and there always will be, right?
But what if they can’t? What if, for some reason, the farmers in this
country can’t produce the food needed to feed our population, let alone
all the other countries in the world that buy $159 billion in American
food products? What will we do then?
The truth is we have never been more disconnected from life, from the world, from the soil, from the trees, and from our own souls.
We are straying away from our roots on a dangerous road from
which there will be no turning back. And the good and bad news is that we are the last generation that can truly do something about it.
We no longer know how to live without refrigerators, without cars, without phones or without supermarkets.
What will you do tomorrow if you simply are unable to buy things?
In this short Video,
I will unearth a long-forgotten secret that helped our ancestors
survive famines, wars, economic crises, diseases, droughts, and anything
else life threw at them… a secret that will help you do the same for
your loved ones when America crumbles into the ground.
We may very well be facing that problem in the very near future, a
top one percent farmer warns. Between late planting of grains,
especially corn, in 2020 and an unusually dry growing season, US grain
harvests were low in 2020. This is on top of low production of
vegetables due to the ongoing droughts in Southern California.
What this means is that the “excess” food in the “pipeline” has all
disappeared in a period of about four months. While we are not yet in
trouble, we’re teetering right on the edge. All it would take to put us
into food shortage, is for a low harvest level in 2021, either through
drought, natural disasters, an early winter destroying crops or another
late planting season.
We’re Not Hearing About It
Should there be actual shortages of food, there would be a need for
some sort of food rationing. That would be a function of the USDA (US
Department of Agriculture), who would be responsible for putting some
sorts of controls in place, ensuring that the food which our farmers are
producing would be properly allocated, so that everyone’s needs would
be met.
What’s scarier than the potential of food shortages in the near future,
is that we’re not hearing about it. Nor does it seem that the USDA is
hearing anything about it. Nothing is being done to prepare for
potential shortages, because the people who should be dealing with that
don’t have any idea of what is going on. They seem to be kept in the
dark and nobody seems to know who is hiding that news.
This means that when the food shortages begin to manifest, nobody is
going to be ready for it. Government bureaucrats and major producers up
and down the line will be caught with a sudden need to do something, but
without the time to plan out what should be done.
Can The Food Run Short?
There are places in the world today where food shortages are the
norm. I’ve had church pastors from other countries in my home, who have
told me about the people they bury, even children, because they’ve
starved to death. This is a very real problem in a number of different
countries. It’s not something made up by non-profit organizations, to
try and get your money.
Are we going to run into that problem here in the USA? We could, but
we probably won’t. As a country, we produce something like 180 billion
tons of food per year. Of that, about a third actually goes to waste,
not ending up on anyone’s dining room table.
The reason for this waste, is that, as a country, we are very focused
on the appearance of our food. That began just after the time of World
War II, coinciding with electric refrigerators becoming commonplace.
Even with their faults, those early electric refrigerators were so much
more efficient than iceboxes, that it made a difference in how our food
looked, especially produce. No longer did homemakers have to concern
themselves with brown spots on produce; it would be consumed before that
happened.
With that being the case, homemakers became more selective in their
purchases, passing over imperfect produce, in favor of better looking
specimens. Noticing this, grocers stopped putting less than perfect
produce on the shelves, opting to throw it away and make their selection
look better. This then worked its way back to the farm, so that now
there’s a lot of food which goes from the farm right to the landfill,
rather than trucking it to the store.
Please note that there is nothing wrong with all this food that gets
thrown away. In most cases, the flaws are superficial, mere cosmetic
blemishes. I’m not talking about food that has spoiled, just food that
doesn’t’ look so good.
With so much food that doesn’t ever get eaten, our farms would have
to suffer severe shortages, before it became a shortage in the grocery
store. The ones who would most likely be affected by such shortages
would be our overseas customers, who buy some $160 billion worth of
American food per year.
When Food Runs Short
This isn’t to say that it would be impossible for there to be serious
food shortages in our country. The amount of food our farmers produce
annually is dependent on a lot of separate factors. Should just one of
those factors fall short, we might suddenly find ourselves in the
position where productivity on the farms is drastically reduced.
There are a number of things I can think of, off hand, which could
bring that about, ranging from severe weather to government regulation.
Some of these regulations are being pushed for in Washington, without
anyone taking into account the ultimate effect of those regulations.
Should the food supply begin to run short, we would first see it as a rise in prices at the store.
The only effect that would have on most of us is a more costly grocery
bill. We’d pay it and complain, tightening our belts elsewhere in our
budgets, so that we could buy the same as we’ve always done.
But there would be those who couldn’t afford to spend more on their
grocery bills; those people would suffer. Oh, they wouldn’t starve, but
they would need to change their eating habits, so that they didn’t. More
than anything, rather than buying fresh, they would have to settle for
less favorable choices, perhaps even eating the food that is currently
being thrown away.
It Could All Stop Tomorrow
While it would take a lot to shut down our farms or lower the amount
they produce to levels where we would see shortages, there is one thing
that could shut down food supplies in a day. That’s any sort of damage
to our nation’s trucking industry.
The food production and food service industries depend on trucking,
more so than many other industries. Without our nation’s trucking
industry taking food from the farm to the various processing facilities
and then from those to the stores, the supermarket shelves would empty
in a day.
As I sit here writing this, that’s happening in Wyoming. Severe
winter weather has made the roads all but impassible, with over 200
miles of Interstate 80 closed down. This is making it difficult for
truckers to make their deliveries, which in turn has led to empty
shelves in the stores. Should this situation last for more than a few
days, things could get serious for the inhabitants of that state.
The same could happen nationwide, should the electrical grid go down
or some sort of nationwide quarantine be put in place due to pandemic.
It wouldn’t matter what farmers could produce then, as it would only be
available to people living locally. Those who lived in states where
there wasn’t any food grown or even in cities that were far from the
farms and processing plants, had better have their pantries stocked, or
they’ll find themselves on very short rations.
In this short VIDEO, I will unearth A lost super-food will bulletproof you against any food shortage or famine. It’s a food that vanished with the Incas over 6 centuries ago
In the next crisis these lost skills will be more valuable than gold, food supplies and survival equipment combined. These skills have been tested and proven to work for centuries.
Here is just a small glimpse of what you’ll find in this massive 300-page sequel (in color) to The Lost Ways:
Source: https://newslyblog.home.blog/2021/01/08/warning-top-1-farmer-voices-his-concerns-about-the-coming-food-crisis/
