Posted on 12/03/2021 12:11:47 PM PST by ransomnote
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I am so screwed.
Food supply has been climbing more many decades…this thread is wrong.
Not in the US, we are swimming in corn and grains.
If we stopped exporting food we would not know what to do with it all.
US is also different in that we have single family homes with large back yards to grow crops unlike Europe/Japan etc who live in apartments.
Farm to home and backyard gardens are making a huge comeback driven by milennials who are really into it.
Burpee Seed Co sold out of seeds the last two years due to demand for home gardens.
Make friends with a prepper...or a Mormon.
We need to discover anti-gravity so we can lift the billions of humans off the Earth and send them to more liveable planets. Hopefully there’s a tesseract in the neighborhood.
This might be good for my diet... ;-)
“US is also different in that we have single family homes with large back yards to grow crops unlike Europe/Japan etc who live in apartments.”
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Most people have no idea how to can, preserve, dry, smoke, salt, pickle, etc, although I doubt there is any greater motivator than necessity. The problem is that in many US zones your harvest only in several months out of a year for the majority of crops
This is true. I live in Pennsylvania, the Land of Plenty.
Just in case, I am fattening up my two cats. 🙀
Although I do think the US is unlikely to experience anything like a famine, I am reminded of the USSR and it’s treatment of Ukraine during the Holodomor (early 1930s). Ukraine was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union. They produced plenty of food. But the Soviets wanted to crush the “Kulaks”, so they exported the food and people inside Ukraine starved. Millions died.
Also, during the Irish Potato famine (1840s), Ireland was still exporting food to England. Who cares if the locals starve?
If China needs food next year, will we export to them and let the Deplorables starve?
OK...you made me look up “tesseract”.
Pass the potatoes, please.😱
Famines are not caused by a lack of food
They are a result of government creating a lack of food. I had a friend in Africa and we had to mail her seeds clandestinely because seeds were forbidden.
“The problem is that in many US zones your harvest only in several months out of a year for the majority of crops”
Most midwestern states have a growing season of April to October.
We planted green beans last year three times
As long as there is access to the internet, you can find out how to can, preserve, dry, smoke, salt, pickle, etc....
This works until normal growing conditions change. If there is a famine because of drought or pests or extreme weather events (e.g., derecho), what makes you think it won't effect us in the US? Seems to me, the threat of drought in California is already a huge threat to our food supply. If there's no water for farmers, there's no water for my backyard garden either.
For about a year I have been hearing these predictions, mostly attributed the UN predictions. We produce plenty of food in the USA, but the farmland has been bought up in large part by multinational corporations, China and people like Bill Gates. If they shipped all of the factory farm food to Africa as a reparation or BLM/democRAT mandate then we would be in deep trouble as a nation. Not enough people know how to grow crops or can food to feed everyone in the cities in the USA.
I’ve been fattening up the birds and squirrels with leftovers for years now. Payback time!
But noone can scream ‘I told you so’ until half the population is dead, market collapses and the rest of us are near death from famine!
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