Posted on 04/20/2014 12:17:03 PM PDT by Nachum
It's not just beef, pork, shrimp, eggs, and orange juice...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
Do you think that the price of food is high now? Just wait. If current trends continue, many of the most common food items that Americans buy will cost more than twice as much by the end of this decade. Global demand for food continues to rise steadily as crippling droughts ravage key agricultural regions all over the planet. You see, it isn't just the multi-year California drought that is affecting food prices. Down in Brazil (one of the leading exporters of food in the world), the drought has gotten so bad that 142 cities were rationing water at one point earlier this year. And outbreaks of disease are also having a significant impact on our food supply. A devastating pig virus that has never been seen in the U.S. before has already killed up to 6 million pigs. Even if nothing else bad happens (and that is a very questionable assumption to make), our food prices are going to be moving aggressively upward for the foreseeable future. But what if something does happen? In recent years, global food reserves have dipped to extremely low levels, and a single major global event (war, pandemic, terror attack, planetary natural disaster, etc.) could create an unprecedented global food crisis very rapidly.
A professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University named Timothy Richards has calculated what the drought in California is going to do to produce prices at our supermarkets in the near future. His projections are quite sobering...
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Thanks, wish I knew how to post that too.
My daughter just had the ‘tip added, whether you want it or not’ experience.
She was in another town on business and didn’t notice til later, but she had drawn a line thru the tip amt. and this is what she found later.
5.00 for a 8.50 salad.
“In your narrow north-eastern corridor world.”
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What on earth does that mean?.
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they're outrageously expensive and not something you want to eat much of
save seeds
learn how to garden - the watch word is “renewable”
learn to oven can dry goods - they will last 20-30 years.
(do NOT ask me how - you've you got a keyboard and YouTube)
Inexpensive things like dried beans, dried peas, dried soup vegs, all kinds of Bob's Red Mill foods - many to dry can - seeds for sprouting for steady supply of greens (very little space needed for a years - or more - worth), jars of Better Than Bullion paste (one small jar can make gallons of broth) Stay under the radar...
plant perennials - dwarf fruit trees, berry bushes, learn how to raise chickens and rabbits - (meat and eggs on next to no land)
have your own well (learn how to sink a shallow well in your back yard (YOUTUBE it)
BE RESPONSIBLE for you and your family.
Take a look at this family - grows 6,000 lbs of food on
- on 1/10th an acre in the middle Pasadena! (You go hungry -YOUR FAULT)
Just had a particular question on the current high cost of freeze-dried meats versus the expected price-spike in the coming years.
Not for an "all-eggs-in-one-basket", just as a supplement to current suburban "farming", (better to have some in reserve and not need it than have nothing and....)
the DAK canned hams are good quality and really inexpensive - great storage item. Canned chicken, sardines... I don't do tuna - not just the mercury but now 'Fukushima"
Corned beef hash - etc - things you would normally eat - and just keep rotating. That will give you a fews supply of any item at all times - live chickens and rabbits, even better
Chocolate coated and/or bacon wrapped insects? I’m on it! :)
I’ll just take my chocolate plain.
according to my bills, more like the last 5 years....
We need, not only to grow some/more of our own food, we need to encourage farmers to grow and sell at farmer's markets - then when TSHIF, and the trucks stop rolling, bringing food from far off states to stock your grocers shelves, There will be food available locally -
http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/04/10/top-10-best-and-worst-states-eat-local?cmpid=foodinc-fb
I have a friend who is getting investors to help start up a hydroponic system in a 200,000 square foot warehouse. He is using the new LED grow lights and growing troughs on multiple tiers. He wants to provide the fresh produce for restaurants. Here is a starting point to learn about LED type grow lights that won’t run up you electricity bill and will allow you to grow produce faster, hydroponically:
http://www.advancedledlights.com/
Amen brother.
That is the type grow lamp I have.
Don’t forget them trying to ban farmers markets.
They’ll know exactly who has a backyard garden from google street view and drones. FYI, you can request street view get blurred out.
I eat insects after they’ve been cycled through the chickens.
In the Carboniferous Epoch, we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul,
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said “If you don’t work, you die”.
Hydraulic computer.
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