Posted on 03/17/2026 6:50:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Most Americans can’t imagine their favorite restaurant just being out of certain foods. But the threat is closer than we think.
It is difficult to imagine that the mighty United States could face threats to its seemingly abundant supply of grocery store and restaurant offerings. America has led the world in creating the modern industrial food system (known as “the Green Revolution”) and remains the world’s top food-exporting nation. Yet economic and logistical fractures have become visible, threatening to burst this illusion of plenty in a matter of moments.
America’s farms have been quietly disappearing for decades, and productive farmland acreage has dropped in tandem. The U.S. now imports more food than it exports, much of that from China. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of strained supply lines as grocery shelves emptied of more than mere toilet paper. Americans clamor for cheap hamburger, but the U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in 75 years. These are all harbingers of future food supply challenges.
The farmer revolts in the E.U. are distant from America’s shores, but they reflect ongoing ideological pressures by globalists determined to dominate the world’s food production system. The odd bedfellows of animal rights activists and climate alarmists who attack farmers in Europe gather annually at Davos to declaim human eating habits. Both groups seek to “liberate” animals from the food supply: one to save the animals (and leave them unalived, because they will disappear); the other to save the world...from alleged climate change and the ubiquitous carbon culprit.
As I explain in my new book, The Coming Food Crisis: How Corporations, Activists, and Climate Alarmists Are Waging War on Farmers, the United States is not immune to these pressures. Indeed, the U.S. has already embraced the GMO-dependent industrial agriculture system being thrust upon
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It’s about sustainability more than stockpiling.
I’m not concerned as I have a farm with over a thousand horse & buggy Amish farm neighbors. They have no electricity, tractors, cars, .....
The managerial class of big business and government regulators is basically engaged in strip mining the US of its accumulated wealth by engineering shortages, creating new monopolies, taxing US citizens to death, and ludicrous borrowing.
They’ve already practically outlawed fertilizer.
Guess what...if we need more food...we need more co2.
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That, and the local farmers can hardly make a living when citizens can just line up for free food from America.
NO. We may face higher price if oil and fertilizer costs stay high. The only other threat is woke-government regulation, or worse, outright political evil, purposely constricting our food supply.
The answer is simply less regulation and MORE freedom to farm. There’s a reason 80% of beef production is in the hands of 4 large companies, and it lies purely with government.
With proper incentives, Americans will respond as always, with mass production.
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If its made in China we dont buy it.
I’m surrounded by farmers here. The talk is about the weather, as usual.
It's not running out of food we are concerned about, it's the outrageous prices and "fees" they are now tacking on.
I was driving through Missouri last weekend. So much farmland was converted to solar farms along I-55.
There is also a lot of US farmland owned by China. If there is a food shortage, I can imagine it happening because China stopped sending food to the US and exported US food to China.
We’re one ruling, lawsuit, or decision away from BANNING ROUNDUP. At that point, we’ll basically be in starvation mode.
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People are spoiled. Instead of eating leftovers the next day, they want something different. Leftovers get forgotten, or simply pitched in the trash after a meal.
As a farmer until age 46, living on a farm while trucking OTR until 62, then helping part-time on a large farm operation over the past 9 years, I have seen the enormous changes in grain and livestock farming. Farmers have become so extremely reliant on chemical weed control, that if those products were to become hard to obtain, crop yields would plummet. Just getting the combine through that mess would be a slow operation.
Modern corn production relies greatly on LP gas for drying to a point that it won’t spoil easily.
A major collapse of the power grid for only a few days would bring chaos to the food chain.
That is only a start to a list of food related things this modern world is unable to endure the loss of.
Not me. I’m eating leftovers right now. Sometimes our entire meal is just leftovers.
“I’m surrounded by farmers here. The talk is about the weather, as usual.”
The problem with farming today is that if the SHTF, their $200K+ tractors can be broken down by a simple software glitch. Or one critical part such as n oil or fuel filter can stop it from working.
I still have a few old tractors,(Old Ford’s, John Deere B’s. and IH’s) that just keep going and going and going, as long as I have fuel.
Years ago I made a 21 ft column still to make alcohol fuel, but ended up drinking more of it than what went into the tractors!
Or from Bill Gate!
For us it would be a long time before we starved or even went hungry. Plenty of good fishing around, plenty of venison and other game, and fresh or frozen or canned veggies from our garden. Sure, lot’s of things would be hard to come by, coffee, some spices, some fruits, etc., but we would survive. I’m not so sure very many would today. Go back a hundred years and I believe people were more equipped to get through hard times.
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