[af_vet_rr]

Nobody knows what the intent was - they could be tracking a bad guy and he was doing business with this food storage or engaging in fraud or money laundering and they are trying to tie some things together.

I read the article, unfortunately, and the tin foil is immense.

The Costco and Sam's by my house probably do more business in a few days in bulk food sales than this cannery does in a week.

The article speculates that, and I quote:

1. DHS/FEMA wants to know which Americans have food storage so the federal government can at some future point confiscate that food. Just as with lists of gun owners, compiling such lists is the first step toward future confiscation.

This is so damn retarded I don't even know where to start. If they want to confiscate food, they aren't going to be knocking on our doors and asking for our 40 boxes of Macaroni or our 20 boxes of powdered milk. They will go to the distribution centers and confiscate those 18 wheelers you see on the road delivering food to Wal-Mart, Target, Safeway, Randalls, Piggly Wiggly.

This idea that they are tracking the bulk food purchases of individuals is retarded, because once the food leaves the facility, they have no idea whether it's going to be used up by a large family within two months or whether it's going to a church soup kitchen to be used up within two weeks.

They aren't going to waste their time piddling around with searching our pantries, they are going to go to the source of the food. They are going to go to Kellogs, Pilgrim's Pride, Borden, or to the distributors like Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc. It only takes one person to confiscate an 18 wheeler full of food. It would take a lot of agents and a lot of time trying to get an equivalent amount of food from individuals.

[Kartographer]

Seems to me they are the government the experts at time wasting.

But my thought is that they could be building a case to close such facilities.

[wastoute]

Information is power. Noriega learned this. If the Fed Gov knows where the “6 month” or “24 month” supples of food for a family of 6 are in various communities this info will be power they can dish out drop at a time to local politicians to play the game. If you are storing that much food and ANYONE knows it, then the probablility you will actually be the one to eat it dwindles. Sorry to be a wet blanket. Bullets keep better than food anyway...

[Dick Tater]

They aren't going to waste their time piddling around with searching our pantries, they are going to go to the source of the food. They are going to go to Kellogs, Pilgrim's Pride, Borden, or to the distributors like Wal-Mart, Safeway, etc.

Uh hello, they went to a Mormon food distribution center. Or does "Mormon cannery" mean "some dude's pantry" to you?