Posted on 10/04/2020 3:50:36 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The head of the UN World Food Program repeatedly warned us that we would soon be facing “famines of biblical proportions”, and his predictions are now starting to become a reality. We have already seen food riots in some parts of Africa, and it isn’t too much of a surprise that certain portions of Asia are really hurting right now. But I have to admit that I was kind of shocked when I came across an article about the “hunger crisis” that has erupted in Latin America.
According to Bloomberg, “a resurgence of poverty is bringing a vicious wave of hunger in a region that was supposed to have mostly eradicated that kind of malnutrition decades ago”. We are being told that food shortages are becoming acute from Mexico City all the way down to the southern tip of South America, and those that are the poorest are being hit the hardest.
Let me ask you a question.
What would you do if you didn’t have any food to feed your family?
Fortunately, for the vast majority of my readers that is just a hypothetical question. But for many families in Latin America, the unthinkable is now actually happening…
He couldn’t feed his family. Matilde Alonso knew it was true but couldn’t believe it. The pandemic had just hit Guatemala in full force and Alonso, a 34-year-old construction worker, was suddenly jobless.
He sat up all alone till late that night, his mind racing, and fought back tears. He had six mouths to feed, no income and no hope of receiving anything beyond the most meager of crisis-support checks — some $130 — from the cash-strapped government.
I once had a friend that is a hardcore prepper tell me that his worst nightmare would be for his daughter to tell him that she was hungry and he didn’t have anything to give her.
Many of us can’t even imagine being in Matilde Alonso’s shoes. Sadly, this is going to be happening to even more families soon, because the UN World Food Program is projecting that the number of people facing “severe food insecurity” in Latin American and Caribbean nations will rise by a whopping 270 percent in the months ahead.
Thankfully, for the moment the United States is in far better shape. But there have been serious shortages of certain items throughout this pandemic, and many grocery stores have had a very difficult time trying to keep their shelves full.
For example, during my most recent trip to my local grocery store I noticed more empty shelves than I had ever seen before, and that greatly alarmed me.
And now we are being told that grocery stores all over the country are attempting to stockpile goods in an attempt “to avoid shortages during a second wave of coronavirus”…
Grocery stores across the United States are stocking up on products to avoid shortages during a second wave of coronavirus.
Household products — including paper towels and Clorox wipes — have been difficult to find at times during the pandemic, and if grocery stores aren’t stocked up and prepared for second wave this winter, runs on products and shortages could happen again.
hen even CNN starts admitting that more shortages are coming, that is a sign that it is very late in the game.
And the Wall Street Journal is reporting that some chains are actually putting together “pandemic pallets” in anticipation of more shortages…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Associated Food Stores has recently started building “pandemic pallets” to ensure cleaning and sanitizing products are readily available in its warehouses to prepare for high demand through the end of the year.
“We will never again operate our business as unprepared for something like this,” Darin Peirce, vice president of retail operations for the cooperative of more than 400 stores told the outlet. If grocery stores sense something is coming and are preparing for another “wave” of this scamdemic, it may be something worth taking note of.
Most of these grocery chains believe that another wave of COVID-19 is the worst case scenario that they could possibly be facing. Sadly, that isn’t even close to the truth.
We have entered a time when global food supplies are going to become increasingly stressed, and it is going to be absolutely critical to keep U.S. food production at the highest levels possible.
Unfortunately, U.S. farmers have been going bankrupt in staggering numbers during this downturn, and the federal assistance that was supposed to help them survive has mostly gone to “large, industrialized farms”…
Five months into the pandemic, farmers say the federal payments have done little to keep them afloat, as these favor large, industrialized farms over smaller family farms. In fact, initial payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program – which provided $16 billion in direct support and $3 billion in purchases – revealed an uneven distribution of financial aid.
An NBC News analysis of the first 700,000 payments showed how corporate farms and foreign-owned operations received over $1.2 billion in coronavirus relief – or over 20 percent of the money – with average payments of almost $95,000. Smaller farms, meanwhile, had average payments of around $300. The figures did not take into account other struggling farmers who are ineligible for assistance.
Reading those numbers greatly frustrated me, because family farms have always been so critical to our success as a nation.
U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high last year, and they are on pace to go even higher this year.
This should deeply alarm all of us, because we are going to need as much food production as possible during the years to come.
In 2020, we have just seen one major disaster after another all over the world, and many of these disasters have directly affected global food production. For example, in my previous articles I haven’t even mentioned the historic flooding that has been going on in China for months that is wiping out crops on a massive scale…
Experts from the global financial services group Nomura said that although the flooding is among the worst that China has experienced since 1998, it could still get worse in the weeks to come, with the nation poised to lose $1.7 billion in agricultural production.
However, since the start of the monsoon season, the area of flooded croplands have almost doubled. Nomura’s estimates also do not include the potential loss of wheat, corn and other major crops. Therefore, China could be facing a far greater economic loss than current projections.
On my news headlines website, I am going to start posting stories like this on a daily basis so that people can keep up with what is really going on out there.
We really are facing a very serious global food crisis, and the number of people without sufficient food is only going to grow as the months roll along.
For now, most Americans still have plenty of food, and we should be very thankful for that.
But everyone should be able to see that global conditions are rapidly changing, and we should all be using this window of opportunity to prepare, because very, very challenging times are ahead of us.
[They are Marxist.
In all probability, the proletarian revolution will transform existing society gradually and will be able to abolish private property only when the means of production are available in sufficient quantity. …
— The Principles of Communism
Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
— Fifth plank of communism
Even nationalism does not stop them from being Marxist; certainly Hitler himself admitted that national socialism is Marxist at its core. A Marxist state is not defined by somehow succeeding at achieving Marx’s imaginary society of “association” or seemingly being further along in implementing the list of planks laid out in the Manifesto. ]
I have 4 food stores within a block. Safeway, Natural Market, Trader Joe, and local store, Roseauers. None has been short of a single thing...except TP, which is fine now.
Ditto. Safeway tried limiting customers to our csn or beabs, one loaf I’d bread, one of everything — with no signs ads or announcements of the restriction. Patrons were very rudely surprised - and angered when the store manager directed cashiers not to ring up their groceries. One woman threatens to kill the manager at YOP of her voice and several other customers just walked out. It was a near- riot scene. I just whitely went to the competitor market and found no hassles no shortages except TP had a one package limit. Today there are no shortages at any of the markets with a couple having added food tables outside the entryway. If there is a food shortage in some Latin American country I’ll contribute to help get grub delivered there but the shelves are full in the good old USA. We the k the truckers and others who are keeping us so well stocked.
It is both and neither in a sense. Don’t forget that the penultimate paragraph of the Communist Manifesto says, “The workers have nothing to lose but their chains; they have a world to win.”
And if “the West” means other countries outside the so-called Anglosphere, then lust for conquest still lives on among EU leaders. Barroso expressed that when he called the EU (another socialistic construct) an “empire” a dozen or so years ago.
I talked to a Coca-cola bottler who said the issue wasn’t a SHORTAGE of aluminum cans as much as a huge switch in the way people consumed soft drinks due to COVID and the time it takes to switch over, or even the option to switch over.
When everyone started staying home, millions of consumers who might be a work, eating in the cafeterias or restaurants, were no longer. Beverage sales in the form of soda syrup and carbonate just fell completely, while canned drink demand sky rocketed. They tried to make up for the shortfall by moving some syrup product over to cans but found there was no plan for can production anywhere. That itself takes two to three months to iron out, when meanwhile business are getting VERY mixed signals from governments.
States like Georgia and Colorado allowed restaurants to open back up partially, while other states like New York keeps them closed. The producers have to guess at how long this is going to go on. When should they stop ordering more cans? When should they go back to restaurant/cafeteria syrup sales? It’s a ball of confusion, mostly due to the decidedly political continued curfews and mandates by blue state governments.
The country, not just parts of it, needs to return to normality, or just declare and open-ended lockdown.
What happens down there will certainly impact us here.
Most of our winter fruit comes from south of the border. I can see fruit becoming scarce this winter and prices sky high if this is true.
Grocery stores are not set up to stockpile their products. Stores, and their distribution centers, receive shipments on an almost daily basis. They don't have the storage capacity to keep more than maybe a week or two on hand, if even that much.
Imagine the global famines under a single commie global regime
Pumpkin might be short this year because of the dry July & August in Illinois. Spring was a bunch wetter than normal, but then rains mostly quit. About 90% of the world’s canned pumpkin (actually a brownish squash) comes from Morton, Illinois (Caterpillar City). The number of trucks to the processing plant on the highway and the number unloading seemed to be less than normal this year when we visited the grandkids & family in September, but they were cooking pumpkin. This was about 2 weeks ago, so it might not be in your store yet.
It’s the truckers I am worried about. They keep us supplied in a society that has ‘just in time’ inventory.
After the election there will be some very unhappy people/ They may decide to interrupt our supply chain. They will go to the interstates and make sure the truck doesn’t get to your store.
How hard can it be to stock up on an extra bag of flour, bottle of orange juice or box of frozen waffles.
This PSA brought to you by Manuel Lopez Obrador, Nicolas Maduro, the socialist President of Chile, etc.
I have gone to every grocery store in our area for the past five days looking for Libby’s canned pumpkin and found one small can in a Food Lion just today. Went to a Publix and bought the last five small cans. The stock guy said they just put two cases out about two hour earlier and my five were the last.
The Libby’s website is blaming it on an unusually hot summer then added due to global warming. So I figure when there are no PPies at Thanksgiving, Trump will be blamed.
Yes. Agreed. Some prudent food stock is indicated. Everyone can store some Bottled foods and/or tins at least - also such as nuts , dried fruits, and granola bars etc. if our supplies are not interrupted, this kind of grub can still be eaten. So no loss
#4. An aluminum shortage? One good reason to recycle aluminum soda cans, can tops (with the pull rings), scrap aluminum from around the house, and cans from community area clean-up programs.
Been doing this for about 20-30 years and can see how much household materials we can safely (and sometimes, profitably) recycle. Saves on having to mine more raw ore and filling up landfills with recyclable materials.
A win-win situation if we all pitch in together to make it work.
Also aluminum cans, in some cities/towns, give the unemployed and homeless money for food and shelter.
The use of “Jusr in time” inventory management makes the supply chain sensitive to sudden stresses. Adjusting inventories upward fixes that.
Nope - any food shortages are the result of the governments and not the Kung-Flu...we were told to expect severe beef and other meat shortages and while some choices haven’t been as good as usual, but good meat hasn’t been hard to come by.
What’s the problem? According to sage liberals, all you have to do is put a seed in the ground and cover it with dirt...
“.. the UN World Food Program is projecting that the number of people facing “severe food insecurity” in Latin American and Caribbean nations
will rise by a whopping 270 percent in the months ahead."
“Grocery stores across the United States are stocking up on products to avoid shortages during a second wave of coronavirus.
Household products — including paper towels and Clorox wipes — have been difficult to find at times during the pandemic,
and if grocery stores aren’t stocked up and prepared for second wave this winter, runs on products and shortages could happen again. “
“We have entered a time when global food supplies are going to become increasingly stressed, and it is going to be absolutely critical to keep U.S. food production at the highest levels possible.
Smaller farms, meanwhile, had average payments of around $300.
The figures did not take into account other struggling farmers who are ineligible for assistance.
Reading those numbers greatly frustrated me, because family farms have always been so critical to our success as a nation.
”U.S. farm bankruptcies hit an eight-year high last year, and they are on pace to go even higher this year. “ (Emphasis mine).
(Post #37) Datura : “ China will find themselves in a real bind regarding food - their storage facilities are full of rotten and damaged grains, much of which has been stolen or redistributed.
Provincial government managers do not dare tell the truth, or they lose their cushy jobs.
The floods and droughts in China, combined with locusts and swine flu have decimated food supply chains.
Read the various comments contained in this ongoing posting.
There is an alleged shortage of aluminum cans, supposedly because many people, much more than usual, are cooking and eating at home instead of restaurants.
Is it real ? .. Or is it a manufacturing issue ?
Also, many grocery warehouses are stocking up now for a possible second wave of the Covid pandemic.
Are you prepared enough, even though you used supplies during the last Covid outbreak ? Have you re-supplied used items ?
OODA loop advised.
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