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.
Gaslighting by the left.
There is no food shortage.
Once we had empty shelves. But we’re been fully stocked for a very long time.
Yes, we still have the pandemic. But I believe that the “second wave” is a scare tactic, perhaps designed by the Dims and their communist collaborators to keep us from voting on Nov. 3.
Take your flu and pneumonia shots, keeep social distancing, and above all, PRAY and VOTE Republican. Not too long from now, we shall have safe and effective vaccines and other treatments. Don’t let the Dims and commies (among others) keep you from taking them!!!!
Peru, Colombia and Chile are in good condition.
“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.”
Guatemala specifically shut down its borders to make sure COVID-19 did not cause its economy problems. A relative handful ever brought or got COVID-19 because of this. People kept their jobs and plants continued to grow bountiful amounts of food, for which the climate paradise is well-known.
yes!!! flood their water supply with birth control.
A food crisis would be inevitable with the Green New Deal. There have yet to be developed any electric powered tractors, combines and heavy duty trucks that are needed to plant, harvest and transport farm commodities. Since farting cows and presumably pigs will be banned more intense cultivation will be required for an increasing vegan diet. Fertilizers and pesticides that allow large yields of course are petroleum based. Whether the high speed rail network envisioned by the GND included enough infrastructure and rolling stock to get produce to market is yet to be seen. The type of blackouts we are seeing in California would make the storage of perishable impossible. Mass starvation would be a real issue.
Stock up.
Bill Gates, is that you?
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.
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And the filthy Chinese Communists are buying up most of the bankrupt farms in the US. Products then shipped straight to Communist China. Less food for the US.
No it won’t
Stop all this Panic Porn
” People kept their jobs and plants continued to grow bountiful amounts of food, for which the climate paradise is well-known.”
Hard to starve to death in Guatemala, certainly problems with an unbalanced diet but starvation, no.
Oh noes. We’ll have to use fresh or frozen.
The head of the UN World Food Program …. . . needs to be defunded.
The head of the UN World Food Program
I am just curious. What is that person’s annual salary/benefits?
The toilet paper scare got everyone worried. Now it’s a food shortage. Can we stop this nonsense?
The author makes it sound like he knows the future is bad, simply because Clorox Wipes are missing from a store’s shelf.
The author apparently doesn’t have the brainpower to know detergents, soaps, and other cleaners like simple bleach, have NEVER been cumulatively gone from store shelves this whole time.
But Clorox Wipes, to him, are the only necessary sign that proves doom is coming.
This is a nutball.
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. Biblical proportions for their shortages possibly, can’t say as though I actually give a damn.
Play communist games, win fake prizes!!
Let’s move on to GLOBAL Warming and of course Y3K.
I am angry to see such scare tactics. Yes, the supply chain was interrupted for a few weeks. But now every shelf is full and has been for several months. Aside from one or two items with special circumstances, even the One store that suffered the only significant shortages is back to full normal operations. Yes, anything might happen tomorrow. Biden might concede the election tomorrow, too. And nearly everyone has at least a few weeks of grub stored in their pantry or garage. Let’s not let these Chicken Littles cause us any unnecessary sleep loss. Stock up if you havent. And. E prepared to defend yourself from the soroznazi and the dnc mane the Burn Loot and Murder gangs or whatnot. Then, enjoy the day and if you will do try to help others as best you can.
Plants are necessary to sustain life.
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