Posted on 04/04/2022 5:23:10 AM PDT by blam
Food scarcity. Food vouchers. Food riots and flash mobs.
All of that’s coming – and soon, says Texas-based food scientist and “Health Ranger” podcaster Mike Adams, who sees dire events unfolding in America in the short term.
His advice: people need to get prepared now.
“The thing to really watch for is the food inflation,” Adams said.
“My position is we’re going to see food riots in America before the end of this year. We’re going to see flash mobs in grocery stores—especially for meat products.
“Grocery stores are going to respond with increased security and checkpoints. At some point, we’re probably going to see an attempt at price controls and rationing.
“And not on everything—certain types of things. It’s almost certain that the rationing they will attempt to enforce with a vaccine passport app that becomes a food rationing app,” Adams told The Epoch Times.
Adams is not alone in his predictions of hard times coming to America—and the world.
With food production buckling under the weight of runaway inflation, skyrocketing fuel costs, and fertilizer shortages, much of what’s in store is already “built-in.”
Unfertile Ground
In North America two years ago, it cost around $200 an acre to fertilize a 1,000-acre commercial farm, Adams said. Right now, with spring planting, farmers can expect to pay $1,200 to $2,000 an acre.
And consumers will pay for it in higher prices for basic necessities.
“Many farmers are deciding not to plant. In addition, the diesel fuel prices and diesel fuel scarcity is going into their equation whether they should plant,” Adams said.
The upshot, he said, is that fewer farmers are planting, which means less food to go around.
As a food scientist Adams is a big proponent of clean, organically grown food free of heavy metals, which he makes available through the online sale of “Ranger Buckets.” The demand for his products has seen extremely high since the COVID-19 lockdown began in 2020.
Adams said it takes on average six to eight weeks to produce 2,000 buckets, which typically sell out within 30 minutes to three hours.
Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the demand for survival food in the United States has been on the increase among a number of national suppliers.
“The supply chain in the United States continues to crumble. More Americans are realizing it takes four trips to different home improvement stores for parts to make home repairs, instead of all their needs being in one store,” said Lori Hunt at Practical Preppers in South Carolina.
“That is making folks realize this extends to everything: food, books, solar equipment—and considering Ukraine is a source for critical raw materials in the solar industry, this is going to get much worse in the coming months,” she told The Epoch Times.
“Many of our customers are moving toward energy independence, and this is making a greater demand and diminishing supply situation. We are urging our customers to be prepared for a 2–4 month wait to amass all parts needed for their systems. Many installers around the United States are telling us they are experiencing the same.”
Byron Walker, Founder and CEO of Survival Frog in Denver, told the Epoch Times, “We have struggled with supply chain issues and things only appear to be getting worse.”
Allied Marketing Research (AMR) reported that the global incident and emergency market, valued at $75.5 billion in 2017, is projected to reach $423 billion by 2025.
“Factors such as rise in need for safety and security solutions, owing to increase in natural calamities and terrorist attacks, implementation of regulatory policies for public safety, and the necessity for emergency preparedness drive the growth of the global incident and emergency management market,” AMR said on its website.
“In addition, the surge in smart cities is expected to drive the adoption of intelligent evacuation systems and surveillance systems, thereby fueling the incident and emergency management market growth.”
Price Hikes ‘Here to Stay’
In recent weeks YouTube survival “preppers” such as City Prepping and Alaska Prepper have been sounding the alarm that hard times are just ahead.
Matt the “Magic Prepper,” in North Dakota, said being prepared continues to go mainstream as a “financial and scarcity genre” in view of current global events.
“With food production issues, supply chain problems, a slow economic recovery from the pandemic, and the cascading effects of an overseas conflict, it seems rather clear that shortages, disruptions, and price hikes are here to stay,” Matt told The Epoch Times.
He said the situation in Ukraine has revived interest in preparedness in case of a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack.
“With the conflict creating volatile rhetoric from multiple global superpowers, we find ourselves closer to such an event than any point in recent history,” Matt said. “I operate under the assumption that there is and will likely always be more time to prepare.”
Still, the state of being prepared is “exponentially limited” by the length of time it takes to get prepared, and other factors, he said.
“Every dollar spent today is worth less in value toward preparations than a dollar you would have spent three years ago. Therefore, by waiting to begin, you’ll inherently be able to prepare less and less.
“This is most obviously apparent when you relate it to items such as ammunition. Stocking up on it now provides you with anywhere from 50 percent [to] 75 percent less ammunition for the same amount spent on it three years ago.
“Even if we find ourselves in the midst of a full-on economic collapse or hot conflict, training and learning skills will likely still be accessible,” he said.
Preparedness also requires the ability to network and communication, having supplies in sufficient quantity, a “hardened” location, and knowledge on how to survive an economic collapse.
“I have suggested to keep moving forward regardless of the events unfolding currently. If things finally fall apart to the point of relying on our preparedness efforts, we will have prepared as best as we could up to that point.
“I am making phone calls, appointments, and plans every day to try and enhance my own personal preparedness,” Matt said.
Given the economic protectionism of halting food exports from countries like Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, the world supply of grain is going to be severely limited, Adams said.
This, he said, will result in the “most extreme food shortages we’ve seen in our lifetime.”
Better Now Than Never
“It will begin about August and continue until the end of the year. A lot of this depends on [President Joe] Biden’s economic decisions on whether he allows U.S. oil companies to finish pipelines and do more drilling. If he does not we are going to see even more shortages throughout 2023.”
Out of chaos, however, Adams foresees a reawakening of freedom and self-reliance in the way we grow and produce food.
“I think this is a red pill moment for the people of the world that they need to be more self-reliant. We need decentralization of food production. I’m a big proponent of decentralization—food grown locally.”
The bad news is that only about 5 percent of people in the United State are prepared. But “the more people prepare, the less they panic when shortages appear,” Adams said.
Have you noticed that we go through this every 10 years or so? We stocked up in 2011. Our garage is so full we can only get one car in it. Maybe this year we actually eat it.
Well, full disclosure we just bought 6 acres of unrestricted property. Just in case. 😏
My once friendly Walmart Neighborhood Market now has a security guard at the door in addition to a greeter. Started back late last year. We’re a relatively crime-free area compared to Albuquerque, but apparently not as crime-free as I thought.
Remote rural area kinda back in the bayou with lots of snakes, gators, etc.
Don’t believe too many “city slicker Bidet voter” types are gonna venture out this way to stir up shite, and those that do will be dealt with in a most expeditious manner.
The folks (mostly Cajuns, Red Bones, etc.) that live out here chose to do so for a reason and FWIW, are armed to the fricken’ teeth. Even the local sheriff is one of us. We all stick together. Many of us are former combat military. We can grow, hunt, fish for whatever our families need to survive and have done so for years. Our grand-pappies and pappies taught us well...we most certainly can, and will, take care of/defend our neighbors, ourselves and loved ones.
That old Hank Williams song sure hits the nail on the head: “A Country Boy Can Survive”. That’d be us.
“In the latter sub-scenario, PMs will likely be very handy.”
Will the convenience stores, supermarkets, gas stations etc etc etc, have scales and current PM prices to accept for payment of goods and services? Doubtful. How do you handle the volatility of PMs on a daily basis, in SHTF times?
Their goal is to provoke a major economic crisis during which they will sneakily turn the country communist without anyone noticing.
Lesser versions of that goal will soon become the norm.
You're correct. All the food stuff from that period was thrown away. Everything else is still okay. Example, my propane from Y2K is still useable, etc.
That's the cost of being prepared. It's insurance.
“Will the convenience stores, supermarkets, gas stations etc etc etc, have scales and current PM prices to accept for payment of goods and services?”
If they are still open the gold market will be open....
The problem for gold is when nothing is working—and then you want to barter with your neighbor.
Gold is a good hedge when markets are still functioning—there are much better hedges (anything useful to be bartered) when the markets are not working.
Scales not required.
No need to bring your 10 kg gold bar and shave anything off it. PM coins are marked 1/10 oz, 1/2 oz, 1 oz, .999% Gold or Silver, etc. A bit trickier to use sterling or old coinage with smaller %-ages of PM.
You are concerned with counterfeiting? Fiat dollars are essentially counterfeit currency, counterfeited by the FED (and other) banksters. ALL of it. And we’ve been using that all our lives.
Remember the old joke, “All you need to survive is a gun and the address of a Mormon”.
Actually I am in an area I don’t have to worry about starvation. Deer, possums, squirrels, coons,(RA-coons!) Hoover Hogs, road kill, my fat little dog....
Remember the old Kurt Saxon books from the 1980s which he said SEWING NEEDLES would be a valuable trade item when civilization collapses?
Just a few years ago Walmart had parking spaces of Handicapped close to the store.
Now it is for phone pickup orders, handicapped, and law enforcement.
The time to prepare is now??? The time to prepare was 20 years ago. If you’re just starting you are way late to the game!!
Where do you buy your gold coins?
Until the mob finds out what you’ve got and comes and takes it all. Outnumbered and outgunned beats all preparations.
Someplace you trust, after your own research.
Local is good - no shipping, instant ownership, depending on payment type.
The largest reputable and well-known online source is JMBullion.com. All orders are insured, takes about a week.
I have no gold at all—but I can understand why some folks would want some.
A starving population is a dangerous population. I just saw the old movie A TALE OF TWO CITIES in which the starvation led to the storming of the Bastille in France.
I am reminded of THE GRAND INQUISITOR by Fyodor Dostoevsky, in which the old priest tells this “stranger” that...
“You gave them the Bread of Life from above and freedom!” but WE gave them real bread and they laid their freedom at our feet.”
Again, a reminder of how Joseph in Egypt sold bread from the Pharaoh’s grain stocks, and as the famine got worse required the people to pay with their lands and property.
Genesis 47...
“19Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.
20So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,…”
But Americans have GUNS!
Your link doesn’t work.
I wish I had back the 400 rounds of M2 Ball I shot up two years ago!
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