[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper ping - U.S. Foods / Commodities Price Rise
If you think your weekly food expense is going up, you're right;
now, imagine meat and food processing plants closing,
and then add the avian flu that is attacking the chicken and egg production (both were cheap sources of protein), but not now !
FReeper personal reports and observations included

(From the article):"..And thanks to the horrifying bird flu pandemic which is sweeping the nation, the price of eggs is going completely nuts…
The losses to egg-laying flocks have led to producers desperately racing to meet market demands for eggs and egg products,
with egg prices increasing as a result.
The average price of a dozen eggs is now close to $3.00, up from $1.60 at the beginning of the year, according to the USDA’s national egg report."

" If you think that these prices are wild, just wait until they double from their current levels."

"All over the world, a great battle for food resources has begun.
The Chinese saw this coming in advance, and so they have been engaged in the largest stockpiling program that any of us have ever seen.
I wrote about this back in December, but back then most people didn’t understand the true significance of that article."

"At that time, the amount of food that the Chinese had already accumulated was already extremely impressive…
Less than 20% of the world’s population has managed to stockpile more than half of the globe’s maize and other grains,
leading to steep price increases across the planet and dropping more countries into famine. "
The hoarding is taking place in China. "

[blam]

"Less than 20% of the world’s population has managed to stockpile more than half of the globe’s maize and other grains"

Well...they have a collective memory of repeated mass starvations. They're taking things seriously.

The last time I can think of that westerners died of starvation was the Ukranians in the 1930's caused by Russia and Ireland in the 1840's caused by a potato (blight) famine.(The Irish population today is still less than it was in 1840 because of that famine)

When the Spanish brought the potato to the new world from Peru/Bolivia, the European population exploded and famines were essentially eliminated. Now, remove the potato from Ireland and see what happened. There are approximately 2500 different kinds of potatoes in Peru and Bolivia. Ireland's downfall was they were dependent on the potato that had the blight...many other potatoes did not.

[Carriage Hill]

Eggs are now $5.60/ doz for Jumbos, $4.95 for Large, here in York, PA, even though we have plenty of farms and in adjoining Lancaster County. Egg & Olive Salad is $8.99/ lb now. Unreal, and it’s going to get worse.