Providing that robbers, or even more likely, the government do not grab up your survival stock. It was said before Y2K that there are laws that you cannot have more than one month of stored food. It wouldn’t surprise me.
If one stocks up it would be a good idea to hide it somewhere where even the government couldn’t find it. Also, people might kill you for your food and firewood if their survival depended on it. It could get pretty ugly.
The two cardinal rules of prepping.
1. Have lots of guns and ammo. (ammo will be worth more than gold)
2. Don’t let anyone know you are prepping.
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Our government used to have huge stockpiles of food/commodities, but not any more. Security, guns, ammo are needed no doubt. If someone still manages to take your food, just remember it could be worse they could have taken you life.
I read some diaries written during a famine. Cannibalism happened-sometimes within families. There were people who went crazy, because they couldn't live with what they had done. I just had to quit reading it.
During the civil war, the troops from the North and the South confiscated food to help supply their soldiers. So I think hiding stuff in various places is a good idea.