I have been seeing warnings about food shortages by some of the globalist organizations. I am trying to figure out if it could be real or is it just a manufactured crisis to justify leftist desires to enact food rationing.
I think it’s manufactured and it’s also them probably unintentionally broadcasting their plans for us.
I have come to notice that when the left warns about something, it’s like it’s what they have planned for us if/when they can manage it.
We already had a taste of it this year with toilet paper and other paper products and earlier this year with some meats where grocery stores limited the customers to a certain amount. Not a negative peep from the masses.
Xi is trying to be the new Mao. You can’t rule with an iron fist of people are happy. They need to create a crisis in order to get the right level of fear to control the people. It’s an age old technique.
China could be a world wide exporter of food if they wanted to. They choose not to.
You have an interesting point. Enacting the full Green New Deal would certainly create a real food shortage.
But for now we as a nation have a surplus. I live in a major grain producing area and grain is literally piled on the ground for the mice and birds to feast on while it waits for storage elevator space.
Eliminate fossil fuels (as in the diesel that powers farm machinery) and we starve. Bring in communism, and we starve just like many other commie countries do.
Shortages are very often distribution problems more than actual shortage of the product. Whether or not that’s what we’re dealing with now will become clear at some point.
But one thing I can guarantee you is happening behind the scenes is that our supply lines in this country and around the world are getting very strained and there is an increasing the likelihood there will be major breakdowns. Then you’re going to see some serious shortages.
I do all the grocery shopping and I can tell you that there are supply line disruptions right now and holes and inventory that one does not ordinarily see. Things are not all well and good behind the curtain.
In my opinion anyone who doesn’t have three months of non-perishables at their house right now is in denial of reality
Part of it is the food chain and logistics, part of it an increase in poverty, and part of it is natural disasters that hit parts of Asia.
Here in the Philippines we had flooding and typhoons that affected our rice harvest. This also hit China's southern rice growing area, parts of India and parts of Japan.
The wuhan virus made things worse because of economic shutdowns, of course. It caused a problem with the supply chain.
But there also was a lot of pigs that were destroyed because they were affected with “African swine flu” virus: this affected the Philippines but not as badly as in China. And then there were problems with the chicken that are bred and raised on farms.
The US news ignores that the Wuhan flu is terrible in a lot of other countries. For example, do you know that right now Korea has a big outbreak? We're not so bad in the Philippines thank God, but we are still in partial shutdown, and although the gov’t has discouraged people going home for Christmas, they haven't tried to stop them completely: because although people have been pretty obedient to staying home, there is a limit on how much people can take.
So we'll probably have another huge outbreak in January.