And so it does. How else would poor people be able to afford produce year round that is out of season in the US? I’m all in favor of US food, but most people cannot afford the luxury of only buying locally grown food. It’s too expensive. Not everyone has access to a farmer’s market, and people who live in apartments are not able to have gardens.
Well things are looking squirrely with the globalists so I for one will be putting things up for the winter this year.
Anyone can do this, our ancestors survived because they did this, and the science involved would make for useful STEM projects and (for example). Faith-based groups around my city are already working on the food-production end of the local food issue; kitchen facilities to enable people to put up their bounty would be doable because all the churches have kitchens that pass regular inspections, plus there is a big industrial kitchen for rent here geared toward food-based startups. All they need to do is to get some people willing to take the plunge and organize the effort.
Its already begun anyway, judging from the way mason jars, lids, and pressure cookers have been selling. We’re not about to stop food export/import, but for people who weathered the great toilet paper and yeast famines of 2020, putting up food bought cheaply for a time when it is no longer cheap in the winter is the next logical step in emergency preparedness.
Plus my hot-pack chicken is a heck of a lot tastier than mres or Spam!
Plus, if the greenies are sincere about shifting us to an electricity based energy industry instead of oil and gas, you can bet that jacked up prices for home heating oil and natural gas are going to happen, even if everything goes to their plan and there aren’t any massive miscalculations of the administration’s part. It sounds like this isn’t going to be attrition, with replacing old worn out furnaces with (cringe) electric ones. Electric heat is expensive, and for people who get very cold winters, something like drastic rate hikes are going to happen, dollars to donuts, to get them to replace their furnaces for something like heat pumps.
Putting up food for the winter would help poor families in particular to weather that particular economic storm. Having shelf-stable food on hand that actually tastes good would be a comfort to many.