Global Food Supply Chains Beginning To Erode, Crisis Looms?

The Gold Telegram ^ | 4-16-2020 | Tom Lewis

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Yep. Subsidize something and you get more of it! Nothing annoys me more than learned helplessness!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

#WeAreAllVegansNow

[Amberdawn]

Isn’t Smithfield owned by the Chinese?

[DuncanWaring]

Yes.

[Cold Heart]

2200 watt Honda generator and 5-10 gallons of gas could keep your freezer frozen for a month or more if that is all you used it for.

I figure a gallon a day (8hr run time) to selectively run a couple of refrigerators, a freezer, lights, portable space heater, electronics, including battery charge for my microwave communications transmitter. (mine is the older 2000 watt Honda generator)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thank you! We will be getting another, BIGGER generator as soon as it’s practical. :)

[blam]

"Thank you! We will be getting another, BIGGER generator as soon as it’s practical. :)"

Get one with natural gas or propane. You won't have to worry about the gas going bad. Propane in tanks will last for years.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks, Blam! :)

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Pollster1 :" How can they tolerate it so often, when home cooking is (or would be with practice) so much better? "

I think that you kinda answered your own question.
Many Millennials never had that much opportunity to learn how to cook at their momma's knee;
in my own instance, although not a millennial, I was specifically told to NOT come into the kitchen.
During holiday's when the extended family came together, there was the outdated division of labor : all the men in the living room with TV sports, and with all the women running the kitchen.
I think one of the best 'newly wed' presents for young couples is "The Joy of Cooking", although it is usually not found on the 'gift registry'.
There are instructions of how to economize by making various meals from cheap meat cuts, and offers variety and hacks in vegetable preparation and presentation.
With a good cook book, lacking instructions and recipes from the family cook, meals will never be boring; a good cook is a gem to behold, and greatly valued.

[JDoutrider]

4L8r

[Glad2bnuts]

You betcha they would. Someone is taking up our production of toilet paper too. I don’t know how paper towels, napkins, kleenex and sanitary wipes can be in such short supply either. Somebody is buying them up, and it can hardly be blamed on normal shopping or hoarding. It has been a month now, you would think the supply would now be meeting demand. In a free market system you would think this would be a chance to make a huge profit. That doesn’t seem to be happening.

[VideoDoctor]

Stores throughout Nashville and middle Tennessee are well stocked and have been for at least 2 weeks.