Posted on 12/10/2020 9:55:34 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Unless there is some sort of unforeseen miracle, millions of people could literally starve to death in 2021. We are facing a global food crisis that is unlike anything we have ever seen before in modern times, and 2021 is going to be the year when it starts to become extremely painful all over the globe. But don’t take my word for it. David Beasley is the head of the UN World Food Program, and so he is in a better position to assess the global hunger crisis than any of us. According to Beasley, 2021 “is literally going to be catastrophic” and his organization is facing “the worst humanitarian crisis year since the beginning of the United Nations”…
“2021 is literally going to be catastrophic based on what we’re seeing at this stage of the game,” said Beasley, adding that for a dozen countries, famine is “knocking on the door.”
He said 2021 was likely to be “the worst humanitarian crisis year since the beginning of the United Nations” 75 years ago and “we’re not going to be able to fund everything … so we have to prioritize, as I say, the icebergs in front of the Titanic.”
Beasley is feverishly trying to raise more money to meet the rising tide of hunger that he is witnessing all across the planet, but he feels like he is fighting a losing battle.
Freakish weather patterns, crippling droughts and colossal armies of locusts have devastated crops throughout 2021, and the COVID pandemic is putting an extreme amount of stress on global food distribution systems.
As a result, food prices are surging and hundreds of millions of people living in impoverished countries now find themselves unable to afford enough food to eat on a regular basis.
Here in the United States, approximately 50 million people have experienced food insecurity at some point in 2021. According to PBS, this hunger crisis is even worse than what we went through during the last recession…
Those fighting hunger say they’ve never seen anything like this in America, even during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.
After the initial wave of fear caused by the COVID pandemic started to subside, a lot of Americans thought that we were out of the woods, but now a new wave of lockdowns is being instituted and CNN is reporting that the hunger crisis in America is actually “getting worse” as we approach the end of the year…
Hunger skyrocketed at the pandemic’s onset because of record high job losses, school closures and strained food pantries. But at that point, Americans were better positioned to make ends meet with support from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) Act and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamp, benefits. Yet, as we near year’s end, the problem is getting worse, not better. With the expiration of CARES Act benefits and without any hint as to when the next round of federal aid will hit people’s pockets, families around the country are suffering and will likely continue to do so throughout the holiday season.
Could it be possible that 2021 will end up being even painful for hungry Americans than 2020 was?
That is difficult to imagine, because the numbers from this year have been truly horrific. The AP analyzed Feeding America data from 181 different food banks, and they found that those food banks had given out 57 percent more food in 2020 than they did in 2019.
If the demand continues to skyrocket, eventually there simply will not be enough food for everyone.
We are all familiar with the photographs from the Great Depression that show men waiting in very long lines for free food.
Well, the same thing is happening now, but with a twist. Needy people are lining up as early as 2 AM and are waiting in their vehicles for up to 12 hours just to get a few bags of provisions from their local food banks…
The history books are filled with iconic images of America’s struggles against hunger. Among the most memorable are the Depression-era photos of men standing in breadlines, huddled in long coats and fedoras, their eyes large with fear. An overhead sign reads: “Free Soup. Coffee and a Doughnut for the Unemployed.”
This year’s portrait of hunger has a distinctively bird’s eye view: Enormous traffic jams captured from drone-carrying cameras. Cars inching along, each driver waiting hours for a box or bag of food. From Anaheim, California to San Antonio, Texas to Toledo, Ohio and Orlando, Florida and points in-between, thousands of vehicles carrying hungry people queued up for miles across the horizon. In New York, and other large cities, people stand, waiting for blocks on end.
Of course my readers were warned in advance that all of this was coming.
For years I have been warning my readers that economic collapse, civil unrest and global famine were approaching, and I strongly urged everyone to stockpile food and supplies.
Now we are constantly being bombarded by headlines that declare that the days that I have been warning about are here, and 2021 threatens to be even worse than 2020 was.
Today, I came across a news story that I think is an appropriate metaphor for what we are potentially facing in 2021. Hundreds of black vultures have invaded the town of Marietta, Pennsylvania and they are causing tremendous problems. They are tearing up rooftops and garbage cans, they are defecating all over the place, and they “spew vomit that smells ‘like rotting corpses’ on sidewalks and homes”.
Residents have been desperately trying to scare them away, but they can’t shoot the vultures because they are protected by law…
More permanent solutions are in short supply, as the black vulture is federally protected and can’t be exterminated without permission.
It’s illegal in the US to trap, kill or own black vultures without a permit and violators can face a fine of up to $15,000 and up to six months in prison.
So those vultures will get to stay in Marietta for as long as they wish.
Sadly, vultures are now circling over America too. I have written countless articles about the rotting, decaying carcass that our society has become, and those that hate traditional American values have increasingly gained more and more power.
Now we are just a few weeks away from the start of 2021, and there is every indication that it is going to be an exceedingly painful year.
No, not Democrats... unlike Democrats, vultures are useful, and perform a vital service. That vomit that smells like corpses smells like that because that’s what they eat, and that means if the vultures weren’t there, there would be a great volume of rotten meat, roadkill, lost boy scout bodies, etc. laying around the area unburied, full of pathogens that super potent vulture stomach acid would otherwise destroy.
Just nonsense. There did not exist the vast welfare plantation entitlements of today. People in this country are not approaching starvation. Not even the invaders from the south are being denied.
Different story in third world dumps—and perhaps the future US if we allow elections to be filled with fraud. Then we can expect real food insecurity as markets are interrupted and global big business runs rampant.
stop killing the white farmers in Africa and then maybe I’ll listen.
I read a few years ago that by 2100, with the available farm land we have for corn today, the yield would need to be 800 bushels/acre to keep pace with population growth.
IMO, way too many variables to make such a prediction. However, it does make one think about where this is all headed.
How much of this is China related? The flooding they experienced wiped out much of their food production, while other areas had crop destroying drought conditions. My concern is not whether China can feed everyone, but whether China strongarms other countries into feeding them. Those development agreements with China could give the CCP an excuse to demand that the countries that signed them send China excessive amounts of agriculture products instead of cash payments.
Just a general comment on this and other famine stories:
What these stories do not explain is that the famine isn’t going to be in the US. The famine is going to be in China, India, and a lot of Central and North Africa.
The weather this past year in China has been biblically bad. Typhoons, drought, constant rain, and horrible flooding have impact all four corners of China. This has ruined the summer crop and the fall harvest was just as bad.
In addition, prior to Covid there was a wide spread of African Swine flu which ravaged the Chinese pig herd. In fact, they have been buying just about every sow they can get their hands on in order to rebuild the herd. But for the time being, they are down 40-50%.
In Africa, the middle east, and south central Asia there was a massive plague of locusts. This destroyed all of the grain crops in Africa.
So, none of this is related to Covid. None of this has anything to do with a particular form of government. None of this is political at all.
US air crews were advised not to bail out over Japanese held islands, without telling them they would probably be eaten.
"Flyboys: A True Story of Courage" by James Bradley.
"Though of course America - the Breadbasket of the World - is not and never will be threatened by famine, poorly-run sh*thole countries ruled by tin-pot dictators are likely to experience food shortages during the coming Harris-Biden administration..."
Regards,
Solution is simple..Open Up!
Notice how covid19 is put last as a cause of the famine? A actually, covid has little to do with the economic plight the world is in, but governments’ draconian response to it.
Sure. Actually, if you bought $100/month of Apple stock back then, you would be a billionaire now.
Give us money, or not only will people starve, but I will shoot this cute little puppy.
It's all political. Government mismanagement, by Socialists, ALWAYS results in famine. It's sort of a rule.
If we let the Biden Crime Family in, we'll be starving in a couple of years.
Thank you. I saw the same thing growing up in Africa. There is a shortage of food. A bunch of Western do gooder agencies, usually led by Oxfam, dump tons of free food on the country. Problem solved?
Not quite. It turns out farmers cannot compete with free food, so many of them go bankrupt, move to the cities, and live in poverty. So less food is grown.
The Western agencies are onto a good racket: feed 1 million starving people this year, create 2 million starving people next year; double your funding, and double the rake off you can stuff into your own pockets. Rinse and repeat.
Who could have ever imagined that by 2020 200 bushels per acre would be so common that no one talks about it, and 300 bushes happens often.
Oh dear, the world is about to end! So says doom-sayer Mike Snyder once again.
It is a fact that 50% of the US is currently suffering through an extensive and severe drought.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
This guy makes a living selling doom and gloom.
The UN did warn back in May about the coming deadly famine in undeveloped countries if developed countries continued to shut down their economies over fear of a virus. It’s clear America’s governor-tyrants, unelected bureaucrats and the public health “experts” don’t give a rat’s schumer about starving children in poor countries ... as it interferes with their primary purpose in life to have absolute control over the lives of American citizens.
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