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Biden warns of 'real' food shortage following sanctions on Russia
Fox News via Yahoo ^ | March 24th, 2022 | Kyle Morris

Posted on 03/26/2022 3:53:00 PM PDT by Mariner

President Biden said Thursday that a food shortage is "gonna be real" following the sanctions that were placed on Russia by the U.S. government as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion into Ukraine.

"With regard to food shortage, yes we did talk about food shortages, and it's gonna be real," Biden said during a press conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, following a meeting with other world leaders.

"The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia," he added. "It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well."

Biden said "Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat" and insisted that he and other leaders had a "long discussion in the G7" about the need to "increase and disseminate" food production.

"In addition to that, we talked about urging all the European countries, and everyone else, to end trade … limitations on sending food abroad," Biden said. "And, so, we are in the process of working out with our European friends what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to the food shortages."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fjb; food; foodshortage; shortages; slojoe; starvation; threats; trade; ukrainewar; worstpresidentever
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To: GOPJ

Shortages up to now are the result of reduced manpower and restrictions imposed by CovidScare resulting on many items just not getting to the stores to be put on the shelves. Seen it where I live several times. Noticeable lack of restocking on some stuff and scares promulgated by drive time radio causing runs on things like chicken one week, pork the next and then red meat, eggs, milk, etc.

Couple this ongoing debacle with actual shortages of raw food staples like grain and the like and you’ve really screwed the pooch. Meanwhile, the WH has made sure that Xiden will always have freezers full of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and waffle cones.


21 posted on 03/26/2022 4:37:08 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Mariner

I am reminded of the woman who tried to buy dog food with food stamps.

When the store said she could not do that, she went back and put steaks in her cart with the words..”I guess my dog can eat THAT!”


22 posted on 03/26/2022 4:40:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: Apparatchik

I remember the bad old days when a car dealer would take food stamps in place of a down payment.


23 posted on 03/26/2022 4:41:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: Mariner

In 14 months we’ve gone from ”Build Back Better!” to “There’s gonna be food shortages.”


24 posted on 03/26/2022 4:42:30 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: IYAS9YAS

They know they cheated their way into the oval office, so they had to bring the hammer down as hard and as fast as possible.


25 posted on 03/26/2022 4:42:37 PM PDT by Toespi ( )
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To: Mariner

Does FU Brandon think he can send out his Harvard FBI weenies to secure shipments of foi gras for his Hampton parties?

Hahahahahha!


26 posted on 03/26/2022 4:43:44 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: oldasrocks

We could have blocked some of them at the Panama Canal till Jimmy Carter gave it to Torrijos.

Remember the bumper sticker back then...

“JIMMY CARTER! THE BEST PRESIDENT PANAMA EVER HAD!”


27 posted on 03/26/2022 4:45:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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To: Mariner

Every year the government pays farmers NOT to produce. If we put all of that land into tillage, I think we could take over from Russia as the number one wheat supplier. (There are five total grains, but I don’t think Russia is number one in all of them.)

Russia has already banned exports in order to feed their own people, so the sanctions won’t affect that anyway.

Ukrain is the number five wheat supplier and there has been no planting in Ukraine this year.


28 posted on 03/26/2022 4:51:34 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Mariner

This is why only Biden got to eat pizza yesterday while everyone else watched. I hope he enjoyed it


29 posted on 03/26/2022 4:51:59 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: Gen.Blather

Fertilizer is another problem.

As is Ukraine being totally off line.

US cannot make all that up.


30 posted on 03/26/2022 5:02:31 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Gen.Blather

The American farmland in the Conservation Reserve Program is minimally productive and does help water quality and such. It is limited to around 25 million acres of well over 900 million acres of farmland.


31 posted on 03/26/2022 5:07:49 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: VanShuyten

Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba will get Russian grain and fertilizer. Same for China and these other tinpots. Kim Jung Un may have a legit record harvest this year.


32 posted on 03/26/2022 5:15:24 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
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To: Thunder90

You know they’ll black market most of it.


33 posted on 03/26/2022 5:16:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Mariner

Food shortages. Now that’s something to campaign on in November (along with the border, inflation, Afghanistan, Ukraine, federal debt/spending, crooked Bidens, gasoline, and more).


34 posted on 03/26/2022 5:18:22 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: Mariner

Which means they are planning it.


35 posted on 03/26/2022 5:25:03 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Mariner
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36 posted on 03/26/2022 5:39:58 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Cornpop was a bad dude)
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To: Apparatchik
"My money’s on Soylent Green."

Which is preferred? Carnivore Republicans or Vegan Democrats?

When you consider that grass fed is more popular...

37 posted on 03/26/2022 5:43:49 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ronnie raygun
everything they do they do to f### us, everything leads back to us, its deliberate. They are destroying this country on purpose

No borders. No walls. No USA at all!

38 posted on 03/26/2022 6:10:15 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: Gen.Blather

CRP ground isn’t fertilized each year. That means 1st year crops like corn will take much more nitrogen fertilizer than normal to make up the difference.

Also CRP ground will typically be considered Highly Erodible; a low residue crops like soybeans would need to be no-tilled. No-till needs additional herbicides which are also in limited supply this year.

CRP ground also is typically in drought prone areas. There is a moderate/severe drought currently going on across most of the Plain States.

The best the US could do at this stage is open up CRP for grazing and haying. Bringing in millions of acres takes time and supplies, neither of which we currently have. Planting across most of the US is going to be well under way by mid April.


39 posted on 03/26/2022 6:25:27 PM PDT by VetoBill
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To: Fungi

40 posted on 03/26/2022 6:42:15 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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