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China is urging families to stock up on food as supply challenges multiply
cnn ^ | Laura He and Yong Xiong

Posted on 11/02/2021 12:24:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The country's Ministry of Commerce late Monday issued a notice directing local governments to encourage people to stockpile "daily necessities," including vegetables, oils and poultry, in order to "meet the needs of daily life and emergencies."

The agency also urged local authorities to make sure that people have an "adequate supply" of essentials this winter into next spring.

China has stressed the importance of shoring up food and other daily supplies in the past — including in September, ahead of a major weeklong holiday period. But those statements are usually very obviously intended for local authorities to read, and rarely capture the attention of everyday citizens. The inclusion of language in this statement that mentions families, though, appears to be putting people on edge.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: china
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1 posted on 11/02/2021 12:24:01 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t have these problems just a year ago


2 posted on 11/02/2021 12:27:18 PM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, panic buying will improve inventory.


3 posted on 11/02/2021 12:29:29 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: BenLurkin

Guess where we get a lot of our processed food?

As in A LOT of our processed food?

Fun times ahead.


4 posted on 11/02/2021 12:29:32 PM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: BenLurkin

This makes no sense.

At this point, the harvest is in, for better or worse.

The amount of food available to buy is fixed.

If people stockpile now, the store stocks will just run out sooner.


5 posted on 11/02/2021 12:30:42 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BenLurkin; Tilted Irish Kilt

I urge my conservative friends to do the same thing!


6 posted on 11/02/2021 12:30:49 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Kartographer

https://www.mediafire.com/file/nita0e562aytg1b/Preparedness_1j.pdf/file Preparedness Manual


7 posted on 11/02/2021 12:34:16 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Kartographer

bttt


8 posted on 11/02/2021 12:35:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: DuncanWaring

“When the emergency is upon us the time for preparedness has past.”


9 posted on 11/02/2021 12:38:18 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: BenLurkin

Eventually, during 7-year peace deal, the Four Horsemen are loosed upon the Earth. The first horseman IMHO, is the Beast (for shorthand, the Antichrist).

A loaf of bread 🍞, basically, for a day’s wage:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+6%3A5-6&version=NIV


10 posted on 11/02/2021 12:38:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow - when communists tell you its time to be concerned about food supply, that’s something.


11 posted on 11/02/2021 12:39:10 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: redgolum

Yep


12 posted on 11/02/2021 12:39:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: PGR88

You are so right!

“There is no greater disaster than to underestimate danger. Underestimation can be fatal.”


13 posted on 11/02/2021 12:40:36 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Huskrrrr

Fun times similar to March of 2020. I saw shelves stripped for weeks if not months.


14 posted on 11/02/2021 12:41:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t they tell people to eat less a few months ago?


15 posted on 11/02/2021 12:42:45 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: BenLurkin

War preparations?


16 posted on 11/02/2021 12:43:37 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Kartographer

“I urge my conservative friends to do the same thing!”

We are not china. We have plenty of farmland. Much of china’s farmland has been polluted or flooded and the soil eroded off.

Small “Farm to home operations” are growing leaps and blounds in the US and home gardening is the highest it has been in years. Chin’s population mostly live in cities..much of our population is rural and we live in mostly single family homes and can grow a garden in the back yard.

We have plenty of corn and wheat in grain bins around the country.

The price may go up due to inflation but there will not be long term shortages.


17 posted on 11/02/2021 12:44:33 PM PDT by setter
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The agency also urged local authorities to make sure that people have an "adequate supply" of essentials this winter into next spring.

Gonna be a long winter.

18 posted on 11/02/2021 12:44:40 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: PGR88

Yeah, no kidding. That’s what got my attention too. I was already prepping.


19 posted on 11/02/2021 12:45:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: SaveFerris

I remember going to Walmart seeing a 60 foot 5 tier strip of shelving completely bare accept for sheared wheat ;-)


20 posted on 11/02/2021 12:46:50 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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