This article is written as both a representative disconnect of the current administration, and also as a direct warning to readers of a never before seen increase in U.S. food prices. As grandma always said: “charity begins at home.”
Earlier today in Paris, France, Kamala Harris waxed as philosophically as she could about the inequities around the globe. Specifically, she proclaimed that world leaders have no excuse for some unknown “we” creating enough food to “feed the entire world” while children are hungry.
The words written for Harris to recite may sound good to an audience who values their own virtue through hollow soundbites and empty phrases; however, there is a very stark and concerning disconnect specifically when it comes to U.S. leadership making these proclamations. Watch first 30 seconds (prompted):
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“Why have we allowed so many of the world’s children to go hungry when we know that we produce enough food to feed the entire world. […] We must instead agree that these growing gaps are unacceptable,” Harris proclaims with maximum virtue-signaling emphasis in the effort to raise her approval rating.
Meanwhile, the Biden-Inflation cost of food in the United States is increasingly becoming a problem for working class Americans. Forget feeding children around the world, we are weeks away from people not being able to feed their own kids, and massive shortages in the stop-gap systems like food banks.
I’m not sure people understand yet exactly how desperate things are going to become, so let me be very specific for an audience of long-term readers who have my track record of accuracy to measure my predictions. Within the next 120 to 180 days, you are about to see butter cost $8 to 10.00/lb at your local supermarket. Bread will cost $6.00 a loaf, minimum, and other key staple item food prices, in the first two quarters of 2022, will increase 20 to 30% from where they are right now.
Maybe you don’t have kids at home, maybe you don’t pack lunches or care what the cost of a pound of bologna will be, maybe you are retired and the stove hasn’t been operated all year as you prefer to dine out…. but I can assure you, to a demonstrable certainty, that almost all middle class working Americans will be making decisions on what food products they can afford. Head lettuce at $4 to $5 each, eggs at $3/doz, milk around $6/gal, butter around $8/lb, and citrus so expensive getting an orange in your Christmas stocking will be a trend again in 2022.
The background conversations in the raw material, processing, manufacturing, wholesaling and food contract networks are enough to make you lose sleep.
[…] Tyson sent a letter to at least two regional distributors last month in which it said that prices on Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, State Fair and all deli meats will increase by a range of 5% to 10.2% beginning Jan. 2 for “all retail customers.” … “We continue to face accelerating levels of extraordinary inflation,” Tyson said in the letter. “The sustained duration and significant impact of the inflation necessitates additional pricing action.” (link)
The traditional net terms at 30, 60 or 90 days are right now a hot topic, as producers and suppliers in the food supply chain can no longer commit to contractual prices for future goods delivered. The upstream price increases are so large the downstream suppliers will not contract on fixed prices, EVEN for the big box retailers.
Only those who know the scale of Walmart buying office pressure and dominance can appropriately contextualize a current WM supplier telling the behemoth to “go spit” if they don’t like the fact that price guarantees are no longer part of the equation. Yeah, it is THAT bad.
We are only a few months away from seeing massive inflation that will fundamentally change the way everyone looks at food shopping, or highly consumable purchases, and what the middle class formerly considered to be “luxury” purchases. Inflation, in the background, is going to come through the supply chain like a thundershock…. and it’s not just food.
This recent insider comment caused me to do some digging, and this is 100% accurate:
“I am an executive in the detergent chemical industry that supplies all of the major pharmaceutical companies, and am in charge of pricing and purchasing of large quantities of raw materials – both commodities, and surfactants, which are the main ingredients in detergents. Here is a brief overview of the situation.
Commodities, such as sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), sodium carbonate (soda ash), and other basic additives that adjust pH, thickness, anti-redeposition, rinseability, and other properties are up around 10-15% on a raw material cost basis from February. Not a single material is unaffected.
Citric acid is up nearly 40-50% when it can be found, at minimum. There is a nationwide allocation, which means that they give material to whom they feel like. One of the major domestic manufacturers of these materials shut down production of citric acids and other acidulants due to maintenance. Many companies in my industry are paying nearly 300% (not a typo – three hundred percent) increases on citric acid.
Domestic primary surfactants, which are made by a handful of companies such as Stepan Company, Solvay, Huntsman, and many more, are up 15-20%, due mainly to oil cost, transportation, etc.
Domestic specialty surfactants, specifically of a class called ethoxylated surfactants, are nearly gone. Not hard to get, not difficult to find – gone. In February, the ice storm took out piping and power lines along the entire gulf coast. The two towns that got hit hardest were Houston, TX, and a little town called St. Charles, LA. St. Charles is where all ethoxylation takes place in the USA for everyone from Dow to Sasol to BASF, and is the key process to make these specialty ethoxylated surfactants. Then, after 4 months of shutdowns, just when everything was getting back into swing, Hurricane Ida wrecked everything all over again.
Dow, one of the largest companies in the world, only restarted production at their facility there in early October.
The crisis of transportation and at the ports is only adding to this crisis of manufacturing in the chemical industry. News to everyone? It was never covered, not even once, on the news.
If truckers are going to be forced to be vaccinated come January, there will be even less trucks than there are now.
The wheels of the world are being purposefully and deliberately ground to a halt. We’d be better off with the mafia back in control of the ports worldwide.
This is going to get so much worse before it gets any better, and the administration in office is doing everything in their power to make sure it is as bad as possible.” (link)
And this on “Industrial Price Increases“:
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is worried about feeding children of the world, while millions of working class Americans are worried about feeding their own kids?
Infuriating is an understatement.
Please prepare yourselves and your families accordingly.
The proactive window to prepare for what’s coming is approximately 60 days from today; and then options begin to diminish quickly.
This is all being done by design.
“Green Energy” equates to global starvation.
Corn diversion for biofuels has proven this equation.
Functional, affordable, green energy is voodoo energy. Without nukes in some form, it’ll never happen.
The ‘greenies” know this. It’s all about da benjamins and politics of control.
And dirty clothes are our future? Off to hoard detergent…
Everyday we see another Natural Gas dependent Fertilizer plant shut down. The British, Dutch, Chinese and Russians have all stopped exporting Fertilizer.
1/2 of 3rd World Agriculture depends upon imported Fertilizer. So, next harvest will be bad. The year after will be a disaster! 100 million more poor children will starve because of Biden and the Trolls in Brussels!
And, it is like watching a mile long train derail. You can’t stop it now. It’s too fucking late!
Found in the bin… 🙁
You all need to start yesterday !
I ordered dried eggs, butter,milk, sweet potatoes, and spinach 3 months ago. Some of it was back ordered then. And I spent every discretionary dollar on non perishables from each food group.
Found videos of terra cotta pots and tea lights to get warm if power goes out, even cooked an egg in foil on it.
Then stocked up first aid and vitamin D and C.
Was feeling foolish for doing it but Sundance’s articles was a good reinforcement.
Fortunately my guy has a hobby farm in the UP . So my next excursion will be for seeds. I cant believe we’re in our 70s and might have to take up farming to survive.
A portable wood burning stove is a good idea also ,you can fashion the pipe out the window or get a hot tent ,
Bean sprouts grow very easy also ,
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Good idea about egg –a candle with 3 wicks would work too. But eggs don’t have long shelf life..frozen hot dogs would cook well that way though…great idea.
Look up “water-glassing” eggs (requires the bloom be intact, so pretty much having your own access to a coop)
expensive…tried water glass –didn’t work for me–eggs rotted
I am doing the same. Don’t forget toilet paper 🙂
Actually the videos showing terra cotta / tea light heater could be dangerous and cause a flash fire. Stay safe out there
I worked at a big grocery store chain in the se, in the deli. Florida so we have our own major ports. And it’s bad. Listen to the industry quote.
It’s not that the price of chicken has gone up three times in less than a year. An extra dollar for chicken wings? Who cares? Right?
No the problem is that the price of cooking oil has gone up 300%, management has to tell customers we don’t have cups or napkins because there is a paper shortages.
And straws, and alot of little things that you don’t notice until they’re not there. Plastic spoons? Not important until you notice that it happens all the time now.
We order stuff and it just doesn’t come.
It’s way upstream folks. The vendors can’t make the stuff to sell the retailers because they don’t have the stuff to make it.
It’s a minor thing until you think about it but when Coca-Cola doesn’t have cherry coke to refill the fountain drink machine for one of thier major clients, you know that’s serious.
I recommend stocking up on rice and lentils because that’s easy to cook even if you have to gather wood for a fire to boil water because the electricity is out.
Pay attention to the industry guy, the foundations are crumbling.
I buy packages of chicken breasts in bulk and vacuum seal seperately, one per package–I’m recently widowed is why.
So, when I bought in April, the packages at all stores originally $4.50 were $6.00.
That’s a 30% increase and I’m not even sure the price for that package now.
I still have lard from 5 gallon bucket I bought and put in the freezer for years. I’m using it now–put in cottage cheese containers!!!
I am and have been weaning myself from paper products..except toilet paper in bulk-bought a years worth at a time–I do without–no napkins, no paper towels, no paper cups, no straws/forks/spoons when this supply is gone. Bye-Bye sam’s club.
5 minute oats–little energy needed to cook and always have butter and sugar—I canned butter and it’s in the freezer.
My conundrum??? I have 4 small freezers of food and will lose when power is out.
Any suggestions for a 71 yo not exactly high tech enlightened??
Get a solar generator and sponsor a 4-H troop of young men interested in shooting sports.
All I can think of is to keep your freezers full. If one gets low, freeze water in containers to fit. But I have the same concern if the power goes out for a long time.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
As well as canning and stockpiling for myself I have also been stockpiling for my pets.
Don’t forget them!
I buy in bulk and have found it difficult to get the gamma lids for the 5 gallon buckets as well as canning jars.
My grandparents grew up in the depression and taught me a lot.
I wish they were still here for advice.
PEOPLE OF FAITH HAVE ALWAYS……… People of Faith
this is an example of just ONE (1) religious denomination.
Food banks and food pantries 2,022,201
Soup kitchens 1,038,808
Congregate dining 825,687
Home delivered meals/ Mobile Loaves and Fishes 272,448
Other food services 313,972
Social support services 1,695,763
Education and enrichment 603,186
Socialization and neighborhood services 345,820
Health-related services NON – PROFIT HOSPITALS 260,248
Services to at-risk populations 203,822
Counseling and mental health services 534,933
Immigration services 313,140
Addiction services 157,905
Refugee services 76,864
Pregnancy services 64,247
Adoption services 42,011
Temporary shelter 201,653
Housing services 186,584
Supervised living 55,893
Permanent housing 44,261
Transitional housing 27,070
Provided Disaster Services to 31,302 people
Clothing assistance 584,005
Utilities assistance 171,070
Emergency financial assistance 70,312
Medication assistance 60,142
Other basic needs assistance 1,127,264
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“Treason is patriotism.” – Little Red Book ?, Barack Insane Obamao.
The DemoNazi Party is at war with America and its great people. They are working furiously to break this Nation. Look at the devastation they’ve accomplished in less than a year. Imagine another three years of this pernicious activity. Normality has been turned into a perversion. Freedom is outmoded.
All of our institutions have been turned into weapons of suppression and oppression. Patriotism has been criminalized. Being a white man has been vilified.
Real action is needed, a real reckoning against these traitors.
Stop saying Nazi. The Germans were the ones fighting these SAME PEOPLE who back then were starving Ukrainians in the 1930s. The Germans knew the communists were encroaching and were ready to attack. Learn some GD history.
How did Poland get their freedom?
Kameltoe….You want to increase your approval rating.? Shoot Creepy Joe and Pignoisey in the head and then resign…
Seems simple enough for me to understand…
Sugar on a Turd…Does not make a brownie…
Takeaway: Increase your basement inventory beyond food and bottled water to include detergents, isopropyl, baking soda (sealed in ziploks), and the like. Life without soap and disinfectants will be difficult.
He’s right—in the morning, notice 3 things you will need and buy bulk…in the next day, notice 3 things again, but carry it to afternoon and buy bulk….next day, list 3 things again, and throughout afternoon and that evening…why??
Because every day is different and no day do you use exactly same items…similar, like soap and toothpaste, but you get the picture.
Good luck and don’t be defeated when someone says it’s too late–that can of spam may save your life.
I’ve just had to replace my spaghetti boxes and I stored in 2008/2009….get moving.
Evaporated milk, half water, half can, good for backup and cans store for two years.
Lay in a stock of ivermectin, quercetin, zinc, and Vitamins C and D to fight the rona.
If there really is a God, we could use one of his miracles right now because America is about to become the next Venezuela style socialist hell hole. They’re doing all the same things here that they did there and we have millions of brain dead morons who are cheering it on.
Yes, there really is a God and He loves the world and everyone in it.
The problem is, how many people in the world love Him?
How many will humble themselves and sincerely ask for His forgiveness?
How many will be willing to follow Him?
God is a gentleman. He will never go where He is not wanted.
Then why do so many millions of people who have already done all the things on your list have to suffer while evil people live like kings and queens?
Oh believe me. In the end those evil people are going to get theirs. God will be coming for them all. And it won’t be pretty.
FWIW
My Grandmother once said,
“We were put on this earth to suffer.”
As I matured, I came to understand that the only way you could know what happiness is to to suffer hardships .
God Bless you and your family .
Stay Strong.
Because this is all they’re going to get.
We suffer because this world was handed to satan by Adam and Eve. The consequence is we all die. But Jesus Bought it back by taking on our humanity and paying our ransom. Our bodies may die but we will live forever if we accept
That Jesus covered our debt.
Not only that … the way the world is hell bent on the “reset” Jesus could return to take us out of here ALIVE at any time
Like he promised in Mathew 24:32
Israel is the fig tree
Was not a nation for 2,000 years … now it is!!! Since 1948! (80 yrs is a generation)!
This generation will see His return.
Like in the days of Noah get into the ark NOW it’s starting to rain… Jesus is the Ark
I fear the Lord has turned his grace away from the US. Who can blame Him? After all, we are not mentioned in End Days, which this is sure looking to be…..
“Why is it that half the people in the world don’t have access to the internet?” What the? First off, she has to know why and secondly, does this idiot truly believe that universal internet access will solve anything? Well, other than enhance the left’s ability to control everyone’s thoughts? Among the vast number of fools “leading” us, Harris is near the top of the list.
For every child they starve, they will freeze two and inject poison into three.
As inflation worsens – as it only can due to the design from the puppeteers of The Manchurian Marionette – expect another bad idea from the 1970’s to be their “solution,” i.e. Wage and Price controls, which have NEVER worked throughout human history.
Yes, the ancients thought of it first, e.g. the Roman Emperor Diocletian imposed them in the late 300’s to control inflation due to his debasement of the coinage (less gold and silver per coin would equal more money for the government, they thought, until people realized what was happening).
Diocletian even imposed the death penalty for violating the controls. They STILL did not work!
So, wait for that lovely development from the usurpers, probably by the Winter. It will be sold to the morons as “protecting consumers from price gouging,” who will nod their unthinking heads and feel protected!
It is all about those feelings, after all: the TRUTH is always irrelevant!
Deceitful people who are so obsessed with their ideology that they believe all their own lies.
Programmatic dissonance.
It is time to enforce our laws against this illegitimate Marxist junta. Let’s start with this:
The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. 841-844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on 24 August 1954 that outlaws the Communist Party of the United States and criminalizes membership in or support for the party or “Communist-action” organizations and defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of such organizations.
Some may not know…but butter can be frozen for years..I still have real butter from 2010 and it’s great.
I know it won’t help long term, but I buy several loaves of bread at store and freeze…when I remove from freezer and let thaw on counter, next day, you would not know it was frozen….saves trips to stores.
Yes, you can freeze milk…but I use NIDO and it is great…I buy a few containers at a time.
I bought bacon on sale and froze it–it’s great and I only use for grease anyhow. So, cheap is okay.
I have been doing this since 2009 and am so prepared I am thinking of going through my 2012 and 2013 canned goods and opening one a day and discarding if bad…see, it’s a mystery; regardless of BB date, brand, etc, some are still great and some are not–what that means is the cans were on the manufacturing shelves longer than others..it happens.
Don’t throw away food until you test it–BB dates mean nothing. Canned Fruit…not good long term shelf life.
Good luck.
I do that. Now I bought a bread machine. It is great.
Anybody vote for Biden? Some mean tweets sound pretty good right now, eh?
My worst worry is heat. Grid down..I have two 0° sleeping bags and will use them if have to. Have small camper Coleman stove and 12 gallons of fuel.
Right now I’m on one SS check and widowed. I have heater and tv and books and crossword puzzles, etc.and stay in the small bedroom to conserve on electric bill–no visitors, so I can do this.
God has provided for me this far and I have faith He will until I die.
I can say to all that now is the time to save every dollar you can. Gene died unexpectedly and I had saved since 2012…and that is what is keeping me from selling this place we shared, and refinancing 4 months before his death…
Stay safe and God bless us–still praying and trust in Him.
Can you take in a trustworthy boarder to help with expenses?… Or downsize to a tiny house or RV. Will give you mobility as well.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin https://ivmpharmacy.com
Check out misfits market for produce and grocery items.
Revelation 6:6, ESV: “And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!””
A denarius in those times was a days wages and 1 quart of wheat was enough for a single person for one day. The oil and wine were items that only the wealthy could afford and not in short supply.
What they are doing is shrinking the industrial base to where wind and solar can actually meet it’s needs. that this will mean millions out of work is of no matter. That is being attended to by the vaxx and the vaxx passport. Along with all the inflation will be more control. Due to unrest/riots inspired by BLM and also by ordinary people getting upset that their problems are not being solved as to the inflation and the lack of jobs.
Then along will come the cashless economy (if that’s the right word) whereby every penny you make gets filtered thru a bank so that any black marketeering will have to take place by barter. (a much harder situation to manage and keep hidden)
Once again they are trimming the functions of the country/world to the levels where they want them to be and whoever is left with out food or shelter will be left to die. Oh they may have (and build with free labor like in the 30s) shelters for women and children (slave factories. Women are always best at manufacturing of small goods and children can be utilized in other ways) and the men will be in separate barracks and let out on a furlough basis where if they have behaved and been productive they can go see their family. Those without a family will have it much tougher and more deadly as they will be extra mouths to feed and may wind up as experiments and outright worked to death. Most don’t understand that the majority (until the end) of deaths in the camps of Germany were due to starvation and overwork. Not that many were killed by direct action until they no longer needed workers then they had to eliminate the extra. No starvation and over work killed the vast majority.
This is the model that they will use. It will not be like the USSR as the Soviets were still trying to match the west. and so they didn’t go quite all the way to outright elimination. This will be much more so the point to watch is when they begin to take folks and put them into Quarantine and Recovery Housing. And when they start taking away guns and shutting down gun shops. That will be the clue that then will begin the Great Culling. It won’t happen for a year or longer. Until they have reached their agreements to how things will be run in the world and from where. Then they will begin to hasten the natural culling already ongoing.
God Bless. Good luck
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/1625/inflation-causing-massive-food-poverty
I guess what I had to say was too outre for CTH. I’m surprised. NO swear words or threats and no personal jibes. Just some educated guessing on what will happen in the future and why. But comment was put into moderation and then erased.
I won’t bother you all anymore. Adios!
Sorry….I found your comment in the bin. Under “history”, it said that your long initial comment contained word(s) that were previously on our blacklist. This kind of “false possitive” match happens frequently…as out list is rather long.
That is one of the problems of the world and that is we have been feeding the world since in my time in the 40s. By feeding the world we have encouraged counties who can’t feed themselves to keep producing babies. Back in about 1955 a professor at the University of Wisconsin said quit feeding these people now and if you do a few hundred will die of starvation. If you continue to feed these people in the future hundreds of thousands will die of starvation. He not only lost his professorship he was run out of the state, all for telling the truth. So as you can see telling the truth way back in the 50s was not acceptable.
I saw a German ad imploring Germans to Feed the USA. GOD HELP US.
In an earlier part of this thread I mentioned I seem to have been censored. I was mistaken and wish to apologize. If it seemed I was too quick to assume bad motives for a comment disappearing it’s because in the last year or so I’ve seen otherwise seeming conservative sites either stop comments altogether or start censoring them out of fear from threats made. This has disturbed me greatly as by acceding to the wishes of our enemies will not further our goals and the recovery of our freedoms.
I was shown the great courtesy of a email telling me of what happened to the comment by the admin and that was very good of them. But I wouldn’t expect less of CTH.
So disregard any complaints of missing comments. I’m sure some do but are deserved and some get cut by automated spam detectors or certain words that it keys upon. Be advised this could happen and the best thing to do would make note and let the admins check it out as it may be an error.
Thanks to CTH and the Admins there.
Sorry, you got caught again.
And that comment was also held for approval. It appears that shorter comments fair better. I explained how other comments disappeared and was emailed telling me what happened.
Usurper Kamala should buy a million acres of farm land. Buy all the equipment needed. Make sure the equipment does not run on gas or diesel. Hire the employees to farm it. Pay them union wages. Demand that they all have their Covid vaccines. Buy the seeds, fertilizer, insurance, etc. Drill wells for irrigation. Be sure you’re meeting all of the government regulations. Plant and harvest the crops. Then pay to have the food exported to third world countries to give it away free. Now watch as the corrupt third world leaders take her name off of the products and sell them to the poor. Let us know how long your farm stays in business.
Thank you for this. DH and I bought a freezer chest today and plan on spending an extra $200 per week on groceries/staples for our family of 5 for the foreseeable future to stockpile.