The UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported on Friday they are recording the highest Food Price Index since they started recording thirty years ago. With record highs in prices for cereals, vegetable oils, dairy and meats
This issue has been a slow burning fuse toward the biggest powder keg in modern history, and it is about to get very serious. We have been warning about it since last fall {Go Deep}. In the most deliberate and painstaking ways possible, we have been urging everyone to take this issue seriously.
The background cause is complex and started with the 2020 government response to the pandemic. U.S. and international government intervention in the food supply process has been FUBAR from the beginning. Every action taken since early 2020 has been one bad policy after another; building failure upon failure, crisis upon crisis, bad decision upon bad decision, bringing us to a precipice summed up by saying “the absence of food will change things.”
Some will say the food prices we are about to experience –and the crisis it will create– was deliberate. Others will say this was the cumulative outcome of major failures on the part of the government. At this point the former makes more sense, and the latter looks like a justification and excuse, because if government entities were really serious about food prices and shortages, they would be taking pragmatic steps to mitigate the problem; they are not.
There are simple things government could do, such as helping farmers offset targeted fertilizer costs, providing relief for diesel fuel and energy costs, and taking other simple steps that would help the agricultural industry.
Instead of responding with the urgency this would demand, the collective government action has been to ignore the problem (talk soundbites), and give speeches about using subsidies to offset the end result (consumers) – without ever addressing the root cause. All this while fueling conflict in Ukraine and chasing radical energy policies under the guise of global climate change.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) keeps track of food prices and projections using a global index [SEE HERE]. What they are calculating, and what they are projecting based on the current calculations, is a major increase in food prices combined with a major increase in food scarcity due to the unaffordability of food products.
The baseline of 100 is the monthly rate of change for a basket of food products using the period from 2014 to 2016.
The current rate of change is indexing at 159.3, meaning the monthly increases in price are almost 60% higher than the base period. Trying to chart this rate of index is almost impossible, as it seems literally exponential. (red line in graphic)
In 2020, the monthly rate of change increased to an index of around 110. In 2021, the monthly rate of increase went from 110 to around 135. In the first three months of 2022, the index has jumped from 135 to almost 160 (in three months), and there is no end in sight.
The FAO Food Price Index* (FFPI) averaged 159.3 points in March 2022, up 17.9 points (12.6 percent) from February, making a giant leap to a new highest level since its inception in 1990. The latest increase reflects new all-time highs for vegetable oils, cereals and meat sub-indices, while those of sugar and dairy products also rose significantly.
The FAO Cereal Price Index averaged 170.1 points in March, up 24.9 points (17.1 percent) from February, marking its highest level on record since 1990. This month’s increase reflected a surge in world prices of wheat and coarse grains, largely driven by conflict-related export disruptions from Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, the Russian Federation. The expected loss of exports from the Black Sea region exacerbated the already tight global availability of wheat. With concerns over crop conditions in the United States of America (USA) also adding support, world wheat prices rose sharply in March, soaring by 19.7 percent.
The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index averaged 248.6 points in March, up 46.9 points (23.2 percent) from February and hitting a new record high. The sharp rise of the index was driven by higher sunflower, palm, soy and rapeseed oil prices.
The FAO Dairy Price Index averaged 145.2 points in March, up 3.7 points (2.6 percent) from February, marking the seventh consecutive monthly increase and lifting the index 27.7 points (23.6 percent) above its value a year ago. The upward trend of dairy product prices persisted, mainly supported by the tightening of global markets due to inadequate milk output in Western Europe and Oceania to meet global demand. Quotations for butter and milk powders rose steeply.
The FAO Meat Price Index* averaged 120.0 points in March, up 5.5 points (4.8 percent) from February, also reaching an all-time high. In March, pig meat prices registered the steepest monthly increase on record since 1995.
The FAO Sugar Price Index averaged 117.9 points in March, up 7.4 points (6.7 percent) from February, reversing most of the previous three months’ decline and reaching levels more than 20 percent above those registered in the corresponding month last year. [DETAILS]
In the United States and North America as a whole we are blessed and fortunate. We have abundant, healthy and fertile land that allows us to grow more food than we consume. We are a net exporter of food products. However, while we do not have to worry about shortages at the scale of other nations, there will be scarcity.
Additionally, the price increases will hit the U.S. consumer at a lesser, yet still big time significant, scale. The issue in the U.S. will be food insecurity due to massive increases in price. The middle class will spend more of their earnings and wages on food, and people will literally make changes to their food purchases based on these massive increases in price.
In food dependent nations, the scale of the issue will be far greater. In part, this is the reason the southern border crisis will be much more severe this year. We will see an influx of migration due to food availability and unaffordability issues, that is certain; however, that issue is also incidental to the massive influx that is going to happen as a result of the Biden open-border policy.
In the strongly food dependent nations, the food price and scarcity issue has already triggered panic.
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We are several generations separated from any time in history where people have worried about the United States having abundant affordable food. Arguably, those under 40 to 45-years of age do not have any reference to the type of food scarcity and food inflation that is coming.
As we have mentioned for quite some time, “the absence of food will change things.”
We are in an abusive relationship with government leaders.
My husband and I have been working on storing up for years but we have 6 kiddos to feed in addition to ourselves…. The million $ question is when is it enough???🤪. We have meat rabbits, and my husband is working on a chicken coop for eggs. He also hunts avidly in addition to dry goods and whatnot, but I’m wondering how long should we plan to store up for?
One can obviously only do so much, but how long do we think this will go on? Come Lord Jesus!
Better buy 200 lbs of rice, 200 lbs dried pintos and 200 cans of spam. That will get you through 2 years.
It’s a start, but for a family of 8, that is not nearly enough!
Yep, that’s correct. I read last week that just for me, one person, I would need 200 pounds of rice and 100 pounds of beans for one year.
For one person, I calculate 1lb of rice, 1lb of beans, 1lb of meat per week along with as many vegetables and potatoes as you can grow and add to the mix. Making large pots of stews and soups stretches these ingredients a lot further. There is a ton of nutrition in chicken broth, for instance, so when you cook a whole chicken do it in a pot with lots of water which in turn makes lots of broth that you can freeze and use as a base for soups and stews.
Basically that is 52 weeks or 52lbs per person per year. The trick is to learn to s-t-r-e-t-c-h foods in such a way as to meet nutritional needs. Just start with 52lbs per person per year. If you can’t grow food, find someone who can and trade skills for food.
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you’ll die on that small amount. you need 1200 calories a day just to survive. 1 serving of rice is 190 cal. beans is 80cal.
Did you forget to add the ” 1lb of meat per week along with as many vegetables and potatoes as you can grow and add to the mix” part of the equation she mentioned?
Course I would also be adding fish, nuts, citrus, dairy products, and fruits in the mix to round it out.
I don’t calculate in the way of calories. I don’t think I’m going to be in the situation where I’m down to counting daily calories. I’ve worked very hard to make sure that does not happen.
My goal is to have a full belly with healthy, mostly natural, nutritious food. And coffee. Must have coffee.
Other than that, I think about how I might want to make meals if I only had a fire to prepare it with.
That’s incorrect, you prep by caloric intake, not by weight and especially not by servings.
In any rough situation you would need 2k calories per day to keep from starving.
200 lbs of rice and 100 lbs of beans are enough calories (276800) for one person for roughly 138 days with a perfect conditional outcome… Which never works out in real life let alone a SHTF situation.
People botch prepping calculations in the worst ways. Unfortunately the internet tends to only reinforce those bad calculations.
Add yourself in 5 cans of Crisco, 4 cans of powdered cheese, 20lbs of dried milk, 100lbs of sugar and 100 lbs of flour, 5 lbs of salt and you’ll get close with foraging.
No, you read incorrectly…..I didn’t say that’s ALL that you should eat for a year. I said that I READ that anecdotally. Trust me, I’m way ahead of pretty much everybody else on this game.
I’m simply offering advice in a very simple, generic way. People find prepping completely overwhelming. Starting with beans and rice is easy.
That diet will slowly make you ill, due to 1 key food that everyone forgets: fat. You must have fat in your diet for your body to function and repair. Get organic olive oil, coconut oil, ghee, butter, organic lard and organic tallow. NO vegetable oil! No canola, soy, corn, cottonseed! Additionally, you need fresh or dried onion, garlic, parsley, oregano, cayenne, salt & pepper.
I think that goes without saying probably, if people are preparing with hundreds of pounds of beans and rice, they will surely add salt, oils, spices, etc. I think people are just sort of speaking generally about the minimum is for large staples. But, absolutely right, you must have the fats. Your brain can’t work otherwise.
why don’t vegans get sick then? I’m sure there’s a sensible answer, but I can’t think of one.
Because they rely heavily on various beans, which are almost a complete food. Beans are high in protein and high in fiber.
I’m confused, aren’t beans one of the staples, but he said you would get sick if you didn’t have fat. I mean it’s good to have fat, but do vegans eat any animal fat? I asked earlier why don’t they get sick, I should have said why don’t they get seriously sick from not eating fat. Are all fats equal? I’m serious because I am trying to prepare and want as much information as I can get. I rather err on the side of over-cautious than be caught short.
Many vegetables and nuts contain fat. Avocados and almonds are rich with it.
They do get sick.
Just to say it, all oils have a shelf life of roughly one year… Crisco on the other hand 8-10 when stored correctly… But, try to keep a rotation of 3-5 years going.
Get chickens now. soon none available
they can “make” more!
protect the chickens etc youve got, soon they will only be available by theft. TG for the 2nd Amendment
Just started locking them up. When I bought a pen for my ducks a decade ago, it came with a lock and key. Made a smart alec quip about it, and now here we are.
Locks are good unless thieves bring boltcutters.
But be careful with what you buy. Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses have been found in commercial poultry and backyard flocks lately.
Or have they?
I purchase chicks from McMurray Hatchery. I had some particular ones on order and received a notice that one particular breed tested positive for the bird flu and they had to be destroyed. The hatchery works closely with the USDA and they have strict standards for hatching, separate environments, etc. The other chics are all fine and I will get those soon.
I think on purpose
One thing I’m doing this year is I’ve added potatoes to my garden. They’re easy to grow. Each child can be responsible for putting a half dozen in the ground, watering them and keeping the dirt on them. They’re very high in carbs and everybody likes them. You do need to make sure growing children are getting protein but at least with potatoes no one will starve.
For those with limited space….look at potato bags on ebay. You can grow up to 40 potatoes in each bag. There are also Youtube videos of how you can use trash bags to create an environment for growing the taters.
Just remember that nightshades rob the soil of nutrients. Growing potatoes you have to rotate and really feed the soil. The Irish found out to their peril.
It’s said famines last 2 years.
You can stock up on canned soups, vegetables, fruits (Sam’s club, Walmart, Costco have the best deals in bulk and they have great shelf life) same goes for assorted pasta and pasta sauce. Walmart also has 2lb keystone canned beef, chicken, turkey, pork $7 (5 yr shelf life) and 8oz wild caught smoked peppered herring for $2.50 (4 yr shelf life). Also spent extra and bought canned Palm corned beef, Red Feather butter, and Bega cheese with long shelf life. Websturantstore has great prices on bulk flour, powdered milk, rice, beans, oils, and spices and offer free 30 day plus membership to cut way down on the shipping costs. I break down the 50lb bags of flour, milk, and sugar into smaller packages by measuring them into brown paper lunch bags before vacuum sealing (lunch bags keep fine ingredients from sucking into machine).
We have chickens and preserve fresh unwashed eggs in lime to keep them fresh up to a year and wife and I bought a 20X10 greenhouse for our Christmas gift to each other. We also plant a large outdoor garden every year and can many foods each fall. My wife has perfected bread making with sourdough starter as well. This is the work of several years preparing and should keep our large family and friends fed for some time. My goal is around 3 months while we work on building a community with neighbors and friends as that is the way to survive long term without God’s mercy. I am well stocked to defend my family from evil but I will not protect my food in that way. I will feed the hungry, build a community with them, and pray that God shows us his mercy.
On the same path. Thanks for sharing details.
It will go on until someone with commonsense prevails. First you have to replace what is there and replace it with what should be there. Easier said than done.
The Mormon church — of which I am not a member — tells their members they need to have basic food stores for every person in their family for a year.
That includes —
400 pounds of grains per adult per year (wheat, corn, rice, oatmeal, pasta)
60 pounds of legumes per adult per year (dry beans, split peas, lentils)
16 pounds of powdered milk per adult per year
10 quarts of cooking oil per adult per year
60 pounds of honey or sugar per adult per year
8 pounds of salt per adult per year
and
1 gallon of water per adult per day
The breakdown for kids —
babies to 3 yrs old = 50% of adult needs
4 to 6 = 70%
7 to 10 = 90%
11 and over are considered an adult on the food needed chart.
Those are the basics everyone should have — again, per the Mormon church.
Once families have the basics stored, then they are encouraged to get things that taste good and will add variety to their meals.
“We are in an abusive relationship with government leaders.”
Parallelism | The Z Blog (thezman.com):
“There is no solution to the problems of liberal democracy at the ballot box. Most Americans have no representation in politics as both parties are committed to destroying normal life. This fall the Republicans will win the election and everything will get worse. Whatever promises they have made will be broken on day one. They will set about giving the oligarchs whatever they want while pretending they are doing their voters a favor.
Even knowing this, people want to do something. This is even more true for dissidents who are more political than normal people. The reason you end up on this side of the great divide is you have engaged with politics and learned from it. Walking away entirely seems like quitting to most people. On the other hand, participating just empowers the people who want you dead. This is the dilemma that ruined the conservative movement and haunts the dissident right.
This leaves only one option and that is building a counter culture. Channeling activism into building a parallel society bridges the gap between ideas and activism. In a way, this is what we see globally with the alliance of non-Western powers. China, Russia and India want to create a parallel system that can challenge America. The same thing has to happen domestically. It is a bigger challenge for obvious reasons, but parallelism is the only way forward short of revolution.”…….
Rest in the Vine: Revolution in the Hair: Mel Brooks and Joe Biden Agree:
”The People are Revolting!”
The Zman and I go way back. I remember when he launched his blog I think it’s been almost a decade now.
And he’s right a lot.
It’s worth the time to read through his posts and listen to his podcasts.
This is what Andre Torba from Gab is trying to establish on his platform.
Cant all move to Florida but plenty of states could be like Florida, elect a Governor like De Santis, more important to vote Trump nominees than ever
I’ve been going to the grocery stores to look at prices and see if they have put anything on clearance that is a great buy. The prices of some things just creep up gradually, a few cents this week, a few more cents a month later. Some things haven’t gone up much. Also watching the shortages grow. Seems like frozen corn is getting more scarce. Frozen prepared desserts are short and price has gone up about $1.00-$1.50. No organic lettuce for the last 3 weeks. Sugar shelves mainly filled with store brand granulated, not cane sugar. Pasta cost increasing and stores seem short of cheaper pasta brands. Stores are sorting their stock to make their shelves look full and shortening shelf space for things that are short.
Most people still buying smaller amounts and worried about inflation rather than shortage, but monthly shoppers make it hard to tell if some are starting to stock up. I truly don’t want to be around if and when people start panicking.
Yeah, watch the top shelves. That’s where the extra stuff gets stored and rotated down to lower shelves. I was at the store tonight and many of the top shelves were empty. Of about a dozen self-serve dry good canisters (where you can bag your own cashews for example), only 4 had any product in them. The rest were empty. No baby carrots in the produce aisle, and they expanded other produce to fill in gaps. Granted it’s Friday, but many shelves are empty of entire products.
The one thing I notice is that any wheat based products have gone through the roof. Pasta has to be up at least 75 % from a month ago and you can’t find enough of it. right now, I probably have about 2 months worth of food, but plan on adding a lot more the next few weeks.
If our power is shut off anything frozen or fresh is worthless unless you have a generator.
Long term storage food (freeze dried) last up to 25 yrs and is very eatable and only requires boiled water.
People need to start thinking like their camping and when the power goes out people will be freaking out.
I’ve started dehydrating and canning my frozen stores. Can’t ever be prepped enough.
I’m stocking up on charcoal and firewood. Bottled water too. All these canned goods are bound to taste better hot.
Precisely so. Check My Patriot Supply for prepared freeze-dried foods in vacuum-sealed mylar packages. Shelf life is measured in years, not months. And the stuff tastes good – these are not MREs.
Or get a pressure canner as I have and learn how to can. We have a freezer full of meat. Power outages would be devastating so I figure a <$200 canner to preserve that meat is the way to go. Wish me luck on my new endeavor!
What I’m finding is lots of closeouts. As the grocery store changes its configuration, Widen’s shelves, suppliers change packaging, there are lots of closeout deals. We have a local beer brewery, Southbound, and the Food Lion had all their beer for half price! I got a couple of 18 packs of Scott tissue, my preferred brand, for around $9 and change. The newly resized, and re-packaged ones were nine in a pack for $9 and change. Crazy.
Whereabouts are you? We are in NE NC and the Food Lion isn’t far.
The seeds of panic in the U.S. are now being sown:
“Walgreens Starts Rationing Baby Formula”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/biden-food-shortages-walgreens-starts-rationing-baby-formula/
Right on cue, the large corporations & the media are stepping up to the plate to instill FEAR.
And, I agree with Sundance, in that this is yet another totally manufactured crisis.
Disrupt supply chains; force farmers not to farm; add extreme restrictions to all things food-related — and what happens?
Intentional shortages & soaring prices — all by design & according to plan.
They’re really insane if they think people aren’t going to hunt down and kill “the elites”…
The question is, how long will it take of living under strict food rationing and other totalitarian measures before that happens?
A vast global conspiracy of evil men cannot be fought with internet comments, voting, and prayer.
It is possible that the body can survive for 8 to 21 days w/o food and water. If shortages become too severe give it a month before they go after the “Let them eat cake” bunch.
I prefer to think of them as “the let them buy electric cars” bunch
If this entitled generation runs short of food, are actually hungry, it will be a matter of days before there will be looting and stealing. It may even happen before food runs out but if the price goes too high or people see that there really might be a shortage. The run on toilet paper wasn’t because there wasn’t any, it’s because people thought there might not be any.
Imagine the looting.
Longer without food but much shorter without water I think.
I knew an old man bedridden who lived 11 days without food or water. Not conscious towards the end.
3 days without water
Considering the sheeple lining up for masking, social distancing, and getting the death jabs, it looks grim.
No one has their fingerprints on this. They want all your hate on Emmanuel Goldstein (Putin)
Their Palace Guard is dying off from the mandatory clot shot. They MUST be made to SUFFER, MIGHTILY!
Just eliminating TPTB will not restore civilization. Energy production, supply chains, finance, manufacturing are complex interlocked systems. They require management and direction. Just not the management and direction we are now enduring.
I apologize, but I want whomever “they” are to do it soon.
Been saying for months……C E A U C E S C O option folks…….
My wife reminded me that long ago (or maybe not that long ago) women who could not nurse were given a formula to make the “formula” to give to their babies. No reason the “formula” cannot be made at home like before.
Until the lack of grain results in the wholesale slaughter of starving dairy herds…..no milk at all.
That formula recipe uses karo syrup and evaporated milk, both will probably be in short supply soon also.
Why are people feeding their babies corn syrup? That stuff is poison.
Ahh, yes. I remember the Karo syrup and evaporated or powered milk recipe. Back then, no one thought of corn syrup as poison, and one would have been laughed at for saying so. Women did the best they could with the little they had… coming soon to a store near you.
Back then it wasn’t “high fructose corn syrup”. That had yet to be invented, to the eternal detriment of our health.
Yup.
Also, if you simmer for a while a potato a carrot and some little vegetable then mash it up you have baby food – minus the salt. (a good thing)
Your recipe PLUS some form of easily-digested protein.
I am not aware of the American “rules for farmers” but over here in the miserable outpost of Soviet Scotland, our farmers have to get government permission over what they plant.
Recently we had a case of a farmer wanting to grow food on land which had been set aside for “re wilding” I kid you not. Our little dictator retains power by joining up with the Gang green party.
The Minister for Agriculture is a Canadian born extreme global warmist and refused the farmer permission to grow more food.
Of course she is not intelligent enough to realise crops can not be switched on and off and wheat takes “a few months” to grow.
So I maintain this crisis is just another man made one – unlike the alleged global warming.
That is terrifying. And if I had a baby on formula right now I’d head to BJs or Costco and load up even if I had to go into debt to do it.
As to the comment in the article about the government taking simple measures to mitigate the shortages, such as helping farmers with fertilizer and fuel costs, I find it ironic that the US government is still subsidizing (providing) fuel to the airline industry, but not to farmers. And remember, fertilizer is fuel transformed into nitrogen and other stuff. . .
Yesterday I noticed that all the baby food at Walmart is now behind glass, and someone with a key has to unlock the door before baby food can be purchased.
For what it’s worth, there are farming methods that don’t rely on synthetic fertilizers. It’s that type of fertilizer being hit by the high oil prices.
Korean Natural Farming seems to have some cost-effective ways to produce your own organic fertilizer. It was developed in South Korea. On the Korean Peninsula there’s a tradition of fermenting foods, thereby cultivating microbes that are good for the gut.
Well, one day, a farmer said “Hey, what if we cultivate microbes that are good for the soil?”
And then he experimented. And found that you can get soil from a healthy forest (with permission from the land owner, of course) and cultivate the microbes in it. Or cultivate the good bacteria found on the surface of plants.
JADAM organic farming is the offspring of Korean Natural Farming.
KNF found some things that worked well, and shared the how-tos with everyone. JADAM is a more organized endeavor, and still coming up with new things. (JADAM is a contraction of two Korean words, and comes from a phrase that means “farmers who love nature”).
If anyone is looking for a cheap source of fertility for their soil, these two farming methods might be worth looking into.
Well in the good/bad old days before domestic plumbing, there was an abundance of ‘domestic manure’ available. Let’s do it again!
I shopped for groceries yesterday and my “healthy eating” receipt usually never exceeds $200.00 on a routine replenishment. My bill was over $330.00. The biggest rise was for 2 meat items, 1 fish fillets and 1 poultry item.
I am on a fitness kick and so I didn’t buy any high priced junk food and haven’t been ordering Chinese, Italian or Thai etc food for awhile. The prices in the high demand “eateries” were rising fast even before the inflation issue was topical. I suspect these prices have risen even higher than the grocery stores.
My bill was $324 , at Albertson’s. Insane. It’s probably a few meals, at best.
Us, too. We tend to buy fresh food over the processed garbage anyway, but our diets have lessened the inflation hit. Still, I somehow managed to ring up a $90 bill and walked out with 4 plastic bags and a 12 pack of dirt cheap store brand diet cola.
Rough times are ahead based on the thinly stocked store shelves I witnessed.
Have you tried drinking water? You know that stuff out of a tap – sorry faucet.
Unless it’s well water, you’re probably worse off to drink it.
All of the grid water has been and still is poisoned.
To deal with rising prices and shortages, I’ve been making different choices and stocking up with sales.
My bill yesterday wasn’t even $75 and filled the buggy. It included (to list a few of the items) TP, 20 pounds of flour, 4 cases of veggies and beans, 6 pounds of name brand, decent cheese, and ten pounds of chicken leg quarters.
The soda for a treat is next week when it’s on sale 😉 .
Patrick, many people here do drink tap water, so while your comment is humorous, it’s also condescending. There is nothing wrong with having some treats in your diet if your budget will allow.
Often those small inexpensive treats make it easier to deal with other massive cuts and changes in what you are buying.
Pork is the most reasonable priced protein in my area.
My wife loves scallops, but they went from $14.75 a pound to $25. The local wild shrimp large went from $6 pound to $9. I refuse to pay that for scallops and we’ve cut down on shrimp. Diesel fuel is a big expense for the shrimp boats.
I hit the bargains at the grocery stores for meat.
Sadly, all the meat that was cheap when I was growing up has gone crazy. Chicken wings that were practically free in the 1980s cost as much as chicken breasts, and beef brisket is priced like a short loin cut.
I enjoy using my smoker and a Boston butt is $1.99 a pound now. I was paying less than a $1 a few years ago.
Sometimes Sam’s Club has prime beef on sale for less than choice grade at other stores. I need a nicely marbled rib eye every once in a while so I am always checking. My wife doesn’t eat beef so I rarely do.
Squirrel and deer are plentiful in the mountainous southeast. The former can be bagged with a good bolt action 22. When true desperation hits, there’s always possum, the other other white meat.
I’ve heard of folks using slingshots to take down pigeons. Pigeon pie was a staple of British Victorian dining.
Boston butt aka pork steak is a personal fave. Great on the grill or in stir Frys/fried rice. On sale often at our local NE NC Food Lions.
My guesstimate for years was about $10 per plastic grocery bag.
In 2022, it’s risen to $20 per 🙁
So – is this the so-called ‘Great Reset’?
They gonna ‘reset’ a couple of tens of millions of people right out of existence?
If not billions.
If you dig in a little bit….through many vectors…they are going to bring the world down to 500 million people. We are currently at 8 Billion. They have openly stated they will do this by 2030 through viruses/vaccines, wars, and famine. Humanity is at war and they don’t even know it….humanity is not defending themselves and their families from the World Economic Forum/WHO/Davos crowd.
Who is they? Do you have reference to an article I can read?
They is the WEF/WHO/Davos crowd. I recommend you look into the Georgia Guidestones. This is the bottom of the rabbit hole. I would then recommend you go to Rumble and watch Bill Gates’ 2010 TED talk. Then pull up at Rumble any video of Klaus Schwab (WEF leader). Want to go deeper in the hole? Go to Amazon and buy Klaus Schwab’s book….the Great Reset. These people are openly telling us what they are going to do. I have shown you the rabbit hole. You have to take the initiative to go down it.
It is written on the Georgia stones monument.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Pestilence, War, Famine and Death.
Are we up to 8 billion now? I thought 7……
One thing is certain Nimrodman.
If the “elite’s Great Reset” policies do cause the deaths of millions of people, those responsible won’t care or lose a minute of sleep over it. Some of the most demented might even celebrate.
Like Piglosi, rubbing her talons together with glee a few weeks ago.
Pure evil!
Covid pandemic … Ukraine war … ongoing African wars … food shortages and famine … the next pandemic (a hemmoragic fever of their choosing?) … rinse and repeat … we’re probably up to a couple million already, even before much of the food-shortage-famine even takes hold
Gates and Kerry and Schwab and their globalist buddies are probably delighted — reduces carbon loading and slows down that infernal global warming and sea-level rise that threatens all their newly purchased seaside mansions
Georgia Guidestones is their agreement that the earth can only support 500 million so do the math. Current population is approximately 7.5 billion. Yea, they don’t care if you die. Of course they intend to NOT be in the number that dies.
WE are the carbon they aim to reduce.
Global warming?
We just got 2” of snow.
The population of Africa could be wiped out with a famine.
God forbid! Africa has suffered enough.
They will pour into the west as they’ve been doing throughout the last decade and our betters with the help of the media will bleat “refugees…what about the children?”. Its not a lack of compassion to say we can’t take them all in and weaken our resources when we can better help them in their own lands with partitioned resources. If we are on our knees too we are all f@cked. Don’t let them do this.
Most of the invaders over the southern border are military age males aka Obozo’s long sought after citizen army. To be used against us and to replace us ASAP.
The goal is to have 500MM people left. 66% reduction of pensioners by 2028.
Maybe a lot more than that. GA Guidestones call for 500,000,000 max world pop. Out of 7 billion now. Buckle up folks! Pray! Prepare! Resist!
When TVs aren’t being looted, you know it’s real. Governments will long for the time when TVs were looted.
That’s so funny, in a sad way
Can you imagine being an elitist living in GC, you know the Georgetown elitist kind, when the Ghetto Thugs and the Ghetto women can’t find food. They will kill the WHITE LIBERALAS in a heartbeat. You think BLM and ANTIFA harassing the White Liberals eating dinner outdoors was horrible, you ain’t seen anything yet.
Reminds me of AOC and her….Eat the Rich…clothing and slogan.
Am I bad for eagerly awaiting that sight?
TVs are too heavy to loot.
I guess the, “you will own nothing and be glad.” didn’t think that would mean food.
I guess the, “you will own nothing and be happy” crowd didn’t think that would mean food.
It’s easy to observe how individuals are functioning in long term relationships of various kinds–family, neighborhood, club activities, normal socializing, etc.
I’m seeing a spike in events where individuals are hitting their limits, changing their commitments, telling people off, changing social habits….distinctive from what had become the pandemic norms.
I think that those who were blaming everything on the “pandemic”, instead of on the government’s response to the pandemic, are slowly beginning to realize that it was never about covid and, that being the case, the things are going off the rails are not going to stop going off the rails.
They don’t understand it. They can’t connect the dots. Their thinking is even more scrambled. But they are becoming less able to manage their fight or flight impulses.
It’s hard enough sometimes for thinking people to manage the fight or flight thing. It’s almost impossible for the unthinking, unprepared, blame-projecting and – now – hysterically panicked and angry. to keep functioning effectively in day to day things.
They’ve certainly been effective at upending society
The individuals I described in my comment are certainly not the ones who have been effective at upending society. The individuals I reference are clueless and still trusting the ones who have been effective at upending society…they are still trusting as they bleat, “What’s happening???”
Two entirely different groups.
You’re seeing a side effect of several years of deliberate psyops targeting citizens and creating massive cognitive dissonance.
I’ve also noticed that people are far quicker to fly off the handle over simple, easy to resolve, matters.
It could also be a side effect of ‘the jab.’
Are you in Western WA., Sharon?
In the Willamette Valley in Oregon – about 30 miles south of Portland, west of the mountains.
Thank You!!
Oh I’m so glad you saw and answered my question!
I asked, because I just suspected this kind of crap would happen in PNW before I moved almost 10 years ago. And it’s a BIG reason I left.
Things are *much* better in other parts of the States, just so you know.
Probably better even in E. Oregon.
You guys are just living in Lefty SJW Hell out there. >>> Most Fascist area of the States w/ barely any pushback, even tho there *are* some wonderful smart people who live there. And the weather’s awesome.
Good Luck! And God Bless!
I am stuck between Seattle and Portland, and despise it, cannot wait for my husband’s job to be able to relocate to a red state again. Other than the masks and many more drugged-out homeless, not much change in the nastiness here from covid. The first time I went to Walmart here, I got screamed at by the “greeter” for bringing in my own bag (learned she did that to everyone with reusable bags). Had to stop letting my kid wear his parochial school shirt anywhere but school because he was getting verbally (and once almost physically) attacked over it, including by adults.
Dangerous days ahead, friends……
If any of you is good at starting businesses, you might want to start a food preserving company. Your company would own food dehydrators and freeze dryer machines, and it would dehydrate or freeze dry food for its customers.
I would take my food to your company’s location, and give you the food that I want you to dehydrate or freeze dry. You would put the food into the machines, and call me when the food was dehydrated or freeze dried.
The closest freeze drying service place that I can take my food to is about 50 miles away from me. I’d love to use such a service, if it was close to me – and if using your service was cheaper than buying freeze dried food.
Thanks for the reminder. I have to get the dehydrator out and start mass producing beef jerky.
Thanks for the reminder. . .
Old sleep-away camp ‘saying’ –
“What’s your beef, jerky?!”
LOL! Great memories!!
1 small freeze dry machine 3-$4000. They’re a freeze/vacuum system. Packaging is entirely different. I f not done correctly people could get sick, so i recommend researching what and how to dry. Insurance would be wise too for a business.
And it takes between 20 to 40 hours to freeze dry a 3 or 4 shelf load. I think it’s cheaper and safer (no need to worry about a power loss)
I’m choosing pressure canning to preserve food for long term storage. Been reading a few FB groups to get the gist of what to do.
Centralized food prep locations will be easier to commandeer when TPTB become concerned for their own safety. Equitable distribution, y’know.
I have just seen that Walgreens is now rationing baby formula. Venezuela, get ready for some good ole American competition.
Betsy, we are Venezuela now.
Bidenzuela
I’m waiting for FJB to blame “Big Farmers” for high prices like he blames “Big Oil” for high gas prices. Complete moron.
Jobama will soon announce a five-year agricultural plan. That should solve it.
If this blows up to where the media can’t run cover both FJB and Kamny will run screaming into the night. We may be looking at a constitutional first. They are grifters and cowards. I don’t care idiocy or intentional these DC and state bastards will pay for this level of pain they’ve brought on.
Notice that every time FJB begins to lie that he touches his face in some way.
Poker much?
He will give out subsidies to those who get food stamps which the multinational corporations will love because they will get most of it. The people who will suffer are those who are working, middle and working class Americans, who get no food subsidies and have no support for this inflation.
And EBT folks just got what, a 25% raise last fall?
This will not end well. Nov cannot get here quick enough.
Nov will not save us. The GOP WILL sell us out. Notice the Party isn’t actually running on anything. Most of the eGOP wants a shooting war with Russia, plans to help Biden accelerate illegal immigration, has no interest in impeaching and removing Democrat officials, and they didn’t raise any objections to St. Fauci’s 2 year reign of terror.
And the Biden regime still has 9 months to inflict more damage, print more fake ballots, and imprison more political enemies.
For the millionth time: We’re on our own”
Don’t count on just GOP. Vet these bastards for MAGA credentials local state and federal up and down the ticket…dog catcher school board alderman DA judge congress senate state and federal… send a damn message to these fops and grifters loud and clear….MAGA or nothing.
November 2022 Stop the bleeding.
MAGA Slate 535 going forward. They all need to be replaced.
Ojibwe Indian woman and two girls with loaded canoe heading for blueberry camp,
Roland Reed, 1920.
“Food under socialism is like a bad joke–not everyone gets it.”
UNKNOWN
I ordered a ham for pickup for Easter. I ended up with a 2.66 lb ham and paid $15.
Thanks Brandon 😒
CUT THE CORD!!
STAY POSITIVE .
AND PRAY!!
BE HAPPY!! EVERYTHING WILL BE OK!!! GODSIN CHARGE!!
Sometimes “the plan” looks like the Babylonian conquest of Israel and destruction of the temple in 70 AD.
The last few chapters of the Book of 2 Kings: Now re-playing in western nations near you.
People have a tendency to act out more when they are hungry.
Don’t you think?
Hangry
One protein item that has pretty much escaped inflation so far is whey protein. I still grab a 25 serving bag of Optimum Nutrition (top shelf stuff) for $21.99 at WalMart.
That is the equivalent of 25 servings of 6oz chicken breasts (24g protein) for a under a buck a pop. It is a big deal for me since my daily protein intake ranges between 185-215g and with the current prices of beef & chicken, I’d go broke.
The UN FAO is located near Rome in Lazio, Italy. The leader for this UN Organization is from China INC. More fun details at the following link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization
Appropriately the HQ Building for this UN Organization is in the EX-FASCIST Building that Housed the Italian East African Colonial Departments through WW2.
The UN FAO is located near Rome in Lazio, Italy. The leader for this UN Organization is from China INC. More fun details at the following link.
Appropriately the HQ Building for this UN Organization is in the EX-FASCIST Building that Housed the Italian East African Colonial Departments through WW2.
OK, trying a second time without the wiki link . Type in search = UNFAO and links appears.
Adrem, not sure what is a happening, but my post failed when I added a wiki link … 1st time for that one in a long time.
When the store shelves are empty, that is your cue to actually do something. They will not call for an election in that moment. “Do something” does not mean wait for an election.
Aldi bite size pepperoni, a 8oz pack, rose $5 from $2.49. It is now $7.49
https://www.instacart.com/store/items/item_1808980868
Ouch!
Doubt they’ll be selling that stuff.
Hopefully, they’ll just give it out to employees before the sell-by date.
Prices are higher using instacart then they are in the store. Shop in person to save money.
they are NOT leaders, they’re gubment POSERS
I just tried to post the link to this post on Facebook, and it refuses to let me, saying something about this link contains “spam” that Facebook is protecting its users from. Anyone else have this problem?
Nope. Just posted it.
This is all about advancing the agenda. The UN is a centerpiece operation. Everyone in their own way must be proactive in ensuring their future. The government is our enemy. If your dependent on the government they will in time disappoint you in your worst time of need. Food shortages, hyperinflation and recession are all easy to predict. The federal government will do their best make matters worse.
Why is it so hard for people to grow food? I know, cities have melted people’s brains and left them with no green space to grow.
Ha! Come out to my desert backyard in Arizona and show me how to grow vegetables out there. And don’t tell me to irrigate. It’s the prolonged heat that is the problem. Everything wilts and fruit will not set.
I’m experimenting with growing food indoors under grow lights. Of course, that requires electricity. Sheesh . . .
Yes, Arizona desert! And where I am, everyone’s feeble garden attempts get destroyed by attacking Javelina, rats, rabbits, deer, and they, in turn, get eaten by the hawks, ravens, coyotes, bobcats, and snakes. It’s a “jungle” out there.
A new neighbor is busy trying again. Here’s hoping.
Container and raised bed gardening…..grow bags, windowsill, microgreens…..
$3.49 for a dozen eggs yesterday. Those weren’t the fancy brown, “organic, cage free” eggs. Nope, a dozen ((large)) white eggs at the cheap grocery store. Someone has got to pay dearly for this mess and I’m looking straight at you, Brandon. FJB!
California Governor Newsom will pay farmers to not grow food – due to a lack of water. (No new reservoirs in 40 years?)
85% of Cali fresh water is flushed out to the Pacific Ocean.
I have been sourcing heirloom and open pollinated seeds for my garden and greenhouse (that hubby and I bought last spring). No hybrids if I can help it so that I can collect my own seeds every year from now on. Also buying short maturity varieties so that I can have at least two growing seasons in my zone 5 area outside ottawa. Over the last year I have taught myself to preserve food and make bread/food from scratch (in my 60s now, mom always did all that but I was never interested). I still have so much to learn but I am thankful for the heads up from you treepers and Sundance.
Same here. I live in SC, so I can pretty much grow something year round. I’ve quadrupled my garden space this year, and nothing but heirlooms.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
We’ve tried hard to avert this manufactured crisis, tried to warn people, tried to open eyes.
Don’t give in to the temptation to help idiots – who wittingly or unwittingly helped bring this crisis about – survive.
Save yourself, help close loved ones, maybe properly thinking acquaintances , etc. to survive, but tend your supplies carefully and let the stupid perish.
They wanted it, voted for it, worked diligently for this outcome, knowingly or not. Let them reap their deserved rewards and perhaps there will be fewer of them around to vote in the future.
Even if you are living in the city/apartment you can grow some high nutrition food from seed to harvest all year round. Here is a set up you can easily and cheaply make using led shop lights.
Local Walmart sells that exact two-strip LED shop lite for $29. Very efficient, use minimal electricity.
When MAGA gets Hangry,…gubmint better watch out.
Indeed, watch out for those Eagles.
“Pay No Attention to the Globalists Behind the Curtain.”
Good review on the World Summit ,Great Reset, Ukraine /Russia Conflict and if Biden goes…
https://rightwirereport.com/2022/04/09/truth-be-told-podcast-pay-no-attention-to-the-globalists-behind-the-curtain-april-9-2022/
Great Reset , WEF , NWO , EU , UN Own Nothing Be Happy Don’t Worry it’s for the greater good , the needs of the many …BULL SHIT !
A quote from of all people Bob Marley “A Hungry Man is A Dangerous Man”!
Starting to look like the bread & circuses are failing ! Considering the ruling elites being self appointed by massive gathering of wealth or elected and bribed or appointed and bought . Not to leave out the government employee hired with a promise that a bankrupted society will continue to confiscate wealth from those great unwashed non members of the BIG CLUB to support them . This is especially true of the badge wearing armed Just Doing My Job variety beating you down for compliance !
During a Covid shakedown I know a county inspector who was sighting and fining small businesses for non compliance and laughing about shutting them down . I said : You doc realize your closing down taxpayers that pay your salary ? His reply is priceless “I don’t care Just Doing My Job , besides I’m getting paid overtime to do it”!
I said : Sounds like a Nuremberg Excuse , do you wear a brown shirt and a swastika arm band ?
We were not friends and I think that’s wear I’ll leave that !
When Pennsylvania issued too many bonus doe tags some years back it nearly depleted the deer population. It took several years before we started seeing deer again and I lived in one of the most remote and heavily deer populated counties in the states. If people hit the woods as the main way to feed their families it would be devastating beyond belief.
Well I live in the most densely populated section of the state and the deer here are badly overpopulated and a real nuisance. You can’t drive down the Schuylkill without seeing deer roadkill. They terrorize gardens. They wander in packs through the neighborhoods like the Crips and the Bloods. If the worst comes to pass, I hope they go quickly in this part of the state. It will be a definite upside for the people of Philadelphia.
Actually, an area like yours would be the correct place to do this because of exactly what you said. This has been done in suburban areas already. I saw this in heavily populated areas in Maryland. They were overrun with deer because there were too many animal lovers and not enough hunters. Feed people and eliminate the overpopulation of deer nuisance at the same time and leave the denizens of the forests alone so they don’t disappear from the face of the earth.
It’s partially animal lovers but it’s more politicians kowtowing to the anti gun folks. My husband remembers a time when they would shut down Fairmount Park and have trained sharpshooters come in to thin the herd. The sad story here that many hunters tell is that they can spend a whole weekend in the Poconos only to come home emptyhanded to real live deer standing in the middle of their street.
I think in PA you can shoot a deer on your property with a bow and arrow if you’re 150 feet from any residence. Of course that rules out most of Philadelphia and the immediate suburbs- our houses are way too close together. Someone told me that you could still shoot a deer if you have the other property owners’ permission. Don’t know if that’s true but I imagine folks will be testing the theory unless the food prices come down. I imagine you’ll see it happening first in the Germantown section which has lots of leaves but also lots of poor people and then deer hunting may move to the more middle class areas.
All of my unarmed neighbors are collecting and storing food for me. 🤣
Lot of fear and uncertainty in the comments. And it is understandable . But, stay focused on the big picture, do the best you can for family and friends, work hard, be more self reliant, enjoy life and put your trust in no man, only God.
My personal opinion is that the Seals are being opened. I think the first seal was Corona (means crown) and it conquered most of world, we gave up our liberties without a fight, and closed our churches and businesses. I think the second seal has been opened, maybe the third also. This is not what I thought the End Times would look like.
Btw, 6th seal is a worldwide earthquake. Check out Canadian Earthquake Researcher on Twitter. He’s predicting a massive worldwide 10.0 earthquake of around an hour with massive aftershocks, due to plate blocking in the Philippines. After looking at his research, I think he’s right. His best guesstimate is July through January, but we know that God’s timing is His own.
If the new world order can’t feed people who will it rule over. These people cause the crisis they want to free us from. Kill an elite if you are a killer and do us all a favor.
Hide your pets!
I hear in the NWO, we will not be allowed pets.
FJB
FKS
During the Irish potato famine, travelers to rural parts of Ireland remarked on the curious sight of Irish peasants whose mouths were green from eating grass. For most English people, the fate of the starving Irish was of little interest, and surely not their problem.
To escape that trap of starving in obscurity, the world’s poor have now pressed into the big cities. From an 80% rural/20% urban divide a century ago, those #s have now reversed. Across Africa and Asia (mostly China) there are are now dozens, if not hundreds, of obscure cities with populations each in the millions. Strength in #s, and only a mob can riot.
Perhaps the Co-Vid lockdown was not the dress rehearsal for the global warming lockdown, but the great food shortage lockdown. Overpopulation was the bugaboo of many rich people (like Gates) long before the global warming fantasy was invented. And starvation will work its evil magic in weeks; global warming correctives will require years, to do what exactly?
I expanded the garden so that it can feed my family and the neighbors. There will be extra. I’m happy to trade food for skills that I don’t have.
In the late 2000s, I managed a farming operation in Western Oregon for which the owner wanted me to effect the purchase of a nice farm that had been offered to him as for sale. The owner was Mrs. B…., who was about 4′ 11” , 86 years old, and a Dutch-American, and unafraid. She grew up on a dairy farm outside of Amsterdam. I remember her telling me, about how in her youth, the Nazis rolled into Amsterdam on their motorcycles. As they did so they smashed and grabbed loot out of the windows of all the shops. Mrs. B…., particularly mentioned the jewelry stores as being smashed, along “with the food stores”. Because of this terror being inflicted, a resulting stampede of people was out of the city to the farms, where “they knew there was food”. Mrs. B….remembered the big bowls of soup that would be made to feed these fleeing city folk…..
In the fifties,, Mrs. B….., immigrated along with her husband, to the U.S. to work on a dairy farm, owned by a Dutch-American who became their sponsor in the U.S. This farm was in my families hometown, where we came as German immigrants in the late 1880s, to flee the start of the top down socialism starting up there….
Later after we purchased Mrs. B’s…..farm, we had a business trip to Japan-first to Hokkaido, and then on to Tokyo. The owner of the business was just a few years younger than Mrs. B…,so like the rest of us he fell in love with her pluck. We invited her on the trip to Japan on the G4; she and just one other woman, with ten other men on this business trip. In Tokyo, Mrs.B…. stayed in a suite at the 4 Seasons and I have a great picture of her quaffing a pint with the “boys” at the Sapporo Brew house….an eyewitness account of food insecurity….of course then, on a horrific scale. But, as I said, she was unafraid.
Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
Central banks can’t print food.
Social unrest is going to sweep the globe when breadwinners can’t afford to feed their families.
Food & Agriculture World Food Price Index …
Cont…
Big price hike on Walmart’s brand butter today. About 40 cents a pound, about 13% increase since yesterday. Other brands had been increasing in the past few days with a slightly bigger increase.
I paid 3.58 for a pound of Great Value today in Western NC.😠
5.49 for 30 ounces of Kroger spreadable butter in NE NC.
Erich Hartmann
@erichhartmann
This is how inflation destroys good people:
Our local Mexican restaurant is owned/run by a wonderful Mexican family. Their son is the same age as ours, and we order from there at least once a week. For the past 5 years a total check for 5 entrees + rice/beans has been $90.
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Cont reading thread on Reader App…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512572911583961088.html
US dollar…
Really sad, and multiply this by the number of family-owned businesses across America.
Thanks to the effect of the scamdemic about two dozen of our local small independent restaurants have either closed for good or reduced hours of operation.
Add in the increasing minimum wage and dining out regularly will be so far out of reach for most that costs of foods and delivery will put more local spots out of business.
Survivors will be the few national fast food chains and restaurants.
Dennys will be the new normal in fine dining.
This administration and its international mega corporate cronies conspiring to put family run enterprises out of business.
There will only be government and a select few corporations to provide for us in our future as the Left envisions.