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Global Food Shortage and It’s Effect on the U.S.
In a recent online poll of over 27,000 respondents over 80% feel that food prices will rise in the United States this year.
One of the things we try do At The Ready Store is to stay current with the events going on in our world so we can try and deliver relevant information to our customers with regards to preparing for the unknown.
Something that we have seen consistently over the last several months is talk about the global food supply being in danger due to a variety of reasons such as poor crop output stemming from bad weather, an example is the flooding in Australia which is looking like it will wipe out their wheat crops entirely. Then there are other factors like a very large and rapidly growing middle class in China and other emerging countries where demand spikes and cause a stress to the global food chain supply. In some places the price increases have led to riots, recently Tunisia’s President fled his country from deadly riots stemming from high inflation on food.
Luckily in the United States we have several things that create a bit of a buffer on food prices so they are not so volatile. One is due to the amount of money spent on advertising, processing, and promotions. When raw product costs increase companies can back off their marketing spends to a degree and soften the blow to the consumer. In developing countries there is no margin for a farmer to work with when selling to the consumer. Another reason is people in developed countries tend to eat more processed foods, where the ratio of raw materials is lower than that of the diet of people in underdeveloped countries. Lastly, in underdeveloped countries the average person spends more than half of their income on food whereas in the US the typical person spends 13% of their income on food.
So what does all of this mean to you and me? For me it is a reminder of our fortuitous position we have in the U.S. but also that the cushion or margin is getting thinner and thinner even for a developed country like the United States where a couple unfortunate events could possibly lead to a jump in price and make certain foods unattainable. I can’t but help think back to a couple years ago where gas prices nearly hit $4 a gallon and I sat there wising I could have somehow stockpiled a large storage that was purchased for $2 something a month or two earlier. While that may prove difficult to do that isn’t the case with food and water storage options that are available today, the flexibility afforded by dehydrated and freeze-dried food along with a wide variety of water storing options means that today I can get ready for possibly an expensive tomorrow.
With the population of the world doubling every 40 years, I believe that a crisis is coming. Governments are not putting enough effort into protecting our future security. A think-tank should be setup to study the problem and find a solution.
January 24th, 2011 at 12:24 amA think-tank has been set up and it has found a solution to the problem. Its called the Bilderbergers. Also, the Trilateralists have found a similar solution. You might research their proposals and ideas they wish to implement to bring about a solution to the problem of a “Global Food Shortage” and an increasing population
January 24th, 2011 at 12:27 amGlobal population is not the problem, the problem is in telling farmers what to grow and when and the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides. The food problem was brought to the attention of farmers back in 1957 by the USDA.The request to use organic fertilizers and less pesticides along with crop rotations went un-heeded and as a result we lose millions of acres a year. Pile on top of that weather,fires. we are lucky to have any food at all. It will get worse because of all the things already stated and a great loss of honey bees. I also think the cost of 13% of a persons income goes to food is off. I think it is higher say around 25 to 30 % I could be wrong but I really think 13% is off.
January 24th, 2011 at 12:51 amMONSATO WAS JUST VOTED AS THE MOST EVIL CORPORATION ON EARTH. FOLKS, WE NEED TO WAKE UP, DO SOME RSEARCH ON GENETIC MODIFIED SEEEDS, GMO. YOUR FOOD AS BEEN ALTERED CLOSE TO 35 YEARS AND THERE IS A LOT MORE GOING ON! RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 24th, 2011 at 2:08 amPeople have got to go back to growing a large percentage of their own food on their on land that is paid for. I hear everyone lamenting about the fiscal shape the goverment has got in but really are most individuals no better? Work hard to pay off what you owe namely your home and hopefully a few acres and start learning how to grow staples like tomatoes, etc.. and how to can and use a root cellar and start doing it. I have had the extreme fortune of talking to several folks who survived just fine thru the Depression and every one of them said that people who had a couple of acres and some seed and know how made it just fine and that people in the big cities or who had no access to any land to grow food were the ones who suffered. So if I lived in the big cities or in an apt I would definately stock up on some canned goods..if I lived where I had a few acres I would begin in earnest learning how to take care of myself. @Bill…if we have learned anything in that past few years it is that the government can’t and won’t take care of us and quite frankly I don’t want them taking care of me. I can do a much better job of that myself…
January 24th, 2011 at 4:13 amTammy has it right, we should practice being self sufficient. Stay aware of the world around us. We need to get right with God too. Lastly, Brian needs to stay off the CAPS key. I don’t read very well when I’m being yelled at.
January 24th, 2011 at 5:21 amThere are two types of food storage Long Term vs. Short Term. Short term canned goods, flour, etc. Long Term freeze dried, home canned meats, and #10 cans of dehydrated products sealed in #10 cans. (5-7 years) Light and air is what spoils food the soonest. Proteins keep the longest (jar canned) carbohydrates keep the next (ground flours, packaged pastas and beans and oils keep the shortest. These variables change when products are packaged in #10 cans nitrogen flushed with or without oxygen absorbers. Rotation is a key too. PS the only safe way to can meat (low acid) is with a pressure canner. Buy a little extra each week and in no time you will have some food security.
January 24th, 2011 at 6:35 amFor those out there that are as concerned about food costs, modifications, chemicals ect., I recently ran across a fantastic new farming technique called aquaponics. Most anyone can put one together. A aquaponics system can be set up even with limited space. Once the system is up and running its production is phenomenal and a lot of fun. Search aquaponics on the internet, , you’ll find quite a bit of info on the subject. Hope this helps.
January 24th, 2011 at 6:51 amGrow-your-own. Yes! (if at all possible) and NO GMO seed. But also, organic, open-pollinated seed. I’m in the process of switching to all open-pollinated seed. (non-GMO & organic)
“Open-pollinated” means you can also harvest the seed for next year’s garden. No more buying seed every year. The initial cost is a bit higher, but worth it.
January 24th, 2011 at 6:55 amGrow your own is a great idea and it will work fine until we are taxed off our land under the guise of “sustainable development and land use” Check it out.
January 24th, 2011 at 7:34 am@Tammy your right I dont want the government running anything either. I use to be a farmer. Now I just grow my own organic veggies and no pesticides and I can everything! Each year I clear more land to expand my ‘garden’ and I have a great shelf system to store all those goodies! and sites like this are a life saver! There is also a book out I wish I could remember the name but it tells you how much to grow for a family of any size both veggies and animals for meat and chickens for eggs etc…
January 24th, 2011 at 8:02 amI think over population is THE biggest problem. There is only so much land on the earth to produce a finite amount of food. We are exhausting it because we harvest everything from the earth faster than it can be replenished (e.g. We are trying to feed too many people).
January 24th, 2011 at 11:00 amOVERPOPULATION IS A MYTH and you have been duped Jared! I taught you to think more critically than that son! Haven’t you researched into eugenics, bio ethics,Cold Spring Harbor, Georgia Guidestone, Endgame blueprint for global enslavement like I told you to? Listen to your mommy Jared and wake up to the over population deception. The masses are all brainwashed to be crammed into small population centers. The world doesn’t need to be depopulated it only needs a redesign. This comes from people becoming self sufficient and learning how to live off the grid. Don’t be a coward son. Think beyond and more critical about what the eugenicists have brainwashed you to think about population levels. Watch the film “THE CALLING” by Max Igan and expand your awareness about the real reason population control/reduction protocols are in place. This is Codex Alimentarius and Agenda 21 at work and only informed minds and prepared people will get through it. Wake Up.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:33 amJared do not listen to your mom! She has no idea what she is talking about. I agree with you 100% that over population is THE BIGGEST problem that faces mankind. Certain groups such as mormons, sorry Ready Store in Utah, don’t like to hear this FACT since they have 4 to 6 kids on average per family. You only have to know simple math to determine that each additional person on this earth requires X amount in additional resources. The
January 24th, 2011 at 3:00 pmBrian and it is not just the fact that we are consuming the genetically modified food produced from it.
In the epast Monsanto has threatened ouir farmers if they try to collect the seed and keep it after they harvest the food. And finally it seems Monsanto found a solution to that too! They simply developed seed that will grow a crop , but the seed from that crop will not produce anything afterward. It’s called the Terminator Seed.
I listened to an Indian woman b y the name ofr Vandana Shiva talk abvout this on you tube. here’sthe link to the series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJIjQdCG0U
January 24th, 2011 at 4:48 pm@bill….message me at tgsnod@gmail.com
I am always looking for folks close by that grow organically cause I can’t grow everything that I need every year. If you are near me I would like to advance order some stuff..
January 24th, 2011 at 5:01 pmI have to say that the Government is a partial cause to all of this mess we are in .We have the government paying Farmers millions of dollars a year for substities .That is that they pay Farmers to not put crops on thier land .My Buddy is a Farmer who is 45 years old.He owns about 7,000 acres of land and grows Grapes, Almonds, Oranges and seasonal vegetables .He received a check from the Government for 63,000 dollars to not grow on his property .He said its like receiving a check for doing nothing . He also said this allows Farmers to let the land sit for a year or 2 so they can upgrade the soil for certain crops while getting paid . My buddy makes more tham me and my wife combined working 40 hour plus workdays and he just kicks back and gets a Government check almost every year . Instead of producing crops for the markets and overseas , He does nothing and gets paid . We have a serious problem here in America when we pay Farmers to not go crops .Instead we buy our fruits and Vegetables from Mexico and Chili and other Nations .In about 15-20 years we wont have small mom and pop farms anymorethey will be under Corporate control . Monsanto makes wheat and other crops that dont produce seed .Which means Farmers must have to buy seeds from them every year to grow crops .They have a monopoloy and nobody does nothign about it .A farmer was bankrupted because his corn on his property cross polinated a crop grown by Monsanto ‘s geneticly altered corn . Monsanto won the case in court for millions of dolllars and bankrupted the farmer growing regualar corn that produces seed . Here we hear about food shortages . Its true .Weather only plays a small part in it and thus is the Scapegoat reason for shortgaes .The media runs with it . We have the means and ability to produce more food than we know what to do with but were Restricted by our Government because its business as usual . The more this occurs the more people become Dependent on Government for food and support .Seems to me that this is were they want it to go . Create a crisis and they will have the solution for it .Remember to never let a good crisis go to waste,Even a created one !!!!
January 24th, 2011 at 6:46 pmTo Not Jared’s mom (TROLL). Is that it? Why even comment at all? You provide nothing but conjecture and an asinine uninformed response. Mormons? lol. Do you work for the bilderberg group, planned parenthood, Bill Gates, or are you just an uninformed brainwashed fool? Most likely a troll. “Jared do not listen to your mom! She has no idea what she is talking about.” Oh really? I suppose you were planning on making an actual attempt to debunk eugenics and admitted population control/reduction policies? This food crisis is a setup and a problem, reaction, solution globalist protocol to weed out the useless eaters.. Pun intended. So “Not Jared’s mom” solution is to not research into how we are all getting soft killed and poisoned because its a good thing cause the world is over populated.. Amazing. Very informative troll. Oh wait, that’s right.. You’ve been brainwashed and dumbed down enough to actually buy into the “over population myth” Don’t worry your little calcified brain cause the global elite are working on the “problem” as you read this. Keep gettin your toxic vaccines, drink your fluoride, and eat your eugenics food and you to can help with the over population problem. Don’t listen to that fluoride head. Research into eugenics and population reduction. Why do you think the government agencies are stocking up and cleaning out all the survival foods? They just got hungry all of a sudden? Look into Obamas appointed science czar John P Holdrens work “Eco Science” http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/ And Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345AD0JVtBk
January 24th, 2011 at 7:38 pmTo Not Jared’s mom (TROLL). Is that it? Why even comment at all? You provide nothing but conjecture and an asinine uninformed response. Mormons? lol. Do you work for the bilderberg group, planned parenthood, Bill Gates, or are you just an uninformed brainwashed fool? Most likely a troll. “Jared do not listen to your mom! She has no idea what she is talking about.” Oh really? I suppose you were planning on making an actual attempt to debunk eugenics and admitted population control/reduction policies? This food crisis is a setup and a problem, reaction, solution globalist protocol to weed out the useless eaters.. Pun intended. So “Not Jared’s mom” solution is to not research into how we are all getting soft killed and poisoned because its a good thing cause the world is over populated.. Amazing. Very informative troll. Oh wait, that’s right.. You’ve been brainwashed and dumbed down enough to actually buy into the “over population myth” Don’t worry your little calcified brain cause the global elite are working on the “problem” as you read this. Keep gettin your toxic vaccines, drink your fluoride, and eat your eugenics food and you to can help with the over population problem. Don’t listen to that fluoride head. Research into eugenics and population reduction. Why do you think the government agencies are stocking up and cleaning out all the survival foods? They just got hungry all of a sudden? Look into Obamas appointed science czar John P Holdrens work “Eco Science” http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/ And Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345AD0JVtBk
January 24th, 2011 at 7:40 pmSorry to break the news (and no offense to TRS) but farming for your own food is a myth at best, a cruel deception at the most.
The reality is that where most people live – namely in urban, near-urban, and suburban areas -there simply isn’t enough open ground to even begin to try to grow enough food to sustain yourself (let alone a family). When you consider the amount of land needed to be cultivated and all the issues such was irrigation, pests, protection of the crop from raiders (even in rural areas if the situation is that bad) then IMO it’s a cruel joke to play on people to make them think they can grow their own food in any sustainable amounts.
Plus the fact that most of the ground soil in and around urban areas is contaminated with heavy metals and other chemicals making veggies grown there unsutable for human consumption.
January 25th, 2011 at 10:28 pm@MasterPo …you are misinformed. Google “victory gardens england ww2″…these people for the most part fed themselves and sometimes neighbors or family in other parts of town on a small lot.. here are some links for you..
http://www.cityfarmer.org/grandpasVG.html
The News reported that the average size of a garden was eight feet by 12 feet, but some were as large as 25 by 50 feet.
http://www.mywesthartfordlife.com/community.php?cid=1&id=1587
even on most small lots in the cities there is 8′X12′ of useable soil…and just think…you won’t have to MOW!!!!!
January 26th, 2011 at 7:03 am@MasterPo…you have been misinformed. Google “victory garden” and read up on them. average size was 8 X12 ft although some were up to 25X50′….
course this didn’t cover meat…for that they had rabbit hutches, small chicken coups (eggs and meat)…survivalist recommend raising dual or tri useage animals…ie…sheep..for milk,meat, and wool….
also I think I put in my earlier post that if I lived in an apt bldg or similar I would stock up on canned foods…etc…
January 26th, 2011 at 7:28 am@ Masterpro. I grew up on my grandmother’s small farm, approximately 2 acres. She had, what now days would be considered a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) otherwise know as a “truck farm”. She sold everything including fruits, vegetables, walnuts, chickens, eggs, rabbits, dry beans, etc. Not only did she sell these items, but she grew more than 95% of the food we consumed. The only thing she bought was sugar and flour and an occassional chuck roast for ravioli filling, bar soap and shampoo. She made her own wine, vinegar, and even had a small press for olive oil. That farm supported and fed my grandmother, mother, sister and I, and my two uncles who came by for lunch each day to help irrigate. The income from that farm paid the property off, paid for all the equipment and taxes and improvements. Anyone who says this can’t be done simply hasn’t had the opportunity to witness it. Check out “biointensive gardening” for information about farming efficiently in small spaces.
January 31st, 2011 at 7:40 amMost interesting to read your viewpoints. I would think that you are all right in your own way. One should consider that during the 11th and 16 century, large scale world wide hunger was experienced due to the sickness and the little ice age. There are just too many unpredictable conditions that cold cause immediate food shortage; Economic collaps, dollar collaps, oil production disruption, unpredictable mega storms, political unrest and a host of other such events. Sudden food shortage problems would hit the city people most as the average city has but a three day supply of food. Country people traditionaly are not affected by such events as much. I would think that potable water and anitibotics would be a bigger problem.
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:18 pmI have grown veggies in pots and in raised beds, it is enough for my family for the summer and fall. This year I will be canning which I’ve never done before till this last month. I canned some ground beef.
February 17th, 2011 at 9:49 amI buy the freeze dried goods for emergencies and to hand out to family members if they need food. I store can goods getting the latest date out I can find. I am grateful for finding out about this way of storing food.
Thank you for the wonderful job you are doing and helping us out.
NOT JARODS MOTHER………..hope your a plant or a troll because if your not and just an idiot then I feel sorry for you. Quess what? your wish for population control may just come true. Problem is what if YOU are on the list to be eliminated. Ever think of that?????
March 18th, 2011 at 12:35 am…..I am a proud parent of 6 kids and 2 foster children. (not state paid). I will not apologize for having a big happy family to anyone. My children are my life. Thats why I buy my survival food here just like the rest of the smart people. Oh and yes, I am Mormon. No apoligy there either.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:54 amIf people start to jump on each other here then what will it be like when everything falls apart. Will we turn to animals? We need to worry about planting and what they are doing to stop us. We need to worry about livestock and what they are doing to stop us. Now everyone has to register if they have a water well. (so it can be taken over by the gov. or the aquafer be divered. The law says if you don’t pay to register your water, well, stream, lake or river that you use for water supply then anyone or any entity can divert it. So here you are with all this dry food and no water.
Laws are changing for guns so soon you can’t hunt. Hard enough now with permits and big fees just to hunt one animal. They (gov) talking about childbirth limit and soon we will have our power controlled by the power company via the gov. on how much we can use each day and heat our home. They will shut it off when they want. The list goes on and on. So here we are listening to a bunch of idiots talking crazy stuff when we should all be talking about our future and will we all survive the coming storm. You and your loved ones should be priority number one. Buy everything you need here at this site and be glad this place cares enough to let us talk about the world and what is happening to us as a nation and as a people.If you can’t be loyal as a human being then please go elsewhere. The people here are good, decent people that have one thing in common……SURVIVAL