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The Coming Global Food Shortage…Are You Prepared?

April 18, 2011 at 7:22 AM Leave a comment

We’re reprinting an article from a Web site called The Economic Collapse because it deals with a subject that is near and dear to all of us:  food.

According to them (as well as numerous others), a terrible global food shortage is coming.  For those who prefer to shrug this news off, you may wish to think again.  Are the conditions right for such a catastrophe?  Read the article and decide for yourself.

In the meantime, if facts like the ones pointed out in the article mean anything to you, you may want to do what you can to prepare.  One of the best ways to do that is to stock up on freeze-dried, reasonably priced food for your pantry.  Shelf Reliance is a company that produces such food and if you are interested in finding out more about what they offer, head on over to Shelf Reliance for the full story and catalog of food products.

Here is the article from The Economic Collapse:
In case you haven’t noticed, the world is on the verge of a
horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis
will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and
it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen. Crazy
weather and horrifying natural disasters have played havoc
with agricultural production in many areas of the globe
over the past couple of years. Meanwhile, the price of oil
has begun to skyrocket. The entire global economy is
predicated on the ability to use massive amounts of
inexpensive oil to cheaply produce food and other goods and
transport them over vast distances. Without cheap oil the
whole game changes. Topsoil is being depleted at a
staggering rate and key aquifers all over the world are
being drained at an alarming pace. Global food prices are
already at an all-time high and they continue to move up
aggressively. So what is going to happen to our world when
hundreds of millions more people cannot afford to feed
themselves?

Most Americans are so accustomed to supermarkets that are
absolutely packed to the gills with massive amounts of
really inexpensive food that they cannot even imagine that
life could be any other way. Unfortunately, that era is
ending.

There are all kinds of indications that we are now entering
a time when there will not be nearly enough food for
everyone in the world. As competition for food supplies
increases, food prices are going to go up. In fact, at some
point they are going to go way up.

Let’s look at some of the key reasons why an increasing
number of people believe that a massive food crisis is on
the horizon.

The following are 20 signs that a horrific global food
crisis is coming….

#1 According to the World Bank, 44 million people around
the globe have been pushed into extreme poverty since last
June because of rising food prices.

#2 The world is losing topsoil at an astounding rate. In
fact, according to Lester Brown, “one third of the world’s
cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming
through natural processes”.

#3 Due to U.S. ethanol subsidies, almost a third of all
corn grown in the United States is now used for fuel. This
is putting a lot of stress on the price of corn.

#4 Due to a lack of water, some countries in the Middle
East find themselves forced to almost totally rely on other
nations for basic food staples. For example, it is being
projected that there will be no more wheat production in
Saudi Arabia by the year 2012.

#5 Water tables all over the globe are being depleted at an
alarming rate due to “overpumping”. According to the World
Bank, there are 130 million people in China and 175 million
people in India that are being fed with grain with water
that is being pumped out of aquifers faster than it can be
replaced. So what happens once all of that water is gone?

#6 In the United States, the systematic depletion of the
Ogallala Aquifer could eventually turn “America’s
Breadbasket” back into the “Dust Bowl”.

#7 Diseases such as UG99 wheat rust are wiping out
increasingly large segments of the world food supply.

#8 The tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan have
rendered vast agricultural areas in that nation unusable.
In fact, there are many that believe that eventually a
significant portion of northern Japan will be considered to
be uninhabitable. Not only that, many are now convinced
that the Japanese economy, the third largest economy in the
world, is likely to totally collapse as a result of all
this.

#9 The price of oil may be the biggest factor on this list.
The way that we produce our food is very heavily dependent
on oil. The way that we transport our food is very heavily
dependent on oil. When you have skyrocketing oil prices,
our entire food production system becomes much more
expensive. If the price of oil continues to stay high, we
are going to see much higher food prices and some forms of
food production will no longer make economic sense at all.

#10 At some point the world could experience a very serious
fertilizer shortage. According to scientists with the
Global Phosphorus Research Initiative, the world is not
going to have enough phosphorous to meet agricultural
demand in just 30 to 40 years.

#11 Food inflation is already devastating many economies
around the globe. For example, India is dealing with an
annual food inflation rate of 18 percent.

#12 According to the United Nations, the global price of
food reached a new all-time high in February.

#13 According to the World Bank, the global price of food
has risen 36% over the past 12 months.

#14 The commodity price of wheat has approximately doubled
since last summer.

#15 The commodity price of corn has also about doubled
since last summer.

#16 The commodity price of soybeans is up about 50% since
last June.

#17 The commodity price of orange juice has doubled since
2009.

#18 There are about 3 billion people around the globe that
live on the equivalent of 2 dollars a day or less and the
world was already on the verge of economic disaster before
this year even began.

#19 2011 has already been one of the craziest years since
World War 2. Revolutions have swept across the Middle East,
the United States has gotten involved in the civil war in
Libya, Europe is on the verge of a financial meltdown and
the U.S. dollar is dying. None of this is good news for
global food production.

#20 There have been persistent rumors of shortages at some
of the biggest suppliers of emergency food in the United
States. The following is an excerpt from a recent “special
alert” posted on Raiders News Network….

Look around you. Read the headlines. See the largest
factories of food, potassium iodide, and other emergency
product manufacturers literally closing their online stores
and putting up signs like those on Mountain House’s
Official Website and Thyrosafe’s Factory Webpage that
explain, due to overwhelming demand, they are shutting down
sales for the time being and hope to reopen someday.

So what does all of this mean?

It means that time is short.

For years, many “doom and gloomers” have been yelling and
screaming that a food crisis is coming.

Well, up to this point there hasn’t been much to get
alarmed about. Food prices have started to rise, but the
truth is that our stores are still packed to the rafters
will gigantic amounts of relatively cheap food.

However, you would have to be an idiot not to see the
warning signs. Just look at what happened in Japan after
March 11th. Store shelves were cleared out almost
instantly.

It isn’t going to happen today, and it probably isn’t going
to happen tomorrow, but at some point a major league food
crisis is going to strike.

So what are you and your family going to do then?

You might want to start thinking about that.

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