Do you realize that we as a city, state, nation, and world are only 47 days from Anarchy? It’s true, floods, drought, wars have decimated world food supplies, and population increases. I know that is a little hard to swallow, but according to the latest government reports, the entire world has only 47 days of food at any point in time. That’s hardly enough time to raise a cow, pig or goat, but more than enough time to plant a few radishes. In truth, the human race is always growing something somewhere to replenish that 47 day supply, but if you consider the state of the world today, are you willing to risk the chance of war or some other disruption in the food supply? It has happened before and will happen again. In fact, it has been nearly 200 years since the “year without a summer”. In that case, a volcano erupted and all but blotted out the sun causing crops to fail throughout the world.
Wait, isn’t America the breadbasket of the world? Yes it is and will continue to be for some time to come, but being a breadbasket and having food is not the same thing! First, we are a capitalist nation where products and services are for sale to the highest bidder. What do you think will happen if a portion of the world suffered a famine? Well let’s use the Middle East as an example. With all of the dollars we have been sending there for the last 50 years, they would easily be able to buy as much food as they desire from our American farmers and who would fault the farmers for selling them the food? They have been racked by debt, government regulations and foreign subsidies for decades. So if a portion of our food was reallocated to foreign nations, what would that do for our own domestic supplies? If this were the 1970s, not much would happen as at that point in time we had a 7-year supply of food for each and every American citizen. So selling a good chunk of our food overseas wouldn’t have been a problem, but things change. Since the early 1980s, we have been giving, selling and distributing that stored food without replenishment. Short sighted, but what can you expect from our Federal government. They can’t even keep enough MREs in stock for our military and have been running hand to mouth for the last few years. One disruption and would soldiers would be going hungry!(read more here)
Redgage Picture of the day----meal time
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