The President of the USA has casually anounced get ready for food shortages.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ketsuko

If someone starts blowing a trumpet I'm going to go hide in my bunker for a bit.

There is a part in there about that too, about how everyone hides in their bunkers, but it does them no good.

Seriously though, whether we're talking end times or not, you don't have to be a genius to get that conquerors start wars, wars lead to food and supply shortages creating famine, which cumulatively all leads to death.

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ketsuko

If someone starts blowing a trumpet I'm going to go hide in my bunker for a bit.

There is a part in there about that too, about how everyone hides in their bunkers, but it does them no good.

Seriously though, whether we're talking end times or not, you don't have to be a genius to get that conquerors start wars, wars lead to food and supply shortages creating famine, which cumulatively all leads to death.

But my bunker has 20 years worth of canned chef Boyardee ravioli! Any ways I would estimate after about three months underground in a cell, I’d would have wished for the big flash instead.

I believe some people may be misinterpreting Biden's words with a two-sentence sound byte that there will be empty shelves at stores across the country. This is the transcript from that Q&A with the press.

Transcript

Q (Microphone is extended towards press member.)...And secondly, can you say whether this — the conversation today turned to the subject of food shortages, and what the U.S. will do to address wheat shortages, in particular, as a result of this war? Thank you.

THE PRESIDENT: ...With regard to food shortage, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And — and it’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia, it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well. And — because both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example — just to give you one example.

But we had a long discussion in the G7 with the — with both the United States, which has a significant — the third-largest producer of wheat in the world — as well as Canada, which is also a major, major producer. And we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food. Food shortages.

And in addition to that, we talked about urging all the European countries and everyone else to end trade restrictions on — on sending — limitations on sending food abroad. And so, we are in the process of working out, with our European friends, what it would be — what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to food shortages.

We also talked about a significant, major U.S. investment, among others, in terms of providing for the need for humanitarian assistance, including food, as we move forward.

This is the a report of the G7 conference to which the press member was referring. I could not find a transcript.
Source

More immediately, President Putin’s war places global food security under increased pressure. We recall that the implementation of our sanctions against Russia takes into account the need to avoid impact on global agricultural trade. We remain determined to monitor the situation closely and do what is necessary to prevent and respond to the evolving global food security crisis. We will make coherent use of all instruments and funding mechanisms to address food security, and build resilience in the agriculture sector in line with climate and environment goals. We will address potential agricultural production and trade disruptions, in particular in vulnerable countries. We commit to provide a sustainable food supply in Ukraine and support continued Ukrainian production efforts.
We will work with and step up our collective contribution to relevant international institutions including the World Food Programme (WFP), in parallel with Multilateral Development Banks and International Financial Institutions, to provide support to countries with acute food insecurity. We call for an extraordinary session of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to address the consequences on world food security and agriculture arising from the Russian aggression against Ukraine. We call on all participants of the Agriculture Markets Information System (AMIS) to continue to share information and explore options to keep prices under control, including making stocks available, in particular to the WFP. We will avoid export bans and other trade-restrictive measures, maintain open and transparent markets, and call on others to do likewise, consistent with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, including WTO notification requirements.

There will certainly be an exacerbation of generalized global food crisis, which is very tragic to say the least, however, I do not see anything here that can be interpreted as a food scarcity in the US. Increasing prices yes.

originally posted by: DirtWasher
I believe some people may be misinterpreting Biden's words with a two-sentence sound byte that there will be empty shelves at stores across the country. This is the transcript from that Q&A with the press.

Transcript

Q (Microphone is extended towards press member.)...And secondly, can you say whether this — the conversation today turned to the subject of food shortages, and what the U.S. will do to address wheat shortages, in particular, as a result of this war? Thank you.

THE PRESIDENT: ...With regard to food shortage, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And — and it’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia, it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well. And — because both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example — just to give you one example.

But we had a long discussion in the G7 with the — with both the United States, which has a significant — the third-largest producer of wheat in the world — as well as Canada, which is also a major, major producer. And we both talked about how we could increase and disseminate more rapidly food. Food shortages.

And in addition to that, we talked about urging all the European countries and everyone else to end trade restrictions on — on sending — limitations on sending food abroad. And so, we are in the process of working out, with our European friends, what it would be — what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to food shortages.

We also talked about a significant, major U.S. investment, among others, in terms of providing for the need for humanitarian assistance, including food, as we move forward.

This is the a report of the G7 conference to which the press member was referring. I could not find a transcript.
Source

More immediately, President Putin’s war places global food security under increased pressure. We recall that the implementation of our sanctions against Russia takes into account the need to avoid impact on global agricultural trade. We remain determined to monitor the situation closely and do what is necessary to prevent and respond to the evolving global food security crisis. We will make coherent use of all instruments and funding mechanisms to address food security, and build resilience in the agriculture sector in line with climate and environment goals. We will address potential agricultural production and trade disruptions, in particular in vulnerable countries. We commit to provide a sustainable food supply in Ukraine and support continued Ukrainian production efforts.
We will work with and step up our collective contribution to relevant international institutions including the World Food Programme (WFP), in parallel with Multilateral Development Banks and International Financial Institutions, to provide support to countries with acute food insecurity. We call for an extraordinary session of the Council of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to address the consequences on world food security and agriculture arising from the Russian aggression against Ukraine. We call on all participants of the Agriculture Markets Information System (AMIS) to continue to share information and explore options to keep prices under control, including making stocks available, in particular to the WFP. We will avoid export bans and other trade-restrictive measures, maintain open and transparent markets, and call on others to do likewise, consistent with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, including WTO notification requirements.

There will certainly be an exacerbation of generalized global food crisis, which is very tragic to say the least, however, I do not see anything here that can be interpreted as a food scarcity in the US. Increasing prices yes.

Oh yeah. That just makes it all better.

NOT.

a reply to: shaemac

It makes me feel better to look and see for myself the context of what was said, because I will admit, I was beginning to be concerned about a general food scarcity, which may still happen sooner or later, but certainly not based on Biden's account here, unless we do see full scale war escalation between super powers.

a reply to: anonentity then he should lead by example no more gourmet food at white house and let kill get off her arse and make her arse some ramen noodles. Let him eat like his people are being forced to eat because of his and his puppet master Barry and Mike mikes policies. Milk at Wal-Mart where I live went from 2 something to 4 something just this week and when you got 5 kids under 6 they can go through 4 gallons a day.

The Ukraine conflict is meant to become the focus for blame once the great reset hits with Weimar-level inflation, food shortages, power outages, lack of basic necessities. They have been tearing down the system piece by piece so they institute a digital control grid on everyone. Even WW 2 rationing cards will look like paradise compared to empty shelves and stomachs coming soon. 3 years and the foundations of globalism are crumbling, a system of forced interdependence they are now removing. The same people who financed both sides of WW 1 and WW 2 are back for the grand finale, all written of long ago by Albert Pike.

originally posted by: 38181

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ketsuko

If someone starts blowing a trumpet I'm going to go hide in my bunker for a bit.

There is a part in there about that too, about how everyone hides in their bunkers, but it does them no good.

Seriously though, whether we're talking end times or not, you don't have to be a genius to get that conquerors start wars, wars lead to food and supply shortages creating famine, which cumulatively all leads to death.

But my bunker has 20 years worth of canned chef Boyardee ravioli! Any ways I would estimate after about three months underground in a cell, I’d would have wished for the big flash instead.

That's why I have an xbox in mine.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies

originally posted by: 38181

originally posted by: ketsuko

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ketsuko

If someone starts blowing a trumpet I'm going to go hide in my bunker for a bit.

There is a part in there about that too, about how everyone hides in their bunkers, but it does them no good.

Seriously though, whether we're talking end times or not, you don't have to be a genius to get that conquerors start wars, wars lead to food and supply shortages creating famine, which cumulatively all leads to death.

But my bunker has 20 years worth of canned chef Boyardee ravioli! Any ways I would estimate after about three months underground in a cell, I’d would have wished for the big flash instead.

That's why I have an xbox in mine.

How much of your xBox content is dependent on being hooked up to the internet of things in digital copy? It's all well and good to have it, but if you don't own the hard copy of games, books, etc., and the digital storage goes down ... buh-bye. Or, is your bunker hardened against EMP - same effect.

You're going to be like the dude in the Twlight Zone episode surrounded by books, but with his glasses broken.

originally posted by: proteus33
a reply to: anonentity then he should lead by example no more gourmet food at white house and let kill get off her arse and make her arse some ramen noodles. Let him eat like his people are being forced to eat because of his and his puppet master Barry and Mike mikes policies. Milk at Wal-Mart where I live went from 2 something to 4 something just this week and when you got 5 kids under 6 they can go through 4 gallons a day.

prices of EVERYTHING has pretty much DOUBLED in price in the 10 years i was in another country. when i left i was paying almost $10/pack for cigarettes, now $20/pack (in the other country i was paying about $25/CARTON of cigarettes). a meal at a fast food restaurant was about $5-$6, now for the same meal, is about $12. rent has also pretty close to doubled as well. gas hasn't quite doubled in price, but probably will be soon. meanwhile minimum wage has only gone up 50% from $10/hour to $15/hour. with most people who made more than the new minimum wage, haven't gotten any really noticeable wage increases in that time (such as 25 cents a year raise for those already at least making minimum wage at my old company).

(and PS.there we had to pay about $2.50 or so for ONE LITER, with 3.78L per gal and that is non refrigeration needed pasteurized milk in a box, actual fresh milk was almost $5/liter IF you could find some in the country where i was. THAT is expensive milk but most other food was way cheaper than here. kids there are lucky if they have ONE CUP of milk a day.)

the thing is there is absolutely NO EXCUSE or real reason for there to even be a hint of food shortages at all in North America. the only reason there could be a food shortage short of a continent wide disaster, would be it BEING DONE ON PURPOSE, according to some sort of plan. in fact North America grows and raises so much food, they literally destroy it by the ton. and the fact is is they really felt there might be a food shortage, how come they have not said anything about stopping the destruction of all that food. and if they felt that, that would not be enough to stop any possible food shortage, then why are we not hearing of the federal government stopping paying thousands of farms, not to farm? after all that is part of the reasoning they used to do so in the first place was to have a massive reserve food production capacity. that way in a situation of some disaster (natural or otherwise), OR not enough food being grown/raised to properly supply at least the nation. so if he is saying there will be a food shortage, why are they not appropriately working to actively stop it before it even becomes noticeable since they have been doing these things for many decades,just to stop the massive over production of food in North America, and make a massive usable reserve of food, and land to raise food, that could be easily tapped into.

seriously, we shouldn't have heard the incompetent moron say there will be a food shortage. he should have been talking about sending out the reserves and army engineers, to clear those fields left fallow for decades, immediately, so they can be fully planted right now, to stop any possible food shortage. since that land has been left to the wild so long, it's almost as big a job as clearing those fields was a couple hundred years ago. like a relative's farm in Ohio, that has been paid not to farm for so long, even 30 years ago there were forests growing in their fields. and even then we were talking about trees that have trunks over a foot in diameter.

How can people not see that there is something very off with this Democrat party?

originally posted by: anonentity
This all seems to be part of the plan, control of people through food is really the only way this can actually happen. Are we seeing another bit of the jigsaw locking into place? Ukraine is to blame and of course Russia. But this has been in the cards for a few years . With bad harvests and massive flooding in China. Ukraine will be exporting no wheat, Russia has been sanctioned. Nitrate fertilizer is in short supply. All because of political decisions. Still, as yet no practical effort to reverse the steady decline. Here is a clip of Biden saying it, I don't know what universe he is living in, but hungry people will not be very reasonable until they have a full belly. Perhaps he thinks we can eat virtual food? www.bitchute.com...

Yep, he talked about a food shortage and a cyber attack.

a reply to: ElGoobero

This war will also reduce Russian production

Russia had been preparing for this, it appears the sanctions had no major effects on their economy as of now Ruble had been rising.
If anyone would be heavily impacted and hurt it would be Europe, France cant produce the same amount of food production that Russia, China can.

a reply to: ketsuko

An original xbox, games on disc.

a reply to: anonentity

food and general grocery store items have been in short supply since the beginning of 2020 when the pandemic first took over.

i felt then as i do now, we will soon be rationing food items in the U.S.

Just got a text from wife. Chicken, sausage and ice cream on sale this week. Stocking up.

If you were really concerned about food shortages, you wouldn't announce the start of shortages.

Nothing will clear shelves faster than people worried about food - this includes companies stocking up on food for business.

What they want, is the fear of food shortages. It accomplishes the goal. Food shortages would over-throw governments but the fear of one increases control.

Same with the pandemic, they used the fear. Whether or not you think the figures are accurate - the MSM and government instilled fear and that fear - not actually first hand experiences- controlled people.

You read Biden's speech, now let's read Putin's speech.



Meeting on developing agriculture and fisheries

April 5, 2022 17:35

President of Russia Vladimir Putin:

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As you know, the situation on the global food market has become noticeably more challenging over the past two years. I meant it when I said two years. The mistakes the developed countries have made in their economic, energy and food policies have led to a sharp rise in food prices around the world even two years ago.

The situation has, if anything, worsened in recent weeks. With the minimal food supplies available in the world, new sanctions are being introduced; companies’ operation and the logistics of supplying fertilisers from Russia and Belarus are blocked; and their own fertiliser production in the West is shrinking due to high natural gas prices, which is also the result of their actions – our Western partners’ actions.

Again, the situation on the energy market is deteriorating as a result of non-market, crude measures, including administrative pressure on our Gazprom in some European countries. We are witnessing yet another attempt by our partners to shift the blame for their own blunders in the economic and energy sectors onto Russia, and to resolve the ensuing problems again at our expense. Moreover, we are already hearing statements from officials about the possible nationalisation of some of our assets. Well, that can take us all any length. Please remember that this is a double-edged weapon.

Back to the discussion at hand, I would say that in this situation, a shortage of fertilisers on the global market is inevitable. Not all countries will be able to purchase the amount of fertilisers they need for the current season, which means that crop yields will also decrease.

At the same time, it is important to note that developed economies will try to redirect food flows to their advantage using the mechanism of money emission. But this will inevitably exacerbate food shortages in the poorest regions of the world, will spur new waves of migration, and generally will drive global food prices even higher.

I repeat, this scenario is more than realistic, and we in Russia need to be prepared for it. This means being able to minimise the negative external effects on our citizens, to increase the manufacturing and supply of high-quality and affordable food on the domestic market, including fish products. This is a key objective for this year. At the same time, it is strategically important to reduce the Russian agriculture and fishing industry’s dependence on imports, including the entire chain from the field to the counter.

I would like to highlight such items as seeds and pedigree stock, vitamins, feed supplements and plant protection agents. Here, we need to clearly determine our import substitution benchmarks and pursue them assertively starting now. Considering the potential of the Russian agricultural industry, our science and industrial production, we have all the resources to succeed.

Let me remind you that after the sanctions were imposed against Russia in 2014, our producers used that window of opportunity in the agricultural sector to enter available niches in the domestic market and gain a powerful impetus for streamlined and advanced development – naturally, with support from the state and the Government.

Over the past seven years, Russia’s agricultural production has grown by 15 percent and food – by more than 25 percent. Our market is fully self-sufficient when it comes to major food categories and domestic production. For some products such as sunflower oil and grain, Russian companies have more than enough capacity to satisfy demand, creating very good export potential.

As of 2020, our country became a net exporter of agricultural products – that is, we sell more food and agricultural products abroad than we buy. It seemed almost impossible and incredible even 20 years ago. Today our exports go to about 160 countries.

I want to stress that these results were also achievable during the pandemic despite the supply chains disruptions in the world. However, our farmers met this challenge with flying colours and even elevated their status.

It goes without saying that this year, in view of the global food shortage, we will have to be more careful about food exports. We will have to closely monitor our exports to the countries that adhere to a hostile policy towards Russia.

I would like to specifically note that, thanks to the expanded scope of production, we can ensure that food prices in Russia remain lower than on the global market. Food self-sufficiency is Russia’s competitive advantage, and our citizens should feel its benefits. We must protect them from market fluctuations and price hikes on the global market. I want to stress this specifically for the Government: this work must be continuous, with a clear and visible outcome for people and businesses.
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en.kremlin.ru...

a reply to: anonentity

Now is a great time to really read up on foraging in your region.

If you are in the US, we are practically sitting on food in every direction.

Bark
"weeds"
seeds
fish, frogs, birds, insects galore

In addition to things people never knew they could eat
kudzu
hostas
tubers of all kinds
roots of flowers
milkweed


Now is the time to learn.
My mom and dad, both grew up foraging and planting and hunting. Both of them said a lot of poisonous plants can be eaten if processed in the correct way. The problem is that we have lost a lot of that knowlege. No you can't just go pluck a mushroom and eat it all willy nilly.

Apparently now there is an outbreak of bird flu in several states. More than 22 million chickens and turkeys have been culled since Feb. Now all we need is some madcow disease and swine fever and the whole thing is done...