Food & Groceries Shortages

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Please use the link (above) to report any shortages that you notice in your area, regardless of the categories listed. This includes foods, fuels, candles, ammunition, tools, parts - anything you went looking for and couldn't find.

Date: 19 Mar 2011 13:04:12: {Anonymous} Powdered Milk in my area, area code 541 which is Oregon, is becoming harder to get. Two of the stores that I shop for groceries don't even carry it now.

20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is Coming 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?

Grains Gone Wild ~ By PAUL KRUGMAN [Published: April 7, 2008] These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way — and it’s hurting a lot more people. I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans — but they’re truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a family’s spending. There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers — and making things even worse in countries that need to import food.

Hunger Doesn't Take a Holiday -- Times Finds "Critical Shortages" Yet Again by: Clay Waters: Another holiday season, another "critical shortage" of food at food banks -- just like the liberal media has claimed for the last two decades. It's a media holiday tradition: The hunger story. As winter sets in, the media discovers long lines and "critical shortages" at food banks, with blame placed squarely on federal budget cuts (often blamed on Republicans) and lousy economic prospects in the United States.

Pandemic could cause food shortages, expert warns [Jun. 16 2005] An influenza pandemic would dramatically disrupt the processing and distribution of food supplies across the world, emptying grocery store shelves and creating crippling shortages for months, an expert warned Thursday.

Grocery industry prepares for bird flu: OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Stocking up on food is as simple as a trip to the grocery store, a veritable land of plenty for Americans. But will fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, bread, milk and other household staples still be available if the U.S. is hit with an anticipated bird flu pandemic? If state and federal officials urge people to stay away from public places, like restaurants and fast-food establishments, will they be able to get the groceries they need to prepare food in their homes? For Becky Jones of Omaha, who stocks up once a week for her family of three, the prospect of not having access to food is frightening. She said most people, herself included, only have food on hand for three or four days.

Food Shortages In Unexpected Places…World Tightens Belt: From Global Disaster Watch: The heat wave experienced across the world last summer battered harvests, driving up the price of sugar, wheat, fruit and orange juice, while freak rain storms in Vietnam were blamed for coffee prices hitting a seven-year high. North America’s love affair with ethanol - produced mainly from corn - has unleashed a surprising surge of inflation through the global food supply chain. The US Department of Agriculture has warned that record high corn prices, caused in part by the crop’s diversion into ethanol production, is likely to produce a sudden drop in meat supply, with a resulting upward pressure on prices. The impact is far from being confined to the US. The biofuels boom is causing corn and soybean prices to start moving in tandem with crude oil prices. The higher corn prices even make corn production more expensive. Higher corn prices factor into higher energy costs that go into making fertilizer. Even corn substitutes in the food chain are getting caught in the updraft, forcing up prices of edible oils, meat, dairy and chicken. As a result, the IMF is forecasting that food price inflation is likely to remain high in 2007 and beyond.

Food riots feared due to shortage of quality wheat by By M Azeem Samar [1/14/2008] Karachi ~ Disturbed retailers, shopkeepers and consumers in the city fear food riots as they had been helpless in finding quality and standardized flour at an affordable price.

FAMINE'S NEW PARASITE ~ "The voice of the unusual bird is heard, In the pipe of the breathing floor: Bushels of wheat will rise so high, That man will devour his fellow man." (Nostradamus (1555) 2 Q75) There will be a deepening slide in the availability of food reserves. An unexpected rise in grain prices will take the food and agricultural industries by surprise, not because of global warming! There will soon be a discovery of a new grain-devouring parasite, more dangerous than blight or locus. The most dangerous ever known. That parasite is called "the automobile."

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