Supplies Are Starting To Get Really Tight Nationwide As Food Distribution Systems Break Down
All across America, store shelves are emptying and people are becoming increasingly frustrated because they can’t get their hands on needed supplies. Most Americans are blaming “hoarders” for the current mess, but it is actually much more complicated than that. Normally, Americans get a lot of their food from restaurants. In fact, during normal times 36 percent of all Americans eat at a fast food restaurant on any given day. But now that approximately 75 percent of the U.S. is under some sort of a “shelter-in-place” order and most of our restaurants have shut down, things have completely changed. Suddenly our grocery stores are being flooded with unexpected traffic, and many people are buying far more than usual in anticipation of a long pandemic. Unfortunately, our food distribution systems were not designed to handle this sort of a surge, and things are really starting to get crazy out there.
I would like to share with you an excerpt from an email that I was sent recently. It describes the chaos that grocery stores in Utah and Idaho have been experiencing…
When this virus became a problem that we as a nation could see as an imminent threat, Utah, because of its culture of food storage and preparing for disaster events seemed to “get the memo” first. The week of March 8th grocery sales more than doubled in Utah, up 218%. Many states stayed the same with increases in some. Idaho seemed to “get the memo” about four days later. We were out of water and TP four days after Utah. Then we were out of food staples about four days later. Next was produce following a pattern set by Utah four days earlier.
The problem for us in Idaho was this. The stores in Utah were emptied out then refilled twice by the warehouses before it hit Idaho. Many of these Utah stores have trucks delivering daily. So when it did hit Idaho the warehouses had been severely taxed. We had a hard time filling our store back up even one time. We missed three scheduled trucks that week alone. Then orders finally came they were first 50% of the order and have dropped to 20%. In normal circumstances we receive 98% of our orders and no canceled trucks. Now three weeks later, the warehouses in the Western United States have all been taxed. In turn, those warehouses have been taxing the food manufacturers. These food companies have emptied their facilities to fill the warehouses of the Western United States. The East Coast hasn’t seemed to “get the memo” yet. When they do what food will be left to fill their warehouses and grocery stores?
Food distribution and resources for the Eastern United States will be at great peril even if no hoarding there takes place. But of course it will.
Additionally the food culture of the East Coast and other urban areas is such that people keep very little food on hand. They often shop several times weekly for items if they cook at home. They don’t have big freezers full of meat, home canned vegetables in their storage rooms, gardens, or beans, wheat, and rice in buckets in the their basements.
With most of the country locked down, normal economic activity has come to a standstill, and it is going to become increasingly difficult for our warehouses to meet the demand that grocery stores are putting on them.
Meanwhile, our farmers are facing severe problems of their own. The following comes from CNBC…
The U.S.-China trade war sent scores of farmers out of business. Record flooding inundated farmland and destroyed harvests. And a blistering heat wave stunted crop growth in the Midwest.
Now, the coronavirus pandemic has dealt another blow to a vulnerable farm economy, sending crop and livestock prices tumbling and raising concerns about sudden labor shortages.
The chaos in the financial markets is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, and it is going to remain difficult for farm laborers to move around as long as “shelter-in-place” orders remain in effect on the state level.
Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt told reporter Emma Newburger that “we’ve stopped saying it can’t get worse”, and he says that this coronavirus pandemic looks like it could be “the straw that broke the camel’s back”…
“We were already under extreme financial pressure. With the virus sending the prices down — it’s getting to be the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt.
“We were hoping for something good this year, but this virus has stopped all our markets,” he said.
Of course this comes at a time when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and unemployment is shooting up to unthinkable levels. Without any money coming in, many people are already turning to alternative sources of help in order to feed themselves and their families.
On Monday, hundreds of cars were lined up to get food from a food bank in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. To many, this was eerily reminiscent of the “bread lines” during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Hundreds of cars wait to receive food from the Greater Community Food Bank in Duquesne. Collection begins at noon. @PghFoodBank @PittsburghPG pic.twitter.com/94YFaO7dqX
— Andrew Rush (@andrewrush) March 30, 2020
And it is also being reported that the number of people coming for free meals on Skid Row in Los Angeles has tripled since that city was locked down.
Sadly, these examples are likely only the tip of the iceberg of what we will see in the months ahead.
And it won’t just be the U.S. that is hurting. The following comes from a Guardian article entitled “Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns”…
Kazakhstan, for instance, according to a report from Bloomberg, has banned exports of wheat flour, of which it is one of the world’s biggest sources, as well as restrictions on buckwheat and vegetables including onions, carrots and potatoes. Vietnam, the world’s third biggest rice exporter, has temporarily suspended rice export contracts. Russia, the world’s biggest wheat exporter, may also threaten to restrict exports, as it has done before, and the position of the US is in doubt given Donald Trump’s eagerness for a trade war in other commodities.
If this pandemic stretches on for an extended period of time, food supplies are inevitably going to get even tighter.
So what can you do?
Well, perhaps you can start a garden this year if you don’t normally grow one. Apparently this pandemic has sparked a tremendous amount of interest in gardening programs around the country…
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are showing an interest in starting home gardens. Oregon State University‘s (OSU) Master Gardener program took notice of the growing interest.
To help citizens who want to grow their own food, the university kindly made their online vegetable gardening course free until the end of April. OSU’s post on Facebook has been shared over 21,000 times.
Food is only going to get more expensive from here on out, and growing your own food is a way to become more independent of the system.
But if you don’t have any seeds right now, you may want to hurry, because consumer demand is spiking…
“It’s the largest volume of orders we have seen,” said Jere Gettle of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds in Mansfield, Missouri. Peak seed-buying season for home gardeners is January to March, but the normal end-of-season decline in orders isn’t happening.
Customers are gravitating to vegetables high in nutrients, such as kale, spinach and other quick-to-grow leafy greens. “Spinach is off the charts,” said Jo-Anne van den Berg-Ohms of Kitchen Garden Seeds in Bantam, Connecticut.
For years, I have been warning people to get prepared for “the perfect storm” that was coming, but of course most people didn’t listen.
But now it is upon us.
Desperate people have been running out to the grocery stores to stock up on toilet paper only to find that they are limited to one or two packages if it is even available.
And now that “panic buying” of seeds has begun, it is probably only a matter of time before many stores start running out.
We have reached a major turning point in our history, and things are only going to get crazier.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans still have absolutely no idea what is ahead of us…
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Flour makers say there is plenty of flour they just have a problem getting to the stores. There is no shortage of flours desipite the shelves being empty.
I repeat, they said there is NO shortage of flour.
I quit farming 20 years ago because no body wanted to pay me a decent price for my hard work. I said back then that everyone can grow their own food and I will say it again. Grow your own or starve. Lol. 😂😂😂
The short answer to this long story is simple. VERY SOON people won’t have the money to buy food period. Then the supplies will catch up. On the other hand , they will all starve to death in the streets because they are also homeless. Then the Media and Democrats will have their imaginary Venezuelan Utopia . How cool is that?
Another….BANK$TER ENGINEERED….FAMINE.
Articles of IMPEACHMENT have been BROUGHT AGAINST the GOVERNORS OF The FEDERAL RESERVE BANK……1933…..
THEY have been referred to the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE…..AND……HAVE YET TO BE ACTED UPON.
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS RACIST GENOCIDE
Harold Saive
Learn from author, Wayne Jett in “The Fruits of Graft, Great Depressions Then and Now” how the Great Depression was a racist, DEPOPULATION AGENDA TO ELIMINATE the MIDDLE-CLASS in AMERICA.
It must be pointed out that THE ILLEGAL FEDERAL RESERVE Act of 1913 under Woodrow Wilson enabled THE PRINTING OF FIAT (FAKE) MONEY that ultimately enabled two false flag World Wars, Viet Nam, 9/11 AND THE current WAR ON AMERICANS BY …..FOREIGN INFILTRATOR$.
Wayne Jett’s book details how elite BANKER$, oligarchs and royalty enlisted presidents Herbert Hoover and FDR to ORCHESTRATE the MASS MURDER OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS…DURING THE ENGINEERED MARKET CRASH OF 1929.
The depression only ended with WWII – another banker-engineered depopulation event targeting the middle-class.
NOW….IT’$ HAPPENING AGAIN……but…..ON A GLOBAL $CALE.
CLICK on link for full article.
http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/11/the-great-depression-was-racist-genocide/
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ROTH$CHILD I$ the RECEIVER OF the UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY:
The Rothschild INTERNATIONAL BANK$TER$ The UNITED NATIONS The World Bank, & The Rothschild IMF.
It is important to note that the FEDERAL RESERVE I$ A PRIVATE COMPANY, it is neither Federal nor does it have any Reserve.
It is conservatively estimated that PROFIT$ EXCEED $150 BILLION PER YEAR and the Federal Reserve HA$ NEVER once in its history PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS.
CLICK on link for full article
http://www.jewworldorder.org/rothschild-is-the-receiver-of-the-united-states-bankruptcy-the-rothschild-international-bankers-the-united-nations-the-world-bank-the-rothschild-imf/
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ROTHSCHILD TELL$ Trump to….. “SHUT The F* UP”…….. …… ABOUT REFORMING…THEIR…Federal Reserve BANK.
https://occupysf.net/index.php/2019/01/03/rothschild-tells-trump-to-shut-the-f-up-about-reforming-their-federal-reserve-bank/
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AMERICA Coup’d by ROTHSCHILDS. AMERICAN B.A.R. UNIONS = ROTHSCHILDS EUROPEAN B.A.R. (UNDER CROWN)
= BANNED IN AMERICA 1812 – 19.
PAUL JAMES·SATURDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2016·READING TIME: 77 MINUTES
https://www.facebook.com/notes/paul-james/america-coupd-by-rothschilds-american-bar-unions-rothschilds-european-bar-under-/586679288190457/
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CONFIRMED: The Original Thirteenth Amendment Was Ratified, And Then Improperly Removed From The Constitution
https://www.think-aboutit.com/confirmed-original-thirteenth-amendment-ratified-improperly-removed-constitution/
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On May 23, 1933, CONGRESSMAN Louis T. McFADDEN….. BROUGHT FORMAL CHARGES AGAINST the….BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF the FEDERAL RESERVE BANK $YSTEM……. The Comptroller of the Currency AND….The SECRETARY OF the UNITED STATES TREASURY…….FOR….NUMEROUS CRIMINAL ACT$…… including but not limited to……..
CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, UNLAWFUL CONVERSION, AND TREASON.
The PETITION FOR Articles of IMPEACHMENT WAS thereafter REFERRED TO the….JUDICIARY COMMITTEE…..AND…..
HAS……YET TO BE ACTED ON.
SO THIS…….ELECTRONIC BOOKLET…SHOULD BE REPRINTED….REPOSTED…..SET UP ON WEB PAGES…….and…..
CIRCULATED FAR and WIDE.
CONGRESSMAN McFadden ON the FEDERAL RESERVE CORPORATION
Remarks in Congress, 1934………AN ASTOUNDING EXPOSURE
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Congressman McFadden’s Speech
…….. Mr. McFadden, due to his having served as Chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, was the best posted man on these matters in America and was in a position to speak with authority of the VA$T ramifications of this gigantic PRIVATE CREDIT MONOPOLY.
As Representative of a STATE which was among the FIRST TO DECLARE ITS FREEDOM FROM….FOREIGN….MONEY TYRANT$….it is fitting that PENNSYLVANIA the cradle of liberty, be again given the credit for producing a son that was NOT AFRAID TO HURL DEFIANCE IN the FACE OF the MONEY-BUND.
Whereas Mr. McFadden was elected to the high office on both the Democratic and Republican tickets, there can be no accusation of partisanship lodged against him.
Because these speeches are set out in full in the Congressional Record, they carry weight that no amount of condemnation on the part of private individuals could hope to carry.
The FEDERAL RESERVE – A CORRUPT Institution
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country ONE OF the MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTIONS the WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN.
I refer to THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD and the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS…..hereinafter…CALLED the FED.
The FED HAS CHEATED the GOVERNMENT of these United States AND the PEOPLE of the United States OUT OF ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY the NATION’S DEBT.
The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt SEVERAL TIMES OVER.
“THI$ EVIL INSTITUTION HAS IMPOVERISHED and RUINED THE PEOPLE of these United States, HAS BANKRUPTED ITSELF…AND….HAS practically BANKRUPTED our GOVERNMENT. It has done this THROUGH the DEFECTS OF the LAW under which it operates, THROUGH the MALADMINISTRATION of that law BY the FED….AND…..BY the CORRUPT PRACTICES OF the MONEYED VULTURES WHO CONTROL IT.
“Some people who think that the FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS United States Government institutions. They ARE PRIVATE MONOPOLIES….WHICH….PREY UPON the PEOPLE of these United States …FOR the BENEFIT of THEMsELVE$…AND….THEIR FOREIGN
CUSTOMER$……FOREIGN and DOMESTIC speculators and $WINDLER$…AND….RICH and PREDATORY MONEY LENDER.
In that dark crew of FINANCIAL PIRATE$ there are those WHO WOULD CUT A MAN’S THROAT….TO GET A DOLLAR OUT OF HIS POCKET…..there are those WHO send money into states to BUY VOTES TO CONTROL our LEGISLATURES…… there are those WHO MAINTAIN International PROPAGANDA for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions WHICH will PERMIT THEM TO COVER UP THEIR PAST MISDEEDS…AND…..SET AGAIN IN MOTION THEIR gigantic TRAIN of CRIME.
“These TWELVE PRIVATE CREDIT MONOPOLIES were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here FROM EUROPE and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. THOSE BANKERS TOOK MONEY out of this Country TO FINANCE JAPAN IN A WAR AGAINST RUSSIA.
THEY CREATED A REIGN OF TERROR IN RUSSIA…WITH OUR MONEY in order to help that war along.
They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War.
THEY FINANCED TROTSKY’$ passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist IN the DESTRUCTION OF the RUSSIAN EMPIRE.
THEY FORMENTED…AND…INSTIGATED the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION……AND PLACED a large fund of AMERICAN DOLLARS at Trotsky’s disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden SO THAT RUSSIAN HOMES MIGHT BE thoroughly BROKEN UP…AND….RUSSIAN CHILDREN FLUNG FAR and WIDE FROM THEIR NATURAL PROTECTORS.
THEY HAVE SINCE BEGUN….BREAKING UP of AMERICAN HOMES….AND….THE DISPERSAL OF AMERICAN CHILDREN.
“Mr. Chairman, there should be no partisanship in matters concerning banking and currency affairs in this Country, and I do not speak with any.
“In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late SENATOR Nelson W. ALDRICH… made a report and presented a vicious bill called the National Reserve Association bill. This bill is usually spoken of as the Aldrich bill. Senator Aldrich did not write the Aldrich bill. He WAS THE tool…IF NOT the ACCOMPLICE OF the EUROPEAN BANKERS…. WHO for nearly twenty years HAD BEEN SCHEMING TO SET UP A CENTRAL BANK IN THIS COUNTRY and who in 1912 had spent AND were continuing to SPEND VAST SUMS OF MONEY TO ACCOMPLISH…THEIR PURPOSE.
“We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who rule the Democratic Party then PROMISED the PEOPLE that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later THJAT PROMISE WAS BROKEN……and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those SINISTER WALL STREET figures WHO stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the “King’s Bank” to CONTROL US from the top downward, and FROM the CRADLE TO GRAVE.
“The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing business.
It discriminated against our 1-name commercial paper, the finest in the world, and it set up the antiquated 2-name paper, which is the present curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers of the Constitution sough to save us.
PRESIDENT JACKSON’S TIME
“One of the greatest battles for the preservation of this Republic was fought out here in Jackson’s time; when the second Bank of the United States, founded on the same false principles of those which are here exemplified in the Fed was hurled out of existence. After that, in 1837, the Country was warned against the dangers that might ensue if the predatory interests after being cast out should come back in disguise and unite themselves to the Executive and through him acquire control of the Government. That is what the predatory interests did when they came back in the livery of hypocrisy and under false pretenses obtained the passage of the Fed.
“The DANGER THAT the COUNTRY WAS WARNED AGAINST…CAME UPON US and is shown in the long train of horrors attendant upon the affairs of …THE TRAITOROUS and DISHONEST FED.
Look around you when you leave this Chamber and you will see evidences of it in all sides.
THIS IS AN ERA OF MISERY and for the conditions that caused that misery…THE FED ARE FULLY LIABLE.
THIS IS AN ERA OF FINANCED CRIME……and in the financing of crime THE FED DOES NOT PLAY the PART OF DI$INTERE$TED SPECTATOR.
CLICK on link for full article
http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/mcfadden.html
but trump under his emergency powers has taken away the powers of the fed to give money to the banks because the banks have a long history of not giving loans to business when they really need it–they just rather loan back to the gooooovermint,corrupt as hell–you can go directly to the fed using the sba now and get a loan direct, bypassing the banking system–it is the way it was originally intended but the banks hijacked it- now trump and his minions have hijacked it back–i can get a sba loan for 4 years and no interest or payments for 4 years,any business can right now–the fed was suppose to be direct lenders to business —their greed and corrupt people in power derailed the good intentions–trump has taken it back..god bless the usa
truckers are working their ass off–my bro has a truck brokerage in socal–nobody wants to go to NYC for any price–funny as hell–let the worthless maggots starve!! NYers have mistreated truckers for years and now it is payback time!!!! i live by a hiway and i can hear the trucks roll all night like never before—millions of drivers are moving freely and the places they deal with are all working long hours so they are part of the solution—if the trucks shut down its over….