Any concerns about food shortages?

[revjen45]

"I have pets. They're food, right?"

Depends. Do you have tarantulas?

 

[The Heretic]

Coronavirus claims an unexpected victim: Florida vegetables

Mounds of harvested zucchini and yellow squash ripened and then rotted in the hot Florida sun. Juicy tomatoes were left to wither — unpicked — in farmers' fields. Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to...

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Commonsense]

Farmers lost grain silos not just being unable to plant.

Flooded Farmers To Eat Cost Of Damaged Grain In Storage

www.benzinga.com

A lot of cattle died in floods.

The Midwest flooding has killed livestock, ruined harvests and has farmers worried for their future

Farmers in parts of Nebraska and Iowa had precious little time to move themselves from the floodwaters that rushed over their lands last week, so many left their livestock and last year's harvest behind.

www.cnn.com

Carolina floods has killed chickens & pigs

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

In North Carolina 3.4 million chickens and 5,500 hogs have been confirmed killed as massive lagoons are discharging fecal soup

www.theguardian.com

Swine Flu In Asia Pigs

'No way to stop it': millions of pigs culled across Asia as swine fever spreads

Experts say region is losing the battle to stop the biggest animal disease outbreak the planet has ever faced

www.theguardian.com

Food Banks Contributions down half to two thirds

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/food-banks-are-seeing-volunteers-disappear-food-supply-evaporate-coronavirus-fears-mount/

Quarantine strains supermarket supplies people not eating out

Can't find what you want in the grocery store? Here's why

The coronavirus pandemic has delivered a shock to tens of millions of people in rich countries around the world: Suddenly, they can't buy the food they want, when they want.

www.cnn.com

Grocers Fail to Keep Up With Demand as Coronavirus Pandemic Spreads

U.S. grocers are adjusting their operations to try to keep up with customers who are emptying their shelves amid angst over the new coronavirus, even as their own employees face heightened risk of infection.

www.wsj.com

 

[Commonsense]

Farmers lost grain in silos from flooding

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjKxr_05tvoAhWFHjQIHdrwADsQFjARegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fbusiness%2Fbusiness-news%2Ffarmers-won-t-be-compensated-millions-dollars-soybeans-lost-after-n989956&usg=AOvVaw2v3z5nI68vDwyVOEvdh9zT

Cattle Killed In Flooding

'We have death and devastation at every turn': the flood massacre of Queensland cattle

Almost overnight we have transitioned from drought to a flood disaster zone. There are kangaroos dead in trees, birds drowned in drifts of silt and our beloved bovine family perished in huddled piles

www.theguardian.com

Chickens & Pigs Dead Hurricane

Millions of dead chickens and pigs found in hurricane floods

In North Carolina 3.4 million chickens and 5,500 hogs have been confirmed killed as massive lagoons are discharging fecal soup

www.theguardian.com

Food Banks Contributions Dwindle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/16/food-banks-are-seeing-volunteers-disappear-food-supply-evaporate-coronavirus-fears-mount/

Quarantine Puts Strain On Supermarkets With Eating In Vs Dinning Out

Grocers Fail to Keep Up With Demand as Coronavirus Pandemic Spreads

U.S. grocers are adjusting their operations to try to keep up with customers who are emptying their shelves amid angst over the new coronavirus, even as their own employees face heightened risk of infection.

www.wsj.com

Still Don't Think There Is A Coming Problem?

 

[MannyGlocks]

Burn the hair off those tarantulas and roast lightly - taste like shrimp and the fangs can used as toothpicks.

 

[DunRanull]

"I have pets. They're food, right?"

Depends. Do you have tarantulas?

You bet! They taste like KFC!

 

[GWS]

Some of these links are a little out of date as 2018 and 2019.
What are stocks now? Today?

 

[RicInOR]

Major meat processors shutting down.

Coronavirus Latest: Major Meat Processors Shutting Down Plants As Employees Get Sick With COVID-19

Across the country, major meat processors are starting to shut down plants as employees are getting infected by coronavirus.

philadelphia.cbslocal.com

 

[revjen45]

What do you put on tarantula?
or just eat it buns up?

 

[The Heretic]

More than 80 coronavirus cases confirmed at Smithfield Foods in Sioux Falls

More than 80 employees at a Sioux Falls food processing business, Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon confirmed Wednesday.

www.argusleader.com

 

[GWS]

Canned hams, bacon and sausage are all going to get more expensive.
If the freezer wasn't full, I'd be buying a lot of ribs and chops right now.

 

[Member 52301]

CWD is getting to be a bigger and bigger problem in Montana with the deer and elk herds.

It was all over our news this past hunting season and it is ALL over the state not just in one specific area according to the 'state authorities' and their scientific TEST results.

Some of those BEEF and PORK factories around the country have a reputation for not being the cleanest places. I think that CHINA bought up the famous VA ham or pork place too. Was it a year or so ago? Beats me now.

Cate

 

[Commonsense]

CWD is getting to be a bigger and bigger problem in Montana with the deer and elk herds.

It was planted with the intent to control all food possibilities!

 

[cookie]

VIA Glenn Instapundit

Instapundit » Blog Archive » PORK CRISIS: A terrible pandemic is killing pigs around the world, and US pork producers fear they …

PORK CRISIS: A terrible pandemic is killing pigs around the world, and US pork producers fear they could be hit next. “There is insufficient American organic soy, so hog farmers wishing to feed their animals organic soy often import it from China. And there are feed ingredients — B vitamins and...

pjmedia.com

PORK CRISIS: A terrible pandemic is killing pigs around the world, and US pork producers fear they could be hit next.
Maybe it's time to beef up my strategic bacon reserve.

Lots of wild hogs that should be harvested.

 

[cookie]

Right now - in first world countries? Food shortages unlikely.

When my parents bought a nice house in 1968 in Salem, the median cost was about equivalent to 3 year's median household income. Today it is about 5 years median household income (more in places like Portland or Seattle). Today's cost of living, adjusted for inflation, is about 50% higher than it was 20 years ago.

Eventually, basics like food, shelter, etc., will increasingly be out of the reach of more and more people. Even if available, they won't be able to afford it.

Gradually food, energy, water, arable land and shelter will get increasingly expensive over time, especially with climate change and more so because of increasing population.

Being able to grow at least some of your own food will be an advantage over time. Depending on how much longer you and your family expect to live, and how much income you have, you might experience issues being able to afford basic living expenses.

A few fruit trees, some berry bushes, various veggies, your own well, your own source of electricity (solar), a backup source of heat (wood stove) - all of these are doable for many people. Paying off debt will go a long ways towards keeping shelter available.

But others are going to struggle, and that means increased crime and conflict.

Money is worth much less thanks to the politician and unionized government employee crime gang.

 

[cookie]

Just plain salt on the fries and hash browns, any more is is potato blasphemy

 

[The Heretic]

Performance Food furloughs 3,000 employees as coronavirus takes toll

Grocery distributor Performance Food Group Co <PFGC.N> said on Monday it had furloughed about 3,000 employees and cut pay, while funneling 1,100 workers to help keep its retail clients' shelves stacked as it deals with the pressures exerted on supply chains and its business by the coronavirus...

www.reuters.com

'Elbow to elbow:' North America meat plant workers fall ill, walk off jobs

At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 cents a day to buy masks to protect themselves from the new coronavirus, according to a meat inspector.

www.reuters.com

 

[The Heretic]

Just plain salt on the fries and hash browns, any more is is potato blasphemy

Paprika, pepper, maybe even hot pepper. I like potatoes to be a bit spicy - especially fries and tater tots.

 

[Commonsense]

I was not raised on hot sauce, but I 'chug a lug' it now!

 

[Cavedweller]

The Smithfield pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D., is one of the nation's largest. It employs about 3,700 workers and processes about 4% to 5% of the nation's pork.

"The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply," the meat processor's chief executive, Kenneth Sullivan, said in a statement Sunday.

"It is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running," he said.

Major Meat Processing Plant Closes as Hundreds of Workers Contract Coronavirus

pjmedia.com