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If there is going to be a break in our food supply, we don't know when that will be. That is the reason for getting a long term emergency pack of food.
And you don't need a 3 month supply. If the shelves are empty for three months, then we are in Mad Max mode, and roving gangs are going to be breaking into your house to kill you and take your food.
To plan for that, you need to do a lot more than just buy some tubs of food. To survive, you need to ally with others and so on.
Bingo. If it lasts that long we are screwed and have resorted to shooting vermin for food...or each other for trying to steal our shit
Also do you really think we'll never have any more natural disasters over the next 20 years? This stuff comes in handy during a big storm, blizzard, hurricane, tornado, etc or do you really think that every single bad event is from a weather weapon and we never had any before they were invented?
Yeah, I have three tubs of survival food in the basement of my suburban home.
If some event took out the power and all the food in the fridge and freezer went bad, we really don't have enough food in the pantry to go more than a week or two.
So I think it is worth it to have some 20-year survival food. I'm no prepper, but I think everybody should be ready for at least a semi-major disruption. if it is a bigger event, more survival food isn't going to help, given what I have read about situations like that.
Pretty much everyone should have at least 30 days of emergency supplies. Natural disasters occur in virtually every corner of the world. The "Prepper" term is only derogatory to morons who expect someone else to come and save them after a natural disaster. I live in hurricane country, I used to live in Earthquake country. Suffice it to say, I have lived through major earthquakes (1989 East SF Bay), several scary wildfires, and a couple of hurricanes. We have gone over two weeks without power and had roads blocked by fallen trees. If you don't prepare for an unexpected event, you are going to be very unhappy when it actually happens.