"Minnesota chicken farmer culls 5+ million due to bird flu." OH NOES, NO MORE CHIKN AT GROCERY STORE, WE ALL DIES!!!!@#%!
Yeah, not so much. Fear porn is real. Most of the food shortage....not so much.
I won't be so flippant to say there aren't limited quantities for some things, but lets be realistic frens, when Team Evil messes with the supply chain, things happen. Yes, certain things may be short right now. Things will be short in the future too. Some things yes, but remember a certain other commodity was recently believed to be stopped in production but had actually increased production nation wide by over 400% (ammo anyone?)
The reason for the shortage was not so much gov't interfearance (though they've been trying), as new gun owners, hording, and general high demand.
Will we run out of food and have to eat dandelions, dirt and bugs? Unlikely. Right now we are seeing hording, and therefore high demand. We also collectively have millions more mouths to feed more than anticipated (immigrants eat food you know, even illegal ones).
Both take a toll on our generally precise just-in-time inventory system, which is a must up and down the food supply chain to prevent spoilage. Add to that some fairly simple shinnanigans on shipping and some media fear from the left and bingo, fake mass food shortages.
"But Rooks", you say, "With all this surplus food in peoples houses, won't demand dip down again when hrders reach 2 months reserve? Your argument defeated by logixs!"
Hold up there wonder puppy. You forget, NPCs arent firing on all cylinders...or even thinking straight, just left. Remember that guy in CA who filled his truckbed with gas, just by lining it with tarps, then drove off sloshing gas all over the road and sidewalks?
Yeah, its like that.
Last food run i saw people buying 2 months of not just canned corn, but also milk, bread, yogurt, fruits, and deli sushi.
Can't fix stupid.
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Anyways, So I work with farmers every day. Cow, pig, chicken, duck, crops. Only reason i see they cull a barn herd is when it is actual threat to the barn (local labs/vets checking, plus the farmers themselves, many amish too).
Farmers tend to be pretty based, and don't have time for much nonsense. Any farmer still out there (the American farmer is NOT gone) tends to also have pretty good business savvy, they have to, to survive. Long story short, wiping out large volumes of product isn't something you just say "do it" and they comply.
In addition. Believe it or not, wiping out a million here/there is not that unusual. Uncommon, yes. Notable, barely. Had a farmer just down the road take out .5 million due to flu, 3 years ago. Heard about 40k pig put down due to swine flu (yes, it was real swine flu). Didn't bat an eye, both still in production to this day. One SMALL farmer alone has 5 chicken barns, .5 mill IN EACH BARN. There are hundreds of these all over northern indiana alone.
Once you realize the actual scale of food production in the US, you will see the fear is manufactured, and 5 million dead chickens is... uh... chicken feed compared to actual DAILY production.
Yes, there is a lot more to it than that, yes there is industrial espionage in farms. The whole PETA highring people to work undercover at farms, then inciting/forcing/coercing others to video them doing cruelty to animals, yeah that is real. I personally know a larger farm that was targeted like that by PETA.
You always hear about the leaked video, but not when they find the dudes that did it were plants, and are now in jail for lying to officials during an investigation, false pretenses, conspiracy, not to mention fired and sued by the farm for lying on job app, breach of policy, etc.
Anyways, just a little bit of my take on this.
Best if you are worried, get out of the city, plant a garden, live in the country and make friends with farmers. When a city starves, i guarantee today's farmers won't.
Now im gonna go grill the family some T-bones, sirloins, and make me some mashed 'taters, and a salad, just because i can.... and its mothers day weekend....that too 😉
Kinda yeah real, but not as portrayed, and not nearly as bad as portrayed. Only places it is truly bad is where Team Evil is forcing it by denying food growth or imports. 99% fabricated in this way.
Experienced differently, yes.
US starve....IF it happens, will be completely fabricated, and most likely only in blue strongholds, and event then only cities, or portions of cities (these are only my guesses, of course).
Yup the cities will suffer. Any unrest will worsen thier plight as the warehouses and farms are not in the cities and delivery becomes more difficult. Rural America will be fine, exburbs mostly fine and suburbs ok for the most part. But the cities will suffer.
Funny in a strange way is that Detroit with all its blight may do better than most. There has been a real effort to turn abandoned lots into urban farms. Im not exactly sure how far along they gotten but I have seen some of this with my own eyes. As a city with a population of 2.3 million in 1960 and at 700k now they have a lot of space.
That is actually pretty cool.
If you're interested, I have a post from recent past about Detroit:
https://greatawakening.win/p/15HIY8Z447/yes-the-spiritual-battle-is-real/
The bad rap Detroit gets is amplified because of the blight. Like I said 2.3 million to 700k makes for a lot of decaying buildings. But crime in Detroit isnt any worse than Chicago, Washington, Philly, St. Louis or Baltimore. In fact, since the 70s when the Murder Capital tag was deserved, it is noticeably less dangerous. We dont have the gang violence that a LA has.
I used to go to Tigers games down in Corktown and we do the bar crawl thing through some less than reputable neighborhoods and I cant recall a single incident. Weve walked around downtown at night from the river to Greektown with no problems. Mexicantown is fine.
You have to be situationally aware and as a local you understand the city and its inhabitants. As an outsider of course be careful and Id say that about any large city in America.
But the one thing people from outside see, and it makes everything way scarier than simple reality, is the blight. 2.3 million to 700k, think about it. Thats probably 3/4 of a million vacant homes and countless boarded up businesses that served them. And with that lost tax base how do you clean that stuff up?
Most of that population didnt go far. A lot went north of 8 Mile to Oakland County which is one of the richest in the nation. Livingston County went from a population of probably 50k farmers to near a million upper middle class households. Ann Arbor boomed.
Detroits problems are unique. The auto industry pretty much abandoned it. The small cities that are totally contained within Detroits City limits were sustained by auto factories. Once full of proud middle class Poles, they are ghost towns. It really is a sad state of affairs and it pains me when I see people attack the city I was born in without understanding its plight.
Don't count on that, never say never !!!