I recently moved to Texas from Washington state. While i still lived in WA during the Great TP Shortage of 2020, I noticed several products were out but i never saw the empty shelves that people were filming and posting online. Most often i saw certain name brands disappear then reappear a few days later. I now live in a small town near Dallas and while I saw the baby formula shortage, it now seems restocked everywhere I go.
I don't doubt that we are having supply chain issues and people are witnessing the bare shelves. Then there are the reports of all of the food processing plants and farms being attacked.
Why do stores, at least all of the ones that i have been to, seem to be well stocked? I'm not complaining, but shouldn't we be experiencing food riots by now? This make no sense to me, unless...
Are patriots really in control? Are THEY systematically attacking food facilities that have been putting bad stuff in our food? Then resuming business as usual? It occurs to me that the areas most hardest hit by the food shortages and gas price inflation are deep blue cities in deep blue states.
Has anyone else seen this? Or have i just been fortunate enough to go after stores have been restocked? Tell me im not the only one. What is going on?
Update: I want to thank everyone for their input. This has been eye opening to say the least.
You're right about this. The posts on food shortage started from multiple posts from military family members in nov-dec 2021 mentioning that generals were telling them to prep for a food shortage and to tell family members to stock up for 1-2 months worth of food.
Then there were posts from truck drivers talking about how they were transporting perishables and forced to park their truck for a week, and that the perishables spoilt by the time they arrived at their destination. Then there's these news stories of food processing plants blowing up or shutting down.
Then there was farmers reporting on fertilizer and supply shortage (nitrogen or ammonia?) which Russia was the major supplier for.
Then there was news about trains being restricted from transporting fertilizer resulting in fertilizer shortage for farmers.
Then there was the baby food shortage, the peanut butter recall... and now we are hearing about inflation. Some UN committee talking about food shortage being inevitable and I think there was an interview with Goya's CEO who said that a food shortage was coming
To add, my wife told me in her religion, there was a prophet who said (this was 20 years ago) that there would be an event that would happen resulting in 49 days of no food.. as a result, all of the temples in her religion hold a store of food for at least 49 days, and they've been doing this for 20 years.
Thanks for confirming.
The into war is intense and I can't really store much food without power or fight off a violent mob or any other of these crazy solutions.
If Q didn't say it, I kind of don't care lol
Lol. Yea, it's a bit expensive now to hoarde food because of inflation. The only ways I can think of to store food safely (without waste) is either planting a garden, or buying rice and dried beans (or canned goods).
We did it anyway for earthquake preparedness and have at least a months worth of instant noodles. I'd be more worried about malnutrition.