The food crisis: Does anyone else feel its time to start storing food? The West is not immune.?

Question

I already grow some of my own food, but that is not the piont. It will take some weeks for the stuff to grow and be ready for me to harvest. The food crisis is happening now, and its not just wheat. In many places in America food is already being rationed, you can't buy more than one bag of rice for example. Pretty soon there will be nothing left in the shops.

by the way, almost everything in your fridge is dependant on the price of grain, because animals are fed on grain. It affects the price of milk, butter, yoghurt., beef, eggs, chicken, bacon and pork, and just about anything else that comes from an animal.

Answer 1

Sell your car and set an example for all motorists to follow.

Answer 2

I think it's time for people to stop being so greedy and needy! Let's face it, there's enough disgusting fat in the western world to probably feed the whole world, three times over.......!

Answer 3

Hoarding food is a good way to push up prices for everyone. Have you considered using your garden, if you have one, to grow edible things, rather than flowers and grass?

Answer 4

There have been rations on rice. I have heard here in NYC that the food pantries are running out of food!

This is very scary. Oil goes up, rent goes up because landlords can't afford to pay the gas bill; food goes up because gas is so high. It's a vicious cycle. Without oil and gas, trucks can't deliver the food supplies. It all goes back to oil and the price of gas.

If only Bush would tap the oil reserves already! The really weird thing I 've seen? Fruit and veggies remain relatively inexpensive. It might be cheaper to become a vegetarian in the long run.

Answer 5

Ah storing instead of hoarding.

Hoarding is of course the greedy and selfish thing to do.

It would only exarcebate the situation, although in the US itself the situation is unlikely to become serious.

If it were serious however hoarding would get you what?

An extra few days, weeks or months of food while your friends and neighbours starved?

Luckily of course you wouldn't hoard, you'd just store, which isn't the same thing at all.

Answer 6

We're all to fat anyway so it might be good for us. I bet you munched on a breakfast of pancakes with maple syrup with cream, a lunch of giant burger and dinner of giant pizza before thinking about running out of food.

Answer 7

I stored food before the Y2K rubbish.  Mice got into it so I would have had mice droppings for meals.  Storing food requires planning and research.  Water needs a couple of drops of bleach in it to stay bacteria free.

I have a garden which would keep me going for a little while.  I actually can identify food growing around the streets so would be able to feed myself while other people are running around ignorant.

If you learn about native foods you will be right as you can just walk off into the wildnerness and survive while everyone is ina a city shooting each other for some stale fries.

Answer 8

The hoarding has already started and you may have to sell your car shortly. the price of a loaf of bread could reach better than $20 if you can find one. already the U.N. has reported that the African wheat rust has devastated most areas of Europe and Asia and that 75% of the wheat grown in north america is susceptible to the blight and on drudge today the shortage of fertilizer is going to worsen the already DANGEROUS situation whoever says that hoarding is wrong when their bellybutton rubs against their backbones ask them if it was right to store food but this is only the beginning when we go into Iran then things will really get interesting  for those of you who believe the bible 4/5 th's of the world will die according to revelations  it says that parents will eat thier own children because that the famine will be so bad so put on your seatbelts boys were in for one heck of a ride P.S. will you be one of the 2 billion left????????????

Answer 9

Well if we here  keep having thousands of people entering this small Island of ours we will soon be on the list, as nothing is forever, and in the end we will be in the Crisis, because there is only so much we can grow. That is if they stop building houses on the land, but as that is more prosperous than growing food, I am afraid we are heading in the direction of no more wheat etc, and thence the crisis will hit.

Answer 10

Food is like everything else it is not an infinite resource, and the more the population grows the greater the effects of blips in food chain such as plant disease and weather patterns will be. I grow quite a lot of food and also keep sheep so hopefully I do my bit, but I cant help thinking that this and many other world problems are and are bound to get worse because of the ever expanding population of the world. It can only get worse if this problem is not addressed

Answer 11

No that's the worst thing you can do. Please don't panic, in the West we still have far more food than we can ever possibly eat.

Answer 12

Ed said it, lets get back to basics. Sure flowers are pretty, but you can't have them for your dinner.

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Answer 13

There is plenty of food for everyone in the world.  Surely storing food will only make situations worse.

We need to give it away.

Answer 14

For most of us in the western world a food crisis is caused by panic buying and people hoarding food, not only does this create a shortage but it artificially inflates already soaring prices.

don't confuse a food shortage scare with famine. There is plenty of food to feed us, I'm sure if everyone boycotted all wheat related products, and that includes meat and bio fuel the price of wheat would suddenly drop.

It's consumer panic that causes the main problem...poor harvests will always happen from time to time and combined with hair brained government subsidy initiatives they can create a temporary shortage, in the west we are luckier than some.

Answer 15

And our great leader George Bush has argued that growing more corn for ethanol isn't affecting food prices. It almost seems like he is trying to destroy us. It's also because the value of the dollar keeps going down. Every time I go shopping I buy a few extra cans of food and put it away. It's probably not a bad idea to have some food stored away.

Answer 16

Boy am I glad of my 15 acres.Better get planting!

Answer 17

People can live quite easily without wheat. Some people have an allergy to the stuff but they still eat well. I don't have an allergy but I only eat wheat if it just happens to be in my current choice of breakfast cereal, and it usually isn't because I prefer oats.

Bread? I never eat the stuff. Too much like empty calories.

Answer 18

My Nan has never stopped storing tinned food, bread mix etc in her bedroom since World War 2 lol

Answer 19

wiered....my hamster has been storing food for some time now......

Answer 20

Of course the West is not immune.  The Great Depression showed that.  But, hoarding is not the answer.  It will only drive the prices higher.

What is the answer?  While oil companies are getting richer, making all time high profits?  It is time our government stepped in  and helped drive those prices down.

This is only going to work, starting at the grass root level, and with every one conserving what they can.

Just a hundred years ago, many families were not dependant on the electric company or foreign oil.  It is time again, to make our selves more self sufficient, and less dependant.  Travel less, use less energy, and stay clear of the higher prices.

Answer 21

Matthew chapter 6 v's 25-26.

Best wishes, Mike.