Our Vulnerable Food Supply
More Articles Related to FoodThe Survival Blog has an article on how vulnerable the food supply is in the US. Another reason to sharpen your survival skills and inventory your survival food cache while there is still time.
The current food survival scenario goes something like this:
- Only one in a hundred Americans grow the food that the other 99 eat.
- Most Americans haven’t a clue about where their food comes from and what it takes for the food they require for their very survival to get from farm to the supermarket.
- Much of our food comes from grain or grain fed livestock and is grown in the Midwest.
- Grain is moved from America’s grain belt to the coasts on only 2 vulnerable railroads.
- We consume what we produce each year, with almost nothing stored in case of future shortage.
- Should drought or other disaster occur, food stocks will be quickly consumed with little backup possible.
- If people in Los Angeles were willing to burn down their own neighborhoods due to a court case, imagine what people will do when there is little to eat and small prospect of having enough for some time to come.
- Of course people in rural areas have a greater chance of finding or growing enough food to feed themselves and survive, but in urban areas this is virtually impossible.
- When food shortages occur, there is likely to be a great outpouring of urbanites into rural areas, creating havoc with their survival efforts. It will be difficult to grow crops or raise cattle with so many transient people attempting to survive on what little food and resources they can scrounge.
You can prepare by storing plenty of survival food in the form of rice, beans, honey, wheat, and garden seeds. I agree, these cheap survival foods can form the basis of your survival cache as they are easy to acquire and store. I would also add a couple gallons of olive oil to the list of survival foods for your cache.
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This site is fantastic and it's a pleasure to contribute. On the topic of food, I am a huge proponent of "sprouting". Sprouts are inexpensive to make and pack an incredible punch of minerals, enzymes, proteins, amino acids. Not to mention loaded with vegetable stem cells, known for their rejuvenating properties.
Keep at home a stock of organic beans such as lentils and mung and by 1 or 2 sprouters from www.sproutamo.com. Organic is important because there has been a number of cases of things going wrong when using plain benas meant to be cooked. Dried organic beans have a very long shelve life and the sprouting turns hardened beans in very tasty fresh, live veggies.
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Garden seeds are OK for gardening, but if you want to eat them, then don't buy them from a gardening shop, as those may be treated with mercury salts and thus poisonous.