They're Setting Us Up For Famine.

[theotherwaldo]

Let's see:

• China is buying up three-quarters of the grain harvest.
• Russia and The Ukraine are not shipping the fertilizer that they usually produce.
• England and several other countries around the world failed to plant or harvest most of their crops because of their lockdowns.
• Transportation is snarled up on land, sea and air.
• Cans, bottles, jars and other food packaging materials either aren't being produced or are being tied up in stalled shipping.
• California is cutting the amount of water being sold to their farmers again.
• Washington is going to force farmers nationwide to leave ten percent of their fields fallow for the next ten years - to reduce climate change.

-And that's just the start.
Anybody else starting their gardening, fishing and hunting plans yet?

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

Well duh...

Anyone who isn't prepared already is behind the curve. By the end of the year I think anyone who's still behind will be beyond help.

All part of the plan.

 

[theotherwaldo]

-And now we're having the mysterious, coincidental small plane crashes, fires and boiler explosions that are destroying and seriously damaging food processing and distribution plants all over the U.S.

Fun times ahead.

Right now I'm adding mung beans to the stock pile, as noodles aren't going to be available.
Also, seed potatoes, even though I'm diabetic.
Trade bait... .

 

[wiscoaster]

-And now we're having the mysterious, coincidental small plane crashes.....

eh?!?!? If you're talking about the Burley, Idaho potato plant crash, I think the airplane and pilot came off a pretty distant second best. I don't think the plant even needed to shut down for very long, if at all. FWIW, according to blancolirio aviation YouTube channel, the plant was in violation of FAA obstacle clearance requirements for the instrument approach to that runway and the airport had its Federal funding cut due to not remediating those violations.

Also on a side note, that pilot was way too inexperienced to be flying that kind of an airplane into that airport on that approach in those conditions. Been there, know what that's like. Such is the unintended consequence of a pilot shortage. Expect more small plane crashes.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Now the federal authorities have decided that the coastal North Atlantic, general North Atlantic and Gulf fisheries are severely over-fished and are severely curtailing commercial fishing in these areas.
Wild-caught fish prices are rising rapidly.

They are also testing poultry flocks using a testing system that is notorious for giving false positives and wiping out flocks in which there was a single positive reading.
Egg prices have tripled.

 

[wiscoaster]

...
Egg prices have tripled.

... and supply cut in half, as I noticed on my last trip to the grocery store. I mean, people aren't stupid, they've got to be noticing what's been happening to their quality of life since Biden and the radical Demos took over.

 

[theotherwaldo]

I'm getting a kick out of the government-created baby formula shortage.
They shut down the factory that made almost half of the stuff for bogus reasons and won't let it re-open.

Meanwhile, they've filled up warehouses here on the border with baby formula and other infant care supplies that are solely intended to be given for free to the children of illegal aliens.

Maybe folks from the northern states could come down here and claim to be from Guatemala - or maybe The Ukraine... .

 

[wiscoaster]

I'm getting a kick out of the government-created baby formula shortage.

The babies and parents aren't "getting a kick". Any government officials that would do that to babies and parents should be shot. Period.

 

[sota]

... and supply cut in half, as I noticed on my last trip to the grocery store. I mean, people aren't stupid, they've got to be noticing what's been happening to their quality of life since Biden and the radical Demos took over.

The difficulty is, it's a slow progress to hell. Much like pain, people can learn to tolerate a tremendous amount, if it's applied in a slow, systematic manner. It's not until something "breaks" that you look back and see how far you've fallen.

 

[wiscoaster]

The difficulty is, it's a slow progress to hell. Much like pain, people can learn to tolerate a tremendous amount, if it's applied in a slow, systematic manner. It's not until something "breaks" that you look back and see how far you've fallen.

Yes. The "boiling a frog in a pot" metaphor, if you're familiar.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Now the government of the Netherlands, one of the few European nations that are a net food exporter, is shutting down over 3000 farms - to "save the environment"... .

 

[sota]

riiight.
wife doesn't want me to build a greenhouse.
yea fuck that. i'm building/buying a 10x12 this spring I think.
and i'm going to accelerate my construction of that 18,000L storage rain water capture system.

 

[theotherwaldo]

We've gone into aquaponics.
That way, we're raising fish, fertilizing the plants and storing water all at the same time.
The beets, turnips, carrots, lettuce and all of the rest of the south Texas wintercrops are watered and fertilized by the overflow from the aquaponics tanks.
We don't need a greenhouse down here.
At most we have to cover some plants with plastic for a few of the coldest days.

 

[wiscoaster]

Catfish?

 

[theotherwaldo]

Actually, we use feeder goldfish.
They're cheap, usually don't have diseases or parasites and they are as good to eat as any other carp.
They are cheap to feed - use almost any cooked vegetable waste.
They love cooked rice.
(I used to have a tropical fish store in southern Oregon. The ones that the ranchers used to keep their stock tanks clean got HUGE... .)

 

[sota]

that all sounds nice, but I'm just barely above setting fire to my cereal.

lemme get a bigger/better greenhouse going, possibly one with an earth battery underneath it, along with my rain water capture.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Anyway, the primary function of the fish in this system is to turn the food waste that they eat into the nitrates that fertilize the plants.
The protein from the fish is simply for emergencies.

 

[wiscoaster]

I'm getting this picture in my mind:

 

[theotherwaldo]

Yep, pretty much.
They're even kosher!

 

[theotherwaldo]

Well, we're prepped for a six-plus-month 'problem'.
It seems that China is busily destroying their stored food stocks while destroying their produce in their fields.
They seem to think that they can just buy what they need, but they have angered most of their local trading partners.

Meanwhile, most of the other food exporting nations (including the U.S.) are expecting to have an unusually poor harvest.

Stock up, folks... .