A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I used to be able to go to the grocery store and buy everything I needed to feed a family of four for several weeks without having to find a “non-essential” body part or organ I would need to sell on the black market to afford it. Alas, thanks to the horrific economic policies of President Joe Biden, those days are no more. These days, in order to get your basic necessities at the store, you need to take out a second mortgage on your home.
Over the course of the last few years, those who have been placed in positions of power have decided to flood our system with Monopoly money which has led to the decrease of purchasing power of the U.S. dollar and increased inflation. Naturally, as a result, the cost of living has gone up and businesses are being forced to pass on the higher costs of keeping their companies up and running to the consumer. It’s a nasty vicious cycle.
As if that isn’t awful enough, we have hundreds of millions of individuals on the other side of the planet who are going hungry on a regular basis, with children dying left and right due to starvation. Thankfully, here at home, we are not yet seeing that level of crisis, however, the demand at local food banks has increased exponentially as even middle-class households are struggling to make ends meet from week-to-week.
Things don’t look likely to improve anytime soon either.
One of the reasons we’re experiencing issues with the food supply is because one of the largest fires in the history of Texas is continuing to burn out of control, according to CNN:
The biggest inferno in Texas history is being fueled by winds and high temperatures as it rages Sunday, threatening to incinerate more buildings, cattle and livelihoods across the Texas Panhandle while residents sift through ashes of what used to be homes.
Critical fire weather conditions were expected to continue Sunday in the area, with strengthening winds gusting to 50 mph and dry conditions combining to set the stage for rapid wildfire spread, the National Weather Service warned.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire has been burning for nearly a week and has torched more than 1 million acres in Texas alone, making it the largest fire on record in the state – and it is only 15% contained.
With every hour that ticks on by, more cattle are meeting their end due to the fires that are still raging. There’s no way to know, as of now, how many have died thus far. Many reports are saying the number is in the “thousands:”
The largest wildfire in Texas history has devastated the state’s agriculture, blazing through more than 1 million acres of land in the Panhandle, killing thousands of livestock, destroying crops and gutting infrastructure.
The agriculture industry, a big driver of the state’s economy, was already facing pressures from prolonged and widespread drought that forced ranchers to manage smaller herds, contributing to a decrease in beef production nationally. The series of wildfires in the Panhandle this week is another blow as many ranchers tried to rebuild their herds and operations during the cooler months of the year.
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller stated that there are currently more than 10 million head of livestock in the region, noting that are some towns that have more cattle than actual people who live there. What makes this even more alarming is that beef supplies were already running low before the fires started burning.
Right now, the size of the cattle herd in the U.S. is the smallest it has been since the early 1950s, and the size of the one in Canada is the smallest it’s been in three decades:
Canada is the next nation to report a multi-decade low cattle herd.
At the beginning of the year, the USDA reported the lowest total U.S. head since 1951 at a little more than 87 million.
Now, Statistics Canada is reporting the Canadian cattle herd is at its lowest level in more than 30 years, totaling just 11 million cattle and calves on farms.
The Wisconsin State Farmer is reporting that before the fires, the United States was looking at having the smallest beef calf crop since 1948. The fire, of course, has reduced even that number by a significant margin.
You’ve probably noticed that the price of beef has gone through the roof. Well, it’s going to go up even more as the year goes on, so if you are big fan of beef, better get to the store and get it while you can.
And beef isn’t the only part of the food supply that’s shrinking either:
While nationwide organizations like the FFA are going strong and statewide affairs like the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show and Iowa State Fair continue to draw exhibitors and guests alike, beneath the surface are troubling signs, two guests on “The Ingraham Angle” warned this week.
Globalist “green” policies as well as inflation and rising costs have led to thinner herds, and in some instances, foreclosure or shuttering of farms altogether, bringing with them a potential domestic food crisis, they said.
“Farmers are going out of business every day,” said John Boyd Jr., founder of the Black Farmers of America.
Aside from government officials getting in the way of farmers and preventing them from being able to adequately grow crops necessary to feed the world, there are the strange weather patterns to deal with as well. Like a recent blizzard that buried parts of California beneath 12 feet of snow and featured wind gusts that were up to 190 miles per hour:
Hundreds of miles of California highways remained shut down Sunday as a powerful blizzard pounded parts of the Golden State and Mountain West with snow totals that could reach 12 feet amid howling winds with gusts that hit 190 mph − well above the 157 mph threshold for a Category 5 hurricane.
National Weather Service meteorologist William Churchill warned of “life-threatening concern” for residents near Lake Tahoe, calling the storm, now in its third day, an “extreme blizzard.” Areas of Nevada, Utah and Colorado were also affected.
“Moderate to heavy snow has persisted overnight across the northern Sierra Nevada,” the National Weather Service in Sacramento said in a social media post Sunday. “Wind gusts … are continuing to result in blizzard conditions.”
With all of these phenomena coming together to create the perfect storm, folks are right to be concerned about food shortages as it doesn’t look like there will be enough produced to feed everyone. These shortages will cause chaos to ensue, no doubt about it. Remember what happened during COVID with toilet paper? Imagine how much worse it will be when people are scrambling for food?
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