Living With Food Shortages World Wide Hunger - Problems Solutions hi it's AlaskaGranny Alaska
Prepper do you realize we're living in a world of food shortages there are all kinds of reasons why
food is not available and bountiful as it used to be i've gone to the grocery store enough times to
see empty shelves and rising prices to realize that it's true i have people leave comments that
they're not seeing anything like that and i don't know how to explain that because i can certainly
see it where i live and where i've traveled that food is in shorter supply food prices are rising
and it's becoming harder and harder for many families to provide the food things they need
what are some of the reasons why food is in short supply we know there have been shipping
problems just look what's going on in china china ships so many things to the united states and
other countries in the world and a lot of it has come to a standstill shipping huge delays
and there are all kinds of problems we know there are all kinds of factory fires which yes
those probably do occur on an annual basis but so many in such a short amount of time it's hard to
understand how many factory fires could just be occurring naturally when you look statistically
at what would be the average type of event that that should be occurring food processing plants
were shut down during the pandemic and you would think maybe if just shut down one or
two food processing plant there are many many more that won't make a huge effect on our food supply
yet if you think about it food comes from name brand sources the same food processing plants
change the labels and continue to process the same food into generic labels so you aren't getting
food from different places it's many times the same food factory the same fields that produce
that food it's coming from the same source and so while you would think it wouldn't affect the
price and availability of foods it certainly does we know that there have been crop failures
rising prices of fuel fertilizer inability to even secure the things that farmers need
there's war going on in russia ukraine we know that they won't be having
a wheat harvest this year because they're not able to plant wheat fields or what crops they do have
will be sadly reduced we know that many countries have had droughts crop failures crop losses
there are all kinds of limits where countries are no longer exporting their food
now you may say it doesn't matter to me i don't get food from that country but the problem is
because it's a global world if you can't get your food from russia then you get it from
somewhere else who may have been sending it to your country and then it's no longer available
to you to buy or the price goes up so much that you can't afford to get it there are worldwide
food shortages and if you watch the news you'll see that there is civil unrest going on in many
places in the world and people are hungry they want what they need to feed their families and
so there have been uprisings against government that's unsettling for other countries too
we know those are the problems are there any solutions to food shortages rising prices the
answer is yes buy food what you can when you see food and get as much food as you can if
for the foreseeable future these problems aren't going to change and they may become
worse so if you stock up on more food now you'll have food to eat later in the future when it
may be in more short supply or the prices food become so exorbitant you cannot afford to get it
inflation means rising prices and some of the prices are rising
faster than inflation food especially that makes food a great investment because the
prices you're paying today for food you eat tomorrow means that you have it at a bargain
and yes you probably will have to pay more to replace food in the future but you will still have
invested your dollars in something that gained in value so instead of buying one can of chili at a
dollar today and one can tomorrow at two dollars if you buy the two cans today then instead of
spending three dollars for two cans you've only spent two dollars for the same amount of food
so if you put that into both amounts of food and you buy a dozen cans of chili then you have saved
that much more money the same percentage but on a much grander scale so your dollar cost
averaging your food into the future and that's how it becomes more valuable and you save money
in the long run it also gives you food security that you have your own grocery store you can go
into your prepper pantry stockpile you can choose food off your shelf and you have the ability to
feed your family whether there's a big huge global conflict or not if you get sick or you lose your
job or you can't get your car to run you don't have to worry about getting to the store and not
having enough money because you have the supplies on hand to keep your family running smoothly
and that's the whole point of prepping is that you're preparing to have lifestyle insurance
so your family can continue to live their same quality of life so while i recommend
getting as much food as you can and stacking it to the rafters as some people like to say
you also need to make sure that you're not just hoarding food don't just be storing food it's food
that you're willing to eat that you're willing to use rotate and resupply and it becomes a working
pantry which is the whole point of having extra food on hand yes you may want buckets of beans and
rice that can last for 30 years that's cheap and you can have a lot of that for not very much money
and maybe you don't want to rotate beans rice so much but any of the canned and packaged foods that
you're stockpiling make sure that you're rotating those they don't last forever people will tell
you canned food lasts forever but not all of it does it the cans can degrade it can disintegrate
the packaged foods can become stale things lose their flavor and their nutritional value
over a long amount of time what are some things you can do to brighten your future and the outlook
for yourself and your family learn to grow food learn to pickle preserve to dehydrate and can
learn to put food away the extras that you have today the more you can preserve them for tomorrow
the better you're going to be plus you're going to be learning new skills and having a bigger
variety of food in your stockpile pay attention to what's going on gather information in your locale
also in the world around you the more that we're aware of what are the challenges that others face
the better we can prepare ourselves if those challenges come to us we always want to make
the best of what we have learn to use the things you have in new and improved ways because the more
ways you know how to use the things you have the more things you actually have so keep questioning
be curious learn new skills challenge yourself to do new things because that's going to help
you have a brighter future for the days that we have ahead if you enjoyed my video i hope you'll
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