Food Shortages

[All Seeing Eye]

Are you preparing for future food shortages??

There's been riots around the world over food shortages in such places as Tunisia, the middle east and Africa and there's people saying that food shortages may hit Europe and America some time soon in the future.

Do you believe we could be hit by food shortages? Are you preparing for future food shortages? if so what are you doing? if not why not?

 

[Holdfast]

Are you preparing for future food shortages??

As long as the grape harvest is good, and there's plenty of wine, I'll survive somehow...

 

[Goliath]

A shortage of food might actually do me some good.

So, no.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

A shortage of food might actually do me some good.

So, no.

Would you pay $30 for a loaf of bread? that's if you're lucky a loaf of bread is even on the supermarket shelf.

 

[RoJoHen]

This is the first I've heard of it, so no, I'm not worried.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Neither am i. Rather alarmist though. I won't put too much credence to it.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Google world food shortages.

One Link I found in 2 seconds of searching.

Another

Another more recent

Another

Another

 

[cultcross]

There were food shortages rising last year during the oil price hike, I've heard nothing about it since, and oil prices dropped then stabilised, so I'm not too worried, no.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I'm still not worried. Plus, scientists have already said that we're in an El Nino, so prepare for a wet winter in CA.

 

[Goliath]

A shortage of food might actually do me some good.

So, no.

Would you pay $30 for a loaf of bread? that's if you're lucky a loaf of bread is even on the supermarket shelf.

If I had to, yes.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Well i'm not taking anything for granted. I'm stocking up on food especially packets of pasta and rice just incase.
I certainly aint getting caught with my trousers down.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

Google world food shortages.

One Link I found in 2 seconds of searching.

Another

Another more recent

Another

Another

Eh, we're over populated anyway ...

The world tends to balance itself out in the end so somehow things will work out.

 

[Amaris]

I can't keep ahead on groceries more than a few days, so unless the shortage lasts two or three days, um, no.


J.

 

[Aurian]

Am I preparing? No. And no, I would not pay that much for bread, when I can bake it myself as long as I have access to some sort of grain.

And I could prolly eat from our cupboards for several weeks before starvation and boredom hits. (The chocolatestash in my bakingcabinet could keep hormonal women happy for months)

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I can't keep ahead on groceries more than a few days, so unless the shortage lasts two or three days, um, no.


J.

I'm buying at least 365 packets of pasta not straight away, over time, but not too long a time.

 

[RoJoHen]

Your pasta comes in packets?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Your pasta comes in packets?

Indeed.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I keep the pantry stocked. But that's not going to last me more than six months. And if there were rolling black outs, a loss of running water or some such I would not be able to prepare half of it. No matter how I prepare, I'm screwed if society collapses. So I'm not going to worry about it. Too much.

 

[Aurian]

Why 365 of those packages? Why not buy a 5 kilo bag at once.. or in your case.. about 60 of them?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Why 365 of those packages? Why not buy a 5 kilo bag at once.. or in your case.. about 60 of them?

OK I exaggerated the 365 packets, i'll probably just buy the biggest packets of it I can find and store as much as possible in my spare room.

I wonder what other foods would last a long time in storage. Hmmm.