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What goes around, does come around. That being the case, it’s time to reconsider the motto of the Boy Scouts: “Be prepared!”
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Survival Food
Why be prepared? For one reason, President Joe Biden warned that the sanctions placed on Russia for its invasion of the Ukraine will result in food shortages. The President said, “It’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed on Russia; it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country.” When the President tells us there will be food shortages, we must listen!
Or, maybe we will find ourselves in a Covid shutdown, like that imposed on our friends in Shanghai, who are locked up in their domiciles with only limited access to the grocery store. And when they are finally given access to the grocery store, they find that all the shelves are empty.
Or, maybe our money will lose its value, as it has for our friends down there in Venezuela. We hear that Venezuelan government recently raised the country’s minimum wage to seven million Bolivars per month. However, those seven million Bolivars are not enough money to buy two pounds of meat.
The fact is, we are now dependent on a food chain that extends from where we eat to where our food was grown, and that chain, as we all know, is only as strong as its weakest link.
Hopefully, what goes around will not come around, and we can all happily enjoy the bounties of living in America the Beautiful. But even so, we would all feel much better if we, like the Boy Scouts, get prepared! And so we begin with the question:
Leave a comment below: Should we buy or build our survival food?
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I encourage everyone to build a survival set of foods, that can feed your family for several months with very simple local food, grains and beans as staples, and begin to garden. You can create your own canned food, and work with your neighbors to create more than just food but social capital together, a sense of security and wealth.
You’ll be supporting local businesses and will enhance your community spirit.