J. Michael Stevens Group
April 15, 2008

By Steve Shenk

The UN World Food Program is asking for $1 billion – $500 million of which they want paid by May 1st. This is to come from developed nations, including the United States, to help with the starvation in under-developed countries. Surely, no one would argue with the humanitarian need to feed the starving Third World countries.

Every country in the world is experiencing food shortages and runaway food prices. So you have to ask yourself, “Where are they going to get the $1 billion worth of food to buy?”

Remember, we are entering the third year of this worldwide famine. The UN has declared a world-wide food emergency.

Third World starvation is terrible, but it’s not just “them.” Unfortunately, the United States itself has started to starve. We have rationing and ridiculous cost increases of wheat flour (the source for spaghetti, noodles, macaroni, etc.- the basic food of the poor among us). With the bees disappearing in the United States, pollination of fruits, vegetables and nuts isn’t happening. Corn shortages will cause severe rationing before the next crop comes in. This means livestock feed will be in very short supply effecting meat, poultry and dairy products.

The United States has been importing 30% to 40% of its food. Countries we are importing from have shut down exports to us to save the food for their own people.

Remember, every country in the world is experiencing food shortages and runaway food prices. So again you have to ask yourself, “Where are they going to get the $1 billion worth of food to buy?”

There is only one developed country that will not shut down exports of food to protect its people. That’s the United States. The reason is that our food supply is controlled by international agri-corps. These multi-national food companies will gladly sell our American food to the UN (paid for with your American dollars.)

The bottom line is this – you must realize that the United States of America has 30% less food than what it takes to feed our own population on any given day. Please understand that in all probability these global food organizations will use America’s money to buy what’s left of your food.

Our middle and upper income families will enter a never before imagined terror for their own ability to survive when food in the next few months becomes tremendously expensive and ultimately a black marketed commodity. It will make no difference how prosperous or poor an individual is. In the near future the measure of wealth will not be the mansion on the hill with a basement vault full of guns and gold. True wealth will be a supply of food to last three to five years.

Your job is to do your research and decide what the worldwide, and particularly the United States, famine means to you. Check on world and American food availability. When the UN declares an emergency, you have to believe that the famine is no longer recoverable.

When the mass media is forced to report the famine, you can be sure of two things:

1. They will first point to problems outside the United States to distract us from our own rising levels of food shortages.
2. You will shortly see heart-wrenching examples of world organization planes and trucks feeding the starving people of these undeveloped countries. But be more concerned with what you aren’t shown. You won’t see the other people in those countries left to starve (they weren’t fortunate enough to be “selected” for the photo op.)

But even more important is the fact that those of you who can still just barely afford food (clean or not), will never be told how fast food is disappearing in America until the riots break out.

But then, of course, this all could be the ravings of a paranoid, overheated, foolish brain.

The genetically altered crops could be eliminated worldwide and those remaining could be required to carry pharmaceutical disclaimers. (For example: immune deficiency diseases, cancer, diabetes, heart failure, impotence, Alzheimer’s, Morgellon’s Disease, hypertension, etc.)

The bees could miraculously regenerate and pollinate this year’s crop bringing back two thirds of the food we eat every day.

The thousands of farmers paid not to grow crops could instantaneously bypass the three to five years, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment costs, needed to get immediately back into production. (Of course, the last generation of farm kids would have to be pulled back from their city jobs because grandma and grandpa are too old to ride the tractors.)

Fuel prices could be dropped to an “honest” profit over cost. Then truckers could make a decent living hauling our food and farmers could afford to plant.

The worldwide famine where the planet didn’t produce as much food as the population ate the last two years is now entering its third growing season with less water and fewer crops planted. We could hope to see media headlines in a month or two declaring, “We were just kidding about all this food scarcity stuff. We just wanted to scare you.”

The countries that we import food from could apologize for shutting off exports and, even though they don’t have enough food for themselves, they could share with us just because they like Americans.

Investors could sell back water rights in land over aquifers to return them to public rather than private use and control.

The Doomsday Seeds Vault in Norway could be permanently sealed. It wouldn’t be needed if farmers worldwide were given back (heritage) seeds to plant year after year, never having to buy seed again.

Yes, this whole mess could get miraculously turned around in the next couple of months. Food prices could drop to where even the poor in the US could afford their spaghetti. And it could be that we will never see a food riot or a bread line with no bread on American soil.

Do your research and place your bet on what you think will happen.

Is it better to have what you don’t need or need what you don’t have?

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