Note: In May 2022, Michael Snyder warned, “We Are Facing A Worldwide Famine. Today he explains that the worldwide famine is closer than you think.
Global food supplies keep getting even tighter, and global hunger has risen to alarming levels. As I write this article, people on the other side of the world are starving to death. Still, most of us in the Western world do not care about the millions suffering because the mainstream media hardly ever talks about what is happening. But the truth is that we are also feeling the impact of this global food crisis. As I warned my readers repeatedly, the primary way this crisis would manifest itself in wealthy countries during the early stages would be through higher food prices, which is precisely what we are witnessing. On Friday, I went to the grocery store, and a small bag of chips that I could once buy on sale for 99 cents now has a regular price of 5.99 stamped on it. Throughout the store, there were so many products that I refused to purchase because I thought that they had simply become way too expensive, but those prices are not going back down to where they once were. Food inflation is here to stay, and the entire planet will suffer as a result.
Unfortunately, most people simply cannot comprehend what is happening planetarily.
As a major British news source recently noted, we are facing “environmental breakdown and food system failure” simultaneously…
Global food supplies keep getting even tighter, and global hunger has risen to alarming levels. As I write this article, people on the other side of the world are starving to death. Still, most of us in the Western world simply do not care about the millions deeply suffering because the mainstream media hardly ever talks about what is happening. But the truth is that we are also feeling the impact of this global food crisis. As I warned my readers repeatedly, the primary way this crisis would manifest itself in wealthy countries during the early stages would be through higher food prices, which is precisely what we are witnessing. On Friday, I went to the grocery store, and a small bag of chips that I could once buy on sale for 99 cents now has a regular price of 5.99 stamped on it. Throughout the store, there were so many products that I refused to purchase because I thought that they had simply become way too expensive, but those prices are not going back down to where they once were. Food inflation is here to stay, and the entire planet will suffer as a result.
Unfortunately, most people simply cannot comprehend what is happening on a planetary scale.
As a major British news source recently noted, we are facing “environmental breakdown and food system failure” simultaneously…
We face an epochal, unthinkable prospect: of perhaps the two greatest existential threats – environmental breakdown and food system failure – converging, as one triggers the other.
Some experts were optimistically talking about eradicating global hunger a decade ago.
But the number of hungry people worldwide started in 2015, and things have been getting worse ever since…
For many years, the number of hungry people fell. But in 2015 the trend turned and has been curving upwards since.
According to the United Nations, nearly 30 percent of the global population does not have constant access to food right now, and approximately 900 million people are facing “severe food insecurity”…
The food security and nutrition situation remained grim in 2022. The report finds that approximately 29.6 percent of the global population, equivalent to 2.4 billion people, did not have constant access to food, as measured by the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity. Among them, around 900 million individuals faced severe food insecurity.
Just think about that for a moment.
2.4 billion people do not have enough food to eat.
And as global food supplies get even tighter, that number will only increase.
Unfortunately, in 2023 we have seen crops get devastated by natural disasters and bizarre weather patterns over and over again.
For example, in areas of Vermont hammered by flooding this month, many farmers have entirely lost their crops…
Farmers across our region are grappling with massive crop losses due to this week’s flooding. That includes dozens of farm operations at Burlington’s Intervale, who are picking up the pieces as they face a difficult road ahead.
“For us. it is kind of over until we can replant,” said Hillary Martin with Diggers’ Mirth Collective Farm. She says the flooding was a total crop loss for everyone at the Intervale and that her farm has already lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. “We have just totaled what we lost that was in the field — about $250,000 in produce. That does not include what we can not plant for the next month.”
Vermont Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts says many farmers are in the same situation statewide. “It will run millions of dollars. It will be extraordinary because of just the crop losses,” he said.
In the middle of the country, a crippling drought devastates corn and soybean farmers…
Record-breaking heat and pockets of drought are baking farmland across the country, threatening crop yields and squeezing out any remaining wiggle room to cope with more extreme weather this summer.
Throughout the Sun Belt, an extended heat wave is sending temperatures soaring into the triple digits and risking heat stress to crops. At the same time, breadbasket states in the Midwest are struggling to manage a drought that’s affecting some areas for a second year in a row. Nearly two-thirds of Kansas is in severe, extreme or exceptional drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, and about half of Missouri and Nebraska are in the same rough shape.
Of course, it isn’t just the U.S. being hit extremely hard.
As I explained last week, tomato prices in India have increased by 400 percent due to the historic disasters the nation has been dealing with.
In central Canada, one farmer hasn’t had a good crop since 2016 due to the seemingly endless drought plaguing Saskatchewan…
Seven is often considered a lucky number but not for Tyson Jacksteit.
That’s how many consecutive years of drought his family has now gone through on their west-central Saskatchewan farm near Golden Prairie.
The last good crop was in 2016, he said, with the rain from that year carrying them through the next. But since then it’s just been “a downhill slide of drought.”
“We’re in survival mode,” he said last week.
Unfortunately, conditions will only get more difficult for farmers around the globe in the years ahead.
So I would encourage you to stock up while you still can.
Though prices may seem high now, they are only going higher.
For instance, canned peaches are already quite expensive, but soon they will cost a lot more because “the Peach State” will barely produce any peaches in 2023…
Midsummer is the peak of juicy peach season in the state of Georgia. But, recently, the Peach Cobbler Factory in Atlanta ran out of peaches and was forced to pivot to… apple cobbler.
The Peach State lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts. The triple-whammy destroyed peach varieties specifically bred to survive different weather scenarios and wildly inflated prices of the fruit. It also moved much of the local market — in some cases, quite unwillingly — to California peaches.
But, beyond the toll this took on employment, the state economy, decades of tradition and restaurant menus, peaches are a matter of pride for Georgians. The peach is the state fruit. Its in the name of dozens of state roads. It’s even on the flip side of the Georgia state quarter. So, how embarrassing is this?
In previous articles, I have discussed many other examples.
All over the world, food producers are facing unprecedented challenges.
You can believe that things will eventually “return to normal” if you want, but the truth is that a “return to normal” is simply not in the cards.
We have reached a significant tipping point, and from this moment forward, we will see things happen that once would have been unimaginable.
