Is there a coming US food crisis?

[Crepitus]

Lordy-lord OP....Got a TL;DR version of that?

He said "DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO STARVE US!!!!!~!!!"

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

No need, really. Country folk will survive regardless.

Shit. I could go down to the creek and make a meal out of crawdads and poke salad if I had to.

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This is the blessing of living in a small town in Flyover Country and going to church regularly.

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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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Indeed, there was a time when beef was also corn fed. That is a thing of the past.
Beef production has shifted towards more grass-fed methods, which are often seen as more sustainable. Government restrictions on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land access have been a point of contention, as they can limit grazing and other agricultural activities that ranchers rely on.

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The Department of the Interior is proposing to rescind the Bureau of Land Management’s Public Lands Rule, aligning with Secretary Doug Burgum’s commitment to restoring balance in federal land management by prioritizing multiple-use access, empowering local decision-making and supporting...

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I just broke into the new bunch of beef I got from a member of my church. Completely pastured and then hay fed in the winter. Grown by friends of mine who are just as assiduous as I am about only putting clean food in my body. My friends know that almost no corn these days can be truthfully called "organic" or non-GMO.

I started browning some hamburger to start a soup with, and I was blown away by a beautiful smell I hadn't smelled in a very long time -- beef like we ate as kids, before industry started poisoning our food.

And it was cheap! I bought a quarter of a calf and it came out to be less than $5 per pound! The steaks and short ribs are calling my name from the freezer!

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[toobfreak]

I started browning some hamburger to start a soup with, and I was blown away by a beautiful smell I hadn't smelled in a very long time

That was your kitchen apron caught on fire!

 

[1srelluc]

That was your kitchen apron caught on fire!

Mods hate that gif when used differently.

 

[Chuz Life]

No need, really. Country folk will survive regardless.

Shit. I could go down to the creek and make a meal out of crawdads and poke salad if I had to.

I have deer, turkey, ducks, fish options, as well as rabbit, squirrel, occasional bob white. . . if times get hard, I hear even the Musrats are edible.

Put out a decent garden and I could do pretty well and probably be healthier for it.

 

[1srelluc]

In his 3rd autobiography written before he was 40, notable narcissist Barack Obama described grasshoppers as crunchy.

And dog meat was tough but snake meat was even tougher.

I guess it would depend on the method of cooking. If you cooked dog meat low and slow, it might get tender.

Meh, I've found rattlesnake to be pretty tender just pan fried.

I'll give it another couple weeks and go after some American eels......Yummy!

 

[JustAnotherNut]

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Even if not a massive shortage, there is affordability issues. Also, food quality is very poor nowadays. Stone fruit is inedible in many locals.

Dairy is left out and is melted or gets hot like this yogurt that separated from being warm before it was put under refirgertion.

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Ice cream is all melted before you buy it and refrozen.

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cold food is left out for hours sometimes.

Actually the yogurt should still be good. Separation happens and not a bad thing. It's the separation of the curds and whey, just stir them up to remix.

Yogurt is fermented milk, which happens with heat anyway, so it sitting out without refrigeration (like has been done for thousands of years).......is allowing the live cultures to multiply, which really is a good thing for gut bacteria.


OK, that ^^^ is true with good organic yogurt, maybe not with the cheap stuff though


I've not done it yet, but yogurt is pretty easy to make at home.....

This is the old fashioned way.....

How to Make Yogurt Without Starter: 6 Methods That Actually Work - Self Sufficient Projects

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Or just mix some store bought yogurt as a starter with whole milk.


As for Greek yogurt....IDK how that's any different or if it has different storage needs.

 

[Doc7505]

What, does Barry write a new book every ten years?


Steaming over a long slow heat is the key.

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Cooked slow on a low flame in am cast iron Dutch oven, with a little wine, but don't forget the carrots, celery and onion.

 

[Yarddog]

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Even if not a massive shortage, there is affordability issues. Also, food quality is very poor nowadays. Stone fruit is inedible in many locals.

Dairy is left out and is melted or gets hot like this yogurt that separated from being warm before it was put under refirgertion.

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Ice cream is all melted before you buy it and refrozen.

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cold food is left out for hours sometimes.

True , well I worked the dairy section before once in my life in a major grocery store. Just want to let you know, we are not all inept. When I did the Ice cream and yogurts ..etc.. was always very careful not to leave it out too long while trying to re -stock. I'm pretty sure I never made anyone sick.

 

[Doc7505]

Meh, I've found rattlesnake to be pretty tender just pan fried.

I'll give it another couple weeks and go after some American eels......Yummy!

Like my eel fried and then cooked in a tomato sauce served with a cooled glass of Liebfrauenmilch wine.

 

[Doc7505]

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I just broke into the new bunch of beef I got from a member of my church. Completely pastured and then hay fed in the winter. Grown by friends of mine who are just as assiduous as I am about only putting clean food in my body. My friends know that almost no corn these days can be truthfully called "organic" or non-GMO.

I started browning some hamburger to start a soup with, and I was blown away by a beautiful smell I hadn't smelled in a very long time -- beef like we ate as kids, before industry started poisoning our food.

And it was cheap! I bought a quarter of a calf and it came out to be less than $5 per pound! The steaks and short ribs are calling my name from the freezer!

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Before I moved to a smaller property in NC, I also grew three to four hogs a year had chickens grew corns and vegetables.
My neighbors always were willing to share their beef with us.
I return, I furnished them with grass and corn feed and up to three of the hogs I grew. We traded products and they loved my cured and smoked hams.
That is all now a thing of the past.

 

[sparky]

beef like we ate as kids, before industry started poisoning our food.

hold that thought OPJQ

American eels

with ID?

Liebfrauenmilch

oksurefine Doc......~S~

 

[The Irish Ram]

I have deer, turkey, ducks, fish options, as well as rabbit, squirrel, occasional bob white. . . if times get hard, I hear even the Musrats are edible.

Put out a decent garden and I could do pretty well and probably be healthier for it.

I used to think that too. But now, the squirrels have Raccoon Round Worm, the raccoons are carrying rabies, the deer and elk have wasting away disease.
If times get hard, the elite have decided that we are not entitled to ammunition, seeds, water, soil, or clean air. That's just for starters. Any private property is out of the question...

 

[Failzero]

I used to think that too. But now, the squirrels have Raccoon Round Worm, the raccoons are carrying rabies, the deer and elk have wasting away disease.
If times get hard, the elite have decided that we are not entitled to ammunition, seeds, water, soil, or clean air. That's just for starters. Any private property is out of the question...

Hog , Turkey , Quail , and fish in Lakes and Upper Sac River

 

[BS Filter]

Nope. Plenty of food.

 

[Synthaholic]

Never had a food problem until Trump came along.

 

[Failzero]

Never had a food problem until Trump came along.

Calamari is good

 

[Chuz Life]

I used to think that too. But now, the squirrels have Raccoon Round Worm, the raccoons are carrying rabies, the deer and elk have wasting away disease.
If times get hard, the elite have decided that we are not entitled to ammunition, seeds, water, soil, or clean air. That's just for starters. Any private property is out of the question...

No such problems in my area. . . plus I have plenty of neighbors raising their own cows, pigs and chickens.

Plenty of room for more.

 

[Votto]

Is there a coming US food crisis?​

Most Americans can’t imagine their favorite restaurant just being out of certain foods. But the threat is closer than we think.​

Is there a coming US food crisis?

Most Americans can’t imagine their favorite restaurant just being out of certain foods. But the threat is closer than we think.

www.americanthinker.com

117 Mar 2026 ~~ By John Klar

It is difficult to imagine that the mighty United States could face threats to its seemingly abundant supply of grocery store and restaurant offerings. America has led the world in creating the modern industrial food system (known as “the Green Revolution”) and remains the world’s top food-exporting nation. Yet economic and logistical fractures have become visible, threatening to burst this illusion of plenty in a matter of moments.
America’s farms have been quietly disappearing for decades, and productive farmland acreage has dropped in tandem. The U.S. now imports more food than it exports, much of that from China. The pandemic revealed the vulnerability of strained supply lines as grocery shelves emptied of more than mere toilet paper. Americans clamor for cheap hamburger, but the U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it’s been in 75 years. These are all harbingers of future food supply challenges.
The farmer revolts in the E.U. are distant from America’s shores, but they reflect ongoing ideological pressures by globalists determined to dominate the world’s food production system. The odd bedfellows of animal rights activists and climate alarmists who attack farmers in Europe gather annually at Davos to declaim human eating habits. Both groups seek to “liberate” animals from the food supply: one to save the animals (and leave them unalived, because they will disappear); the other to save the world...from alleged climate change and the ubiquitous carbon culprit.
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Whether this drive to consolidate farming into the industrial model is motivated by a desire to control humanity (linking food purchases to an electronic currency and social credit would be a doozy) or simply the age-old push to increase market share, the result is the same: increasing dependency on ever fewer farms and food manufacturers for foods that are shipped ever-greater distances. More than half of all U.S. produce is grown in California; more than half of all lamb eaten here is shipped from Australia and New Zealand. This distribution system isn’t very good for the environment; it’s even worse for U.S. food security.
Americans spent about 9% of their average household budgets on food for more than five decades, enabled by technological advances, chemicals that boosted yields, and cheap fuels. Yet all three of these advances conceal hidden dangers, especially dependence on cheap energy. The Iran conflict threatens to spike oil and natural gas prices. Diesel is used in tractors. Urea, a key synthetic nitrogen fertilizer, is made from natural gas. Cheap food is the direct product of cheap energy.
What non-farmer drive-thru diners don’t discern is how quickly inflation impacts energy-layered food production inputs. Tractors need diesel as they till, plant, spray, and harvest; pesticides, seeds, equipment, and fertilizers are manufactured and delivered using fuel; crops and processed food products are shipped through vast distribution networks of shipping containers and tractor-trailer trucks. Food supplies are thus particularly vulnerable to compounded inflationary impacts.


Commentary:
Democrats and their Social Marxist friends are trying to create food shortages. The Biden administration created suplly side shortages, killing cows and chickens (using flu as an excuse) which drove up prices.
Mr Klar has compiled snippets of current and past history to try and prove to us there’s trouble! Right here in river city! I’m seeing way too many of those articles here lately. Farms, family or otherwise, have been selling out to their neighbors for over a century. Much of this is generational. The industrial revolution created vast numbers of jobs off the farms. Many farm children took advantage of that. Growing farms have more to do with technology and horsepower. One man is capable of managing far more acres than or grandfathers could.
If you wish to look at our current problems, I’ll point you towards a couple of government regs. First is the ethanol mandate. Over 40% of our corn is used in our fuel tanks. When these mandates went into effect vast amounts of grassland and CRP ground was turned under and put towards growing $8 corn. Now we have a hay shortage. The other has been our decade’s of low interest rates. This easy money policy has driven land prices into areas most farmers are unwilling to go. Rather than play their game many retire and sell/rent. What is left standing tends to be what everyone wants to call industrial farms. I know of a farmer who operates around 10,000 acres. Is it industrial or family? It’s operated by a father and son. They need to spread their ever growing inputs over more acres.

It is best for people to learn to start growing your own food.