Is there a coming US food crisis?

[Failzero]

Turkey , Hogs , quail , … Even been told Alpaca is good eatin ( You gotta be able to hunt ) and within bicycle or walking distance I have the upper Sac and Whiskeytown Lake & various creeks to fish

 

[initforme]

Grow a garden it takes little work.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Grow a garden it takes little work.

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Just about everyone I know has a garden, unless they're busy growing livestock.

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[initforme]

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Just about everyone I know has a garden, unless they're busy growing livestock.

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Raising them humanely. As it should be. Good on them. I eat alot of veggies. Red meat 1x per week small portions. Industry raised cattle are full of chemicals. Why they do that is a head scratcher.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Raising them humanely. As it should be. Good on them. I eat alot of veggies. Red meat 1x per week small portions. Industry raised cattle are full of chemicals. Why they do that is a head scratcher.

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Yes, by all means. My friends who farm and raise livestock are all very concerned with what they put in their own bodies, so I know that I can eat what they grow with confidence. They'd never sell me poison.

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[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

That guy look like a Cartel Henchman from Zacatecas

You don't recognize him? He died early on in the Iran punitive action.

 

[Failzero]

You don't recognize him? He died early on in the Iran punitive action.

I’m just sayin what he be lookin like ( not who he is )

 

[Doc7505]

How many grow food in their gardens (yards)?

I remember my dad growing food through the winter in the greenhouse, heated by a paraffin heater.

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During the Great Depression, many families turned to backyard vegetable gardens, known as 'relief gardens', to combat hunger and poverty. These gardens allowed families to grow essential crops like potatoes, beans, and corn, providing a vital food source during tough economic times.
'Victory gardens' were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted during World War II to supplement food rations and boost morale among civilians. They became a significant part of the home front effort, with Americans growing an estimated 40% of the nation's fresh vegetables through these gardens.

 

[Captain Caveman]

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During the Great Depression, many families turned to backyard vegetable gardens, known as 'relief gardens', to combat hunger and poverty. These gardens allowed families to grow essential crops like potatoes, beans, and corn, providing a vital food source during tough economic times.
'Victory gardens' were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted during World War II to supplement food rations and boost morale among civilians. They became a significant part of the home front effort, with Americans growing an estimated 40% of the nation's fresh vegetables through these gardens.

I remember my parents, and us as kids, growing black currents, raspberries, onions, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, and Brussel sprouts.

If folk organised their lives and did such things as grow food and used the kitchen, plus, they don't rely on vehicles and thus the cost of fuel, they wouldn't have much to whine about.

 

[Doc7505]

Turkey , Hogs , quail , … Even been told Alpaca is good eatin ( You gotta be able to hunt ) and within bicycle or walking distance I have the upper Sac and Whiskeytown Lake & various creeks to fish

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Indeed, miss those days when all I had to do was to walk out of my home up the hill and get fresh meat when there was available game.
My trick was keeping the coyote and Bob cat population in check.

 

[ThisIsMe]

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’s sad, the push for biofuels has lead farmers to move toward growing crops for ethanol and bio diesel and thus has caused us to increase imports on fruits and vegetables. Like 50% of our produce is imported.

Too much money to be made in fuel crops

 

[TruthSeeker112125]

Grow a garden it takes little work.

True!!!!! We put out a Garden aprrox. 50ft x 100ft

 

[Doc7505]

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.

Indeed, We've planted two varieties of tomato, wax and green beans, cucumbers, potato's, squash, sweet potatoes and corn. Even trimmed my two peach trees the beginning of May,

 

[JWBooth]

Happy days are on the way.

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[TruthSeeker112125]

Happy days are on the way.

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Yeah,... That would cause the Veggies to grow quicker wouldn't it JW?

I'd thank you for the contribution to Our Conversation, but,.... WTH?!?

 

[candycorn]

Never had a food problem until Trump came along.

When you deport....

The people who plant food
The people who tend to food
The people who pick the food
The people who transport the food
The people who clean the food
The people who can/tag/bag/stock the food

Is it any wonder there is an impending shortage of food? $1.75 for an apple...

 

[Failzero]

There is no “ Food Problem “ but there is an Illegal Migrant Crimewave and a pending Civil Unrest Problem from the Marxist / Islamist Alliance …

 

[Sparker]

We're in a food crisis now. The junk that Americans eat makes a fat and sick nation that needs more healthcare, while our healthcare system is failing.

 

[luiza]

Happy days are on the way.

Thanks to Rabbi Trumpfy and his pact with with Henry Winkler .

 

[Failzero]

Thanks to Rabbi Trumpfy and his pact with with Henry Winkler .

The Joooos are worse than 1930s Germans & 1970s South Africans and 1980s Rhodesians