Food Supply (4)
Our food supply is fragile
Grocery stores don’t stock weeks of food anymore. Most keep only
72 hours of food on the shelves. They re-stock based on just-in-time
delivery of food supplies. If the trucks stop rolling in your part of the
country during a crisis, the store shelves will be emptied almost immediately.
In fact, expect a shortage of mainstay items like milk and bread to occur
similar to what happens before an approaching hurricane hits. Those who
are aware of the problem but who haven’t already made preparations will
engage in a last-minute rush to buy a few extra supplies.
Transportation is the key to food
Without transportation, farmers can’t get their crops to the wholesalers
or food processing facilities. Food is heavy, generally speaking, and it requires
trucks and trains to move it around — a literal ARMY of trucks and trains,
weaving their way from city to city, optimized and prioritized by computers.
If the computers freeze, the whole transportation infrastructure will shutdown.
Transportation also depends heavily on fuel, which means the
oil-producing countries in the Middle East have to be able to produce the
oil that gets refined into diesel fuel here in America. So, in other words,
your food supply depends on Saudi Arabia being alive and well.
Do you trust the people in charge in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Kuwait
with your life? If you don’t make preparations now, you’re trusting them by default.