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Since guns and ammo are scarce or priced outta sight... and silver, gold, and copper are right behind it... we might as well stockpile food - NOW - if you haven't already!!!    

One Bank Warns Soaring Food Prices Will Lead To Social Unrest

by Tyler Durden

Thursday, Apr 29, 2021 - 09:11 AM

Yesterday we explained why with prices already soaring, global inflation was about to go into overdrive as the leading food price indicator that is the Bloomberg Agri spot index hit the highest level in six years.

In a nutshell, this is a problem since food is a large component of CPI baskets in Asia, and "this large inflationary impulse in the region that houses more than half the world’s population should result in higher wage costs in the factory base of the world. As CPI and PPI rise in Asia, it will feed through globally in the months ahead."
Today, DB's Jim Reid picked that chart as his "Chart of the day", repeating what readers already know, namely that Bloomberg’s agriculture spot index has risen by c.76% year-on-year, noting that "that’s the biggest annual rise in nearly a decade, and there are only a couple of other comparable episodes since the index begins back in 1991."

Like us, Reid then patiently tries to explain to all the idiots - like those employed in the Marriner Eccles building - that the importance of this record surge "extends far beyond your weekly shop, as there’s an extensive literature connecting higher food prices to periods of social unrest." Indeed, you’ll notice from the chart that the last big surge from the middle of 2010 to early 2011 coincided with the start of the Arab Spring, for which food inflation is regarded as a contributing factor.

While this is hardly new - we discussed it in "Why Albert Edwards Is Starting To Panic About Soaring Food Prices" and in "We Are Edging Closer To A Biblical Commodity Price Increase Scenario" - Reid also reminds us that emerging markets are more vulnerable to this trend, since their consumers spend a far greater share of their income on food than those in the developed world.

The DB strategist then goes all-in and says what everyone is thinking, namely that "this trend of higher food prices leading to social unrest extends far back into history and surrounds many key turning points. The French Revolution of 1789, which overthrew the Ancien Régime, came after a succession of poor harvests that led to major rises in food prices. It was a similar story at the time of Europe’s 1848 revolutions too, which followed the failure of potato crops in the 1840s and the associated severe famine in much of Europe. And the 1917 overthrow of the Tsarist regime in Russia took place in the context of food shortages as well."

So while it remains to be seen what the consequences of today’s surge in food prices could be, Reid cautions that "given the hardship that’s already occurred thanks to the pandemic, a fresh wave of unrest would be no surprise on a historical basis."

[Zombie.Hunter]

People these days are starting to hoard everything and it doesn't surprise me.
Trust me I've got my own nice little stockpile with food and my stockpile was only going to get bigger because when the food Runs Out people are going to panic and I'm not going near a Walmart anytime soon I will be sitting at home and eating whatever the hell I want.

[The War Wagon]

Just watch the cooking "fumes"... so the zombies don't come to eat YOU and your food! 

[Zombie.Hunter]

The biggest thing I've been stockpiling is ramen cups of noodles, they're definitely cheap and easy to cook and you Don't need to cook them on the stove therefore they don't attract attention like grilling out wood or frying something on the stovetop or in the oven.
I've been trying to stockpile easy to cook items that don't require a lot of prep time and cooking itself. Having easy to make items will certainly make life a little easier when the SHTF.

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[Zombie.Hunter]

With the political unrest and economic trouble sometimes lately I think it's best to start stockpiling as much food as possible because you never know when the shelves are going to be bare.
I myself went to Walmart just last night and bought $150 you're still in dry goods for my storage shelves not to mention I've got about a year Supply in dry prepper Foods bought online.
Everything you can imagine all the meals all the desserts side dishes everything and you only need to add water and I bought plenty of cases of that which is stored in my basement as well.
I don't plan on running out of food anytime soon.

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[Zombie.Hunter]

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