Potential Food and Energy Shortage Across the World

Joel Salatin posted an article on his blog yesterday about the so-called egg "shortage."
He states:
"The Trump administration is sucking up the entire news cycle, but something is percolating underneath in America that is extremely disturbing. The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association just released a 4-day synopsis of exterminated chickens and it's unnerving. This is 4 days, folks.

Weekly Disease Update 2/4-2/10

POULTRY CASES

2/4/25: Dauphin Co., PA, Commercial Egg Layer, 1,975,300
Adams Co., PA, WOAH Non-Poultry, 30
Mercer Co., OH, Commercial Turkey (x3), 27,300
Mercer Co., OH, Egg Pullets, 88,300
Mercer Co., OH, Egg Layers, 96,700
Darke Co., OH, Commercial Turkey, 5,400
Queens Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 1,100
Bronx Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 100
Newton Co., MO, Commercial Turkey, 13,600
Lawrence Co., MO, Commercial Turkey Breeder, 14,300
Jasper Co., MO, Commercial Turkey, 49,500
Alpena Co., MI, WOAH Non-Poultry, 8
Worcester Co., MD, Commercial Broiler, 201,600
Harvey Co., KS, WOAH Non-Poultry, 50
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[That's one day.......he lists three more days of "culling" on his blog.........Musings from the Lunatic Farmer]
If you're still with me, you realize that even a cursory look at this list indicates we are in a strange place with agriculture and food. As far as I know, here is the situation:

The USDA head of the bird flu program now says it's ubiquitous--in the air, everywhere.

The USDA is using the widely discredited PCR test to determine what chickens and turkeys (and now dairy cows) have it.

The PCR test is a bit like a virus microscope and you can adjust the magnification (called "cycles") to find smaller and smaller bits and pieces. Massachusetts Dept. of Ag, to my knowledge, is the only state that has officially and publicly said anything above 30 cycles is fraudulent. In other words, you can magnify until you find parts anywhere--on your eating utensils, in your hair, and certainly in feathers. The USDA is using 45 cycles.

In other words, when you get particle size low enough, you can find almost anything anywhere. Kind of like the Russians who said "show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." In other words, if you want to arrest someone, we have enough rules to find something he offended.

Finally, realize that anyone who grows plants and animals knows that to strengthen genetics, you save, cultivate, and breed the survivors of a disease; you don't exterminate the specimens with immune systems vibrant enough to overcome the disease. The blanket extermination, even of the immune chickens, is probably one of the most asinine protocols ever foisted upon the food system.
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......for the life of me none of this makes sense, and the numbers are overwhelming and shocking. And not even in the news.
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Alex Krainer has an interesting and depressing article recently posted on his substack:

The global war on farming gathers pace

Here's a sample:

Food production is also being suffocated through regulatory measures. Active farmers are buried under the burgeoning regulatory requirements, forcing them to spend long hours filing endless forms to be compliant with burgeoning rules and regulations. Many of the new rules, including the "get out of farming payments scheme," effectively punish or discourage food production while incentivizing the farmers to sell their farms. Farmland is then often bought by global investment behemoths like BlackRock and Vanguard. The result is that livestock is gradually disappearing and food production is shrinking, which is by now obvious to see in our supermarkets. Now there are reports that the UK government is planning a mass culling of livestock towards the end of 2025.

According to Byford, similar measures are being pursued in Ireland, the EU as well as in India and many African countries with the effect that today there is 72% less food moving through global distribution chains than in the pre-pandemic period. Most probably, this is all caused by climate change or perhaps Russia, Russia, Russia, or China, China, China. However, there's also a strange coincidence that all these measures appear to have been planned.
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Zerohedge published an article originating at Beef News stating that Walmart joined the "Big Four" Beef producers with a $700 million vertical investment in the beef industry. The basic contention of the article is: "Unlike the others, Walmart doesn’t have to make money on meat. It can sell beef at cost to move more detergent, diapers, and digital subscriptions. If you’re a rancher? You’re not negotiating with a buyer—you’re entering a corporate conveyor belt."
Excerpts from the article:

The Big Four Just Became Five: Walmart Quietly Captures the Beef Chain​

Walmart has spent over $660 million building its own beef empire—from processor to packaging plant to retail shelf. That makes them more than just a grocer; it makes them the fifth major packer, joining Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef. The press calls it “resilience,” but ranchers know what it really is: vertical consolidation dressed in feel-good PR.

A $700 million vertical integration move—framed as “resilience” and “investment in U.S. beef”—just claimed what little was left of the open market.

Walmart’s new case-ready beef facility in Olathe, Kansas isn’t just another fulfillment center—it’s a chess move.

A 300,000-square-foot plant. 600 new jobs. Cuts packed, labeled, and shipped straight to Walmart shelves. And all of it fed by one source: Sustainable Beef LLC, the North Platte processor Walmart bought into back in 2022.

What the press release calls “supply chain transparency” is really supply chain capture. “We’re delivering more of what our customers want—affordable food and quality they can trust.” — John Laney, EVP Food, Walmart U.S. Trust, sure. Just don’t ask who sets the prices for the people raising the cattle.

Walmart now owns a piece of the processor (Sustainable Beef), owns the packaging plant (Olathe), and controls the retail outlet (Walmart stores). This isn’t a backup plan. It’s a power play.
  • Walmart decides what cattle are worth
  • Walmart decides how it’s cut and wrapped
  • Walmart decides what consumers pay
The middle? Gone.

Small Processors Wiped Out​

According to USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Report, the number of federally inspected beef slaughter plants declined from 297 in 2013 to 271 by 2022.

Nationwide, over half of small and mid-sized beef processors (those handling 5–500 head per week) disappeared between 2000 and 2020, based on analysis from Rocky Mountain Farmers Union.

Then COVID hit. According to NIOSH and CDC data, more than 480 meat and poultry facilities across the country reported COVID outbreaks. Many of the small ones—already fragile—never reopened.

Nationwide, small and mid-sized beef processors have declined sharply over the past two decades, with many regions—including the High Plains—now facing limited slaughter access and months-long backlogs.

And unlike the others, Walmart doesn’t have to make money on meat. It can sell beef at cost to move more detergent, diapers, and digital subscriptions. If you’re a rancher? You’re not negotiating with a buyer—you’re entering a corporate conveyor belt.
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Christian Westbrook / Ice Age Farmer has a substack now.

He informs us:
Flagship Pioneering, creator of Moderna (and a WEF partner), has just unveiled Terrana Biosciences, providing $50mm to scale-up development of their flagship product, an RNA spray which enters the plant and alters gene expression.

The company’s leadership is a “who’s who” of pharmaceutical and AgTech genetic engineering-meets-AI.

“The difference with Terrana’s technology is it actually goes inside the plant.....After being sprayed on, the RNA enters the plant through small tears in the leaves. With this method, Terrana can load in RNAs that act as ‘programmable plant vaccines’ or proteins that can aid in insect resistance or antifungal capabilities, for example.”

What’s more: the changes are hereditary. They flow to the next generation of crops.
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There is a 12 minute video on his site.
 
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Radioactive shrimp, Cesium-137, coming from Indonesia is being recalled. In another report the contaminated water from Fukushima was a suspected source.

Seattle-based AquaStar (USA) Corp is recalling approximately 26,460 6-ounce packages of cocktail shrimp, imported from Indonesia, and sold between July 31 and Aug. 16.

The states in which they have been sold are Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin,

A day earlier, on Aug. 27, the FDA issued a similar recall warning for frozen cooked shrimp sold across 17 states. In that instance, the importer, Aquastar, had recalled approximately 18,000 bags (net weight 2 pounds) of Kroger Mercado Cooked Medium Peeled Tail-Off Shrimp.
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On Aug. 26, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that federal health authorities are taking a closer look at shrimp being imported into the United States after the FDA issued warnings about potentially radioactive shrimp that were recalled last week.

“We have now increased FDA inspections of shrimp to make sure that Americans are not eating ... contaminated shrimp,” Kennedy said at a Cabinet meeting.

Kennedy also said that South Asian countries “are now dumping shrimp on our country, and the shrimp is heavily contaminated” and that “we just stopped a shipment that was contaminated with [Cesium-137].”

“They’re farming these shrimps, and they’re using bactericides and antibiotics and all kinds of chemicals, and the shrimp are so contaminated. The European nations won’t take them, so they’re dumping them all here. We have the most sustainable and most highly regulated fishing industry in the world. What our fishermen do is a good thing. And all of the trawlers in the Gulf and in Alaska are being shut down,” Kennedy said.

Jack Philips contributed to this report.
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New Recall Of Potentially Radioactive Cocktail Shrimp In 27 US States | ZeroHedge

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