Potential Food and Energy Shortage Across the World

Twitter thread on the deleterious food supply consequences of vax mandates:


THREAD - Food Supply Collapse

My family are currently in positions of plant manager and quality assurance manager in poultry plants. I can say for certain that the current situation is more dire than most people think- and we may see a near total collapse of the food supply.
Covid has thrown a wrench in every industry- especially food processing. Ranging from plant closures due to outbreaks and now government overreach with vaccine mandates.
The vaccine mandates in processing plants are not discussed at all, most likely due to the contempt our ruling class has for rural, working-class Americans.
The current situation with mandates is from multiple fronts: USDA inspectors and the factory workers. For context, USDA inspectors are federal employees that are paid for by processing plants and necessary for operation- without them these plants cannot run due to federal law.
Currently, there is a large shortage of inspectors. There are roughly 6,500 inspectors nationwide across all meat processing industries, with a roughly 500-700 inspector shortage. My family has been running into issues with these inspectors being stretched thin already.
The inspector at this Midwest plant is responsible for 3 total plants normally, but currently he is inspecting 9 total plants at the same time. This is dangerous for both the wellbeing of the inspector, but most importantly the quality of the food produced.
On top of that, the USDA is covering up their shortage. On their jobs page, they list a measly 57 openings for inspectors. They cover this up by only listing their positions for a week or two at a time to prevent people from realizing this dire shortage.
These inspectors have received a memo stating that they have until Friday, Nov. 19 to get vaccinated (despite the actual deadline being Dec. 4). The problem is that a sizable plurality of inspectors refuse to be bend to government vaccine mandates (roughly 25-35%).
If upwards of 35% of inspectors are fired come Dec. 4, we are looking at roughly 2,200 inspectors nationwide disappearing. This will be catastrophic. To be clear, I stand with those refusing and will fight with them.
Likewise, if a plant is stretched thin on quality assurance personnel to protect the quality of meat, that will lead to a complete shutdown of these plants until they can be fully staffed. We are looking at this being compounded with the inspector shortage.
If this happens, many plants will not be able to run. Meaning, no meat in the store and no food for children in public schools. Some of the biggest customers of the plant my family works at are public schools and prisons, as well as national chains.
This could result in children becoming malnourished at schools, as well as families having a very hard time putting food on the table. Now, how bad is the current situation, pre-mandate?
Managers at this plant have already had to jump on the line and help produce chicken due to lack of employees. This isn’t due to low pay or benefits- they stand as a beacon of hope and stability in the community. They value their workers but are on the verge of losing it all.
Likewise, corporate is already discussing sending corporate managers, including the CEO, to help relieve the already damaging constraints by working on the line with everyone else.
Only 25% of the plant is vaccinated, meaning the company will be forced to give weekly testing for all their locations, which will cost hundreds of thousands per year, or fire their hard-working employees.
If this plant, like hundreds of others across rural America, shut down it will be the final nail in the coffin of these towns and a total collapse of the food supply.
This is exacerbated by the fact that these employees oftentimes have no other skills besides working in food processing. Without this job, they won’t be able to feed their families and the towns they live in will die.
We are looking at a multi-dimensional planned disaster: people losing their jobs, food processing being destroyed and risking famine, and the total decimation of rural communities who rely on these jobs to support their families. It is completely avoidable, but they want this.
It doesn’t stop there: we are looking at a fertilizer shortage, with prices increasing 200% on ammonia. This spells disaster for family farms:

Global, Domestic Fertilizer Prices Continue to Rise Various logistical issues continue to plague fertilizer production, although at lesser levels than in October. Some countries are limiting exports, which is pushing prices sky high.https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/crops/article/2021/11/12/global-domestic-fertilizer-prices
While this isn’t meant to serve as a doomsday prediction, I urge people to be prepared for potential supply chain collapse- especially regarding food. Please, protect yourself and your loved ones. They are trying to purposely destroy our food supply.
As stated above, most people do not hear about food processing plants (except regarding cyberattacks earlier this year). This is a huge blindside to the American consumer who may soon not be able to get any meat at all, let alone hyper-inflated priced meat.
We are facing a total disaster. If the mandate goes into effect, we are looking at hundreds of thousands of families losing their livelihoods and millions of people becoming malnourished. And its all planned.
 
This afternoon while I was eating lunch, I noticed a 'tag line' on the bottom of the news report on tv (CBC, I think) saying that they will be talking about a salmon shortage here in Alberta, Canada, at 6:40 pm during their evening news. So, after lunch, I hopped in the car and went to Superstore (a large Canadian grocery chain) and took a look. Sure enough there was very little frozen salmon left (I picked up the last four '$10' packages because mom really likes them). They still have the 'Sea Quest' (which is a product of China) fish (white fish types) but very little salmon which will disappear very quickly, I think. Canned salmon still exists but I wonder for how long. I also noticed that there are no fresh mushrooms and very little fresh lettuce. Due to the BC flooding tragedy, the supply routes to Alberta were cut and is unknown when they will be repaired; and we get a lot of fresh produce from BC. We still get shipments from the States but, I wonder, for how long and how much (more?) will it cost. This whole thing is compounded by the shipping restrictions.

This situation made me think if there are other shortages of food or other things (like toilet paper) happening where you are?
 
Twitter thread on the deleterious food supply consequences of vax mandates:

When you put the pieces together with what's happened the last 2 years, this isn't a surprise, but is still harrowing to read about. I've been periodically running my freeze drier for chicken and raw lean steak. Stocked up on some freeze-dried meals from Amazon as well.
 

Nord Stream 2 cannot be certified – Berlin​

12 Dec, 2021 21:41 / Updated 36 minutes ago
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Nord Stream 2 cannot be certified – Berlin


Germany’s new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline from Russia can’t be launched yet because it doesn’t meet EU energy requirements and “safety” concerns are outstanding.

Baerbock, a Green politician who assumed her role in the Foreign Ministry this week, discussed the fate of the multinational project in an interview with the broadcaster ZDF on Sunday. She insisted it still hadn’t met all that was required for it to be certified.

“As things stand at the moment, this pipeline cannot be approved because it does not meet the requirements of European energy law, and the safety issues are still on the table,” she said.

The Greens have openly opposed the pipeline and, during the recent election campaign and called for a halt to its construction. Their coalition partners from the social-democratic SPD have been more reserved in expressing their opinion of the project.

Apart from the certification hurdles, the fate of the pipeline is directly linked to politics, Germany’s new SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has signaled, reiterating Berlin’s commitment to preserving the current transit of gas through Ukraine, for which Ukraine is remunerated by Russia, to the tune of billions of dollars annually.

“We continue to feel responsible for ensuring that Ukraine’s gas transit business remains successful. The same goes for future opportunities,” Scholz said during a joint press conference with Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki earlier in the day.

Scholz’s predecessor, Angela Merkel, had voiced her support for the pipeline, arguing that the project would secure a steady supply of natural gas for Europe as a whole. Merkel had similarly linked the prospects of launching the pipeline with the preservation of the current Ukrainian transit arrangement, however.

The project, which runs from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea bed, has faced multiple issues during its construction, ranging from the environmental concerns raised by several European nations to the direct pressure from and sanctions levied by Washington. Pipelaying operations for Nord Stream 2 commenced back in 2018, and were completed this September, after numerous roadblocks were surmounted. The project is still not supplying natural gas, however, and its certification process has been on hold since mid-November.


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And at the same time that there are "sanctions levied by Washington" :
 
As this issue increasingly rears up, Tsunami like, from beneath the surface waves of the 'Great Reset' Revolution, it seems time to start to track the build up of stress in the system both where we each are and systemically.

With a possible wind-down to medium level constant of the New Normal Plandemic, will the intentional (and unanticipated by most) crumbling of the global just-on-time supply chain suddenly accelerate and become a phase shift transition (that even the globalists can't control). Wherever you look geographically and whatever in-demand product, shortages and delays increase (right down to cat food as has been recently posted on the Covid thread). Add in hyper inflationary pressures and its a pot fit to burst.

Of course its all interconnected. The low activity real economy via lockdowns, the pressure on injections and passports, the staff shortages, the collapse in ambition and morale, the insane global warming narrative seeking to replace energy resources with not fit for purpose alternatives, etc, etc, all eat away at the delicate balance that holds the supply system steady as she goes.

We know from all the research here famine is one of the great tools of population control and suppression as well as an engine for mass change - and it always goes hand in hand with such disruptive epoch changes.

Christian, AKA Ice Age Farmer, has been trumpeting warnings on this matter since the early days of the pandemic, if not longer. He equates the process to the random punching of holes in a cheese until eventually the whole cheese rots and disintegrates all at once. He also rightly associates this process with a directed shift to get the population off meat and onto farmed bugs etc. Much of the evidence he has provided over the past 18 months demonstrates this is a deliberate and strategically targeted take down.

Here's his latest:

Farmers, Truckers STOPPED as Mainstream Food Supply Collapses


And from The Daily Reckoning a simple overview of the high stakes, namely the supply chain is the global economy. The editorial comment from Technocracy News reminds that behind all this is the ultimate goal of a technocratic, mass surveillance, self-policing, medicated, docile, low population totalitarianism:

The Supply Chain Is The Global Economy

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If globalization were a living body, then the Supply Chain represents the cardio-vascular system need to transport goods and services (the blood) between global destinations. When globalization suffers a heart attack, ie, the collapse of the Supply Chain, globalization will fall to the ground like a brick and die.

Before you cheer at the death of modern globalization, realize that it is intentionally being murdered in order for the Great Reset, aka Technocracy, to rise up out of the ashes. ⁃ TN Editor

Supply chain disruptions have not been resolved, and it’s not clear when they will be. You’re seeing the effects of these disruptions at the store in the forms of shortages and higher prices.

Yet the supply chain is a subject that very few are familiar with beyond a superficial acquaintance.

Most people think the supply chain is just part of the global economy. That’s not entirely true. The supply chain is the global economy.

There isn’t a single good or service of any kind that does not arrive through a supply chain. Not one.

If the global supply chain is broken, then the global economy is broken. That increasingly appears to be the case.

The supply chain difficulties will grow worse. Even more troubling is the fact that the remedies will take years and sometimes decades to implement.

The reasons for this have to do with long lead times in implementing onshoring. For example, the U.S. can cut its dependence on Asian semiconductor imports by building its own semiconductor fabrication plans (fabs).

The problem is that these plants take from three–five years to build, and the scale needed is enormous.

There are impediments to supply chain recovery that are not directly related to particular supply chains that nonetheless hurt the process of adaptation and substitution.

For example, there’s already a labor shortage in America. The causes are complicated.

There’s no literal shortage of potential workers, but many workers prefer to stay home because of some combination of government benefits, child-care responsibilities or inadequate pay offered by employers (who can’t afford to pay more themselves because they’ll go out of business).

A lot of this labor shortage centers on lower-wage jobs such as waiters, store clerks, fast-food staff and office assistants. But there will be a labor shortage coming soon in more high-skilled areas such as engineers, pilots, machinists and medical personnel.

This shortage will not be due to low pay, but to vaccine mandates.

President Biden has ordered that all federal contractors must be fully vaccinated by Jan. 18, 2022. (That’s in addition to federal workers and the military who are already subject to vaccine mandates and have no choice).

The vaccinated rate among federal contractors is actually lower than the country as a whole. The national vaccination rate is approaching 70%, while the federal contractor rate is closer to 60%.

It’s even lower in some specialties such as avionics.

These workers know the vaccine is available, understand the risks (both ways because of side effects) and have chosen not to be vaccinated. It’s almost impossible to change their minds at this point.

Though the courts have blocked the mandate, the Biden administration is not backing off. The federal contractor workforce is huge, in the millions. We expect a massive wave of resignations and terminations among highly skilled workers if the administration gets its way.

Professionals and high-value-added blue-collar workers from Boeing to Textron and hundreds of thousands of other firms will be fired or will quit.

The U.S. economy is already weak. The supply chain is already in disarray. This mass termination of skilled contractors could put the economy into a recession.

Some analysts have even suggested that the global supply chain is being sabotaged by major participants such as China to hurt Western economies for geopolitical reasons.

It’s difficult to tell if the supply chain is being intentionally sabotaged or whether it’s just collapsing under its own weight. Possibly both.

In a way, it doesn’t matter because anything as complex and as highly scaled as the global supply chain will always collapse; it’s just a question of when.

For 30 years, the goal of supply chain management has been efficiency, usually defined as the elimination of redundancy, inventory and latency (more on that below). That’s fine in the short run but it results in a system that is brittle and has no tolerance for even small disruptions.

The nature of complex systems is that small causes have tremendous impacts to the point of total collapse.

It is possible that one or more parties chose to disrupt the system intentionally without realizing how vulnerable the entire system really was? This combination of intentional acts and unintended consequences is a staple of history, including the outbreak of World War I.

Once the implosion begins, it’s very difficult to stop.

We here know that being prepared for this is an existentially serious issue. 2022 - and possibly early 2022 - looks as if this matter will become our number one day-to-day concern as the Pandemic morphs into the Supplydemic.

How is it looking where you are as well as across the wider horizon?
 
In the UK I've definately noticed an increase in food prices and poorly stocked fresh foods. Also what is concerning me are the increases in energy and fuel prices and the rates of inflation in general, while the majority of peoples wages will stay the same. I think even if the supply chain is somehow kept in tact, they'll still manage to have their next crisis spurred on by people not being able to afford the basics to survive.
 
As this issue increasingly rears up, Tsunami like, from beneath the surface waves of the 'Great Reset' Revolution, it seems time to start to track the build up of stress in the system both where we each are and systemically.

With a possible wind-down to medium level constant of the New Normal Plandemic, will the intentional (and unanticipated by most) crumbling of the global just-on-time supply chain suddenly accelerate and become a phase shift transition (that even the globalists can't control). Wherever you look geographically and whatever in-demand product, shortages and delays increase (right down to cat food as has been recently posted on the Covid thread). Add in hyper inflationary pressures and its a pot fit to burst.

Of course its all interconnected. The low activity real economy via lockdowns, the pressure on injections and passports, the staff shortages, the collapse in ambition and morale, the insane global warming narrative seeking to replace energy resources with not fit for purpose alternatives, etc, etc, all eat away at the delicate balance that holds the supply system steady as she goes.

We know from all the research here famine is one of the great tools of population control and suppression as well as an engine for mass change - and it always goes hand in hand with such disruptive epoch changes.

Christian, AKA Ice Age Farmer, has been trumpeting warnings on this matter since the early days of the pandemic, if not longer. He equates the process to the random punching of holes in a cheese until eventually the whole cheese rots and disintegrates all at once. He also rightly associates this process with a directed shift to get the population off meat and onto farmed bugs etc. Much of the evidence he has provided over the past 18 months demonstrates this is a deliberate and strategically targeted take down.

Here's his latest:

Farmers, Truckers STOPPED as Mainstream Food Supply Collapses


And from The Daily Reckoning a simple overview of the high stakes, namely the supply chain is the global economy. The editorial comment from Technocracy News reminds that behind all this is the ultimate goal of a technocratic, mass surveillance, self-policing, medicated, docile, low population totalitarianism:

The Supply Chain Is The Global Economy

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We here know that being prepared for this is an existentially serious issue. 2022 - and possibly early 2022 - looks as if this matter will become our number one day-to-day concern as the Pandemic morphs into the Supplydemic.

How is it looking where you are as well as across the wider horizon?
It is a Pandora box that the bandits opened, and we know what is in the Pandora box. Too bad. And it is too late, I think so, to take what was in the Pandora Box and put it in the box, again. The way you explain it (I think it was you), the symptoms of this crisis, the way it works, I had a vision of a body. This crisis has no more an immune system. Everything falls, with pain and temblors, with absence of air, with hemorrhages there. The chaos, like a body after the injection.

Here, prices are going up. But John Keel was saying the same thing in the 80s. :lol: But we know that this one is harder, like a hammer on our heads. In a title of an article today they said that the problem in Spain is not the pandemic, but it is political, and that the economic crisis that the country is living is the worst since the Civil War (1936).
 
Here in Canada in the province of Ontario have experianced price increases mostly on frech produce and meat. Store shelves seem mostly good, Just at times there is a lack of goods on some items but not consistantly. Don't know what other provinces are experianing. I suspect that some eastern provinces will be harder hit as it is a long way to truck goods across this country.
 
Here in Canada in the province of Ontario have experianced price increases mostly on frech produce and meat. Store shelves seem mostly good, Just at times there is a lack of goods on some items but not consistantly. Don't know what other provinces are experianing. I suspect that some eastern provinces will be harder hit as it is a long way to truck goods across this country.at the nmap in the video posted,
Here in Quebec the shelves are mostly intact for now. Bacon has gone up 25%. I used to buy organic mushrooms pre-covid and they are gone and afaik, no more organic mushrooms has been put on the shelves since.

Looking at the map about imports per states/province, Canada seems better fitted to withstand the backlash and unsurprisingly, Quebec has the most outside imports while Ontario has all of it coming from Canada. I would not be surprised if this was staged from the start to make life more miserable for Quebec for the coming shortage.
 
How is it looking where you are as well as across the wider horizon?

Its ok-ish. I work between sales and logistics for a chicken company and have direct visibility on the challenges my company faces and some direct visibility on the national supply chain. I don't think anyone on the forum will be surprised to hear me say that yes, the supply chain is suffering. I'll list a few brief examples:

1. Plastic - used for packaging and labels. Price has increased considerably in the past two years, but the real threat is availability and the amount of time it takes to receive them. Pre-Covid ~1 week consistently. One specific order for a keystone customer of ours just took 8 weeks! Just in case it is not obvious, without plastic packaging we can't sell any product as all packaging needs to be USDA approved. Wax paper packaging is not an option and even if it were, we'd have the exact same issue.

2. Truck availability - We deal with a handful or two trucking companies for all our deliveries throughout the nation. We've been blessed that due to our good relations we've been able to stabilize an incredibly volatile market for the most part. Costs have gone up ~15% I'd estimate, but the real issue is the 'open market'. Basically, there are forums where a trucker posts their availability and companies post routes that they need covered. Driver contacts company if they can cover said route and negotiations begin. Sometimes our usual trucking companies cannot cover their usual routes for whatever reason and we post on these forums to find a driver. One day, there were over 200 routes that needed coverage in our relative area, and only 9 available drivers! Needless to say, those drivers are well aware that they have all the negotiation power to charge whatever they want, and they do. Sometimes 5x more than what we would normally pay which translates to selling our product at a considerable loss.

3. Feed Cost - I don't have much visibility on this but I do know this: 80-90% of the cost associated with raising a chicken is the feed cost. I could not estimate, but I do know our feed costs have risen considerably.

So yes, all the supply chain news posted on SOTT is very real if any "reassurances" were needed. :-(

How does the wider horizon look? Frankly, it is hard for me to see. Obviously there is enough compelling reason to do everything possible to produce and distribute food, so I think the supply chain will continue on despite the ever increasing issues and inflated prices for some time to come. I think one real big issue will be areas (big cities) that will become to dangerous for truckers service. Those areas will be screwed. I'd guess that the military will get involved at some point and the supply chain becomes a protection racket for better or worse.

In the meantime, as a skinny man I'm eating lots of carbs to fatten up a bit!
 
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