Kit Knightly – Off-Guardian April 25, 2022
It’s no secret that, according to politicians and the corporate press, “food shortages” and a “food supply crises” have been on the way for a while now. They have been regularly predicted for several years.
What’s really strange is that despite its near-constant incipience, the food shortage never seems to actually arrive and is always blamed on something new.
As long ago as 2012, “scientists” were predicting that climate change and a lack of clean water would create “food shortages” that would “turn the world vegetarian by 2050”.
In 2019, UN “experts” warned that “climate change was threatening the world’s food supply”.
Later the same year, the UK was warned that they could expect a food shortage as a result of “post-Brexit chaos”.
By early March 2020 supermarkets were already “warning” that the government had been too slow to act on the coronavirus outbreak, and they might run out of food. (They never actually did).
A month later, in April 2020 when the “pandemic” was less than three months old, “officials” warned Covid was going to create a global food crisis. Three months later it had ballooned into “the worst food crisis for 50 years”.
In the Summer of 2021 the British press was predicting the “worst food shortages since world war 2” and “rolling power cuts”, allegedly due to a lack of truck drivers blamed equally on Covid and Brexit (neither the shortages nor power cuts ever really materialised).
By September 2021, the UK was told the gas price spike would create a shortage of frozen food, and just a month later, that we may have to ration meat ahead of Christmas, due to the gas crisis. (There never was any rationing)
In January 2022, Australia saw “empty supermarket shelves” blamed on the Omicron variant crippling the supply chain, while the US had the same empty shelves blamed on bad winter weather.
Moving into the spring of 2022, the food crisis is still on its way…only now it’s because of the war in Ukraine, or China’s “Zero Covid” policies, or the bird flu outbreak.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that – since the food crisis is always expected but never arrives, and is always blamed on the current thing – that it doesn’t really exist. That it’s nothing but a psy-op designed to spread panic and give suppliers an excuse to jack up their prices in response to fake “scarcity” created by the press.
However, there are indications that this may be about to change.
In a Brussels press conference on March 25th of this year, Joe Biden said…
Regarding food shortages – yes, we did talk about shortages, and they’re going to be real.”
…which is a decidedly odd thing to say.
Most of the time the only reason to strongly affirm something is “going to be real” from now on, is that up to that point it was not.
Indeed, there are a few signs that the food supply is about to genuinely come under attack.
1. Ukraine war & Western sanctions
It’s well documented that Russia’s “special operation” in Ukraine has driven up the prices of oil, gas and wheat. Partly due to disruption on the ground, but mostly due to Western sanctions.
Russia is the largest exporter of wheat and other grains in the world, and these products are used not just for making food for humans, but also as animal feed. Western nations boycotting Russian wheat will therefore potentially drive up the price of a huge variety of foodstuffs.
We have already seen rationing of sunflower oil (a major Ukrainian export), with reports that this could extend to all kinds of other products including sausages, chicken, pasta and beer.
This war did not need to happen, it could have been prevented (and could still be stopped) by a simple agreement on Ukrainian neutrality. Combine that with the sweeping nature of the anti-Russian sanctions – unmatched in recent history – and you can reason that the chaos on the ground and concomitant increase in food prices is part of a deliberate policy serving the Great Reset agenda.
2. Increasing the price of oil
The increased price of oil has natural and obvious knock-on effects for every industrial sector – most especially transport, logistics and agriculture. Despite fears of a cost of living crisis, warnings of food shortages and Russia’s status as the largest exporter of oil and gas in the world, Western nations and their allies have made virtually zero effort to lower the cost of oil.
The high oil price has already seen the Russian ruble bounce back to pre-war strength, and yet Saudi Arabia has been increasing their prices, not flooding the market to tank the price as they did in 2014/15.
Keeping the cost of petroleum high is a deliberate policy decision, and one that shows the cost of living crisis – and any resultant food shortages – are being engineered on purpose.
3. Bird flu
The press is claiming there is a major bird flu outbreak going on. As we published last week, the dynamics of “bird flu” seem to be identical to Covid. Birds are tested for the virus using PCR tests, culled if they are “positive”, and these culls are then labelled “bird flu deaths”.
This process has already seen at least 27 million poultry birds destroyed in the US alone, the world’s largest exporter of both chicken and eggs. France, Canada and the UK have also culled millions of birds.
Bird flu has already (allegedly) caused the price of chicken and eggs to skyrocket.
(As a potentially important aside, a new report has also warned that pigs can pass “superbugs” to humans, so pigs may be for the chop sometime soon, too)
4. UK & US paying farmers to stop farming
Going back to last May, the Biden administration began pushing farmers to add agricultural land to the “conservation reserve program”, a federally funded program allegedly aimed at preserving the environment. The program is essentially paying farmers not to farm. A very odd policy decision, given the widely predicted food shortages.
A state-level plan in California is going to pay farmers to grow less, this time in the name of saving water.
Interestingly, the UK has a similar program going on for (again, allegedly) totally different reasons. Starting this past February, the British government is paying lump sums of up £100,000 to any farmers who want to retire from farming. Again, a strange policy during a period of geopolitical unrest impacting the food supply.
5. Manufactured fertiliser shortages
Russia and Belarus are two of the biggest exporters of fertiliser and fertiliser-related products in the world, accounting for around 10 billion dollars worth of trade manually. So, the war in Ukraine (and the sanctions) are already hitting the fertiliser market hard, with prices hitting new all-time highs in March.
China, the third biggest exporter of fertiliser in the world, has had a self-imposed export ban on the product since last summer, allegedly in an effort to keep domestic food prices low.
Given that, it is very strange that America’s Union Pacific Railway has suddenly placed a limit on the number of fertiliser deliveries it will make, informing fertiliser giant CF Industries they will need to cut their train car use by as much as 20%.
In their public response, CF Industries stated:
The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers…Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.”
BONUS: Fires at food processing plants
This get’s a bonus slot, not an official spot, because of the multiple unknowns in this case.
In the strangest and most ephemeral story on the list, it seems there has been a rash of fires at food processing plants all over the United States in the last six months. Since August 2021 at least 16 major fires have broken out at food processing plants all across the country.
In September last year a meat processor in Nebraska burned down, impacting 5% of the country’s beef supply. In March of this year fire shut down a Nestle frozen food plant in Arkansas and a major potato processing site in Belfast, Maine was almost levelled by a huge fire.
The examples just keep on coming.
In just the last week two different single-engine planes have crashed into two different food plants, causing major fires. One at a potato processing plant in Idaho, another at a General Mills plant in Georgia.
Right now we can’t prove this is a deliberate campaign, or even statistically unusual, but it certainly warrants some further investigation.
There’s a good write-up on this story on Tim Pool’s website, and an in-depth twitter thread covering all the recent events from Dr Ben Braddock here.
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In summary…
- A war which did not need to happen is driving up food and oil prices.
- Sanctions which did not need to be put in place are also driving up food and oil prices.
- Western allies are intentionally raising their oil prices.
- Despite warning of a food crisis, US and UK are paying farmers not to farm.
- A “bird flu epidemic” very much like the fake Covid “pandemic” is driving up the price of poultry and eggs.
- Western companies are actively making the fertiliser shortages worse.
- Bizarre fires are crippling large sections of the US food industry.
Taken individually maybe these points could all be seen as mistakes or coincidences, but when you put them all together it’s not hard to spot the pattern. The press may claim we are “sleepwalking” into a food crisis, but it looks more like they’re running head-first into it.
After years of saying there’s a food shortage on the way, it looks like they might be about to finally actually create one.
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I know 2 farmers in Kent the garden of England who are NOT allowed to sell their produce but have to continually plough it back in
Rothschild vie Tesco have been buying up farmland and keeping it idle
Lynn De Rothschil;d said 8 years ago that “they were moving into food production and control”
the jews have been doing this secretly and subtely
like a shitarse in the night
The UK and EU have been paying farmers to do nothing for decades. Its called a planned economy.
The UK has just removed the bird flu as a current threat. Of course, these go from front to back burner, and back again. H5N1 is a bioweapon.
Fires at food plants could be insurance scams. I’m not so sure the US regime wants its trade deficit to increase through more imports, unless you think the US will ban all imported food?
Let’s be very clear. Russia, China, India, and most other countries outside the NWO inner circle will not starve their sheeple. Prices might go up, but there’s no grand plan to starve sheeple to death.
The next point, farming success, and greening in many parts of the world where little used to grow, this success is in part due to higher carbon dioxide levels. Not that current levels of CO2 are historically high. A likely murdered professor from an Ivy League University said that until recently, wildlife had suffered a CO2 famine.
I’d be the first to scream conspiracy, if Russia, China, India and others were showing signs of deliberately damaging their food supplies, but so far they are not.
Central Banks create inflation. UKraine is being falsely blamed, because it takes about 18 months to works its way into the system, so inflation is real, but it started in early 2021 in Europe, and early 2020 in the US.
The UK government has been paying farmers to produce less for DECADES. This has nothing to do with creating a ‘food shortage’, although it may now handily tie into that scheme.
It tracks back to the EU and the deliberate creation of economic interdependence – no country can break away because it relies on imports to feed, clothe and heat it’s homes. It was also a means a transferring vast amounts of British capital to bankrupt basket-case EU countries like France, Spain and Italy, thus effectively gaining control of those countries.
“If you think that deliberately created food shortages is just a “conspiracy theory” answer this? Why else would the authorities in California and the UK actually PAY FARMERS TO PRODUCE LESS?”
The answer: becaue they own the farms. Just like war is a way to fill their pockets with your tax money, so is farming. They also pay them to not chop down hedges. The proof: they could pass laws to force them to do both these things — just as they do to you — but instead they pay them(selves).
The reason the “authorities” are telling you about it is the same — so that you’ll pay 20% more for your food. They own both the producers and sellers of all your food.
And I’ll believe it when the shortages actually happen. The same with the mass die off. Neither are happening are they? Just more and more and more immigrants and less and less and less talk of fighting back. Not that talk ever did a damn thing.
One of the main thrusts of the food crisis operation is simple incipient greed and the ability to justify excessive price hikes …
The common imbecile attributes god like powers to his criminal institutions and the morons that fill them.. blissfully ignorant of the levels of incompetence bureaucracies staffed by the mentally deficient are capable of..
of course there is malfeasance and mendacity of the baldy conehead and the monied digital variety.. but quite obviously these miscreants are incapable of tying their own shoe laces without the help of some apparatchik serf…
perhaps imbecile kind should stop confusing captivity for civilisation… and refuse accepting they can’t change anything.. thereby changing the unacceptable..
of course you have to be ‘willing’…
In this country, The UK, if “our” government is paying Brit farmers to retire, it is because our gummint want to hand over those farms for “free” to brown or black people. There are complaints here from time to time about farming is “too white”, of course the farms aren’t free at all because stupid brit taxpayers will foot the bill for the £100,000 quoted above.
But no one cares here.
Adam: I can’t answer for the UK and US, because these are deeply dysfunctional states, but the UK was in the EU for a fair while, and the EU used to pay farmers lots of money to do sweet feck all. This is a planned economy, and most of the time it works.
It maintains a fair price for farmers, it stops over production, without shutting farms down. So we had wine lakes, butter mountains, and a few more, but not that many.
The EU produces very high standards of food, so it costs. Its not viable to send this food to poorer countries, because, one, they can’t afford it, two, even if its free, it will damage local food production. In India, they have a different problem. They have price caps, so poor sheeple can afford, what would be unaffordable food.
What I suspect the UK, and UK regimes are doing, it trying to improve their bottom line. So buy limiting domestic production, they increase imports, this drives up prices where the food is grown/produced, this slows local population growth, and limits that particular nations growth. The US did this with corn for fuel. Its much more complicated than just starving sheeple. What is going on US akin to the 80s and 90s deindustrialisation and off shoring of tech jobs to get better margins, appears to be the same with food production.
Terrible analogy. If you cut your production of spuds in half, and import them from Brazil one fifth the domestic cost, with shipping included, you just made a big margin for supermarkets, but the sheeple shopper also has more money in their pockets. Some they can spend on their gas bills, some they can pay in taxes so we can afford to send a carrier to bother the Chinese in the South China Sea.
I go further. The UK and US are so bust, the sheeple are so stretched, that getting cheaper imports into the UK and US could lessen the costs of living crisis. Of course, both regimes don’t give a damn about the debt. Imagine that a Big Mac cost £10, Mcds would be lobbying the regime for cheaper XYZ to get the costs down. It won’t be long before your burger’s ingredients Are produced, cooked, assembled, packaged, exported, only to be warmed up in the UK. That’s a big saving, at least 10 fewer staff at each McDs, based on shifts and 7 day opening.
@ kevin thrashbottom
“I know 2 farmers in Kent the garden of England who are NOT allowed to sell their produce but have to continually plough it back in”
These “farmers” that you “know” could sell it to the local people, but that takes effort and isn’t as profitable as growing it and pocketing the taxpayer’s money to “plough it back in”.
Stop making out the farmers are on our side, because they aren’t. If they were, food would be cheap and you could walk over farmland (not down barbed wire tunnels).
@ Carl Jones
“The UK and EU have been paying farmers to do nothing for decades. Its called a planned economy.”
No it’s not. It’s called stealing taxpayer’s money.
@ Anonymous
“It was also a means a transferring vast amounts of British capital to bankrupt basket-case EU countries like France, Spain and Italy, thus effectively gaining control of those countries.”
That worked then. How, exactly, does britain have “control” of those countries? It is, as it always was, a way to steal taxpayers money by paying it to the “farmers”, who then pay it the their “landlords” — the “lords” and the “royals”.
None of it matters anyway since, as we all know, you can grow endless amounts of food for yourself in your bathtub and your old shoes. It’s easy. Everyone in the ukraine has been doing it for years.
In addition to the 7 points indicated in the article, I am starting to suspect that there are several other factors which may contribute to the overall food shortage, now in motion:
1. Weather Manipulation… We have all seen articles noting that it is possible to control the weather and steer rain toward drought affected areas… Yet they don’t and allow the droughts to fester and destroy crops: “USDA: 69% of total U.S. winter wheat production currently in drought zones”
2. Bill Gates is buying up farmland… He, too, may be letting farmland sit idle while reducing production capabilities.
3. FDA Recalls… After 2+ years of Covid, how many of us trust the FDA? In a recent article, the FDA has initiated produce recalls which will inevitably result in destruction of these products. Real or not, it’s hard not to be suspicious: “Recall Alert: FDA recalls zucchini from Walmart stores due to salmonella concerns” (affecting 18 States)
The food shortage has not yet reached “critical mass”, however, at some point, all of these factors may contribute soon…
Since the Great Depression and New Deal programs, farming has been regulated to keep prices from collapsing.
Farmer’s have been paid to not plant for 90 years. Wall Street set up futures programs so farmers would be guaranteed a contract price for wheat, corn, soybeans, etc.
So the jist of this article would only be correct if somehow the stats show a deviation from historic averages of these programs.
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/about-fsa/structure-and-organization/farm-programs/index
https://www.statista.com/statistics/196104/total-area-of-land-in-farms-in-the-us-since-2000/
Note: CO2 increase and hybrid seeds have doubled yield per acre
It’s all part of the acceleration – an obvious Agenda that has been published for many years. They are just so proud of their wicked schemes. This is not a drill – as the usual black sheep on this site would have you believe. Just look at California. Fire fire everywhere. Chemtrails – now that’s big business ! The silver tongued Devil has nothing to lose. He’ll only live till he dies. Ice Age Farmer has been ahead of the bullshit curve which has become quite steep. Who can rebuke him ? In this adulterous and sinful generation. Acknowledgment to the Gospel of course. @Boris – we pray for the people of Ukraine. Because the wolf is at the door. It is not a movie. The suffering is real. The war is real for the people. May God have mercy on us. Just remember that Jesus is the boss – and you will be true.
11 For (*) the Son of man is come to (♣) save that which was lost.
(*) Luke 19:10 .
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14 So is it not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
We have to remember what the (((devil’s vermin))) did in Russia following their takeover in 1917, and also that their preferred methods of killing people are …
1) – starvation
2) – beheading
Don’t forget (((they))) started by “confiscating” (=STEALING) the crops and any seed stocks for the following year, and we should never overlook those multi-victim stainless steel guillotines in the Fema camps. What are they for if not to be used?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn estimated 60 million Russians had been MURDERED by the Khazars at the time he wrote “The Gulag Archipelago”, but it wasn’t over yet. Some estimates put it closer to 100 million, with a similar number murdered in China.
This isn’t a game for them. Things MAY get back to something like “normal”, but these bastards DO work for the devil. They’ve wanted us dead for thousands of years, and the scamdemic was the pretext for taking control of the entire world.
Russia can be thought of as a rehearsal. This time it’s the real thing if we let them get away with it.