Cassie B. – Natural News March 22, 2024
EU government officials recently convened with food security experts to devise a plan to handle a potential food crisis. The question no longer appears to be whether such a scenario will come to pass but rather how soon Europeans can expect it.
The possibility that Europe might experience a major food crisis has become so likely that 60 EU and government officials gathered to carry out a simulation of what could occur and work on policies that can help respond to such a crisis. With videos depicting floods, droughts and civil unrest to drive home what is at stake, experts were warned to “expect a level of chaos.”
We are seeing signs of an impending food crisis around the world, with a series of geopolitical and weather events all piling up to create the perfect storm for a major food crisis. For example, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza and the coronavirus pandemic have caused disruptions to crucial shipping routes that have sent food prices through the roof and impacted supply chains. Meanwhile, extreme and unpredictable weather has been having a big effect on farming and crop yields, from droughts in the Mediterranean to weather patterns impacting soy output in Latin America.
As part of their simulations, the government officials envisioned a scenario where there are numerous harvest failures in 2025 that affect the prices of animal feed, stunting the production of livestock and fish, while ships bringing crops eschew Europe in favor of higher bidders in other parts of the world. At the same time, limits on palm oil exports in Asia could reduce the supplies of a range of daily staples, including bread.
The simulation also noted how such a scenario could sow civil unrest, particularly as hungry and fed-up Europeans push back against corporate greed. Eventually, they envisioned thieves starting to loot supermarkets later in 2025, with police struggling to keep rioters under control, livestock farmers going bankrupt and German shoppers unable to find meat or fish in grocery stores.
How do they envision getting out of such a scenario? They used role-playing activities to workshop policies related to building reserves of food, crisis management and food provision. Their activities also raised some important questions, such as how to reduce Europe’s over-reliance on crop imports such as soy for feeding the dairy and meat industry.
Europe’s food security is on a dangerous downward trend
Centre for Systems Solutions Science Director Piotr Magnuszewski pointed out that government-led exercises like this one are very uncommon, particularly when it comes to topics such as food. Indeed, Europe has long been considered one of the world’s biggest supplier of foods ranging from olive oil and pork to dairy and grains, while enjoying some of the world’s lowest levels of food insecurity.
The Global Food Security Index has long ranked European nations among the world’s most secure when it comes to food, and the percentage of household spending devoted to food is relatively low compared to other nations. For example, in 2021, only 14 percent of household spending there went to food, compared to 40 percent in Egypt and 60 percent in Nigeria.
However, its position as a relatively food-secure part of the world is now in doubt as weather and climate events cost Europe more than $54 billion in economic losses in 2022. Meanwhile, the costs associated with the energy and fertilizers needed to grow crops have been skyrocketing since Russia invaded Ukraine.
One of the workshop’s organizers, retired U.S. diplomat Chris Hegadorn, warned that few European governments are prepared to manage a future food crisis. He said: “There’s a lot more to be done on every level. Crises are only going to come faster and harder.”
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Hunger makes people act not normal. Some years ago in town I bought myself a wrapped fish and chip dinner to enjoy at home later and a burger to eat down the street. After I took a bite a young fellow who was clearly half drunk asked for a bite of the burger, and before I could tear him a piece he took it out of my hand and started wolfing it. I just said keep it. Obviously his money went on booze, and although he hadn’t eaten in a while it was probably just a day or two. He was very hungry but likely not starving, so real hunger when people haven’t had food for several days or God forbid a week, its effects will become a problem for us all.
We’ve seen flash gangs storm shops and they’re just after earning money. Wait ’til they need food. I can see gangs of starving people storming houses to raid the kitchen, especially the kitchens of vulnerable people like pensioners and single mothers. Groups of starving people will become sharks and jackals.
This beggars belief. European governments downsize or shut down Europe’s most productive farmland. Now they warn us about a ‘future food crisis’. They are ‘warning’ of a crisis of their own making! This is black comedy.
For goodness sakes! Why not get hold of the government thugs who had set upon farmers, try then convict the bastards for crimes against humanity, and sentence them to daily rounds of horse whipping until they ‘fess up and pay up for the harm they have down.
How much dumber can it get? And white retards just swallow… unreal…
Start rounding up treasonous politicians, that will solve the problem immediately.
This is war! Only this war is different. One side does all the attacking. The other side sits around with their thumb up their arse.
The 1930’s Ukraine famine arranged by soviet communists in Russia is being repeated by the soviet communists who inhabit the world’s halls of power.
The farmers have the wherewithal & equipment to instill the fear of God into these antIChrists & their military…is my prayer.
Holomodor 10.0 is coming soon. When it comes eat the rich.
As I stated in a comment on another recent piece here related to cartel restrictions on family farms and homesteads, you get the treatment you allow. Any politician or scumbag bureaucrat trying to shut down farms in the region around where I live would be chased through the streets and/or found with their skulls split and their major organs aerated compliments of lead projectiles.
I have also encouraged people to be as self-sufficiently food secure as possible; cultivate gardens, have a greenhouse, have some good laying hens, dig a f*cking pond and stock it if you have to, make the effort meet your neighbors, support local farmers markets, and find barter groups. But if you rely completely on corporate grocery stores, you’re going to be totally f*cked…especially those of you who were dangerously stupid enough to surrender your firearms to treasonous governments that have been raping and robbing you blind and are now actively looking to kill you and yours.
Eat a politician a day keep the hunger away.