As riots spread across the world, having started first in Europe and now engulfing the Middle East, most people in the U.S. outright reject the possibility that the same could happen right here at home. But the fact of the matter is that we remain in economic crisis and there is a real possibility of a total collapse of the system we have come to know.If the system does happen to collapse, be it because of a hyperinflationary currency meltdown, political uprising or anything i (Read More....)

Have you got your emergency food supply prepared?  An economic collapse is coming, and now is the time to prepare - not after things have completely fallen apart.  Already, the price of food is going up significantly at places like Wal-Mart.  When the economy does finally collapse, the things that are going to be at a premium are necessities like food.  The truth is that we are not always going to be able to run down to the local supermarket and fill up our carts with all of the inexpensive food that we want.  When the U.S. economy implodes and the U.S. dollar enters a period of rampant inflation things are going to be (Read More....)

Are we about to see a massive rice shortage in Asia?  Thailand and Vietnam, the two largest rice exporters in the world, are facing severe drought conditions that are severely threatening this year's rice crops and global rice supplies.  Rice is one of the key "staple foods" in eastern nations, so a serious disruption in the supply of rice could be a major problem.  Thankfully, many crops in the western world (such as wheat) are doing very well so far this year, so hopefully this potential rice shortage will not hurt too much, but it never hurts to put away some extra rice in your emergency food supply.  After all, you don't start preparing for a storm once it has (Read More....)

While many world leaders have been wringing their hands about global warming, the truth is that the global deep freeze now ravaging North America, Europe and Asia is the biggest problem for agriculture right now.  In fact, many analysts are now predicting that agricultural losses due to the unusually cold winter will lead to huge spikes in the price of food and massive food shortages in many areas of the world in 2010.

So just what has been so bad about the winter of 2009/2010?

The truth is that for many areas of the northern hemisphere, it has been the most brutal winter in decades.  Record-setting cold temperatures and devastating winter storms (Read More....)

Doesn't it seem as though there are more crop diseases than ever popping up in 2009?  The latest crisis is a disease known as "late blight", and it is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States.  As if tomatoes were not expensive enough already.  Most Americans have never even heard of "late blight", but it actually has a long history.  Late blight is the disease that is blamed for the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and now it is seemingly back with a vengeance.

A stunning press release from Cornell University is warning gardeners and commercial farmers that late blight is hitting the eastern United States with a ferocity that has never been seen (Read More....)

Will a wheat rust that the vast majority of Americans have never heard of lead to a catastrophic global famine?  Agricultural scientists now fear that Ug99, a devastating wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could wipe out over 80 percent of the world's wheat crop as it spreads from Africa all across the globe. In a world already on the verge of a massive food crisis, this is incredibly frightening news.  Most Americans have never even heard of Ug99, but the truth is that it is considered by experts to be the most serious threat to the world food supply.  Ug99 is known as "stem rust" because it produces reddish-brown flakes on wheat stalks. It is incredibly deadly and there is no known cure for it.

The Los Angeles Times recently reported(Read More....)

Most Americans laugh at the idea of building up an emergency food supply.  But let us consider what happened in 2008 when food prices spiked and millions were suddenly facing an unexpected food shortage.  The following articles are from last summer during the height of the food riots around the world, and they illustrate what could happen around the world when the next big food crisis hits.....

Thousands of starving citizens clashed with police in Egypt over flour rations.

A North Korean father killed his starving family and then took his own life in despair over the lack of food.

Looted shops burned in Haiti as the food crisis there escalated out of control.

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Have you heard of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009?  The title sounds wonderful.  It sounds like it means that we are going to have safer food.  But that is not what this bill is about.  The truth is that is the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is passed, it will likely mean the end of independent organic farming in the United States. The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 was introduced by Democrat Rosa DeLauro back in February. Her introduction of this bill represents a shocking conflict of interest, because her husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto. Monsanto is the world's biggest producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, and they would massively benefit if thousands of small independent organic farmers were put out of business, because most independent organic farmers do not use Monsanto products.

You can view the full text of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 h (Read More....)

Do you know what you are eating? Most Americans simply do not understand that the FDA actually allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into their food. The FDA only allows a small amount of these things, but they do explicitly allow them.  You don't believe this?  Well, you can read it for yourself.  The FDA has published a pamphlet entitled “The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans” that tells food producers exactly how many "natural contaminants" are allowed in our food.  The following are just some examples of the allowable levels of "natural contaminants" that the FDA lists in the pamphlet.....

Canned Citrus Juices (such as orange juice) - 5 or more Drosophila and (Read More....)

Do you think that the FDA is actually trying to protect the safety of your food supply?  Think again.  The FDA has officially announced that it WILL NOT require warning labels on food that is produced from genetically modified animals.  So now you will never even know if the food that you are buying or eating comes from a genetically engineered lifeform.  Seriously.  Do you actually want to eat food from a spider-goat or a cow-pig?  Those "lifeforms" actually exist thanks to our scientists.  In fact, WebMD says that dozens of genetically modified animals are under development as you read this.  So how so (Read More....)

The FDA has now announced that the offspring of cloned animals could be in our food supply right now and that there is nothing that they can do about it.   Nothing they can do about it?  They can micromanage a thousand other elements of our food production, but they can't do a thing about cloned animals in our food supply?  This madness is even spreading to Europe.  EU agriculture ministers have now decided that cloned meat and milk should be allowed into European supermarkets.  Apparently they feel that meat and milk from cloned animals is perfectly safe and they aren't really worried about it.  

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