Is The U.S. Government Stockpiling Food In Anticipation Of A Major Economic Cris

[Jordan]

Is the U.S. government stockpiling huge amounts of food and supplies in anticipation that something bad is about to happen? Is something about to cause a major economic crisis that will require large quantities of emergency food? For a while, I have been hearing things about the government storing food through the grapevine and I have not been sure what to think about those rumors. Well, today I received a phone call that blew me away. I debated for quite a while before I decided whether or not to share this information with you all. Normally I do not like to talk about anything unless I am able to prove it by pointing to an article in the mainstream media. But the source of the information that I am about to share with you is rock solid. I cannot reveal his name, so you will just have to trust me on that. Hopefully the following information will be one more “dot” as we all try to connect the dots about what is really going on out there.

This morning I received a call from a very prominent person in the storable food industry. He has asked me not to reveal his name. I have been dealing with him for an extended period of time and I consider him to be a rock-solid source. When I talked to him today, he had just received a huge order for storable food from a U.S. government source. He told me that the dollar amount of the order was in the “five figures”.

When he asked about why so much food was being ordered, the government source told him essentially that “you know what is coming”. When pushed further, the government official did not elaborate.

It was unclear whether this was part of a larger food stockpiling program by the government. Perhaps this order was just part of the normal preparations that government agencies make for potential emergencies.

Nobody could blame the government for storing up some emergency food. That is something that we all should be doing.

The truth is that the government is taking emergency preparedness very seriously these days. For example, you can see video of a high-level NASA official urging NASA employees to develop preparedness plans for their own families right here.

But what if this is a sign of something bigger?

Remember, this is not some rumor I just pulled off the Internet. This is not something that someone got from “an aunt” somewhere.

I got this information over the telephone from the person who took the order.

I promised that I would not reveal any more specific details, so I won’t.

But this does seem to fit with a pattern that we are beginning to see emerge.

Earlier this year, FEMA issued an RFI (Request For Information) that inquired about the availability of 140 million meals of emergency food. Apparently the food was meant to be stored up in case there was a “catastrophic disaster event” along the New Madrid Fault.

You can view this FEMA RFI right here. The following is an excerpt….

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procures and stores pre-packaged commercial meals to support readiness capability for immediate distribution to disaster survivors routinely. The purpose of this Request for Information is to identify sources of supply for meals in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M to be utilized for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations. FEMA is considering the following specifications (14M meals per day):

    - Serving Size – 12 ounce (entree not to exceed 480 calorie count);
    - Maximum calories – 1200 and/or 1165 per meal;
    - Protein parameters – 29g-37g kit;
    - Trans Fat – 0;
    - Saturated Fat – 13 grams (9 calories per gram);
    - Total Fat – 47 grams (less than 10% calories);
    - Maximum sodium – 800-930 mg;

    Requested Menus to include snacks (i.e. fruit mix, candy, chocolate/peanut butter squeezers, drink mix, condiments, and utensils). All meals/kits must have 36 months of remaining shelf life upon delivery. Packaging should be environmentally friendly.

Mysteriously, seven days later this RFI was cancelled.

At that same time, FEMA also issued an RFI that sought to identify a supplier for 140 million blankets. You can view that RFI right here. The following is an excerpt….

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procures and stores blankets to support readiness capability for immediate distribution to disaster survivors routinely. The purpose of this Request for Information is to identify sources of supply for blankets in support of disaster relief efforts based on a catastrophic disaster event within the New Madrid Fault System for a survivor population of 7M to be utilized for the sustainment of life during a 10-day period of operations. FEMA is considering the following specifications (14M blankets per day):

    - 100% cotton;
    - White;
    - 66″ x 90″

Also, there have been some much publicized shortages of storable feed recently. There has been much speculation about whether or not the government is part of the reason for these shortages.

There are some products that simply were not available for an extended period of time. For example, the following was posted on the Mountain House home page….

    As you know we have removed #10 cans from our website temporarily. The reason for this is sales of #10 cans have continued to increase. OFD is allocating as much production capacity as possible to this market segment, but we must maintain capacity for our other market segments as well.

The shortages around the country got so bad at one point earlier this year thata special alert was posted on Raiders News….

    Look around you. Read the headlines. See the largest factories of food, potassium iodide, and other emergency product manufacturers literally closing their online stores and putting up signs like those on Mountain House’s Official Website and Thyrosafe’s Factory Webpage that explain, due to overwhelming demand, they are shutting down sales for the time being and hope to reopen someday.

Unfortunately, shortages have not been limited to storable food. Most Americans don’t realize this, but there is a significant shortage of certain pharmaceutical drugs in many areas of the country right now. Just check out the video news report posted below….


http://youtu.be/Y_z5iGs2sTU


In addition, it is not just in the United States where food is being aggressively stored up. For example, a recent article in The Telegraph noted that governments all over the globe are now stockpiling food….

    Authoritarian governments across the world are aggressively stockpiling food as a buffer against soaring food costs which they fear may stoke popular discontent.

Also, some governments are now gobbling up as much farmland as they can.

According to the New York Times, China has been buying up “vast tracts of Latin America’s agricultural heartland” and is seeking to acquire quality farmland all over the globe.

So what does all of this mean?

It could mean something.

It could mean nothing.

But as I have written about so much recently, we really do seem to be on the verge of a major economic crisis.

The signs that the financial world is melting down are all around us. I won’t take the time to repeat what I have covered in the last few days here. If you missed any of it, just go back and read these articles over….

*Is Financial Instability The New Normal?

*Depressed As A Nation? 80 Percent Of Americans Believe That We Are In A Recession Right Now

*Nervous Breakdown? 21 Signs That Something Big Is About To Happen In The Financial World

One thing that I haven’t covered yet is a very curious move by Lloyd’s of London. It turns out the Lloyd’s of London has started pulling money out of banks in Europe’s peripheral economies according to Bloomberg….

    Lloyd’s of London, concerned European governments may be unable to support lenders in a worsening debt crisis, has pulled deposits in some peripheral economies as the European Central Bank provided dollars to one euro-area institution.

At this point, world financial markets have officially entered “bear” territory. In fact, global stocks are down approximately 20 percent since May.

Many believe that what we have seen is just the beginning of another major financial crisis.

For example, in a recent editorial for The Ticker, Karl Denninger (who saw the 2008 crash coming) warned that the house of cards is starting to fall once again….

    Well, America (and the world), you’ve been scammed by the financial institutions and governments for the last 30 years. 2008 was the first spasm of recognition but was short-circuited by…. you guessed it…. even more scams. Rather than demand truth and an end to the games the American consumer lapped up the frauds and schemes of the politicians on both sides of the aisle who conspired with the financiers to rip you off once again.

Later on in the editorial, Denninger stated that he hopes that all of us have “taken the last couple of years to become prepared”….

    Now recognition of that fact is dawning on people in a convulsive fashion, and markets of all sorts are reacting as one would expect when their entire worldview is exposed as having been a gigantic and intentional pyramid scheme constructed of debt layered upon debt thatcannot be paid down. The wrong thing was done in 2008 and there is zero evidence that our government has changed one iota in their singular focus on misdirection and lies in this regard.

    Welcome to awareness; I hope you’ve taken the last couple of years to become prepared.

Well, if the anecdotal evidence presented above is an indication of a larger trend, it appears that the government is getting prepared.

And if the government is stockpiling food, who can blame them?

It should be obvious to anyone that the world has become an incredibly unstable place.

Hopefully we are not about to enter another major economic crisis, but it never hurts to be prepared.

If anyone out there has any additional information that is relevant to this report, please let me know.

If the government really has started to aggressively stockpile food, that would be an important thing to know.

If it is happening, the mainstream media surely will not tell us about it. So we will have to rely on one another for information.

So what do you think about all of this? Please feel free to post a comment with your opinion below….

http://deadlinelive.info/2011/09/24/is-the-u-s-government-stockpiling-food-in-anticipation-of-a-major-economic-crisis/

[chris jones]

 I think that this post is a spark of realty though the majority on this post are well aware of this, it is a good reminder.
  Buckle up..

[Georgiacopguy]

One factor of that post, I find odd. If FEMA were truly seeking to get backup food sources, why would they buy precisely 140 million meal kits, and 140 million blankets? So they would give away one meal and a blanket to every needy person?

[TahoeBlue]

Something to keep in mind ,

If the govt. buys up all the food and clothing - What can you buy and how much will it cost you?

In the 1930's depression it was the opposite - milk and cattle were destroyed when there were no buyers (for love or money)...

[Rtruth]

It's funny how people think. Like people will save money for a rainy day, but nothing else. No food, no power source, no weapons to defend, nothing. Meanwhile thinking some pieces of paper will save the day if some major catastrophe happened. No you'll be burning that paper to cook a rat if you can catch one ha ha 

[Monkeypox]

It's funny how people think. Like people will save money for a rainy day, but nothing else. No food, no power source, no weapons to defend, nothing. Meanwhile thinking some pieces of paper will save the day if some major catastrophe happened. No you'll be burning that paper to cook a rat if you can catch one ha ha  

Because that's what the Gummint told them they were supposed to do.

[larsonstdoc]

I think that this post is a spark of realty though the majority on this post are well aware of this, it is a good reminder.
  Buckle up..

  Right on.  Store canned soups and stews if that's all you can do.

[TahoeBlue]

Bump for the new depression/drought

Massive animal die-offs = psy-op to have us accept future massive human die-offs

http://westernfarmpress.com/alfalfa/depression-driving-some-dairymen-suicide

Depression driving some dairymen to suicide
Dennis Pollock
Aug. 20, 2009 10:08am

The deepest economic depression in the California dairy industry since the Great Depression has bared a subject far more compelling than the cost of feed and the price of milk.

It is suicide.

“When someone says, ‘This is my last day on earth,’ it’s very frightening,” said Michael Marsh, chief executive officer, Western United Dairymen, Modesto, Calif. He has intervened to help at least two dairy operators this year after they expressed despair. Western represents 1,100 dairy members producing 60 percent of California’s milk.

Marsh said the men were despondent over finances and setbacks in the industry, a shriveling export market, an oversupply of milk and the necessity to trim herds or completely sell out herds as milk prices dipped and losses soared. In brief, he said, “losing everything.”

They survived, in part due to Marsh’s help in accessing mental health services.

But two other California dairy farmers killed themselves in recent months. There were reports of many more.

And on the subject of those suicides, Marsh said, “I pray we have had the last one and that the economic situation turns around.”

The issue of suicide on dairies and the pain of losing the family farm is a national one, and expertise from outside the state has been tapped in recent weeks to strengthen lifelines in California.
...

Mike Rosmann, a clinical psychologist who has a row crop farm in Iowa, is the executive director for AgriWellness, an organization that had its origin in 2001 following the farm crisis of the 1980s. The number of callers to his organization has risen significantly and the reasons for calling are more serious than they were before the nation’s economic decline.

“For example, in Wisconsin, the number increased 20 percent when the first four months of 2009 are compared to 2008. It rose from 431 to 438. The number of callers who indicated financial stress in 2008 totaled 130 – for 2009, it was 252. Three callers indicated they faced severe stress and 41 noted high stress in 2008. In 2009, there were eight reports of severe stress and 68 for high stress.

Rosmann said it takes as much as a year and half for the Centers for Disease Control to release statistics on actual suicides.

...

Wyoming is regularly among the top three states in suicide. Weigel said factors could be isolation, a high percentage of firearms and a lack of health resources.


http://www.ameshistoricalsociety.org/exhibits/depression.htm



Iowa milk blockade

Since they felt nothing was accomplished in the Congress, even though several Congressmen had introduced bills for more extensive farm aid, some radical farmers in Iowa and Nebraska decided to call a farmers' strike in an attempted price-support program of their own.  Falling farm prices were to be combated by withholding farm produce. The leader of this Farm Holiday movement was Milo Reno, head of the Iowa Farmers Union and the Farm Holiday Association.  On May 3 of 1932, a convention of 3000 Iowa farmers led by Reno voted to call a strike on July 4. Their slogan: Stay at Home - Buy Nothing, Sell Nothing, and their song:

    Let's call a Farmers' Holiday
    A Holiday let's hold
    We'll eat our wheat and ham and eggs
    And let them eat their gold.

Farm Holiday supporters built road blocks on the highways leading to the agricultural markets.  They dumped milk into ditches and turned back cattle trucks, but the blockades weren't effective enough.  Police eventually opened the roads.


http://www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2008/02/01/the-great-depressions-food-destruction-program-sowell/

The Great Depression’s food destruction program (Sowell)
February 1st, 2008  |  Published in Agriculture, Economics, History, Quotes

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, agricultural price support programs led to vast amounts of food being deliberately destroyed at a time when malnutrition was a serious problem in the United States and hunger marches were taking place in cities across the country.

For example, the federal government bought 6 million hogs in 1933 alone and destroyed them. Huge amounts of farm produce were plowed under, in order to keep it off the market and maintain prices at the officially fixed level, and vast amounts of milk were poured down the sewers for the same reason.

Meanwhile, many American children were suffering from diseases caused by malnutrition