Food Availability and Food Prices | Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.

Introduction
Eating is not an acquired habit. Eating is a necessity of life. Without food we will die.

Although the above is obvious, most people have never given food very much thought because most people have always been able to buy whatever food they could afford and then eat it.

However, is it possible that there will be less food available in the future?

Is it possible that the price of food may double, or triple, or increase ten-fold?

The purpose of this article is to examine what may happen to food in the very near future.

Discussion
It is now spring in the northern hemisphere and it is the time that most nations should be planting their crops.

However, fertilizer is not being delivered to the farms where it is desperately needed.

Most nations are blaming Russia for this because Russia would not do what the USA and NATO told them to do. Therefore Russia was expelled from the European International Clearing House for payments between nations, and Russia was officially and legally restricted on how they could sell their products, including their fertilizer, to other nations. Therefore Russia offered to sell their products, including their fertilizer, to any nation that wants to buy their stuff if those nations will pay in rubles or gold. At the current time the USA and NATO are encouraging nations to not buy anything from Russia, including their fertilizer. Is it possible that the USA and NATO absolutely do not want any nation to pay Russia in gold because those nations may politely ask the USA and the Bank of England to return the gold that legally belongs to them?

At the current time the USA and NATO and many other nations are blaming Russia for the lack of fertilizer because they don't want to pay Russia for their fertilizer in rubles or gold. If you pause and think about this for a moment, could the lack of fertilizer have been intentionally planned by the USA and NATO? Nah, that would be ridiculous.

Shipments of fertilizer from Canada into the USA have been postponed. Although I do understand the reasons for this delay, I don't understand why these problems can't be immediately resolved. I could be mistaken but I don't think Russia has any influence on the shipment of fertilizer from Canada into the USA. Is it possible that the shipment of fertilizer from Canada into the USA was intentionally sabotaged with the approval and blessing of some very wealthy individuals?

Railroad shipments of the existing fertilizer that is currently available in the USA has been postponed because other things have a much higher priority. Does this make sense to you? What has a higher priority than growing food for us to eat? I could be mistaken but I don't think Russia has any influence on the railroad shipment of fertilizer inside the USA. Is it possible that this restriction on the shipment of fertilizer inside the USA is part of some "master plan" by a few very wealthy individuals?

At the current time in the 21st century, a few mega corporations own and control most of the good farmland. And those corporations have total control over what type of food they will grow, and on how much food they will grow, and they also have significant control over who they will sell their food to. What impact could this have on your future survival?

If farms do not get the fertilizer they need very soon then this will result in the following:

Investment in Growing Food: A lot less money may be invested in fertilizer, in seeds, in cultivation of crops, and in harvesting crops.
Quantity of Food: A trivial amount of food may be available for sale later this year.
Food Prices: The price of the food that is available may increase significantly.
Mega Corporations' Total Sales Revenue: The extremely high price of food may increase the total sales revenue of the mega corporations even though they have less food to sell.
Mega Corporations' Total Cost of Food: Since less food was grown, the cost of growing that food may be trivial.
Mega Corporations' Profit Margins: The difference between the selling price of food and the cost to grow that food may increase exponentially.
Mega Corporations' Total Profits: Even though less food will be sold, the profit on each food item that is sold may be so high that the total profits of many corporations may be outrageous.
Our Food Budget: Very soon we pawns may be eating less food, we may be paying a lot more for that food, and our grocery bill may consume a much bigger piece of our paychecks (or social security checks). For example, we may have spent 15% of our paycheck (or social security check) on food to feed our family in January of 2022. But very soon we may be spending 50% or more of our paycheck (or social security check) to buy less food to feed our families. The increasing price of food may eventually force many, many families to come back together and to live under one roof.
Malnutrition and Disease: People who have a limited number of different foods in their weekly diet, and who have fewer calories and nutrition in their weekly diet, will become more susceptible to a variety of health problems and diseases. Is it possible that this is part of some "master plan" that was designed to eliminate and control us pawns?

If the above does happen then please do not blame the stores where you buy your food because those stores will only be passing on the higher prices that the stores have to pay for the food that they sell. If the store does not cover its costs then the store cannot stay in business. Therefore your enemy is not the store where you buy your food. If people burn down their local grocery stores then people will not be able to buy any food at any price in the future. (Note: Only an intellectually impaired person would believe that they can still get home delivery of the food they desire if all the stores where they previously ordered their food have all been burned down. If you were a delivery driver then would you be willing to drive into an area where the people had burned down their grocery stores?)

Conclusion
At the current time there are a lot of very significant events happening all over the world. However, some of these very important events are being completely ignored by the various news media. Instead the news media have been reporting the details about a few very carefully selected events and this has helped to control what we pawns talk about, and it has given us something to have an opinion on, and it has helped to prevent us from seeing the big picture.

We pawns do not have the ability to influence global events. However, all the different global events appear to be working together to reduce the amount of food that will soon be available to us pawns. The good news is that food is the one thing that each of us pawns can actually do something about right now.

What action have you personally taken in relationship to food?

Do you have any food set aside to feed your family during hard times? How did you select the foods that you set aside?
Some free information about food is on my website at this link: One-Year Emergency Food Supply.

Do you know how to grow food? Do you know how to deal with some of the common problems that farmers encounter every year?
Some free gardening information is on my website at this link: Home Gardening Advice.

Do you know how to cook fresh vegetables, fresh bread, and fresh meat? (Note: I saw a small sign inside Walmart that said: "If I stir it then it is home cooked.")
Some free recipes are on my website at this link: Grandpappy's Recipes for Hard Times.

If the price of food increases beyond your ability to pay for that food then do you have any reasonable contingency plans for feeding your family?

Do you have faith in the God of the Holy Bible? The Holy Bible says the following:

Psalm 33:18-19 - King James Version:
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Psalm 37:25 - King James Version:
25 I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Psalm 37:40 - King James Version:
40 And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

May God Bless,
Grandpappy.

Grandpappy's e-mail address is: RobertWayneAtkins@hotmail.com