Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
What we have witnessed so far is just the beginning of the story. The global response to the COVID pandemic during 2020 and 2021 created the most epic supply chain crisis in modern times, and now “black swan events” such as the war in Ukraine and the bird flu pandemic are making that supply chain crisis even worse. Unfortunately, more global difficulties are coming. There will be more war, there will be more pestilences, there will be more natural disasters, and even the United Nations is admitting that we are heading into the worst global food crisis since World War II. So if you think that global supply chain problems are severe now, just wait until you see what is coming next.
If you go into most major retailers today, you will notice that stock levels are lower than usual and there are some empty shelves.
But most items are still available most of the time, and that is good news.
Of course there are certain product categories that have been experiencing chronic shortages for an extended period of time. For example, supplies of canned pet food have been extremely tight for months on end…
The next time you go to the pet store don’t be surprised to see some empty shelves.
Many pet stores are facing a shortage on canned pet food.
Right now, there just aren’t enough cheap sources of chicken and turkey due to the bird flu pandemic, there is an ongoing shortage of aluminum, and there is a shortage of factory workers.
So the canned pet food shortage is not likely to be fixed any time soon.
Another shortage that is going to affect much of the country as we head into the summer months is the growing chlorine shortage.
I was not even aware of this shortage until a reader alerted me. Apparently this shortage was originally caused by the destruction of a manufacturing facility in Louisiana by Hurricane Laura…
While the pandemic takes its share of the blame, the even larger reason for the current chlorine shortage is that a major chlorine manufacturing plant in Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Laura in late 2020. A fire on the premises leveled the facilities and took nearly 40% of the country’s chlorine tablet supply with it.
The manufacturing plant is being rebuilt and is currently under construction; it was due to reopen by mid-to-late 2022, but those plans could be pushed back due to the ongoing construction material shortages.
I find it ironic that the nationwide chlorine shortage could be extended thanks to the nationwide construction material shortage.
Anyone that is trying to build a home knows how painful the construction material shortage has become, and I anticipate that it will only become more severe in 2023 and beyond.
Meanwhile, the nationwide baby formula shortage just continues to get even worse…
Janis Burnson is one of many parents having to work around a national baby formula shortage.
“Go around in our area, St. George, any stores I can, can’t find anything around here. I have friends in northern Utah, they’re having to send me stuff, so I’m having to pay even more,” she says.
One local reporter in southern Utah decided to check this out for herself, and when she visited local stores she discovered “bare shelves where baby formula should be.”
What a nightmare.
But at least we can be glad that things are not as bad here as they are in Europe.
Over there, widespread rationing of certain products has already begun. For example, it was just announced that Tesco is now limiting each customer to three bottles of cooking oil…
If record-high food prices weren’t enough. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has choked off the world of sunflower oil supply, forcing the largest supermarket in the UK to begin rationing.
The Guardian reports that Tesco, with more than 4,000 retail stores, placed buying limits of three cooking oil bottles per customer. It follows Waitrose and Morrisons, other supermarket chains that set limits of just two per customer.
This particular shortage is directly related to the war in Ukraine, and David Einhorn is warning that this war is making a whole host of our ongoing problems even worse…
The common refrain about COVID was that it sped up changes and trends that were already happening. We believe the same is true of the war. Inflation, supply chain problems, and shortages of energy, food, raw materials and labor were already issues that the war has now accelerated.
Sadly, he is quite correct, and at this point there appears to be no hope that this war will end any time soon.
Russia and Ukraine normally account for approximately 30 percent of all global wheat exports, and we were already facing an unprecedented global food crisis even before the war erupted.
When U.S. Senator Roger Marshall was recently asked about this, he openly admitted that a “worldwide famine” is definitely going to happen…
“Did you just say there will be a famine in Europe in the next two years?” Host Maria Bartiromo asked.
“This will be a worldwide famine. I think it will be even worse next year than this year. So if 12, 15% of the wheat comes from Ukraine that’s exported, and they’re having problems getting fertilizer, they’re having tractors in the field, all the diesel fuel is going towards their war efforts, right?” the senator said.
Prior to 2022, can you ever remember a time when a sitting member of the U.S. Senate publicly warned us that a “worldwide famine” was coming?
The good news is that nobody is starving to death in the United States right now.
But food prices are certainly going up dramatically, and the mainstream media is doing lots of stories about it. For example, the following originally comes from USA Today…
Kevin Tave stretches a pot of spaghetti for three days of meals. Esmerelda Cortez gets eggs and bread from the food bank so she can afford laundry detergent at the store. Donnie Whitfield buys generic cereal instead of the Kellogg’s he prefers.
Although unemployment continues dropping and wages are on the rise, all across the country, low-income people are struggling to put food on the table as skyrocketing inflation and high gas prices take a bigger bite of their already-small paychecks.
Needless to say, as conditions deteriorate it is not a good thing for Joe Biden’s approval ratings…
During Joe Biden’s fifth quarter in office, which began on January 20 and ended on April 19, an average of 41.3% of U.S. adults approved of the job he was doing as president. The latest average is essentially unchanged from the 41.7% in his fourth quarter but significantly lower than his first three quarterly averages.
But what most Americans don’t understand is that it is too late for a political solution to this crisis.
No matter what Joe Biden and his minions decide to do, they are not going to be able to prevent the nightmarish conditions which are rapidly approaching.
As Senator Marshall admitted, there will be a worldwide famine.
There is no avoiding that now.
These are such troubled times, and they are only going to become even more troubled as the months roll along.
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Donnie Whitfield buys generic cereal instead of the Kellogg’s he prefers.
I cried because I had no Corn Flakes until I met a man who had no milk.
I need a spoon.
You funny guy! Have you considered standup?
Did the milk-less man have some corn flakes for you ?
But no spoon! No bowl either. I’m sitting here eating a handful of dry generic corn flakes.
The prime minister of Italy has banned public buildings from having A/C below 25C or heat above 19C (76F and 68F, respective… a little warm and a bit cool, but use a fan and wear a sweater, I suppose.)
Drahgi (the PM of Italy) said “Do you want peace in Ukraine or do you want air conditioning?”
That was a clown world news item on the duran update today.
If I was in Italy this summer, I would want air conditioning.
At least you have hands… I’m stumped…
Don’t tempt me to find the Monty Python Black Knight vid.
The Prime Minister of Italy is on the right track. However. he doesn’t go far enough. Shut off the airconditioning altogether. Next he should stop all electric generation except the green stuff. Italy would be the leader of the green Global Warming community.
The prime minister of Italy, Draghi, is a WEF stooge and Devil worshipper; shots for everyone.
He will be delighted to enact and enforce Pestilence.2 and no electricity at all for all the good slaves: they will have nothing and like it.
At least the milk-less man will know who the father of his new baby is.
Now to figure out who the mother is.
what a big pile of shit these people are talking about.
I like (liked) to put Grape Nuts in yogurt. I discovered that Kroger was apparently getting their store brand cereal from the name brand companies and it was half the price. It has been at least a year since they have had many of their store brand stuff in stock. Milk is double what it was this time last year. I am usually unable to find Dannon Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt.
my heart bleeds.
remember this is mike snyder’mister doom.i have more cash now than any time i can remeber. i feel no pain as far as paying for anything.
There has definitely been a shortage of pet food where I live for the past six months. Now, all of a sudden, there is an huge overstock of it at the Walmart within the last week. The only other shortages that I’ve noticed is in the frozen food section with the frozen chicken shelves being almost empty. I’m sure that has to do with their fake bird flu and the killing of millions of chickens for their engineered food shortage plans.
Hmmm. Taken your statements together, I do not want to know what is in that pet food.
Yeah. I’ve noticed a different consistency in some of the food. I think that is due to them just using more filler than actual meat.
what a big pile of dog shit these people are saying.i have no debt; ihave 4000 cash in my hand my house is paid off i feel pretty good when i see my green beans sprouting .
And…let’s not forget the pesticide shortages. Just all part of the planned great reset, where you will eat nothing and be told you’re happy about it.
Pesticide Supply Outlook
Pesticide Shortages, High Prices Unlikely to Ease in 2022
2/8/2022 | 3:32 PM CST
http://WWW.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/article/2022/02/08/pesticide-shortages-high-prices-ease
“Esmerelda Cortez gets eggs and bread from the food bank so she can afford laundry detergent at the store. ”
I bet she buys the name brand stuff that has locks on it.
Unless your clothes are really dirty, a little shot of dish soap will do the trick.
So we are buying her eggs and bread so she can be choosey about the brand of laundry detergent….yep, we are really suffering now.
2 years of covid coverage showing fat people in nice vehicles and foreigners getting more free shit and whining about it…
Will Snyder’s Chicken Little moment finally arrive?
That guy has been crowing about doom for 13 years now.
I would like to buy him a nice cup of shut the fuck up. We know dude. Doom porn is the only way he can get page views.
ZFG, out.
P.S. we knew the score before all of this shit started. That is why we are ahead and will remain ahead.
Just a bunch of prescient cynics are we. Perhaps just that tiny remnant who are forced to watch while the other 95% gleefully repeat history chanting “we are the people we’ve been waiting for!”
oh my god bitch.the world could stop turning i have food cash guns a car.
so fuck your doom and gloom’
he makes his money off doom and gloom what do you expect.
A worldwide famine is coming and we are importing 1/4 million poor illegal aliens a month, soon to reach 1/2 million/month when title 42 ends.
I find all of that odd. Why flee to a country where the cost of living is 10x higher than where you came from? The Gravy Train is approaching the end of the line and I, for one, would not want to be a stranger in a strange land when the food riots start. I see it like Jews trying to live in Germany in 1938. If anything, all these people should be headed the other way.
It makes no sense to me.
“Why flee to a country where the cost of living is 10x higher than where you came from?”
because the free money pays for the cost of living. free housing, free food, free medical care – when the illegal goes to work it’s for spending money, not to support himself.
i dont mind paying an immagrant to fix my roof
They are being promised free food, housing, medical care and will be able to work for cash to send back home to help bring more of their family, just like cousin Carlos did.
I would expect huge emigration if the gravy train ends.
The liberals are amassing their army….. the one they will use against you.
THIS^^^^^^
exactly precisely correct. watch for the military to be transformed into a mercenary force.
The Free-Shit Army.
It’s the biggest force in the world.
Check out who owns these corporations. WEF anybody?
That is quite funny there in a sicko sort of way.
That was a real gem Arch, and so true.
Lol. Transwomen unable to breast-feed their children. A looming crisis. Maybe they should have thought of that before they got pregnant.
There will NEVER be a shortage of Michael Snyder Bullshit. Go fuck a duck, Mikey.
Stucky- Maybe NJ is better supplied than KY but we have a lot of chicken thighs and chicken feet as the choice of the day. You can however buy rotisserie chickens or go to restaurants where amazingly they have plenty. Eggs are in less supply and the prices are very high. I have to wonder why a grocery can be running over with chicken thighs if there is a shortage of chickens because those damn thighs had to be attached to the rest of a chicken at some point.
Pretty soon the pets will be in the cans of human food.
That’s because Bill Gates wants you to eat the babies like he does, because OVERPOPULATION…
“Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother”. Greatest country outlaw song of all time, Jerry Jeff’s live version is its best rendition, period.
What about the Rodeo Song? It has to be right up there plus it’s from Canuckistan when it was great.