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Potential Food Shortages in US? Here’s What May Be Scarce in 2023
2022-12-30
[Gateway] There could be trouble on the near horizon for the United States food supply as multiple factors could lead to scarcity at the grocery store.

Agricultural experts are sounding the alarm for 2023 as inflation, uncooperative weather, and federal regulations are set to strain American farmers and other producers.

Stephanie Nash, an activist with the conservative group Turning Point USA and fourth-generation member of a dairy farming family in California and Tennessee, told Fox News in an interview Tuesday that the country is on the cusp of a supply crisis.

Skipping down:

But no matter where farmers are, she said, it will be difficult for smaller operations to stay in business in 2023.

"If you look at Big Corp, Big Government, they are the ones killing off family farmers and ranchers and reaping the benefit of Americans at the grocery store," Nash said.

"That’s the truth of what is happening in America, and that’s the truth of what will happen if we don’t start to wake up and support local."

Nash is not the only one predicting shortages.

Emphaisis added.

Go Green Go Hungry. BUT the biggest threat to small family farms (those under a couple thousand acres) are tax laws, especially inheritance tax laws. Corporations do not have to pay them every generation to stay in business.
Posted by:Besoeker

#15  Walmart keeps running out of canned Great Value Mini-Ravioli and has been for months... Not a staple I agree but there is a marked shortage of "Economy priced" items on the shelves -- people have already bought all of them and they are not getting restocked like they used to.
Posted by: magpie   2022-12-30 16:20  

#14  Eggs answered.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-12-30 16:15  

#13  They include bread, vegetable oil, corn, butter, tomatoes and even champagne and beer.

Not beef, pork, or eggs? Those shortages are completed?
Posted by: Bobby   2022-12-30 15:26  

#12  Is this the 12th or 13th time the world has ended in my lifetime? I'm losing count.

NOte the weasel words in the headline: "Potential." "May."
Posted by: Tom   2022-12-30 12:36  

#11  I am also seeing a growing number of items with BB dates closer in (Feb/Mar 2023)

Unfortunately, that is also a game played by the corporations. Turn over means more $$.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-30 11:12  

#10  Soon but already here manufactured foods. Texture and taste all primary goal. I joke now with people that the landfill has been so busy they now offer a buffet. You get plenty of fiber.
Posted by: Dale   2022-12-30 11:03  

#9  They heard the right joke about how a civil war would be short because the red states had all the food and decided to squeeze that advantage a bit.
Posted by: ruprecht   2022-12-30 09:53  

#8  Ref #6: It's not an economic issue, it's a control issue. The elitists have willed it once again.

Warsaw Ghetto
On October 12, 1940, the Germans decreed the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. The decree required all Jewish residents of Warsaw to move into a designated area, which German authorities sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. The population of the ghetto, increased by Jews compelled to move in from nearby towns, was estimated to be over 400,000 Jews. German authorities forced ghetto residents to live in an area of 1.3 square miles, with an average of 7.2 persons per room.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-30 08:20  

#7  I need to note.

I am also seeing a growing number of items with BB dates closer in (Feb/Mar 2023). Items that usually run 18 to 24+ months out, when being placed on the shelves initially.

Especially at Lidl's and Aldi's.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-30 08:12  

#6  ^ Ironically, the new "cultural revolution" is all about cramming people into dense urban areas and shutting off the country.

See: Soylent Green; Logan's Run; Red Barchetta
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-30 06:33  

#5  they are the ones killing off family farmers and ranchers

Welcome to collectivization.

Federal regulation = Soviet Central Planning
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-12-30 06:30  

#4  Yellow dye #4 makes maggots look just like corn! Especially if frozen!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-30 06:23  

#3  /\ Embrace the New Green Deal and Globalism, and perhaps ye shall live.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-30 06:20  

#2  Still finding can goods with BB dates out to 2025 and few newer produced, in now smaller shrinkflation size with BB dates good into 2026.

eg. Can Sweet Corn is 4 for $1 at many places right now.

So we won't starve, may not get a few fresh items.
But we won't starve before we die from other more likely reasons.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-30 06:10  

#1  "You didn't build that farm. Somebody else built that farm"
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-12-30 02:41  

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