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"What Will You Say When Millions Of People Starve To Death?"
by Epic Economist
"What are you going to do when millions of people start to get victimized by starvation? Are you prepared to see famines emerging all across the globe? The skeptics that claimed that we would find a way to muddle through the global food crisis somehow are just realizing that this is a much bigger problem we all imagined. Unpredictable extreme weather events are having an enormous impact on this year’s food production. In 2023, there won’t be enough food supplies for everyone on the planet, which means that hunger crises, shortages, and food insecurity will hit large parts of the global population, and bring about unprecedented pain and despair to countless families around the world. And those issues are not exclusive to poorer nations. In today’s video, we’re going to expose that some of the same disasters that collapsed agricultural production in developing countries are also happening in the United States right now.
While Americans worry about empty shelves, the World Health Organization is warning that millions of people in East Africa are under threat of starvation as drought, climate change, rising prices and an ongoing civil conflict in northern Ethiopia are all contributing to worsening food insecurity. In Somalia, authorities are projecting that vegetable and grain production will decline by about 80% this year due to the abnormally dry weather. “This meteorological drought has resulted in a loss of soil moisture, caused waterways to dry up, and led to the death of millions of livestock,” UN researchers noted. “Forecasts suggest that the September to December rainy season could also fail. This would set the stage for an unprecedented five-season drought.”
Even though authorities here in the U.S. don’t seem all too concerned about what going on in Africa right now, they probably should because conditions are starting to change here too. And American farmers and ranchers are also coping with the worst drought in the millennium, dwindling water supplies, inflation, and the liquidation of beef cow herds. Sizzling temperatures are forcing ranchers to make an agonizing decision: Sell their cattle early for less money than they planned on or hold on to their herds, pray for rain and risk losing everything.
At this point, the rate at which cattle are being sold in the U.S. is simply unprecedented. According to The Hill, over the past couple of weeks, the national cattle sale rate jumped to 120 percent above 2021 levels, an average that conceals even higher frenzies of sales in some markets. Unless rain comes along, farmers will have to continue to abandon or destroy their crops in the months ahead.
In California, the situation is creating a tomato shortage, with farmers abandoning fields as crops turn to dust amid a water crisis. The news came as Idaho farmers revealed that the next food insecurity problem that may impact Americans’ eating habits could be an emerging potato shortage. "We desperately need rain and are getting to a point where we don't have inventory left to keep fulfilling the market demand," Mike Montna, head of the California Tomato Growers Association, told Bloomberg.
Of course, these issues are just the tip of the iceberg. All around the planet, agricultural production is going to be way down this year, and we will be facing the repercussions of that decline in 2023. We really are in the cusp of a devastating global crisis right, and the coming months are going to be filled with despair."
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