Lastly, I find it as well inconceivable that hoarding is in any way, shape or form, anything but a destructive way to deal with any alleged food shortages. It only creates panic.

Hoarding food? Why not? Let me tell you… I went to the store a few days ago and found a product I normally bought without concern had suddenly increased in price so much, I will possibly never buy it again. I WISH I had bought a case of it a month ago, or maybe even three cases. I’m already living at a poverty level and these price increases are hitting pretty hard. If I had bought three cases of this food, the store would have restocked it right away and nobody would have suffered because of it.

Thanks for reading my article, even if you took offense at a link source and didn’t agree that food storage is worthwhile. The specter of babies starving and young families unable to provide their children with meals hits my heart hard… I can’t help but want to warn people that the world is changing and some foods are getting more expensive and/or unavailable.

You use the term buying in bulk, which I don’t have a problem with; other’s advocate actual hoarding which sows panic.

The rise in Commodity prices is genuinely real and the fact that it is affecting poor nations and people across the world is a very serious issue that deserves very serious attention.

For the most part, I think I have read enough of your site to think that you are coming from a good place, I would recommend to dump using Rense as you can find reliable articles–which could also be the same–from another source.

For my part, I’ve gotten my bike out and started riding it. I live in a small town and can get around pretty well without using my car.

I wonder how people who work and commute will adapt. Will they have to give up their jobs because it is no longer economically viable to commute?

Nature has its own way of doing things. Nature does not want anything to become extinct.. be it people, insects or even diseases. Whenever there is a threat to a species, individuals of that specie has to adapt and try to overcome this threat to ensure its survival. This is exactly what has happened..

We have been breeding new wheat cultivars to control diseases and keep them out of the fields… In return the diseases adapt and try to overcome the resistance. The result: a strain called Ug99.. which has overcome many of the resistance genes that has been effective for several decades..

But this cannot be avoided.. It is part of nature and we have to accept it. However, wheat breeders have to seek new sources of resistance to once again keep the disease under control. An epidemic such as this should make us aware of our surroundings and nature.. We tend to forget the little things and take everything for granted.. Yet now, a disease.. where a single spore is not even visible to the naked eye.. is threatening our food supplies.. Are we still the superior species on this planet? Or are we just one of the charms on natures huge chess board?