The man in this video, Scott McGuire of Oregon, speaks great wisdom about how to maintain a food supply after the system fails.

What system? I’m talking about the trucking system that supplies our local grocery stores with food supplies of questionable quality.

If you don’t think the trucks will ever stop running, quit fooling yourself. Did you think the USA would give trillions of dollars to overseas bankers so they could give themselves bonuses? Did you think BP oil would contaminate the entire Gulf of Mexico and destroy the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people? Did you think we’d be going into a Great Depression in 2010?

If you like to eat, give this video a few moments of your time. Especially, if you have a family, take note. You don’t want to hear your children cry from hunger pangs.

A quote from the video:

“All of our food comes in on trucks. I mean, wherever you live, ninety percent of your food’s coming in off a truck, coming through a grocery store. That’s not a tenable situation. There’s all kinds of things wrong with that. That’s treadmills running on eggshells. That’s more and more to get less and less and the whole thing’s getting more and more fragile, so we’ve got to create an indiginous local food supply.

In my experiment I did in backyard sustainability we tried to look at what is the nature of a backyard food supply, and what I found out is it’s not an individual thing, it’s a group thing. You can’t have a local food supply by yourself. Local food supply has to be done with other people. The only way to get at it is to feed one another, and that’s what I teach.”

— Scott McGuire