Future Food Supply – How To Feed Your Family After the Economic Collapse

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

Filed under: Videos — Linda @ 11:58 pm

Comments (18)

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Interesting stuff. But the question is, do we try to grow sustainable gardens or attempt to find different methods of mass transportation for food?

Comment by justin bieber and his girlfriend — Sunday, August 22, 2010 @ 7:36 am

I have a preference for home grown veggies. For one thing, they taste much better than the veggies I buy in stores.

For another thing, there’s no fluoride in my local water supply and it makes me feel good to know I’m watering with creek water, not with a city’s polluted, contaminated, fluoridated water…

…and for you who have no way to escape from all the fluoride poisoning, I can only suggest you organize with others in your community that care, and start telling your water company that you’re tired of being poisoned. The scientific study results are available on the internet. Print them out, take them to the water company, and ask them why in God’s name are they still poisoning you!

Comment by Linda — Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:20 am

Oh, and about trucking… well, I live with an ex-trucker who notices when truckers are not getting paid more to compensate for cost of living increases, when gas prices make trucking profits tenuous, and when foreign interests invade the country to take over the trucking industry.

Oh my goodness. Give me home grown produce any day. Something I can count on to be there, to give me real nutrition… and something I know for certain hasn’t been sprayed with poisonous pesticides.

Comment by Linda — Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:22 am

In the event of an epic economic collapse, what’s the best way to protect what little money I have? Gold.Thanks a lot.

Comment by Unusual Gift — Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 11:13 pm

mhhh, very interesting. I love my home grown vegatables.

Comment by Aloe Vera — Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 6:52 am

interesting ideas. I think we should do both alternate transportation and self sustained community. Their will be things we cant grow because of geographic so we will need outside sources.

Comment by tom wells — Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:39 am

Unusual, yes, gold is the thing to invest in, or silver. But in my opinion, better than that is stored food. We also live in a place where there’s a lot of gold mining still being done, so if we wanted to get more it would be possible… but take it from someone who has tried – it is slow, tedious work and not all that profitable unless you have the best (expensive) equipment.

Comment by Linda — Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:30 pm

Tom, we might have to wean ourselves off of the foods we can’t grow locally, or accept we can rarely have them. But until then, eat, drink and be merry! That’s what I’m doing. I’ll be so sad if some of my favorite foods become unavailable. But I’d adjust and get over it because I’ve got some food storage going on… for example lentils, which make excellent sprouts. (Don’t gag – they are actually sweet and delicious.)

Comment by Linda — Monday, August 30, 2010 @ 10:32 pm

Our family largely relies upon what nature provides. Benefits from the farm life should no be overlooked.

Comment by Scentsy — Sunday, September 5, 2010 @ 12:21 pm

Thanks for the wisdom…we have been experiencing massive set backs this days..i hope my countrymen will survive after all.

Comment by lisa — Tuesday, September 14, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

Interesting and I try to buy as much locally grown produce as possible but in the UK if we only brought food locally we would starve as too much land has been built upon.

Comment by IT Support — Tuesday, September 21, 2010 @ 6:24 am

I’ll be so sad if some of my favorite foods become unavailable. But I’d adjust and get over it because I’ve got some food storage going on… for example lentils…

Comment by Ann — Saturday, October 30, 2010 @ 3:27 am

Glen Beck had a show this week about the economic collapse. I expect more and more people will be working at getting some local food grown. Fortunately I live in an area where a community can be built up to support each other with their individual farms and gardens.

Comment by tbaleno — Sunday, November 7, 2010 @ 7:28 pm

really useful stuff.I love the article and think its great that you took the time out to write it.
i think in times of trouble,we all have count on a little help to get through.
well done

Comment by duncan — Friday, December 3, 2010 @ 2:01 am

I have a preference for home grown veggies. For one thing, they taste much better than the veggies I buy in stores.

Comment by weiwei — Friday, December 17, 2010 @ 12:16 am

It’s my first time visit here. And I found so many entertaining stuff in this blog, especially its discussion, very useful. thanks