The Value of Corn
I stopped at Sam's Club last night. A pork tenderloin I could buy for
around $19 just a few weeks ago was now selling for $32. It seems that a
lower-than-expected corn crop yield is going to make bad economic news
just a little bit worse, and especially now around Christmastime. Corn
prices will be at an all-time high for the next year, and we're
beginning to see that reality on the grocery store shelves. It's more
than just cornmeal and bags of frozen whole kernel corn that are
affected. There are going to be ever-increasing food prices across
the board.
To understand why the price of corn is such a huge influence on the
price of groceries, you have to understand that nearly everything - from
meat, to cereal, to the gas in your car - all of it depends on corn in
one form or another.
And because corn has surged in price to more than $7 a
bushel (an increase of 70% since August 2010), farmers
have concentrated on growing it instead of wheat and soybeans in order
to maximize the return on their investment (and who can blame them?).
Lower supplies of wheat and soybeans have also driven the prices of
groceries up, and struggling families are really feeling the emptiness
of their wallets when it comes to their grocery purchasing power. I see
more and more people, not just with coupons and sales flyers, but with
calculators as well while shopping because they have so little room to
stretch their pennies.
Top economists are predicting that retail food prices will rise an
additional 4% next year, on top of the 4% rise in cost this year. It
doesn't help that we've had record heat waves and floods this past year,
decimating crops across the country.
But let's face it, food shortages and famines have been part and parcel
of the human experience since time began, haven't they? Well, yes they
have... but not for this country, not since the Great Depression (and
long enough ago that most of us can't remember it). In fact, for quite a
while, food shortages and hunger have been foreign concepts to most of
our people. Even the poorest among us have much more than the poor of
other countries.
But there are warning signs looming, portents that show us that food
shortages are not just about to occur... in some ways they're being
carefully orchestrated by a few select elitists and corporations who
desire nothing more than total control over our lives.
And in order to prepare for this looming food shortage, we must begin by
looking at the past. It's only through studying the past--picking up
patterns that go back in history--that we can begin to see those same
patterns emerging and coalescing within our modern world.
For instance, the fall of the Roman Empire produced a famine which swept
across the land and reduced the population of the city of Rome by 90%
over a 400-year period. The similarity between ancient Rome and modern
America isn't a new subject; however, there are a few precursors to
consider when comparing the two civilizations in terms of setting the
stage for food shortages and famines.
For instance, the Roman government spent more than it could afford.
(Does this sound familiar?) The military was over-extended. (Our
military is in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and posts around the world...)
Weak and corrupt leaders had overtaken the seat of government (this
could be a statement for our predicament today!). And Rome was plagued
by constant infighting... (Red states, Blue states... liberal,
conservative... progressives, constitutionalists).
But most startling of all, Rome increasingly became an empire of
heavy urban centers. In America today, only about 2% of the
population actually works the land. Our age of
industrialization has stripped the countryside of farmers and small
family farms, creating an influx of people into our larger cities, and
replacing those farmers with corporate giants who utilize improper
farming methods (planting the same plants in the same fields, year after
year...), who rely on chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and
most importantly, genetic manipulation to produce their
nutrient-deficient crops, all which are beginning to result in fewer and
fewer adequate crop yields.
That's right - the signs are all around us. But instead of telling you
to research all this yourself, let me tell you about an exciting book
from Solutions From Science, one that Alex Jones and others are
recommending as a "must-read" for everyone that is concerned with the
future. It's called
Rising Prices Empty Shelves, and it's a 173-page volume
packed full of those portents and patterns that I spoke to you about.
This book is broken up into four sections. Parts one and two cover
the history and cause of famines. History repeats
itself, and as a wise man once said, "those who refuse to learn from
history are doomed to repeat it." Once you're aware of
those patterns that triggered food shortages in the past, you'll become
a modern Nostradamus in predicting those famine cycles today.
Part three of the book details the deadliest modern threats to
our food supply. Those threats include our very own government,
Big Ag, and Big Pharma. All these have arisen in the last 60 years.
And in part four, you're given specific key steps to protect you
and your family from the coming food crisis.
For instance, you'll learn:
- The most dangerous people that you'll need to protect your
children from during a mass famine... and they're not
bandits, gangs, soldiers, or even your neighbors.
- The seven key factors that caused the decline and fall of the
Roman Empire... and which ones have occurred in the United States,
and which ones are about to happen.
- The one thing that government has actually paid $1.3 billion
dollars to stop production of since 1914, and the results of
that campaign that has reduced this valuable resource by
94%!
How are you going to handle the coming food shortages and the riots
coming our way, those same riots that are already beginning to occur
across the globe? The economy is not getting better. The Fed
strategy of quantitative easing and printing more money is making us
fiscally weaker and weaker. In fact, our unemployment rates and debt
ratios are such not seen since the Great Depression and World War II!
In
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What types of caches should you be stocking? And in a worst case
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How do you stay off the radar?
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they can to vent that anger and rage toward a system that is failing
them moment by moment. During the holiday season, this rage and anger
only increases. We're seeing that now with women in parking lots being
targeted for assault and robbery as they make their last-minute
Christmas purchases.
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Sincerely,
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