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Where or No Where, Is Our Food Reserves Today?

Todays Health Article

July 16th, 2011

Today this may be a well deserved question, but most likely the Food Reserves are not given much thought past our own cupboards or the refrigerator. With hunger knocking on many people doors these days, a recently published article here, why is this subject something we even should consider as a health issue. Today simply, as long as we are able to go to the store and find the necessities needed for our weekly shopping, little thought is most likely given, regarding that if a natural disaster or an unusual event such as wars or world crisis, how our food supply is stacked up, suddenly we all may be effected by such occurrences. So what’s the scoop regarding the national reserves kept for such purposes.

Our reserves, according to our government, by law, was to maintain a three year reserve made up of mixed grain in a survival storage for every man,woman, and child living in the United States. However, like most laws of the land, from our wise forefathers who brought this upon our nation, our fathers of today, have not taken heed to this reserve requirement. This requirement, in time of National Emergency, that all people had the most important mainstay needed for survival as individuals and as a country as a whole.

The 1960′s and the 1970′s

In theses years the political policies of our country, left this concept. Were they insane, perhaps! Their decision to give the surplus grains, I actually rember this, which our elevators were bulging all over this country, to other nations. Too many to even mention. With this continuing through out these decades, the reserves of grains, now became empty! Now, no longer elevators bulging but empty which were to be held for a national crisis.

The consequences paid to enhance the international frienship policies of other nations, paid for by our tax dollars, has no longer left these reserves, set up by our forfathers, available for us.

Now it is all but gone!

Did you know that by 1996, the US Department of Agriculture claimed that there was enough food in storage to last every man,woman, and child in the cities a 3day supply. Those living in the country a 5 day supply. So should a National Emergency occur, all food supplies came to a halt. the masses would have only days of food reserves.

Yet in 2003, the U.S.D.A. stopped measuring for the number of days in reserve. Only because no longer was the food supply for every man, woman, and child could not be measured in days, otherwords the amount of food in storage drooped under a day! Yes, now it would be measured in pounds. So how much did 300 million people have in the food chain to live on in 2003, there was 77 pound of food per person. This means after your 77 pounds is used….its Totally Gone!

OK, now by Sept of 2005, there is now only 15.7 pounds of food stuff reserved in our food chain for all in the United States. This is very significant, as there has been a 80% decrease in the past 2 years, That decrease is becoming greater with every passing day.

The 15.7 Pounds of Survival Food consists of

11.0 pounds of unprocessed of wheat

4.7 pounds consists of

Nonfat dry milk
Cheese
Corn by the bushel
Peanuts by the pound
Lentils by the pound

This is not a daily supply, this is amount that was set aside at this time, today the amount was unable to be determined. This information was proclaimed by Alan Guebert of the Farm & Food Report. Mr. Guebert also commented that one more disater as the likes of hurricane Katrina or Rita against the United States, or anything to compare to such in whatever way, would create such a food panic, it would make the New Orleans rioting look like the Mardi Gras!

Todays Health Comments

How sadly have we bought into to the fact that theses food reserves that our forefathers so wisely set into law, is no longer a concept or option we can count on. We either have to get our heads out of the sand and become concerned about the food shortage that now is prevalent. One out of every six people are facing food shortages today without any National Emergency… where will all us fall if the food supply in 2005 was 15.7 pounds, it is now six years later.