Here Are Some Disturbing Facts:
After 10 days with no food, 90% of people will steal, pillage and kill. •But worse, within 15 days, severe hunger transforms ordinary people into savage human flesh eaters.
During the siege of Leningrad, having a crust of bread was living high on the food chain. Eating rats and even wallpaper to survive was common. Most Americans think it’s crazy to believe it could ever happen here.
In the 1950s, the Pentagon conducted a study to find out what people would do at different stages of starvation.
After just 10 days without food, 90% of people will steal, pillage and kill for food. But after a mere 15 days, almost all human beings becomes a cannibal.
But think about it, in a long-term food shortage, you may not eat for days, possibly weeks. After just one week without food, hunger will be gnawing away at a person’s stomach like a crazed rat.
Right now, the entire world is facing challenges never before seen in modern history. Droughts and other natural disasters have decimated crops in America’s heartland. Many of the crops that have survived are being shipped off to foreign shores. Worst of all, we’re now more dependent than we’ve ever been (in the US) on imported food from third world countries!
All it would take is another “False Flag” operation... hyperinflation... or an oil crisis to yank the rug out from under America’s food supply. Not to mention a CME or other EMP, an asteroid collision, or escalating earth changes prior to a close passage of a brown dwarf.
And when that happens, the clock will start ticking ...
Day 1 – There’s mayhem at the grocery stores. People are fighting over the last few jars and boxes of food. Fights break out.
Day 2 - People still have food in their homes. They eat lightly. Everybody is on edge.
Day 5 - Now people begin to run out of food. Neighbors come knocking. “Do you mind if we eat with you?” {Reminds me of that song, "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in....}
Day 10 - Small bands of armed thieves are making their rounds, stealing food at gunpoint. You hear gunshots down the street. {Personally, I don't think it's going to take 10 days in the cities. I think several at the most.}
Day 15 - People are dying. The neighbors you thought you knew so well have become strangers to you. They’re not acting normal anymore. People are desperate. But the government can’t help because there’s no food left!
The average family will starve. Millions will die.
If the scenario above sounds shocking, look no further than America’s Great Depression for proof that hunger can visit this land. Millions of families went hungry during the last Great Depression – and that was when people were self-sufficient!
In fact, in 1940, after the depression ended, the population in the U.S. was projected to be around 142 million. But after the census was actually taken it was revealed to be only 132 million. We know 3 million left the country. But what happened to 7 million very hungry people? How many actually died? No one seems to know.
It’s easy to forget the lessons of history. It was just a scant 80 years ago that hunger ravaged the land INSIDE the United States! Except back then, most people grew their own crops and were self-sufficient. Today, almost no one is self-sufficient. During the last Depression, folks helped each other out. Today, they'll kill you over a pair of basketball shoes. Or run over pregnant women to beat them to the last can of tuna on the shelf.
Any slight hiccup in the food distribution system and Americans would feel it immediately. The casualties could literally run into the tens of millions. The scary part of a food shortage isn't calculating projected "death toll" statistics. It’s what people will do when they begin to starve.
You see, when people don’t have food to eat, it doesn’t take long for desperation to set in. Desperation leads people to do desperate things. For instance, the early American colonists who lived in Jamestown resorted to cannibalism during the “Starving Time” of 1609-1610. In fact, they dug up corpses for food! {Mmmm, mmmm good! as the commercial proclaims. Oh wait, wrong ad. That's for Campbell soup, not Cannibal Stew.}
And in the year 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, looters emptied shelves faster than anybody ever imagined. A visitor to New Orleans compared the chaos to a war zone. “It’s downtown Baghdad,” she said.
Of course, food shortages have happened all over the world and all throughout history. For instance, the Old Testament talks of a great famine in Samaria. During that time two women made a pact to boil their sons and eat them. So the first woman boiled her son, and the two women ate him. But the next day, the second woman refused to boil her son. And in that same Bible story, we learn that a donkey’s head fetched 80 pieces of silver, while dove’s dung – quite literally bird poop, meant for food – fetched 5 pieces of silver. In today’s money, that means the cost of a little bird poop to starving people fetched about $90. {Think "cottage industry" here.}
•This is the reality of famine and starvation.
•This is what happens when you don’t have food for more than a few weeks.
•This is what happens when the food system collapses and you are unprepared.
GOT FOOD?
Can't afford food storage? Then get some books on eating wild edible plants, growing rabbits or guinea pigs and/or catfish in a barrel, trapping small animals, and how to cook insects. Go natural. It will keep you alive.
