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Survival Living In America

We in America do not worry about surivial living or having enough food. We have so many choices at the grocery store that it is outside the imagination that food won't be there. Although there are several right here in the united states who retire to bed hungry on a constant basis, the true food deficits which have sparked riots in other states have so far escaped the United States. It is dumb to think we are immune forever, and it may be time to start learning some basis survival skills.

Wendell Berry discussed in his book"'The Unsettling of America' 31 years back that food was too vital to be used as a weapon. People have ignored that idea for 30 years because - WE have food on the grocery shelves and it can't be that bad.

Society looked the other way as dairy farmers endeavored to hang on to herds of a pair hundred cows and maintain their lifestyle. It looked the other way again when small hog farmers were buried under 9 cent hogs, acost that meant ham alone brought twice what the whole pig cost. Some farmers gave hogs away as it would cost them to sell or keep them.

This will eliminate many alternatives for our food. While we see now that with oil people who have it can, will, and do dictate the price folks don't see the flashing neon sign that our Food Supply is in the same situation. Indeed, customers are for the most part so oblivious of it that they continue to purchase on cost, generating cash for the handful of company entities that hold the bulk of our Survival Food storage.

Archer Daniels Midland - ADM - bills itself as'supermarket to the world' and had a 67% increase in profits while Cargill - resented by little farmers around the world - had an 86% profit increase.

Most customers haven't any idea what some ingredients in their products actually are.
as an example, sorbitol is a hydrogenated sugar alcohol derived from corn, which is utilized in sugarless gums and candy, as well as being an ingredient in polyurethane.

As one of the biggest processors of oil seed, ADM produces soybean powder and meal for human and animal use. Extracted from that's a crude oil used not only for edible oils, vegetable oils and lecithin, but also for industrial oil, biodiesel, and polymers.

Cargill - enjoying record profits - has its hands in baked products, cereals, drinks from alcohol to sodas to fruit drinks, candy and chocolate, dairy, health and organic ( think sports drinks, vitamins ), beef and chickens, pharmaceuticals, prepared foods ( condiments, jams/jellies, side and main dish mixes, puddings, sauces and much more ) and break foods. You will not see'Cargill' on grocery store shelves overtly labeled just like you will not see the other majority players, but it's's there and much of what you eat comes from them.

Be assured when it comes to maintaining those record profits that they'll have that under consideration before those too poor to buy their foods. Cotton farmers in India, pushed out by Monsanto cotton, have committed suicide at the prospect of losing their livelihood, and farmers in many other states do not even need them as neighbors. If it comes to their finances or yours - theirs will take precedence. Monsanto and Cargill each own 50% of a company that markets genetically modified foods across the planet.

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