Is a global food shortage on the horizon? Reports are making the rounds on the Internet after a FEMA contractor warned of worldwide unrest after a 395 percent spike in the cost of food. Such a jump would lead to extreme civil chaos in each part of the globe.
Reportedly, an array of parts of the national security complex suggests that the current food supply may not be enough to maintain the current populations. This would incite a crisis, which could start to unfold by the year 2020.
According to Motherboard, there are two reports that have been published by CNA Corporation’s Institute for Public Research, which compiled data from 65 officials from all over the world as well as important intergovernmental and multilateral organizations. With this information, established a desktop game simulation of such conditions in a global food shortage called “Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game.”
The description of the 2015 game states:
“Simulation and exercise intended to improve understanding of how governments, institutions, and private sector interests might interact to address a crisis in the global food system.
“The scenario is set five years from today in a world where population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather and political crises combine to threaten global food security. The game’s players — high-level decision makers representing nations, international institutions, and the private sector — will collaborate, negotiate, make decisions, and confront tradeoffs while dealing with a chain reaction of consequences resulting from their actions.”
ZeroHedge further reports on the desktop game:
“Divided into four rounds, the simulation found spikes in food prices up to a whopping 395 percent, driven by extended crop failures in key regions, resultant from the confused reactions by international officials, drastic changes in the environment, and skyrocketing oil prices — many similar factors, the report notes, that drove a global food crisis spanning 2007 to 2008.”
It’s suggested that the game, which was commissioned by Cargill, an industrial agribusiness behemoth, and Mars, the candy giant, could have been influenced by corporate interests.
For years, it’s been warned that humanity could start to maintain a vegetarian diet, whether it’s because of skyrocketing food prices, government policies or a reduction in meat (SEE: Will food price inflation lead to Americans becoming vegetarians?). Perhaps a vegetarian diet could prepare you for a food shortage.
With that being said, we’ve been warned for years that the human population is too big and that we’d eventually run out of food and rely on Soylent Green. This has been the case for decades now. Fast forward to today, and many places that have embraced free markets do not have a food shortage problem.
Sure give the corporations another reason to raise prices and they will. Even if it has no basis in fact. Why does ECN keep spreading this manure???
It is now 2020