Editor’s Note: For complete transparency, I work with a Christian, all-American long-term storage food company. That could make it seem like my perspective is biased, but it actually happened in reverse. I didn’t start talking about storing up “survival” food because I got a food sponsor. Instead, I got a food sponsor because I believe wholeheartedly that Americans need to store up survival food as soon as possible. With that said, here’s the article…
(Late Prepper)—Shortly after Obamacare was signed, my wife and I looked into becoming “preppers.” It wasn’t about preparing for doomsday, but we felt at the time that it made sense for our family to have backup supplies and a couple of “bug out” bags, just in case.
We didn’t panic. Looking back, my “preps” were so minimal that I probably bought us an extra two weeks at best, and that’s IF potable water was still readily available. As for the bug out bags, they were the crappy ones you can get for cheap on Amazon that had a bunch of stuff I’d probably never need.
Fast forward to the post-Covid world and we’re full-fledged preppers. We could survive in our home without food, water, or electricity for at least six months and if we have water available we could probably last over a year. We have a garden, though not nearly as robust as we would like. We have no chickens… yet.
We don’t have the homestead/bunker that I’d like but we could make it for longer than most.
Still, this is all very new to us, relatively speaking. When some were getting prepped up for Y2K, we were laughing about it. When the economic downturn of 2008-09 happened, we figured it would all work itself out. As noted, we did a tiny bit of prepping after Obamacare passed, but more as a short-lived hobby than an actual conscious effort.
It wasn’t Covid-19 itself that turned us into preppers. Reactions to Covid by both individual Americans as well as governments made us realize things likely WILL go south at some point in the future and when they do, there will be three kinds of Americans:
- Those who don’t make it
- Those who make it but only by becoming beholden to government
- Those who are self-sufficient
We opted for option 3. We recommend that as many Americans as possible do the same sooner rather than later. Why the urgency? Do we anticipate apocalyptic conditions next week? No. The urgency is in the availability of supplies today versus tomorrow.
As of right now, it’s still pretty easy and not way too expensive to stock up on long-term storage food. Freeze-dried or canned foods are the best, in our humble opinion, because they have the longest shelf-lives and maintain the most nutrition and flavor.
We anticipate in the years or even months to come, there will be multiple reasons that food in general and long-term storage food in particular are going to become scarce, cost-prohibitive, and possibly even completely unavailable.
We’re not alone in this thinking.
President Trump is trying to secure this nation’s future. We believe he will be successful, but there will be a cost that will hit at the grocery store and on farms. It could happen during his term, but the more likely (hopeful) scenario is that it hits hardest after 2028.
The reasons we and others are anticipating this is because of the nature of the Globalist Elite Cabal’s plans. If you’d like to put on your tinfoil hat now, that’s fine, but the concerns are grounded in facts.
“Who controls the food supply controls the people,” said Henry Kissinger, the godfather of modern globalism.
Look around. Farmers and ranchers are under attack. Even with many Trump policies that are favorable to them, there are still outside forces beyond the White House’s reach that are making foods more challenging to produce and therefore more challenging to acquire.
Local, city, county, and state governments in some of the most important agricultural centers in the nation are attacking our food supply in the name of the cause-du-jour, usually pertaining in some way to “climate change.” California, for example is absolutely critical for the nation’s overall food security. The various governments in the state are becoming more adversarial to farmers and ranchers.
The sad reality is that when the food supply problems really start hitting, they will cascade. It is creeping now, but at a certain moment it will surge. When that happens, when panic buying takes over, when government is forced to intervene, it will be too late to get prepared.
If you’re not prepared at that point, you will end up in category 1 or 2 above. Either you won’t make it or you’ll only make it through government control.
Those in ideal circumstances can grow and raise their own food supplies, but there are challenges there as well. And even if someone is very prepared to produce their own food, they should be storing some away. A good freeze dryer at home is a great option for those with the space, time, cash, and desire.
Those of us who are not our ideal homestead/bunker need to stock up. Prices are already high but they’re only going to go higher. Having enough food, water, ammunition, energy, and meds are imperative. And as long as it’s all designed for long-term storage, there should be no waste. We employ a rotation system that prompts us to use supplies as they approach their expiration. Thankfully, freeze dried foods have as much as a 25-year shelf-life.
It’s hard to make people see something if they are opposed to it ideologically. I’m hopeful that those who respect my political or cultural content will also heed my advice on matters of survival. I’m not an expert. I’m just a guy who can read the writing on the wall, and it points to a very real need for as many Americans as possible to be prepared. In a way, all of this is very self-serving because the way I see it, every American who is not prepared will be an agent of the powers-that-be by necessity. They can be as patriotic and freedom-loving as any of us but if they are forced to choose between living free and starving or living under the control of a government that feeds their family, they’ll abandon freedom for the sake of survival.
I want to minimize the number of people under the control of government which is why I’m asking people to prepare today.
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