Disasters May Drive Up Food Prices

Twisters, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, it seems like the apocalypse is upon us.

Couple that with oil spills, radiation leaks, improperly test medicines and boy are we in trouble.

 At a closer glance, however, history shows that this is not the case. In 1201   over a million people died in a monstrous quake that devastated Egypt and Syria. The bubonic plaque or Black Death” annihilated  33 percent of Europe’s population. Untold numbers of Native Americans died between 1500 and 1700 due to lack of resistance to common germs brought over by the colonists.

Countless disasters have gone unrecorded because in their place or time no one lived there or had the means to broadcast it if they did. With mother earth stretched at the seam and the population growing with each generation its obvious why more people are effected. With the advent of the World Wide Web and global communications disasters are much easier to track and stay abreast of.

So what does it mean as a person living in the 2000’s? Higher prices! Higher prices for energy, and even more so higher prices for food. The Gulf coast seafood industry is years from recovering it’s already depleted fish stocks. Heck, the Alaskan seafood industry still has recovered from the Valdez ! The Japanese seafood industry is virtually non existent.

World relief efforts to feed victims of disaster take grain and water and massive amounts of food. This weeks tornado phenomenon has devastated acres of farmland. Australia’s quake is still effecting live stock prices (have you bought any lamb lately) today.

There have been a recorded 7,563 disaster recorded in the first decade of this century alone. My advice, grow the garden I’m always babbling about. Buy what you need, eliminate the waste from your daily habits. Conserve your water. Don’t throw away those leftovers. Become frugal with your food chooses and menu planning,if not your grand children will be the one paying the price and trust me the price will be a lot higher than it is today.