No matter the disaster, be it economic collapse, natural disaster, flooding and early freezes decimating crops and harvests, or as we are witnessing now, a pandemic, the one thing each of these events have in common, is they cause a food supply disruption as the food chain breaks down.

We in the Independent Media have long warned that food was going to become a problem eventually, watching things get worse as event after event piled onto each others, all effecting the food supply.

Flooding hit the mid-West prevented farmers from planting on time, with some not able to plant at all. Those same floods also destroying the livestock and livelihood of other ranchers. Then came an early freeze which rushed the harvest of crops that already had a late start in planting.

Other issues across the globe effected other food items and chains, such as the mass slaughter of chickens in China reported on in February, 2020, along with a worldwide shortage of pork coming from China's swine flu issues in late 2019.

Those were all shortage issues that consumers still have not felt the full effects of yet.