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The coming famine

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At the beginning of April 2022, a sudden rise in food prices surprises Germany, the most important economy in Europe and the third largest in the world, with an increase of between 20% and 50% in food prices and in some items up to 600%, as in the case of vegetable oils. The tragic aspect of this situation is represented by the fact that four days before this general increase in food prices, both the German government and the official media urged the population to refrain from hoarding food, announcing that there was enough food supply for everyone.

Obviously media power is linked to political power to hide from the world what is really happening, so it is always necessary to seek alternative information and share it. Recently an organization of farmers in Europe called National Farmer Union announced in a report that food production will fall by 50% in the next 6 months, due to the impossibility of Russia, the largest producer and exporter of fertilizers in the world (25% of world sales of these chemicals are generated by that country) to remove from its territory this fundamental element in the planetary food.

According to the report, Russia has decided to keep all its fertilizer production within its extensive territory, largely because of the sanctions imposed by the West that prevent the country from marketing its products. However, this measure is also linked to the problem of difficulties in world maritime transport, which makes it almost impossible to move all global trade in time. It is necessary to consider that fertilizers are a by-product of the transformation of natural gas (fossil fuels) and their use is essential for agricultural production.

Without fertilizers, it would be impossible to produce food on a large scale, and vegetables and fruits would not have the size and weight that we are used to consuming. A small island in Asia called Sri Lanka tried to take over the production of the country's main export item, tea leaf, by natural methods, but the result was chaotic: production was tiny, the quality of the leaves was not the same as with chemical fertilizers, and as a result the country is bankrupt and plunged into a brutal famine.

Similarly, India, a major wheat exporter, informed the world that it would stop supplying wheat to the rest of the world, with all its production remaining for domestic consumption. Since Russia and Ukraine are the world's largest producers and exporters of wheat, it is logical to imagine that wheat products (bread, pasta, pizzas, cookies and many others) will show exponential price increases.

The case of proteins, especially meat, will be dramatic because livestock is fed on grains (especially soybeans, corn or oats), considering the fact that 75% of what is sown in the world is dedicated to animal feed together with the increase in transportation fuels, consuming meat products will be (in fact it already is) an impossibility rather than a luxury. It is most likely that meat will cease to be produced because of its low profitability from the cost-benefit point of view.

For me there is no doubt, the world population will experience a famine like we have never seen before in our lifetimes. Perhaps our parents or grandparents know what it feels like to go for hours or days without food, that bitter feeling of weakness along with the uncontrolled rumbling of the stomach since before and during the events of World War II the world was exposed to this phenomenon. The fall in the value of fiat money will enhance this impossibility of acquiring food as in former times, while in the meantime politicians will do what they do best: hide information and lie to us. By the way, if in developed Germany there is talk of famine, then what will be left for those of us in the third world?

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