Am I being overly dramatic?
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some people would call us preppers but in reality I view it as I grew up with my grandparents who were born in the 1890 they were almost Mennonite grew a big garden raised cows an hogs we had berries of different types and nuts and fruit trees and everything was put up and used to feed us through the winter, my sister and I were 3 & 4 when we went to live with them looking back I wish that I had learned more at the time
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When you consider the number of Americans that have no clue where their food comes from or how to grow it, preserve it, or how to prepare a dish from scratch, I think it speaks pretty well for this group.
I hope I never have to forage to survive and feed my family, but it feels kind of nice knowing I could probably get by if I had to.
I like to think of it as a special kind of independence and it filters down to doing all sorts of day to day tasks for myself and my loved ones instead of paying someone to do it for me.
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Well, thank you to everyone who responded, I actually feel better now. I was starting to worry that I was being a drama queen about it but ive started to see unstocked shelves a little too often and Ive seen us and others struggle more with stock issues again, and worse shipping issues. Ammo is unbelievably annoying and I’d never ask people not to stock up on ammo but man, leave some for other people who want to protect their family too!
johnsbrewhouse I’ve heard of farmers/ranchers being told by the usda that they can’t send all of their meat to market but that is all second hand so who knows. If it IS greed that is causing this then it is disgusting, we should be better than that. The good thing is, by me being prepared it means I can take care of my neighbors too if need be. Wife and I looked at selling the house and while we would get a great price for it, we’d then be way over paying for something when we bought and with 2 large dogs an apartment isn’t an option!
So, thanks again to everyone for responding.
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some people would call us preppers but in reality I view it as I grew up with my grandparents who were born in the 1890 they were almost Mennonite grew a big garden raised cows an hogs we had berries of different types and nuts and fruit trees and everything was put up and used to feed us through the winter, my sister and I were 3 & 4 when we went to live with them looking back I wish that I had learned more at the time
craigrice you probably learned more than you realize. The influence has been with you all these years.
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When you consider the number of Americans that have no clue where their food comes from or how to grow it, preserve it, or how to prepare a dish from scratch, I think it speaks pretty well for this group.
I hope I never have to forage to survive and feed my family, but it feels kind of nice knowing I could probably get by if I had to.
I like to think of it as a special kind of independence and it filters down to doing all sorts of day to day tasks for myself and my loved ones instead of paying someone to do it for me.
processhead I will add that most folks do not realize how little food is in the stores and warehouses that supply them when compared to the surrounding population. Most cities and communities only have about 3 days worth of products and that is without hording.
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In Vegas we are seeing prices raising steadily. Meat, lumber, housing, wages… oops not wages. Stores are a little short on some thing but nothing you cant work arround.
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I was responding to this post (https://meatgistics.waltonsinc.com/topic/3924/beautiful-day-to-make-some-blue-ribbon-brats-tubed-casing-question/15) with the below answer and it got me thinking, am I being overly dramatic about stuff going on right now? For those of you who listen to the podcast, do I bring it up too much? Cause 'every time I talk to people not named Austin or people who work with me about shortages and what not they look at me like I am crazy. So, my question is, has stuff like this always happened and I am just paying attention for the first time? Just wondering if other people see the same thing or if I have just been looking at it too much and I am now obsessed and see it everywhere!
I went to the store yesterday and it was “on sale” for 1.79. Also, i was at Casey’s (gas station pizza place in KS) and they had probably 70% of their drink shelves unstocked. When I asked the lady if it was workers or stock that was causing that she said “stock, we can’t get anything right now” so I really hope everyone has been squirreling a little food away so we can continue to make sausage. I have a case of pork butts at work and a freezer full of cured and or frozen meat at my house. Am I overly nervous about this?
Jonathon went to go pick up some chicken and try the Chicken on the Run. The meat shelves are bare, not only at one store and not only chicken. I did manage to find a whole chicken so beer can chicken is what’s on the menu tonight. Along with burgers from my steer, Parmesan Garlic brats I made, pork chops from my hog, battered deep fried mushrooms, and homemade crab ragoons. That should last the week
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Jonathon went to go pick up some chicken and try the Chicken on the Run. The meat shelves are bare, not only at one store and not only chicken. I did manage to find a whole chicken so beer can chicken is what’s on the menu tonight. Along with burgers from my steer, Parmesan Garlic brats I made, pork chops from my hog, battered deep fried mushrooms, and homemade crab ragoons. That should last the week
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In Vegas we are seeing prices raising steadily. Meat, lumber, housing, wages… oops not wages. Stores are a little short on some thing but nothing you cant work arround.
samspade I’m surprised your not seeing wages rising, it’s unbelievable around lower Wisconsin. All these sign on bonuses (one company doing a $5000 sign on) most are $2000. Starting wages of $16-$26 an hour just for mediocre jobs that are typically around $10-$12 and hour. So much for the federal starting wage of $15, most places are above that already. Besides what I call fresh out of high school jobs for starting workforce.
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Jonathon It’s not hoarding when you are fully stocked 100% of the time. Being an Eagle Scout I live by the motto “Be Prepared”. I haven’t really seen prices shoot up much here at the grocery stores, but they have creeped up a little bit. Being in the hear of cattle processing country, that probably insulates me somewhat from some of the price swings with beef. I haven’t seen chicken spike much, you can still catch deals around and get legs and thighs for 80 cents or so a pound, and whole birds for a $1 pound. Brisket has been noticeably higher for the most part, think that probably has more with it being its summer, and everyone is BBQ, plus more people getting into smoking meats themselves than any shortages. Pork has remained pretty steady, and I can still find 99 cent pork butts on sale pretty often. I think the shortages come into effect when people who don’t normally stay fully stocked run out and get overstocked because someone in the media is out telling them there are going to be shortages, which then multiplies the problem 10 fold. If you want to look at something other than food, lets look at ammo, is there a shortage? No. The problem is people are hoarding 10’s of thousands for themselves, and are buying up more anytime it hits the shelfs. This is hurting your casual shooter who just wants to go out and shoot a couple of boxes of ammo every now and then, because they aren’t every able to find any ammo because the people buying it up are generally looped into when it is going to be hitting the shelves or are having people hold it back from them (for a little cash under the table). Ammo production is being ramped up, but if people continue to buy it like there won’t ever be anymore the problem will never fix it’s self. Does a guy really need 10K plus rounds of 5.56, .45, or 9MM?
Tex_77 I usually shot 500-1000 rounds a month, this last year I have been restricting myself to 200.How much ammo one “needs” is entirely according to what one is preparing for. And we live in a (relatively) free nation, where each of us is allowed to decide that for themselves. You prove this yourself, saying you have plenty of meat stocked. Who gets to decide how much meat is 'too much"? It isn’t a matter of fairness, when you are free to prioritize anything for yourself!
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