Unusual indeed ... #GrandSolarMinimum

Perhaps no surprise at this point, but this month's CanSIPS summer forecast is much wetter for NW Europe. Surprisingly cool temperatures across northern Europe too: it's unusual to see seasonal mean temps near or below the old 1981-2010 climate in these models

“Many farmers and fruit growers suffered enormous losses.”

#UK: Coldest in 99 years, but MET Office diverts your attention by talking about ‘frostiest’ instead of ‘coldest.’

#GlobalCooling

https://www.iceagenow.info/met-office-downplaying-april-cold/

How Costco Is Masking A 14% Price Jump With #Shrinkflation

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/how-costco-masking-14-price-jump-shrinkflation

Texas children hit with cease-and-desist order from local government after selling eggs to neighbors

The two girls, 10-year-old Indiana and 8-year-old Phoenix, started collecting extra eggs from the chickens on their property and sold them to those in the community following the devastating Lone Star State freeze in February that roiled the region's food supply.

The sisters generated about $70 per week under the guidance of their father, Brian Johnson, an Army veteran, before the city of Bulverde intervened.

Johnson received a letter in the mail that demanded that he and his girls stop selling the eggs, he told CBS Austin on Thursday.

Someone in the neighborhood complained about him keeping chickens "for the purpose of producing and selling" eggs, City Manager Danny Batts told the Washington Examiner.
The "keeping of 30 chickens in a residential neighborhood, while not common, is permissible" under the city's ordinance, but "the selling of chicken eggs, or any other animal products produced on the property, from a residentially zoned lot is a violation ... regardless of the age of the person conducting the sales," he added.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/texas-children-cease-desist-local-government-selling-eggs-neighbors

"Farmers say this will make it all but impossible to farm:

The federal government is strictly curtailing irrigation this year in an attempt to protect endangered fish important to Indigenous tribes. Farmers say this will make it all but impossible to farm, while tribal groups say the plan doesn’t go far enough to save their fisheries.

#water

https://thecounter.org/oregon-farms-water-klamath-river-drought-salmon/

“Run low on poultry”

The popularity of chicken -- from sandwiches and tenders to nuggets and wings -- is fueling such demand for fried poultry that America is starting to run short.

KFC says it’s struggling to keep up with soaring demand for its new sandwich, while North Carolina-based chicken-and biscuits-chain Bojangles reported outages of tenders across its 750 locations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-29/fried-chicken-craze-is-causing-u-s-to-run-low-on-poultry?sref=RJ2RlMrh

Biden Prepares For Stealth Food Stamp Increase Of Up To 20% Without Congressional Approval

The Biden administration is planning to use an obscure US Department of Agriculture instrument to lay the groundwork for a long-term increase in food aid for tens of millions of Americans.

The instrument, known as the 'market basket,' is a shopping list used to determine food stamp benefits, and which can be adjusted without risking an impasse in Congress from Republican lawmakers, according to Bloomberg.


"This is really meaningful," according to Harvard professor Jason Furman, who was chairman of former President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. "It’s one of the bigger things government can do for poverty without Congress."

#FoodPrices

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/biden-prepares-stealth-food-stamp-increase-20-without-congressional-approval

Gov Inslee (WA) INSTITUTIONALIZES vaccinated sections for Washington venues as #MedicalApartheid grows:

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Inslee announced Monday that venues in Washington state are now allowed to have vaccinated sections to increase capacity.
The new rules, outlined in a release from the governor’s office says that vaccinated sections can increase the allowed total capacity to 50% or 22,000 people, whichever is smaller.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/inslee-adds-vaccinated-sections-washington-venues/Q7LEUZQ7PVDP7CLP7RWZVVETMU/

Major moves in global grains trade as countries take steps to protect domestic food supplies/prices:

MOSCOW, May 4 (Reuters) - Russian buckwheat exports will be suspended temporarily from June 5 to Aug. 31, according to a government decree published on Tuesday.

The move is Russia's latest attempt to rein in rising food prices. Buckwheat exports from Russia have risen significantly since November.

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/russia-to-suspend-buckwheat-exports-from-june-5-to-aug-31-2021-05-04?amp

Australian government officially recommends eating insects as part of our "mainstream diet" -

CSIRO: To develop resilient food systems, we need to diversify global food supply chains. With more than 2,100 insect species currently eaten by two billion people from 130 countries, edible insects present an important opportunity. Insects have high-value nutritional profiles and commercial insect farming is considered to have a low environmental footprint. The global edible insect industry is growing fast with Europe and the United States of America the leading edible insect markets in the West. This report identifies the challenges and opportunities for the Australian edible insect industry providing a useful framework for First Nations initiatives, start-ups, insect businesses, researchers, policy makers, and members of the general public who are considering engaging with the emerging industry.

https://blog.csiro.au/bringing-edible-insects-into-aussie-diets/

Bugs for piglets. Cargill and InnovaFeed extend insect feed deal

U.S. agriculture giant Cargill and French biotech firm InnovaFeed said they aim to feed 20 million piglets with insect oil by 2026 as part of a wider alternative protein deal.

Insect feed has become an increasingly popular alternative in agriculture and aquaculture as demand for animal feed surges, pushing feed grain prices higher, and as more companies work toward reducing their carbon footprint.

Cargill (CARGIL.UL) and InnovaFeed announced a first agreement in 2019, initially focusing on fish feed.

"The expansion of this partnership will include more species, starting with the use of oil derived from insects for pig feed," the companies said in a joint statement on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cargill-innovafeed-insects/bugs-for-piglets-cargill-and-innovafeed-extend-insect-feed-deal-idUSKBN2CK1FZ

Bird flu has led to a shortage of Swedish eggs

An unusually contagious and airborne variant of bird flu has caused the deaths of approximately 1.5 million laying hens. Now there may be a shortage of Swedish eggs in grocery stores.

1.5 million hens, which lay about one egg a day, and 700,000 young hens have been killed as a result of the bird flu. This has led to fewer Swedish eggs being produced and several grocery stores have switched to imported eggs.

#Sweden

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/fagelinfluensa-har-lett-till-brist-pa-svenska-agg

How long until they ban salt — for your safety? More and more like Demolition Man every day.

BRACE FOR IMPACT!

The supply chain continues to deteriorate. Need something, buy it now. Need it ongoing? Figure out how to grow/make it yourself:

As Deutsche Bank analyst Amit Mehrotra told American Shipper back in March, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” He was right. The latest data reveals that despite a deluge of inbound cargo since the second half of last year, import demand is not abating — it’s increasing.

Importers are still playing catch-up. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Customers Inventories Index, released Monday, dropped to 28.4 for April. That set a new record for the lowest number since the index was created in 1997 and is down 34% from April 2019, pre-COVID.

As one retail survey respondent told the ISM, “Market capacity in most areas is oversold, with no realistic improvement on the horizon. In fact, it appears that demand will continue to strengthen, leading to more significant disruptions.”

#SupplyChain

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/brace-for-impact-data-shows-us-import-demand-still-rising/

It is like that, isn't it.

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.

Finance, supply chain, food supply, and your health — they will take any of these you don't claim for yourself.

increased Inflation expectations leads to more inflation, so I'm asking myself why they are constantly talking about it now on the mainstream media 🤔 Its as if they want inflation

The lumber I bought this morning is already more expensive after the hardware store got a new price list from corporate.

This is Weimar style, "prices increase at the restaurant multiple times a day, while you are eating."

And it hasn't even started yet.

Good luck everyone.

Stunning propaganda: DON'T GROW YOUR OWN FOOD! It's so dangerous! It may have lead in it! Your children will never be the same.

Sydneysiders are being warned their veggie patches might be poisoning them.

Toxic levels of lead have been found in gardens across the city - with experts warning the contamination carries major health risks: "The effects would include developmental delays, ADHD behaviours, increased irritability, and poorer executive functioning."

Professor Taylor's recent "VegeSafe" program at Macquarie University found that one-third of backyard gardens across Australia are likely to produce food with unsafe levels of lead.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-garden-vegetable-patches-toxic-lead-levels/decd31ee-846b-4053-9e7e-b9be8dcad3e7

Note that when it is "CO2 emissions" (your diesel tractor, car, your diet, your cow, your freedoms) , or "lead in YOUR garden" (the post above) — the name of the game is
"Absolute Zero"

— but when it's how much lead can be in corporate baby food, it's "Closer to Zero"
https://www.fda.gov/food/metals-and-your-food/closer-zero-action-plan-baby-foods

Shedding? Or self spreading vaccine?

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [Nov 2020]: What if instead of orchestrating complicated and resource-intensive campaigns to vaccinate humans against emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19, we could instead stop the zoonotic diseases that sometimes leap from animals to people at their source? A small, but growing number of scientists think it’s possible to exploit the self-propagating properties of viruses and use them to spread immunity instead of disease. Can we beat viruses like SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, at their own game?

For obvious reasons, public and scientific interest in vaccines is incredibly high, including in self-spreading vaccines, as they could be effective against zoonotic threats. The biologists Scott Nuismer and James Bull generated fresh media attention to self-spreading vaccines over the summer after publishing an article in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. But the subsequent reporting on the topic gives short shrift to the potentially significant downsides to releasing self-spreading vaccines into the environment.

https://thebulletin.org/2020/09/scientists-are-working-on-vaccines-that-spread-like-a-disease-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/