Stockpiling Food Might Be Your Best Investment Preparing for a Disaster, What Makes the Best Survival Food for an Emergency?
by AMY S.
PrepperFortress.com
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Is Stockpiling Food A Good Idea?
When I was a little boy , and we ran out of peanut butter, my mother would send me downstairs to get another jar off the shelf. Usually, there would be two more jars behind that one.
My mother, just like her mother before her, always had months of food on hand at any given moment.
I grew up assuming this was normal, yet as a young adult, I didn’t shop this way.
After buying “BIG”, I might have two weeks of food on hand, but never three jars of peanut butter, eight cans of pork and beans or ten loaves of frozen bread.
I once asked my grandmother why she always had so much food in the house, and her answer was, “Just In Case.”
Now middle-aged, with children of my own, I fully understand her answer.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and World War II. They and their peers saw our fragile economy collapse in 1929, the market plummet, banks folding, and an entire way of life threatened.
When the war and rationing ended, they continued stockpiling food and never stopped.
On September 11th, while New Yorkers were pulling together for the common good and fire and police agencies all over the country were sending people and equipment to Ground Zero. What was the rest of the country doing?
Many were sitting in their cars, in long lines, waiting to fill their tanks with $4.00 gasoline. Price gouging occurred all over the country as some store owners saw a chance to capitalize on people’s fears.
Luckily 9/11 was a one-day affair, and no follow-up attacks occurred. The price gouging didn’t spread beyond gasoline.
If we had endured another day or two of massive attacks, would it have spread to food or other consumer goods? If there had been a sudden run on banks, would the ATMs have been shut off?
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