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Business/Economics, U.S.

U.S. Food Crisis: “..food shortages….it’s gonna be real.”-Joe Biden. Hell, the people of the U.S. have been struggling with food shortages for more than 2 decades!!! 

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Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main stream news links announcing United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls as of 02 April 2022:

Peanut butter recalled due to being contaminated with pieces of steel!

Chocolate eggs recalled due to being contaminated with tree bark!

Salad dressings, salad kits, sauces, noodles and pasta recalled due to being contaminated with plastics!

Pancake mix sold at Walmarts recalled due to contamination with parts from a tool used in the pancake mix production line!

3.74-million bottles of Airborne Gummies vitamins now recalled due to eye injuries?

Time to Drive Out Hunger with the annual Harvest Regional Food Bank Golf Tournament (it’s become, like, a regular thing).

ALASKA:

U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Christopher B. Dennis, 10MAR2022.

Is the U.S. Army hording food in Alaska? This is what they call an Intermediate Staging Base for food and fuel, near Fort Greely.

ARIZONA: Industrial farm recalls ‘sweetened’ strawberries for containing a chemical preservative that it forgot to list on the ingredient label!

ARKANSAS: Dollar Tree recalls all products, including food, after discovering more than one thousand rats in their warehouse!

CALIFORNIA: Industrial farm recalls mushrooms sold across the country for being contaminated with disease!

CONNECTICUTT: Fourteen Kiwanis clubs joined forces to package 27-thousand meals for hungry residents!

FLORIDA: 11th Annual Outrun Hunger 5K in Hollywood Beach (11 years and people are still struggling with lack of food).

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Gabriel B. Kotico, 22MAR2022.

During the week of 20-25MAR2022, U.S. Navy sailors assisted the Feeding Tampa Bay event.

GEORGIA:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Alec Kramer, 16MAR2022.

USN sailors volunteer to help stock a food pantry in Savannah, 16MAR2022.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Zachary D. Behrend, 07MAR2022.

USN sailors volunteer to operate a mobile food pantry in  Saint Mary’s, 07MAR2022.

HAWAII: Homesteadin’ Hawai’i discusses U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Junior’s admission that his sanctions against Russia will cause a food crisis everywhere, including the U.S.:

KANSAS: 27th annual Take a Swing at Hunger golf tournament (27 years of trying to end hunger in the U.S.).

Liberty Fruit company issues recall after government testing found a fruit sample tested positive for Salmonella!

MICHIGAN: Goshen Prepping ranks the supposed official Mormon one year stockpile of food list as a “crazy” fail, as it is heavy on grains and sugars, extremely low on water, and zero meats, fruits or vegetables (grains don’t count as vegetables):

MINNESOTA: 13th annual Empty Bowls food rally in Eagan (13 years and people a re still struggling with food shortage).

MISSOURI: 80s ToyHunter checks her local Walmart for possible food shortage and price increases on 23MAR2022:

NEW HAMPSHIRE: What is ConVal End 68 Hours of Hunger?

NEW JERSEY: Move For Hunger and Altair Global renewed their partnership to fight hunger across the United States.

For the first time in U.S. history, pet foods made by a New Jersey based company are now banned by the FDA for disease ridden dog food!

Somerset County Department of Health warning that school lunch milk is contaminated a peroxyacetic sanitizer, after 25 children were hospitalized!

NEW YORK: 30th annual National Association of Letter Carrier’s #StampOutHunger Food Drive (30 years of trying to end hunger in the U.S.).

Fruit & veg sold at local grocery chain recalled to being contaminated with disease!

NYC-ers are urged to prep for Biden’s Russia sanctions caused food crisis:

SOUTH CAROLINA: South Carolina Retailers Association donates a paltry $120-thousand to help feed hungry people.

TENNESSEE: Nonprofit Hunger First gets evicted by Kingsport Housing & Redevelopment Authority, has list of police recorded complaints that number in the thousands over the past five years.

VIRGINIA: Doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU said they’re seeing between 18% and 20% of patients who are facing food insufficiency!

Perhaps the increase in people going to the children’s hospital for malnutrition is because for the past two years the Arlington Food Assistance Center halted their food operations, supposedly to protect people from The Pandemic!

Washington DC: Senators use Biden’s Russia sanctions caused food crisis to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to relax regulations governing the agricultural industry.

U.S. Food Crisis, June 2021:  “EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER”, “GHOSTS IN THE LAND.”

Food Crisis, March 2019: “NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY”

International, U.S.

Norovirus / Gastroenteritis: More deaths! Military veterans hit! U.S. judge says ‘stop blaming cruise ship passengers’! Scientist who discovered virus dies!

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Australia:  In Victoria State, people are being warned of rising  gastroenteritis cases.  The majority are being blamed on eggs contaminated with salmonella.  In the past 20 years salmonella cases have increased 80% in the Land Down Under!  Campylobactera is up 20%.  Overall food related gastroenteritis cases up 75% from 2001 to 2011!  So much for advanced health care and food production systems.

Canada: In Nanaimo, British Columbia, reports that one hospital and at least six old folks homes hit with norovirus.  In Burlington, Ontario, a retirement home hit with norovirus.  Six people died, but officials don’t think norovirus was the direct cause: “The deaths were reported. We don’t have the cause of death. They all had underlying illnesses.”-Dimitra Kasimos, Halton Region Health Department

European Union:  A study confirms what I reported more than a  year ago; frozen strawberries contained norovirus!  Those strawberries came from China and hit Germany hard in the gut.  Read the Eurosurveillance report here.  In United Kingdom, P&O’s Oriana cruise ship is reported to have suffered a norovirus outbreak.  At least 57 passengers sick. Wards at three hospitals in Gloucestershire have been closed to visitors. These are the second outbreaks in the past month for two of those hospitals.  In Spain, health officials are calling for mass vaccinations against some of the causes of gastroenteritis.  This comes as Finnish scientist warn of rotavirus outbreaks.  There is no vaccine for norovirus.

Guyana: The people of Barima-Waini continue to deal with outbreaks of gastroenteritis.  It’s being blamed on the E coli bacteria.

Pakistan: Army health workers have reached the village of Mithi in Tharparkar District.  A long drought is being blamed on cases of gastroenteritis in the children.  Unfortunately 137 people have died in Tharparkar District, mostly children.

Florida U.S.A.:  The Department of Health Lee County reporting a nursing home hit by norovirus.  59 cases, the first for the county this year.

Georgia U.S.A.: 110 students sick at Cartersville High School.  Cartersville Elementary School also seeing increased student absences.

Massachusetts U.S.A.:  Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital officials reveal they’ve been dealing with a gastrointestinal outbreak for the past six days! At least 22 patients and three employees sick.

Minnesota U.S.A.:  130 kids sick over a three day period at Glyndon-Felton Elementary.  Other schools in the district reported absences as well.

Missouri U.S.A.: Half the Saint Charles Chill hockey team out sick, after eating at a charity event.

Nebraska U.S.A.:  The Department of Health and Human Services reports widespread cases of tummy bug.  Health officials are suggesting people go on the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast).

New Jersey U.S.A.:  Princeton University reports an outbreak of gastroenteritis.  So far 65 students sick.

New York U.S.A.: A state supreme court judge, Thomas A. Dickerson, has written a long critic of hotels, cruise ships and other locations that see increased infections.  He concludes that the customers/passengers can not be blamed for the outbreaks, but cleaning standards by service industries are too lax. He cites many reports.

North Carolina U.S.A.:  143 students at Isaac Dickson Elementary School out sick, for at least two days!  Other schools in the district are on alert.  Mecklenburg County reports that at least six long term care facilities have been hit with outbreaks.

Ohio U.S.A.: The Hamilton County Public Health Department reports at least 62 people sick at a long term care facility.  Two people hospitalized.

Oregon U.S.A.: 125 veterans and 25 VA employees sick at the White City Veterans Affairs rehab center.  Police were called in to warn people as they entered the facility.

Texas U.S.A.: The Austin-Travis County Health and Human Services Department reports at least 12 outbreaks at long term care facilities.  The Bell County Health District reports increased ER visits due to norovirus, and at least three outbreaks at long term facilities.

Albert Z. Kapikian, the National Institutes of Health virologist who discovered norovirus in 1972, died on 24 February 2014.