DOOM? You want DOOM??? This time next year, beef will be too expensive to eat.

buy cows now!

Fuck chick-fil-a

Don't know if this was mentioned---however the amount of corn that is grown for ethanol could be used for livestock.

Congress won't address this fact, and so the consumer will be scroomed.

Too many lobbies to be beholden to.

Ah, if only it could be found under all the folds and flaps of fatty flesh...

If you don't eat that factory raised corn fed genetically altered antibiotic fed trash pile beef that Wal Mart convinces people is "good" you'll still be able to get beef. Go find a real local farm that feeds cows GRASS, the food they were meant to eat, and you'll find beef. Granted it might cost $30 a pound by that point, but you should be eating it now, unless you like cancer, ecoli and god knows what else.

you're 'spot-on', as the British say, about the way to everyone's heart; bigger picture being take tha chip, queue-up in line ( tin cups may be considered a weapon - better check with DHS ), and when they finally get around to globally exercising Project Blue Beam ( government's version of the second coming of the Prophet ) you'll know where the Rosicrucian U.S. government got that idea from; vampirical blood sucking christain conservative ministry treasuries funded by the people who sealed their own fate by buying into 'stone temples' that a Prophet warned long ago to stay the hell away from. oh well...

- RE

Apparently none of you are from a farming background.

Famine my ass.

Corn and other grains are used as food supplements for animals. The US government has been paying Archer Daniels Midland 6 Billion dollar a year to turn perfectly good corn into fuel. Last year we burned more corn than we fed to animals. This should be in the dictionary under the definition of insanity since the full cycle CO2 from ethanol is about the same as oil. We have a requirement that 10% of gas is ethanol.

We have doubled the price of some food staples because we are burning a significant part of what we produce. This the part of the reason the Middle East is restless - Egypt was mostly a food riot.

Fuel is some you drill out of the ground not something you steal from an animal's feed trough.

Start collecting nuts, like acorns. They are not very tasty but they are a great source of protein and the "good" fat your brain needs. Just ask your local deer and squirrels! If you are going to have to be on a "bean and rice diet", the good things in nuts can offset what your body will be needing/craving.

This has me more concerned than any other "doomsday" scenario. Droughts are real and the repercussions of them are far reaching and painful. I am sure we will pull through it, but the more you can do for yourself, the less painful the grocery bill will be.

Just a thought.

Who in the hell would ever want this kind of doom! People and animals will starve to death! Eat, drink and be merry while you still can. You probably shouldn't worry too much about this time next year, unless you're a prepper anyway.

Egypt was mostly a food riot.


I think a lot of people didn't realize the Egyptian uprising started over food, not democracy. If you see the earliest clips of them shouting in the streets, they are holding loaves of bread.


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Damrod:

I am pleased to see that someone was paying even more attention than I was. People who have never been hungry do not realize how frightening it is. Fear and desperation will find an outlet.

It baffles me how people can think burning food is a good idea.

thankfully my uncle raises cattle freezer will be stocked as always

yeah, and if USDA allows us to go back to grinding up spleens to redden the meat it will be sold as "less than 15% fat" when in actuality it will be more like "less than 65% fat" <wink> christ, if the American public ever knew how butchers in American markets operated- back in the 1970s - butchers would have been sentenced to life imprisonment for what they got buy with.

we'll see if Bechtel doesn't start cloning atomic radiation livestock the size of dinosaurs.

we've already got Japanese irradiated sea monsters so, we'll just have to get some cowboys whom know how to throw a lassoe 'round 'em while riding jet skis and we'll have plenty of canned "Monster of the Sea" on supermarket shelves by January 2013 !

- RE

careful with those acorns. Get rid of the tannins first by all means!

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btw, acorn pancakes would be amazing to try I have not gotten around to that though

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Acorns contain carbohydrates, protein, amino acids, vitamins, minerals and even fat. Although they must be prepared to eat, they are an indispensable part of a wilderness diet. The native Americans would harvest the acorns to help them pass the winters.

Acorns have the advantage of being a food source that can be stored. Acorn fat can cause the acorns to get moldy or rotten.

Preparation: Tannin should be removed from the acorns. Reducing the tannic acid from the acorns by soaking them will make them more palatable and less toxic. Some people soak the acorns a process called leaching. Others grind the acorns into flour and then treating it with hot water. Finally boiling the acorns is suggested for rapid removal of the tannins. We soaked the acorns for three days after peeling the outer shell.

dictionary.com
tannin -Any of various compounds, including tannic acid, that occur naturally in
the bark and fruit of various plants, especially the nutgalls, certain oaks, and sumac.
Tannic acid can be harmful to the human body. ** It seems tannic acid is known to reduce protein digestibilities.
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"Apparent protein digestibilities were reduced by tannic acid and quebracho diets. Only the 8% tannic acid diet tended to increase glucuronidation"
The human body uses glucuronidation to make a large variety of substances more water-soluble, and, in this way, allow for their subsequent elimination from the body upon urination.]

We peeled the shell of acorns to find that at this time of the year the acrons can be covered in mold. After peeling the skin and scraping the mold from the top, we put the acorn in water to leach the tanic acid out of them. After a few hours the water looked like this:


We want to avoid eating the tannin because it could cause digestive problems. When the Native Americans would prepare the acorns, they would put them in running water for days. Some people use the boiling method. We will be doing more testing. We ate an acorn before leaching the tannin out of it. Since they are moldy, they were chewy and the tannic acid caused a bitter taste. Overall the taste was that of a nut.
Most sources say that white oak acorns have the least amount tannic acid in them. This set of acorns was not very bitter but we still allowed the acorns to sit in water for three days. Changing the water periodically.
Some people say to use a boiling to speed up the process. We will research different ways of removing the tannin from the acorns and include them on the article.
We soaked the acorns for three days and dried them. Eating them and then crushing them into meal.

Yah, we used to put a yearling steer in the freezer every year. That is good eating - so is venison.

It seems like fresh meat, vegetables or fruit are a lot taster than what comes from the store.

Thank you for the input! I normally gather walnuts but I learned a long time ago that acorns are very nutritious! Just forgot the part about soaking them!

Don't knock sea monster until you've tried it. Goes well with a dry Riesling.

PTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Big rasberry

wont go up more than 25%, maybe 50% and ONLY because the companies tak

NY State alone produces enough Milk and Cheese for the entire Nation

I already buy at this price and so should anyone else, I buy organic, the feed isn't corn shit it's already expensive as shit

welcome to the 1.99 menu at mc donalds

Big effin deal

You know who will suffer? the extreme poor and the 3rd world, the dude who doesn't have more than .99 cents for a cheese burger

More depopulation crap... We have massive surplus, we feed Africa, we feed the Middle East in large part... no coincidence we wont have beef to send at reasonable prices this year

This will make us eat one less meat meal a week and be a bit thinner

It will also overthrow a lot of third world governments next year

Let me get this straight. You're trying to tell me that a 25-50% price increase isn't a big deal?

You can still feed the mash to livestock after they remove the starch for ethanol.

i enjoyed your post. i would, however like to add the percentage of bio-corn ethanol additive amounts ( in U. S. America gasoline ) varies from state to state, e.g. State of Pennsylvania ethanol being no more than 15% but at-least Pennsylvania requires each gasoline station pump to have a large sticker reading, "Contains No More Than 15% Ethanol" - we're 'not talking' about "Flex Fuel" that some gasoline service stations are additionally selling, e.g. State of California, however the State of California does 'not require ethanol percentage amount gasoline additives to notify any of the general public buying gasoline' anywhere within that entire state!

for all Californians know, they could be paying for 40% ethanol at gasoline stations, e.g. ARCO, USA and Thrifty, and chances are that could be the reason why so many car owners nowadays are by far more easily experiencing poor performance when purchasing less expensive gasoline from these cut rate gas stations buying gasoline from Venezuela's Caesar Chavez in-addition to major brand U.S. oil refineries selling their gasolone but with a much higher ethanol content.

thanks for ypur brain stimulatong post.

- RE

While that would make sense, my local news station said cows are running out of pasture and farmers have to keep moving them and will either have to supplement their diets with glutemine (something that sounded like that) or they may just decide to slaughter them early before their prime weight.

Yes, lose a few pounds ha ha, good way to make light of the situation.

Starvation isn't just a few pounds, and soon enough you'll eat whatever your spoiled little ass can rustle up to put in the pot.

People are going to starve to death. This year is worse than last, what if this isn't a fluke, but just the start of a much worse trend. What if next year it's worse, and the year after even more so.

Good luck.

good perceptions, though a bit conservative as far as i envision, but i was never known as the sharpest knife in the drawer. paw, when i was a-whittlin', used ta tell me i was as sharp as a marble; my, what a nice paw done had.

- RE


- RE

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Thank you for the input! I normally gather walnuts but I learned a long time ago that acorns are very nutritious! Just forgot the part about soaking them!




According to sources that I just looked up, the adult human needs approx. 185 grams of protien per day. An ounce of raw acorns provides between 1.744 grams of protien (for raw) and 2.296 grams (when dried)of protien. Please tell us what else we can do for protien besdies gathering six pounds of acorns a day.

absolutely NOT

1: It just means eating less meat if your an American, some of us are 5 or more nights a week... No one is going to die if it becomes 3

2: The meat that is fed right, not filled with hormones and GMO's already cost this much and wont actually go up much or at all the other shit sucks anyway I made this Leap...over 2 years ago

GREAT!

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Are you scared? Some make light because they're ready for death, not afraid. This is all an illusion, a game. Since you will definitely die one day...you too will understand.