FEMA Contractor: Unrest After 395% Food Price Spike Coming SoonBy Claire Bernish As Motherboard noted of two reports published previously by CNA Corporation, but which largely escaped attention, the worlds food supply could be insufficient to maintain even current populations much further into the future. And the crisis which several factors indicate may already be underway may begin to worsen considerably as early as 2020. Employing a desktop game simulation of the conditions of a global food shortage, titled Food Chain Reaction, CNAs Institute for Public Research brought together 65 officials from the US, Europe, Africa, India, Brazil, and key multilateral and intergovernmental institutions, Motherboard explained. And the Institute, which oversaw the simulation, primarily provides scientific research services for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA]. According to the website for Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game no commentary on Orwellian overtones needed the simulation and exercise intended to improve understanding of how governments, institutions, and private sector interests might interact to address a crisis in the global food system, and took place in early November 2015. The scenario, the description continues, is set five years from today in a world where population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather and political crises combine to threaten global food security. The games players high-level decision makers representing nations, international institutions, and the private sector will collaborate, negotiate, make decisions, and confront tradeoffs while dealing with a chain reaction of consequences resulting from their actions. Participants received the briefing for the game through a mock TV newscast, which challenged players to imagine a global food system under stress due to extreme weather and other environmental factors, urbanization and other demographic pressures, rising global food prices, and falling food stock levels. After receiving information specific to each participants national and regional geography and climate, players were also permitted to employ solutions to the games burgeoning food crisis scenario on national, bilateral, and/or broadly cooperative levels. Divided into four rounds, the simulation found spikes in food prices up to a whopping 395 percent, driven by extended crop failures in key regions, resultant from the confused reactions by international officials, drastic changes in the environment, and skyrocketing oil prices many similar factors, the report notes, that drove a global food crisis spanning 2007 to 2008. Though, at the height of the simulations worst repercussions, the food crisis affected virtually every societal and governmental aspect such as mass civil unrest and widespread crop failures in the planets breadbasket regions the Institute ultimately painted a rosy picture of economic and agricultural recovery. But for as detailed and reactive as the scope of the game sought to be, several glaring omissions likely skewed both results and proposed solutions and despite backing from the U.S. government, the simulations corporate participants could have tacitly or overtly influenced the outcome. Commissioned in part by Cargill, an industrial agribusiness behemoth, and Mars, the giant whose candy business has vested interests in promoting both genetically-modified food and industrial agriculture, the Food Chain Reaction simulation excluded among possible solutions the abolishment of industrial, factory farming. Considering large-scale agribusiness sizable impact on the environment, as well as the paradoxical system whereby industrial agriculture largely supports livestock from factory farms, that exclusion certainly calls into question any results. Additionally, with FEMA an aspect of the futuristic simulation, it wouldnt be outside the realm of possibility to see a call for increased funding in the name of being prepared for a coming crisis of epic proportions. Perhaps, though, an imperative exists in examining both the aspects of massive food shortage studied as well as potential solutions omitted. China recently began the push away from a meat-centric diet, in part because pollution from factory farms has wrought havoc in the air and water. All moralistic pontificating aside, a return to small-scale, organic farming and switching to vegetarian diets, or at least a reduction in consumption of meat, could avert or abate the coming crisis. This article (FEMA Contractor: Unrest After 395% Food Price Spike Coming Soon) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Claire Bernish and theAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, email edits@theantimedia.org. Lunacy. Complete and utter depravity and totalitarian lunacy. They even kinda admit that the chemtrail agenda plays into this. Anything to scare people into acting out so they can think they have an excuse to crack down. Dont be afraid. Be prepared. LIARS! Just like global warming, 9-11, the existence of international terrorists, and you name it. Its been proven many times, you can feed a family of five on average dirt/temperature of only a quarter acre! The entire population of the world could live and be fed on land the size of Texas. This is 100% about globalization through starvation. Give in to the banking tyrants and you will get your food period. We have state agencies (think Michigan) that are preventing people from growing their own food. Clearly, the government is not promoting the very thing (small-scale farming) that would prevent such a food crisis. The terrorists of the future will be small home-grown organic gardeners. Cut off Medusas head before the balance is tipped. Lack and scarcity. nailed thatcheers vegetarian eating IS where we should ALL be headed eventually , where any MEAT eating is done only on special occasions and entirely ORGANICALLY .with humane , small scale slaughters taking place. Gee, what are the chances this has anything to do with Monsantos falling profit margin The Beast will feed off of its own. Not one drop of food for the commoner. No underground hotel. Nothing. The clowns have never given a damn about the commoner. Taxpayers are simply an end to their means of stealing as much as possible. 