Are you looking for one of the best vacuum sealers on the market today, you’re in luck.

Why? Because there are so many brands and types of vacuum sealers, it quickly becomes overwhelming to sort through it all.

It’s easy to get so frustrated in the search for the right vacuum sealer, that you just give up.

But that’s a shame because vacuum sealers on one of the best kitchen appliances to own.

Not only is it a device that’s critical to keep your foods fresh longer, but it can save you a TON of money over time.

So today, I’m going to share everything I know about vacuum sealers, from how they work to their best features.

I’ll start off by share my favorite brands and units available today. Here’s a full list of ALL the vacuum sealer topics I’ll be covering:

• 7 Best Vacuum Sealers On The Market Today
• What Is A Vacuum Sealer Anyway
• Why Everyone Should Own A Vacuum Sealer
• Best Vacuum Sealer Features
• How Long Does Vacuum Sealed Food Last
• Best Vacuum Seal Bag Options (convenience vs. expense)
• How To Vacuum Seal All Sorts Of Food Items
• Items You Should Already Be Vacuum Sealing

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Best Vacuum Sealers To Stockpile & Save Money

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What Is A Vaccum Sealer Anyway

Vacuum sealers work exactly how they sound. They vacuum the air out of a bag and then seal it.

This air removal process helps to compress and preserve the items stored inside the bag.

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Why Everyone Should Own A Vaccum Sealer

Investment / Save Money

My favorite prepping purchases are ones that pay for themselves.

Did you know the average US household wastes an estimated 76 billion pounds of food per year! That’s an average waste per person of 238 pounds per year (21 percent of the food purchased), costing about $1,800 per year.

Most of the food waste comes from fresh fruits (19%), vegetables (22%), dairy (20%), meat (21%), and seafood (31%).

All while there’s horrific starvation going on throughout the world – it’s so sad.

One way to reduce this problem is by using a vacuum sealer.

These devices allow you to preserve your food BEFORE it goes bad; BEFORE it turns into waste.

If you use a vacuum sealer, you can avoid this preventable waste AND save thousands of dollars per year!

That’s a win-win.

Saving money and saving the world.

Preparedness

Another reason to own a vacuum sealer is that it’s one of the most affordable ways to preserve food.

And I’ve written extensively about food storage and preservation techniques, such as:

• Best Home Freeze Dryers
• Best Food Dehydrators
• Top Survival Food Kits
• Best Non-Perishable Foods
• How To Make Pemmican
• How To Make Hardtack
• Mylar Bags – Food Storage’s Secret Weapon
• Canned Food Expiration Date Myth

Now, without a doubt, using a freeze dryer is the BEST way to stockpile food. Why? Because freeze-dried foods easily last decades!

How? Freeze dryers use extremely low temps and a vacuum chamber to remove ALL water content. And it does this without sacrificing texture, flavor, or nutrition.

But, there’s one massive drawback to Freeze Dryers – they’re expensive as hell. We’re talking over $2k expensive (for the small models)!

So the upfront cost to buy a freeze dryer is cost-prohibitive for most folks – myself included.

But you can pick up a vacuum sealer, with all the bells and whistles, for under $200.

And while freeze dryers remove moisture to preserve it, vacuum sealers remove oxygen.

And bacteria (the stuff that spoils food) is organic. So it needs what all living organisms need to survive (air and water). So by removing either of these elements, you stop food spoilage in its tracks.

Vacuuming sealing, and properly storing food, can provide shelf-stable foods for years. And sometimes even decades!

That’s what preparedness is all about, accumulating healthy foods for an uncertain future.

Vacuum sealers are an essential tool to build a food stockpile properly.

Waterproofing

Most people buy vacuum sealers to preserve food, but that’s not the only thing you can vacuum seal.

There’s a lot of gear, clothes, etc. that you also might consider vacuum sealing.

For example, you could vacuum seal some matches for your bug out bag. Or you could vacuum seal ammo before you put them into a survival cache.

Any gear to put into a plastic bag and vacuum seal immediately protects that item from water – genius!

Storage Compression / Saving Space / Organization

Vacuum sealers can crush fabrics or jackets down significantly in size. This process will keep your cramped closets organized and tidy.

For example, my wife owns several down vests, and those compress down to a fraction of the original size. These lightweight jackets are an ideal item to compress when not in use.

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Best Vacuum Sealer Features

Automatic Bag Detection

Automatic bag detection makes vacuum sealing easier than ever. It allows you to add the tip of a bag to the mouth of the vacuum sealer, and the machine does the rest.

Auto means there are no levels to push or pull or activation buttons to push. Just feed the bag into the mouth of the machine, and it will detect it and begin sucking.

Accessory Hose

A hose attachment allows you to vacuum seal more than just plastic bags. You can use specialty attachments to vacuum mason jars as well.

This feature helps make your vacuum sealer much more versatile.

Here’s an example of an accessory hose put to good use:

Bag Storage Built-In

Another nice feature is a built-in bag storage location for a roll of specialty plastic bags.

Machines with this storage feature also tend to provide a slide cutter. So you can just pull the plastic out to any size you choose and cut it.

This feature is not only more convenient but helps eliminate waste. It does this by allowing you to custom-size the bags only to use the amount of plastic you need. No more, no less.

Removable Drip Tray

Vacuum sealing liquids can sometimes get messy. Spills and drips are inevitable. So most vacuum sealers include drip trays to collect this moisture to prevent spills.

But you want to make sure you get one with a REMOVABLE drip tray. This feature allows you to easily clean the tray out without having to put the entire unit in the sink.

“Seal Only” Button

Sometimes you just want to heat seal a bag WITHOUT sucking. This feature comes in handy when you are creating your own custom-sized bags.

When you pull a length of plastic off a roll and cut it, both ends will now be open. Before you can suck, you need to seal one of the bag ends first. But you don’t want to suck yet.

So you need a “seal only feature” if you want to use a bulk roll of plastic bags (instead of pre-bought ones).

And the bulk rolls save you money and reduce waste.

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How Long Does Vacuum Sealed Food Last

Well, it depends on the type of food you’re trying to store, how that food is prepared, and what kind of bag you use to store it in.

But if you’re storing dry goods in Mylar bags and using oxygen absorbers. Plus, you keep these sealed bags of food in a cool dry location, you can start thinking in terms of decades!

Awesome, but what about foods with moisture?

Well, if you do a good job of dehydrating fruits and vegetables first, then you can see impressive results.

Again, if you remove moisture and air (oxygen), then mold, fungus, and bacteria cannot take root. IF those spoilers are blocked, the food will keep a very long time.

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Best Vacuum Sealer Bag Options (convenience vs. expense)

Most vacuum sealers come with their own set of vacuum seal bags. And choosing the right type of bag is essential for success.

Due to the way vacuuming sealing works, you need micro gaps in the bag.

If you look close, you’ll notice small bumps on the food storage bags made for vacuum sealing. These bumps are essential to the vacuum sealing process.

The bumps create small channels for the air to be removed from the bag. And if there are no bumps, theirs no airway to suck the air through.

This blockage is what happens when you try to use a regular bag (one without bumps) with a vacuum sealer. It doesn’t work!

There are three types of bags people tend to use with a vacuum sealer

1. Vacuum Sealer Bags
2. Mylar Bags
3. Ziplock Bags

Vacuum Sealer Bags

These bags are the ones made explicitly for vacuum sealers. They have small bumps on the bag, but these bumps are not there for looks. The nodes allow air to suck through even when the bag is being held together by the vacuum sealer.

If these bags did not have bumps, then it would be more challenging to get any suction to happen. Why? Because if the plastic was smooth and flat, air couldn’t pass through to create the suction action.

Then once the air is removed, the vacuum sealer uses a heating element to melt the plastic, creating a seal.

These are the best bags to use for everyday use. But these bags are not ideal if your goal is extreme long-term storage; for that, you should choose Mylar bags.

Mylar Bags

Mylar bags are non-porous and remain completely sealed for years, and perhaps decades.

But because it’s so smooth, it’s impossible to draw air out of a Mylar bag using a vacuum sealer.

To make these bags work, you must add a small strip of specialty plastic to create a channel for the air to suck through.

Here’s a video showing this cost-effective and straightforward method in action:

Ziplock Bags

Everyone knows Ziplock bags, and they do make a “ziplock” version of the plastic vacuum seal bags. And the reason we all love ziplock bags is because of their extreme convenience.

But, standard zip locks are not made to work with vacuum sealers. And the specialty ones are cost-prohibitive.

So, if you’re interested, there is a way to use regular zip locks with your vacuum sealer. Yes, it does take more steps, but it’s not too bad if you’re interested in saving a few dollars.

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How To Vacuum Seal All Sorts Of Foods

Man! There’s a TON of excellent resources available on the web on “how-to” vacuum seal “just-about-anything”. I’ve spent hours founding the best videos and I’m going to share them all next.

Note: You may want to consider bookmarking this page, so you can quickly return when you’re ready to start using your vacuum sealer in the future.

How To Vacuum Seal Meat

Many people purchase a vacuum sealer to store bulk meat in their freezer. This makes sense because if you do it right, you’ll eliminate freezer burn and the meat will taste fresher when you’re ready to eat it. 

How To Vacuum Seal Avocados

I don’t know how many avocados I’ve lost over the years. These suckers will go bad in just a couple of days, which means it’s risky to buy in bulk. But not if you vacuum seal them!

How To Vacuum Seal Your Favorite Fish And Wild Game

This video shows you how to prep and season your wild game for vacuum sealing:

How To Vacuum Seal Soup

Soups are tricky to vacuum seal but not impossible. Check out this video to learn how:

How To Vacuum Seal Bread and Hamburger Buns

Sealing bread (especially soft pieces of bread like buns) can be a challenge IF you don’t know what you’re doing. Most people end up with squished bread that’s flat as a pancake. Not good.

So instead, watch the video below to see how easy it can be once you learn the correct way:

How To Vacuum Seal Moist Foods

Vacuuming sealing moist foods can be extremely messy. That’s why most vacuum sealers come with drip trays. But if you get the right bags, you can nearly eliminate this headache altogether! 

How To Vacuum Seal Flour For Long Term Storage

Does Vacuum Sealing Speed Up Marinating?

YES, SIGNIFICANTLY! Negative air pressure helps to pull a liquid marinade into the meat.

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Items You Should Already Be Vacuum Sealing

Check out this excellent video from Canadian Prepper if you’d rather watch than read this list:

1. Food

Meats, Veggies, Fruits, Snacks, You Name it, You Can Probably Vacuum Seal IT!

2. Water

I store water in Legacy Premium 5 Gallon Stackable Containers. Some people buy canned water instead.

Another alternative to expensive canned water is to vacuum seal your own water in Mylar bags.

You can filter water before vacuum sealing and store it in a safe location. It’ll remain safe and delicious until the day you need to crack a pouch open to survive.

3. Toilet Paper, Towel, Wipes

With the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone now realizes how critical TP is for everyday life. That’s why many people have stocked up to prevent being caught off guard in the future. Great!

But here’s the problem, what if your TP stash gets wet from a flood or a pipe leak? It could ruin your entire investment. Plus, stockpiling TP takes up a ton of storage space.

So to fix both of these issues, you could vacuum seal your TP and compress it (to save space) AND make it waterproof! This strategy makes sense to me.

Note: Any type of thin fabric or cloth will compress down to a much smaller size when most of the air is removed.

4. Batteries

You should waterproof your batteries. This is especially true IF you pack batteries in your survival pack or bug out bag.

Vacuum sealing keeps them safe and helps to prolong their shelf life.

5. Fire Starting Kit

There’s nothing more demoralizing than showing up at your campsite and can’t make a fire.

This is your fate if your survival lighter or survival matches become soaked. They become useless.

No spark, no fire, no heat, no cooking…bummer

So put your matches and lighters in a plastic bag and vacuum seal them to make them waterproof.

6. Ammunition

Listen, if you’re into preparedness, then you know how important it is to store your ammo the right way.

And usually, I’d suggest using ammo cans with good seals (plus using oxygen absorbers).

But what if you want to bury some ammo in a survival cache?

Well, in this case, I suggest you vacuum seal your ammo to prevent any moisture-based corrosion.

7. Medication

If you want your medications to last many years, get them out of those pill bottles.

Instead, use Mylar bags to seal those critical meds for the long haul.

8. First Aid Kits

Small first aid kits are generally not waterproof. But these are also the kits that are best for your survival pack, bug out bag, or get home bags.

But downpours or river crossings can put all your gear into jeopardy. So waterproof that bad boy using plastic bags and vacuum sealing.

9. Sharpie Markers / Pens

Ink will eventually dry out when exposed to air.

So vacuum seal a few, and you’ll know you’ve got the power of the pen no matter what the future holds.

10. Spices

Spices can lose flavor over time. They won’t typically “spoil” but what good is a spice that has little or no flavor.

But you can save that flavor profile longer by trapping them in an airtight vacuum chamber.

10. Hand Crank Radio

If you use Mylar bags for storage, you’re creating a mini Faraday bag.

An EMP electrical pulse will go around the foil of Mylar and protect the devices within. So add a hand-crank radio (or any electronic devices) to a Mylar bag and vacuum seal it.

12. Firearm

Again, survival caches are known to be exposed to moisture – no matter how well you seal the container.

And if you store ammo in your survival cache, you may also want to have a firearm to go with said ammo.

So suck out the air and wrap it up!

13. Seeds

Seeds are powerful, especially in a doomsday scenario. A seed can equal an abundance of food and nutrition.

They have extreme value in a barter economy.

That’s why you should protect that value by sealing them up. Don’t let them go bad prematurely.

14. Documents / Photos

You can vacuum seal your documents or laminate them. Both of these techniques protect critical documents from water damage.

So if you’re worried about flooding– consider vacuum sealing your critical docs.

15. Socks/Underwear/Tee-shirts

You should take at least one change of undergarments in your bug out bag. And I like to put them in a skivvy roll to keep them organized and compact.

However, you can compress these “small clothes” even more. AND make them waterproof by vacuum sealing them.

Final Thoughts

A vacuum sealer is a wise investment, especially if you’re into preparedness.

Because when you store foods without moisture or air, they last much much longer. This method helps to prevent unnecessary food waste and builds valuable food stockpiles.

Save money AND become more resilient? A vacuum sealer is truly a “no brainer” investment.

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We are being warned well ahead of time that it is coming.  Joe Biden has publicly admitted that the coming food shortages are “going to be real”, and the head of the UN World Food Program is now telling us that we could soon see “hell on Earth” because the lack of food will be so severe.  Food prices are already escalating dramatically all over the globe, and food riots have already erupted in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.  But most people in the western world are treating this crisis as if it is no big deal.  Many seem to assume that our leaders have everything under control and that things will work out just fine somehow.

Unfortunately, the truth is that everything is not going to be okay.

So far this year, the number of hungry people around the globe has risen to more than 800 million…

Currently around 811 million people are experiencing hunger. Levels of food insecurity have doubled from 2019, increasing from 135 million to 276 million. Of this total around 48.9 million people are facing acute or emergency levels of food insecurity that require humanitarian intervention.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Much worse is ahead, and David Beasley is openly warning that “hell on Earth” is coming…

The UN has warned that there could be “hell on earth” due to the global economic impacts of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Guardian reports that David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), has said that the war has been “devastating” in conjunction with various other factors.

He said, “Even before the Ukraine crisis, we were facing an unprecedented global food crisis because of Covid and fuel price increases. Then, we thought it couldn’t get any worse, but this war has been devastating.”

According to Beasley, we will soon see “frightening” shortages of food, and those shortages could potentially spark civil unrest in literally dozens of different nations…

Dozens of countries risk protests, riots and political violence this year as food prices surge around the world, the head of the food-aid branch of the United Nations has warned.

Speaking in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Thursday, David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said the world faced “frightening” shortages that could destabilise countries that depend on wheat exports from Ukraine and Russia.

But most Americans are not paying much attention to this rapidly growing crisis because they don’t think that it will really impact them personally.

For the vast majority of us, a lack of food is something that we have never had to be concerned about before.

During “normal” times, we could always go to the grocery store and fill up our carts with mountains of super cheap food whenever we wanted.

Unfortunately, things have changed.  Food production in the U.S. is going to be way below expectations this year, and the head of the National Black Farmers Association claims that we will soon see “a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices”…

Three weeks ago John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, said “We are in a crisis right now as far as the food chain goes with the farmer in this country,” adding “We’re going to see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices.” 

In his forty-year career as a farmer, Boyd said he never imagined he would be “paying $5.63 for a gallon of diesel fuel, $900 a ton for fertilizer, and all-time high prices for soybean seeds.” All of the prices he mentioned are at record highs, pressuring farmers’ margins.

Of course we are already seeing widespread shortages of certain products around the country.

For example, Fox Business is reporting on the serious shortage of tampons that has recently started making headlines…

A spokesperson for Tampax, which is owned by P&G, told FOX Business in a statement that this is “a temporary situation, and the Tampax team is producing tampons 24/7 to meet the increased demand for our products.”

Meanwhile, the ongoing shortage of baby formula just keeps getting even worse...

Parents aren’t getting much of a break as the out-of-stock rate for baby formula rose to 73% nationwide for the week ending May 29, according to the most recent data by retail data firm Datasembly. It’s a significant increase from earlier in the month, when the national out-of-stock rate for baby formula stood at 45%.

On top of everything else, we are now facing a shortage of hot sauce…

In April, Huy Fong Foods, Inc., the nation’s leading sriracha sauce manufacturer, sent a letter to customers about an impending shortage, which would directly impact retailers and restaurants.

“Unfortunately, we can confirm that there is an unprecedented shortage of our products,” Huy Fong Foods told Fox News Digital in an email.

These shortages are just a very small preview of what is approaching.

As I have been warning on my website throughout 2022, conditions are going to deteriorate quite a bit more in the months ahead.

So what is your plan to make it through the worst global food crisis in any of our lifetimes?

Have you been stocking up?

Earlier this year, I published a list of 50 basic items that I would recommend having on hand.  The following list is certainly not exhaustive, but it will help you cover many of the essentials…

#1 A Generator

#2 A Berkey Water Filter

#3 A Rainwater Collection System If You Do Not Have A Natural Supply Of Water Near Your Home

#4 An Emergency Medical Kit

#5 Rice

#6 Pasta

#7 Canned Soup

#8 Canned Vegetables

#9 Canned Fruit

#10 Canned Chicken

#11 Jars Of Peanut Butter

#12 Salt

#13 Sugar

#14 Powdered Milk

#15 Bags Of Flour

#16 Yeast

#17 Lots Of Extra Coffee (If You Drink It)

#18 Buckets Of Long-Term Storable Food

#19 Extra Vitamins

#20 Lighters Or Matches

#21 Candles

#22 Flashlights Or Lanterns

#23 Plenty Of Wood To Burn

#24 Extra Blankets

#25 Extra Sleeping Bags

#26 A Sun Oven

#27 An Extra Fan If You Live In A Hot Climate

#28 Hand Sanitizer

#29 Toilet Paper

#30 Extra Soap And Shampoo

#31 Extra Toothpaste

#32 Extra Razors

#33 Bottles Of Bleach

#34 A Battery-Powered Radio

#35 Extra Batteries

#36 Solar Chargers

#37 Trash Bags

#38 Tarps

#39 A Pocket Knife

#40 A Hammer

#41 An Axe

#42 A Shovel

#43 Work Gloves

#44 N95 Masks

#45 Seeds For A Garden

#46 Canning Jars

#47 Extra Supplies For Your Pets

#48 An Emergency Supply Of Cash

#49 Bibles For Every Member Of Your Family

#50 A “Bug Out Bag” For Every Member Of Your Family

Many of the items on this list are now much more expensive than they were earlier this year.

And if you wait, many of them will continue to become much more expensive.

If you don’t like my list, come up with your own.

The important thing is to have a plan.

Global events are really starting to spiral out of control, and I expect the second half of this year to be even more chaotic than the first half of this year has been.

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If you are not alarmed by what is happening to our largest cities, you should check to see if you still have a pulse.  Once upon a time, the beautiful new cities that our forefathers constructed were the envy of the entire planet, but now many of them have degenerated into crime-infested hellholes that are absolutely teeming with violent predators.

Shoplifting has essentially become a national pastime, open-air drug markets operate freely right under the noses of indifferent authorities, and addicts pull down their pants and take a dump whenever and wherever they feel like doing so.  Thanks to record levels of illegal immigration, gang membership is absolutely exploding, and human trafficking has reached truly frightening levels.  Of course, our steadily thinning police forces are overwhelmed at this point.  In fact, police in Seattle are stretched so thin that they often are not able “to take reports from rape victims”.  And if you are the victim of a non-violent crime in Seattle, good luck ever getting a police officer to pay attention to your case.  From coast to coast, communities are descending into a state of utter lawlessness.  So if things are this bad already, what will conditions be like when things really start hitting the fan?

Continuing a trend that we have seen for the last couple of years, crime rates all over the nation just keep going higher and higher.

For example, auto theft, grand larceny and transit crime are all up by more than 50 percent in New York City so far this year…

Data released by the New York City Police Department showed Grand Larceny Auto increased by 51.1% with 5,420 incidents as of June 5 compared to just 3,587 incidents by the same time in 2021.

That category had one of the largest upticks during the most recent crime statistic report covering May 30 to June 5. Grand larceny incidents spiked by 50.1% from 20,659 incidents reported to NYPD as of June 5, compared to the 13,713 reported during the same period last year.

Meanwhile, overall transit crime surged by 53.6% so far this year.

I thought that the new mayor was elected to end the crime wave.

Instead, it appears that it has been supersized.

One way to hide the rapid rise in crime is to decriminalize things that used to be major offenses.

In Portland, voters decided to decriminalize hard drugs, but that just turned the city into an “open air drug market”…

The streets of Portland resemble an ‘open air drug market’ after state officials’ scheme to decriminalize hard drugs led to a surge in overdose deaths, critics claim.

Law enforcement agents say that the streets of Portland are full of homeless addicts openly buying and selling drugs and that signs of drug addiction are actually increasing statewide, Fox News reported.

Photos show the desperate situation in the liberal Pacific Northwest city, where people can be seen shooting up drugs or passed out in broad daylight.

At one time, Portland was one of the most magnificent cities in the entire world.

Now it is a horror show.

On top of all the ordinary crime that is going on, now we are witnessing a very alarming rise in politically-motivated violence.

The Supreme Court decision that will overturn Roe v. Wade is expected to be released this month, and a group known as “Jane’s Revenge” has announced that it is “open season” on those with pro-life views…

The pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge is declaring it “open season” on pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers.

The group has a history of damaging property during their protests, and they took credit for the vandalization of a pregnancy resource center in Des Moines, Iowa earlier this month. In a message posted to social media, the group said they broke windows and left graffiti political messages all over the clinic. “It was easy and fun,” the message read.

Sadly, even though the official Supreme Court decision has not even been released yet, there has already been quite a bit of violence.

In fact, it is being reported that there have been more than three dozen attacks on pro-life groups, churches and crisis pregnancy centers in recent weeks…

An armed would-be assassin’s alleged attempt on the life of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last week is part of a wave of violence, arson, vandalism, and intimidation targeting pro-life groups and government officials since the leak last month of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

There have been more than three dozen such incidents directed at crisis pregnancy centers and churches in at least 20 states and Washington, D.C., according to a tally maintained by LifeNews.com, an anti-abortion site.

The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is rapidly dissipating, and our streets are becoming more uncivilized with each passing day.

If this is happening while economic conditions are still relatively stable, what will happen once things start getting really crazy out there?

In some parts of the world, the food crisis has already reached critical levels.  For example, the government of Sri Lanka has actually shortened the work week so that workers will have more time to grow their own food…

Sri Lanka’s federal government on Monday approved a proposal that would shorten the work week of most public sector staff to four days so that workers will have time to farm their own crops, Reuters reported Tuesday, noting the measure aims to combat Sri Lanka’s worsening food shortages caused by a recent economic crisis.

“Sri Lanka’s Cabinet late on Monday approved a proposal for public sector workers to be given leave every Friday for the next three months, partly because the fuel shortage made commuting difficult and also to encourage them to farm,” Reuters reported on June 14.

Over in Africa, the United Nations has stopped feeding approximately 1.7 million citizens of South Sudan because they simply do not have enough funding to feed the rapidly growing throngs of desperately hungry people…

The World Food Programme has been forced to stop providing food aid to around 1.7 million people in South Sudan, because of a lack of funding. The UN-run organization will still reach 4.5 million people, but many will miss out on vital resources.

According to BBC News, over half the population of South Sudan is currently facing hunger due to floods, localized drought, continuing conflict, and rising food prices. Marwa Awad is from the World Food Programme and is in the northern town of Bentiu in South Sudan, where she has been talking to people about the effects the cuts to aid are having.

All of the experts are telling us that the global food crisis is going to get a lot worse as the months roll along.

If the UN has already reached the limit of what they are able to do, who is going to help the millions upon millions of hungry people that will soon need help in order to survive?

Here in the U.S., food production has been affected by a bizarre series of disasters, and we are being warned that much less will be produced this year than originally anticipated.  I think that one expert summed up the current situation very well when he warned that “we are teetering on the edge right now”…

Pennsylvania farmers are being “crushed” by the record cost of diesel – so much so, that questions about a food crisis are starting to loom, the Morning Call reported.

One farmer in Lehigh County is quoted as saying: “I’ve got a tractor hooked up to my corn planter out here, no diesel fuel, and I can’t afford to get any.”

That farmer was airing his gripes to Kyle Kotzmoyer, a legislative affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Kotzmoyer then turned around and testified to state lawmakers: “We have reached that point to where it is very close to being a sinking ship. We are teetering on the edge right now.”

If we eventually get to a point where food prices spiral completely out of control and there are widespread shortages, do you think that those living in our core urban areas will respond with grace and patience?

Of course not.

Instead, people will go absolutely nuts.

We got a small preview of what is to come during the Arab Spring of 2011.  There were serious food shortages around the world that year, and that resulted in tremendous civil unrest.

Here in the United States, most people do not have large amounts of food stored up, and that is especially true in our largest cities.

So we better hope that the rapidly growing global food crisis does not affect us too severely, because the truth is that we are definitely not equipped to handle such a scenario.

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In all my years of writing, I have never seen more economic pessimism than I am seeing right now.  Over the past couple of months there has been a monumental shift in public sentiment, and now just about everyone realizes that we are heading into very troubled economic times.  Of course there were still a few economic optimists that were searching for a ray of hope, but the Federal Reserve left no room for optimism when it announced the largest interest rate hike in 28 years on Wednesday.  When the Fed aggressively raised rates in the early 1980s, it resulted in one of the most painful recessions in American history.  Unfortunately, many believe that what is ahead of us is going to be even worse.

For example, legendary Wall Street investor Michael Novogratz is openly warning that “the economy is going to collapse”…

“The economy is going to collapse,” he told MarketWatch. “We are going to go into a really fast recession, and you can see that in lots of ways,” he added.

“Housing is starting to roll over,” he said. “Inventories have exploded. There are layoffs in multiple industries, and the Fed is stuck [with a position of having to] hike [interest rates] until inflation rolls over.”

Novogratz is correct, but I think that it would be more accurate to say that “the economy is already starting to collapse”.  The following are 18 signs that the economic meltdown we have been waiting for has already begun…

#1 Stock prices have been plummeting in recent weeks, and that has resulted in almost 3 trillion dollars being erased from retirement accounts in the United States…

The U.S. stock market rout that has put U.S. equities in a bear market isn’t just reducing the net worth of billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. It’s also taking a toll on Americans’ retirement savings, wiping out trillions of dollars in value.

The selloff has erased nearly $3 trillion from U.S. retirement accounts, according to Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. By her calculations, 401(k) plan participants have lost about $1.4 trillion from their accounts since the end of 2021. People with IRAs — most of which are 401(k) rollovers — have lost $2 trillion this year.

#2 The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell beneath the psychologically important 30,000 barrier for the first time in more than a year on Thursday.  If it cannot return to that level within the next few trading sessions, a lot of investors are really going to start to panic.

#3 The Dow is now down 19 percent from the all-time high.

#4 The S&P 500 is now down 24 percent from the all-time high.

#5 The Nasdaq is now down 34 percent from the all-time high.  Just think about that for a moment.  A third of the value of the Nasdaq has already been wiped out.

#6 Two-thirds of the value of all cryptocurrencies has already been wiped out since the peak of the market.  Last November, the total value of all cryptocurrencies had soared past the three trillion dollar mark.  As I write this article, that number has fallen to less than a trillion.

#7 This week we witnessed the fastest rise in mortgage rates since 1987.  Needless to say, this is going to absolutely devastate the housing market…

Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan this week rose to 5.78% from 5.23%, the latest in a series of rapid increases and the biggest one-week jump since 1987. The rate is well above the 2.93% recorded just one year ago and marks the steepest level since November 2008.

#8 The largest percentage of sellers ever recorded reduced the list price on their homes during the four week period ending June 12th.

#9 In some parts of the nation, home prices have already fallen by as much as 20 percent.

#10 Compared to the same period a year ago, the total number of mortgage applications was down 52.7 percent last week.

#11 We just learned that housing starts in the U.S. fell 14.4 percent in May.

#12 The number of permits for the construction of new homes was down 7 percent in May.

#13 Wholesale prices continue to accelerate at a very alarming pace…

Wholesale prices rose at a brisk pace in May as inflation pressures mounted on the U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday.

The producer price index, a measure of the prices paid to producers of goods and services, rose 0.8% for the month and 10.8% over the past year. The monthly rise was in line with Dow Jones estimates and a doubling of the 0.4% pace in April.

#14 The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow tracker is now projecting that economic growth during the second quarter will be 0 percent.

#15 The Philadelphia Fed Business Index came in at a negative 3.3 reading for the month of June.  This represents the first contraction since the early days of the COVID pandemic.

#16 One recent survey discovered that small business owners are “feeling their gloomiest in nearly five decades”.

#17 At this point, 59 percent of manufacturers in the United States believe that a recession is coming.

#18 Bloomberg is projecting that the probability of a recession during the next 24 months is 98.5 percent.

But this was not supposed to happen.

Last year, the talking heads on television assured us that a golden new age of prosperity was just around the corner and that the stock market could just keep going up indefinitely.

In fact, many of those talking heads were telling us things that now look completely and utterly ridiculous in retrospect.

$COIN a year later pic.twitter.com/993EJ5CmLf

— Rahul (@rhemrajani9) June 14, 2022

Our leaders thought that they could defy the laws of economics, and for a while their “economic voodoo” seemed to be working.

But the truth is that every time they kicked the can down the road they just made our long-term problems even worse.

Now we have reached a point where the immediate future looks extremely bleak, and the outlook for our long-term future is absolutely nightmarish.

If we would have made much different decisions along the way, we would not be facing such a horrifying crisis today.

Unfortunately, what is done is done, and now we get to reap the consequences for the very foolish decisions that our leaders have been making.

***It is finally here! Michael’s new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***

About the Author: My name is Michael and my brand new book entitled “7 Year Apocalypse” is now available on Amazon.com.  In addition to my new book I have written five other books that are available on Amazon.com including  “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, “Get Prepared Now”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”. (#CommissionsEarned)  When you purchase any of these books you help to support the work that I am doing, and one way that you can really help is by sending digital copies as gifts through Amazon to family and friends.  Time is short, and I need help getting these warnings into the hands of as many people as possible.  I have published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and the articles that I publish on those sites are republished on dozens of other prominent websites all over the globe.  I always freely and happily allow others to republish my articles on their own websites, but I also ask that they include this “About the Author” section with each article.  The material contained in this article is for general information purposes only, and readers should consult licensed professionals before making any legal, business, financial or health decisions.  I encourage you to follow me on social media on Facebook and Twitter, and any way that you can share these articles with others is a great help.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, I strongly urge you to ask Jesus to be your Lord and Savior today.

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After being off lockdown for only 5 days, the rulers of Beijing locked the city down once again.  This time, the lockdown is over 74 cases of Omicron in a city with a population of 21.3 million people.

The mainstream media continues to describe these cases as a “struggle” to contain outbreaks. The rulers are also taking people away to concentration camps quarantine camps if they test positive for COVID-19.  According to a report by Sky News, Chaoyang district, Beijing’s biggest region and where Sanlitun is located, will continue to conduct daily mass testing of its 3.5 million residents until Wednesday at least.

There is still an obvious attempt to panic the masses into compliance and acceptance of concentration camps aptly named “quarantine camps” and the domination and control of their lives by a sociopathic bunch of tyrants who want everyone to roll over and willingly accept their slavery. Sadly, most have.

The most recent outbreak came just days after the city relaxed its control measures, following a five-week lockdown from late April, where parks, schools, shopping centers, and restaurants were closed, and large sections of the public transport were suspended.

The recent cases – which total more than 300 – are all connected to one superspreader event, where a man visited a dive bar called Heaven Supermarket over the weekend, along with several other nightclubs.

Authorities have warned that the outbreak in Beijing is “ferocious” but have not yet announced city-wide lockdown measures. –Sky News

Many are beginning to understand that there is to be a never-ending cycle of lockdowns, compliance, and control leading to permanent enslavement of humanity under a Chinese-like system.

Shanghai, home to 24 million people, went through two months of strict lockdown before restrictions were lifted two weeks ago.

First Shanghai, Now Beijing: China Goes on Another Lockdown Spree

Shanghai COVID “Outbreak” Worsens Under Lockdown

The ruling class will continue locking people down and tossing them in camps until people stand together and refuse to comply.  We aren’t out of the woods in the U.S. yet either. If these sociopaths that rule over people within the borders of the U.S. think they can get away with another lockdown, whether it’s monkeypox, COVID-19, or something else, they will do it.

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