With the price of food going up, grocery coupons have now become one of the most well-liked reasons for people to log online and rummage through the search engines.
Certainly, many informed observers predict that food protection will become one of the most hotly contested issues around the world as we approach the middle years of the 21st Century.
Food security is not quite the same thing as hunger.
One can be food-insecure without truly being among the hordes of growing hungry.
Food security signifies having a reliable source of good food.
By the year 2050, there will be a projected seven billion people on the planet, ever more of whom will be profitable enough to manage a middle-class diet that consists of more and more animal protein.
Grocery coupons are marketing ploys by manufacturers to get consumers to try new products, but with ever dwindling food supplies it is not likely that such gimmicks will have to be employed in the future.
After all, we could well wind up with a feast-or-famine/winner-takes-all kind of society where anyone who’s worried about the price of things probably can not afford it anyway!
Sounds cynical, but it may easily become the case in even a realistic worst-case scenario.
Owing to globalization, no one is immune from a bad crop ever again.
Russian forest fires last year forced Moscow to prevent all wheat exports, driving up prices on the world market.
This year’s harvest in China is predicted to be devastating on account of a local drought, which will mean even higher prices.
Yes, grocery coupons will be more essential than ever – and yet their availability may decrease drastically as manufacturers boost prices to reflect the much diminished supply.
What will happen to us?
Everything hangs off the thinnest of threads.
All it takes is a perfect storm of concurring factors and everyone will wind up in dire straits.
