US pork exports to China soar despite US meat shortages as China is buying less meat from Australia; Will Chinese Eat While Americans & Brits Starve?

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Americans are worried about food shortages:

POLL: Americans Are Worried About Having Enough To Eat During The Pandemic

May 16, 2020

Across the country, worries about having enough to eat are adding to the anxiety of millions of people, according to a survey that found 37% of unemployed Americans ran out of food in the past month and 46% said they worried about running out.

Even those who are working often struggle. Two in 10 working adults said that in the past 30 days, they ran out of food before they could earn enough money to buy more. One-quarter worried that would happen.

Those results come from the second wave of the COVID Impact Survey, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for the Data Foundation. The survey aims to provide an ongoing assessment of the nation’s mental, physical and financial health during the pandemic.

There is no parallel in U.S. history for the suddenness or severity of the economic collapse, which has cost more than 36 million jobs since the virus struck. The nationwide unemployment rate was 14.7% in April, the highest since the Great Depression. While many Americans believe they will be working in the coming months, unemployed Americans — those most likely to report running out of food — aren’t as optimistic. https://www.wbez.org/stories/poll-americans-are-worried-about-having-enough-to-eat-during-the-pandemic/37965436-5c29-43b3-acb4-9087d2e20841

While the US seems to be facing meat shortages, its pork exports to China have soared according to Reuters:

As U.S. meat workers fall sick and supplies dwindle, exports to China soar

CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation’s food supply even as workers got sick and died. Yet the plants have increasingly been exporting to China while U.S. consumers face shortages, a Reuters analysis of government data showed.

Trump, who is in an acrimonious public dispute with Beijing over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, invoked the 1950 Defense Production Act on April 28 to keep plants open. Now he is facing criticism from some lawmakers, consumers and plant employees for putting workers at risk in part to help ensure China’s meat supply.

Meat buyers in China ramped up imports from around the world as a pig disease decimated its herd, the world’s largest, and pushed Chinese pork prices to record highs. The supply shock drove China to pay more for U.S. meat than other countries, and even U.S. consumers, since late 2019. … The disruptions mean consumers could see 30% less meat in supermarkets by the end of May, at prices 20% higher than last year, according to Will Sawyer, lead economist at agricultural lender CoBank. 05/10/20 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-meatpacking-an/as-us-meat-workers-fall-sick-and-supplies-dwindle-exports-to-china-soar-idUSKBN22N0IN

Would the USA be willing to sell pork and other consumed items when there are shortages in the USA?

Certainly. The Bible warns that “the borrower is servant to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7), and the USA owes China over USD$1,000,000,000,000.

Notice something I warned about back in May of 2010 in an article who partial title was In Depression Will Chinese Eat While Americans & Brits Starve?:

The time is likely coming when the USA will have to provide grain to China when some Americans will be starving from food shortages. The USA and UK are under massive debt loads, and at some point in time will likely have political leaders who will believe that exporting food to places like China will be needed even though part of their citizenry will die from food shortages. (Thiel B. China Buying USA Food, In Depression Will Chinese Eat While Americans & Brits Starve? COGwriter, May 21, 2010)

Some believe that COVID-19 will lead to a depression. And the USA is sending things to China that many eat.

While the Bible does not consider pork to be food fit for human consumption (Leviticus 11:7-8; see also The New Testament Church, History, and Unclean Meats), many people do eat it.

Notice now the following about the USA and food shortages:

Americans Are Being Set Up For The Kill – With Food Shortages Already Here In America, Why Are We Sending Millions Of Dollars Of Food To Our ‘Communist Overlord Enemies’?

May 13, 2020

As Susan Duclos had pointed out in this May 12th ANP story, while some Americans are already growing hungry and food banks here are running out of food, we’re still insanely exporting tons and tons of meat to China!! Just think about the monster national security implications of THAT considering that China’s President Xi Jinping recently received an internal memo warning of a possible war with the US due to anti-China sentiments over coronavirus exploding around the world. … why in the world are we still sending meat exports to China when Americans are starving and China is possibly preparing for war against us? Are we simply gluttons for punishment? Does ‘somebody’ want America to lose a future war? And with it long being claimed that a military marches and fights on it’s stomach, the wisdom of America sending our food to China when we might soon be in a war with them absolutely defies common sense. From Susan’s story.:

The next thing that truly makes one go Hmmmmmmm….. is the fact that as American grocery stores are limiting the purchase of meats, because processing plants “supposedly” cannot keep up with demand, there appears to be an overabundance of meat available to be exported to China. …

Not enough meat to supply grocery stores here in America, therefore we must limit our purchases unless buying locally from smaller stores, yet plenty being processed to send to other countries. The whole purpose of the 1950 Defense Production Act that President Trump invoked in late April, was to keep food on Americans’ tables.

Simply put, after reading that, if a war is ahead with China, Americans are being set up for the kill. …

And what about the fact that meat packers Smithfield Foods are owned by a Chinese corporation? As Steve Quayle recently warned us, that’s another monster security breach here in America when countries that hate us, and have openly stated they would like to kill off every man, woman and child in America, are also processing our foods. https://allnewspipeline.com/America_Being_Set_Up_For_The_Kill.php

Jesus predicted famines (Matthew 24:7).

The Bible also predicts food inflation. With the ride of the third horseman of the Apocalypse, Revelation 6:5-6 shows that there will be food, but that it will be quite expensive (food-price inflation):

5 When He opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come and see.” So I looked, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. 6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; and do not harm the oil and the wine.” (Revelation 6:5-6)

Although the third horseman’s ride has not yet begun, as it follows the second horseman of war whose ride also has not quite begun, the USA reported a great rise in food inflation for last month:

US grocery costs jump the most in 46 years …

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that prices U.S. consumers paid for groceries jumped 2.6% in April, the largest one-month pop since February 1974.

The price of the meats, poultry, fish and eggs category rose 4.3%, fruits and vegetables climbed 1.5%, and cereals and bakery products advanced 2.9%. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/12/us-grocery-costs-jump-the-most-in-46-years-led-by-rising-prices-for-meat-and-eggs.html

Notice now the following from the old Worldwide Church of God:

The black horseman’s future ride will reduce the proud faces of white America, Europe, and the British Common wealth into the blackened skin of starvation such as now afflicts the vast majority of mankind. (Alexander G. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Ambassador College Press, Pasadena (CA), 1973, p. 31)

Notice some of the penalties for disobedience recorded in the 26th chapter of Leviticus: “If after all this you have not learnt discipline but still defy me, I in turn will defy you and scourge you seven times over for your sins. I will bring war in vengeance upon you … you shall be herded into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be given over to the enemy. I will cut short your daily bread until ten women can bake your bread in a single oven; they shall dole it out by weight [see Revelation 6:5-6], and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied. If in spite of this you do not listen to me and still defy me, I will defy you in anger, and I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins. Instead of meat you shall eat your sons and daughters” (Lev. 26:23-28, The New English Bible). Other passages warn of famine-producing upsets in weather (Amos 4:7, Deut. 28:24); ruined harvests (Ezek. 5:16, Deut. 28:17); blighted crops (Amos 4:9); harmful insect pests (Deut. 28:39, 42); and nonproductive soil (Deut. 28:23). (4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse – The Black Horse – Famine. WCG booklet, 1976)

Now, another contributing factor to China buying more pork from the USA is because it is buying less meat from Australia, essentially to punish it for saying it wanted to look into the origin, etc. of COVID-19:

China Suspends Australian Meat Imports

China has suspended imports from four major Australian meat firms, escalating a quarrel between the two countries over the origins of the novel coronavirus. Speaking at a press conference, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the suspension was not connected to the dispute but was instead a matter of regulation—and then went on to issue further economic threats against Australia. The warnings are backed up by increasingly belligerent editorials in state media.

The dispute began with the Australian government’s call for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. China has reacted strongly against allowing a transparent, multilateral probe in Wuhan and acted to impede Chinese investigators. That could be a sign that there’s something to hide—whether sloppy regulation of the wildlife trade or even a biosafety accident. But Beijing’s reaction may also be a byproduct of a paranoid system. https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/13/china-punishing-australia-coroanvirus-pandemic-meat-imports-trade-diplomacy/

China can destabilize the economy of Australia, while increasing food inflation in the USA.

How bad will it get for the USA and its British descended allies like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand?

Notice the following from the Book of Ezekiel:

9 And I will do among you what I have never done, and the like of which I will never do again, because of all your abominations. 10 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments among you, and all of you who remain I will scatter to all the winds.

11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity. 12 One-third of you shall die of the pestilence, and be consumed with famine in your midst; and one-third shall fall by the sword all around you; and I will scatter another third to all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them. (Ezekiel 5:9-12)

Yes, the time will come when the Americans and British-descended peoples will starve and the Chinese will eat.

The world order is going to change.

Notice a prophecy showing that the great will be betrayed by friends:

1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!

2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies. (Lamentations 1:1-2)

The Bible shows that the fortresses of the USA in Daniel 11:39 and the fortresses of the British peoples in Isaiah 17:3 will be gone–the defeat will come primarily from those considered to be ‘friends’ in Europe.

Notice what else Lamentations warns about:

11 All her people sigh,
They seek bread;
They have given their valuables for food to restore life. (Lamentations 1:11a)

12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?” (Lamentations 2:12)

4 The tongue of the infant clings
To the roof of its mouth for thirst;
The young children ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

5 Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those who were brought up in scarlet
Embrace ash heaps. (Lamentations 4:4-5)

9 Those slain by the sword are better off
Than those who die of hunger;
For these pine away,
Stricken for lack of the fruits of the field.

10 The hands of the compassionate women
Have cooked their own children;
They became food for them
In the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lamentations 4:9-10)

Terrible famines are coming! Those who were food rich will be starving! Mothers will eat their own children!

The Anglo-American order will, relatively soon, be gone.

Do not think things will continue indefinitely as they have.

Remember Jesus said:

11 And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. (Luke 21:11)

36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21:36)

You should not only PRAY to be accounted worthy, but you need to take steps to help insure that you are.

The prophetic reality is that MOST Christians in the end times will NOT “be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass.”

Famine is coming. Will you believe the word of God and act on the truths it contains?

UPDATE: 05/17/20 p.m. We just uploaded the following related video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

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