VOLCANO BEGINNING TO AFFECT FOOD SUPPLY

This should serve as a warning to everyone about the necessity of prepping your family for emergencies. A little extra food, some water and a few other things can make it possible to survive most situations. This time it's a volcano; maybe the next time it's an earthquake or a tornado. Regardless, our food supply chain has become very extended. The average meal in America travels 1500 miles to your plate. It doesn't take a huge natural event to disrupt this, even if just for a week or so. In that time, if you haven't prepared, you and your family could get pretty darned hungry.

So buy a couple extra cans when you go to the store and put them in the basement. It won't cost much and it could save your life.

"The Freight Transport Association said that even if British airspace finally begins to open up in the coming days it would take a fortnight to clear the backlog of flights and food destined for the UK. Reports have already emerged of food beginning to rot at airports, with millions of pounds of vegetables and flowers destined for British supermarkets being destroyed in Kenya.

If disruption continues into this week shoppers will begin to notice a shortage of a number of food products normally airfreighted into the country, particularly from south east Asia and Africa.

The Freight Transport Association (FTA), warned that some imported fresh fruit and vegetables could soon be in short supply.

Jo Tanner, the Freight Transport Association spokeswoman, said last night: "We will start to see food shortages this week and we will not see a return to normality for at least two weeks"
Matthew Albert, head chef at Michelin starred Thai restaurant Nahm, in London, said they had been fortunate in receiving their weekly supply of produce from Thailand last Wednesday, a day earlier than normal because of a local holiday. Any later and it would have been grounded by the eruption. "But if flights don't resume soon this week it will become increasingly difficult to source Thai ingredients in Britain and we will have to make changes to our menus," he added."
Telegraph