Are Feds Stockpiling For Emergency Food Storage
He said a company official told him on the telephone when he discussed the status of his order that it was because the government had purchased massive quantities of products, leaving none for other customers.
That, however, was denied by Oregon Freeze Dry. In a website statement, the company confirmed it cannot assure supplying some items to customers.
“We regret to inform you Oregon Freeze Dry cannot satisfy all Mountain House #10 can orders and we have removed #10 cans from our website temporarily,” the company tells frustrated customers. “The reason for this is sales of #10 cans have continued to increase. OFD is allocating as much production capacity as possible to this market segment, but we must maintain capacity for our other market segments as well.”
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For a number of reasons, the demand for emergency food supplies has soared and suppliers are experiencing shortages and an increased backlog of orders. Some are already comparing the current demand for emergency food supplies to the run-up shortly before Y2k.
In the short term and possibly well into 2009, it will more than likely become increasingly difficult and expensive to obtain emergency, storable food for you and your family. If you are planning to acquire and /or supplement an emergency food storage program for your family, my advice would be to make those purchases sooner, rather than later.
As many of you know, we at The National Terror Alert highly recommend Nitro-Pak for all of your emergency preparedness needs including emergency storable foods.
Nitro-Pak is a primary supplier of Mountain House Foods and is filling orders however; as stated on the front page of their website, all Mountain House #10 can freeze-dried foods & units are going up August 1, 2008 by as much as 15%.
