Dan (the food industry CEO)

The third world is an early indicator for what we can expect here at home.

Massive food shortages or skyrocketing prices tend to occur in third world countries before they occur in the United States.

Hi, Shelby.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, and thanks again for having me on, Shelby.

The international situation is something that...

I've been concerned about for some time.

Really, there have been three or four areas that have been concerning and the international situation as it relates to the US is particularly concerning.

One of the things that I would point out is that

With most goods, the third world is an early indicator for what we can expect here at home.

And what I mean by that is when you see massive food shortages or skyrocketing prices, those things tend to occur in third world countries before they occur in the United States.

Food riots elsewhere don't translate necessarily to food rights in the United States, but it does show a lot of international strain.

And the canaries in the coal mine for a strained food supply and not just food, but most durable goods typically starts affecting the third world first.

So what we're seeing right now.

As we're seeing, just to run through a couple quickly, Lebanon has massive food shortages.

About 77% of their population can't afford food.

Their food inflation is about 400%.

South Africa is in the same basic situation.

You've got countries like Cuba, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Yemen, Syria, Zimbabwe.

There's a lot of countries out there.