Gutted Middle Class and the Global Food Famine: America’s Descent Into Manufactured Scarcity

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of ground beef has surged 16.2% over the last year, the highest spike on record. But if you think that’s where this story ends—some isolated uptick in meat prices—you’re missing the forest fire for the trees. The truth is, the global food crisis has metastasized into the very marrow of American life. The UN’s World Food Program admits it openly: 343 million people are now trapped in severe food insecurity. That’s nearly the entire population of the United States. But the bureaucrats at the WFP spin this as an inevitable side effect of “climate emergencies,” “conflict,” and “economic instability.” Those are real factors—but they’re symptoms, not the disease. The disease is…