Charsee
04-03-2008, 01:45 AM
We can already say that it is too late to get wheat at less than $8.00 for 50 lbs. Fortunately, the church is providing their wheat or we could also say that it is too late to get it at $20 for 50 lbs.
I wonder how much grain the church actually has for those that still need their "long-term storage."
I think about those that the church may need to provide for if the time were to come when we must use our stores:
To provide food storage for the 34,000 students at BYU would require 12,240,000 pounds of food for subsistence level eating for one year. The 13,500 students at BYU Idaho would need 4,860,000 pounds. Then there are all the other students at BYU Hawaii and other universities and colleges throughout the world. Sixty thousand missionaries would require 21 million 600 thousand pounds. The disabled of the church and their families, the unemployed and underemployed and their families and others unable to get a year supply would add hundreds of millions of pounds of food needed from the welfare system. What happens if there is a major recession or a disruption of the food supply...can the church provide for everyone? Unfortunately, most people in the church are banking on it...
An LDS family of 6 needs 300 pounds grains and 60 pounds beans and other legumes per person...that means they need 2,160 lbs of food to survive a year. (www.providentliving.org (http://www.providentliving.org/) also says "You may also want to add other items to your longer-term storage such as sugar, nonfat dry milk, salt, baking soda, and cooking oil. To meet nutritional needs, also store foods containing Vitamin C and other essential nutrients.")
If the church had 1,000,000 lbs of grains, that would be enough for 462 families. As of July 1. 2000, there were 717,748 households in Utah. To feed the people of Utah for one year at subsistence levels would have taken 808,759,080 lbs. of food, with eight years of growth since then, it could be close to a billion pounds that would be needed.
A year's worth of food at www.LDS.org (http://www.lds.org/) is $312 (12 starter kits of 2 cans wheat, 2 cans rice, 1 can oatmeal and 1 can beans) which is delivered to your door in storable boxes ($228 if you can go to the church cannery to get it yourself). For a family of 6 it would take $1,872 to have it delivered to your home with perhaps no more effort to you than charging your credit card. To just put a very basic supply of food in your own containers would cost around $30 for beans and $57 for red wheat (church cannery) or $87...or $522 for a family of six.
It is not too late to get a years worth of food at reasonable prices, but it soon could be! Prices continue to rise.
What if we were told by church leaders to get our food NOW and the 90+ percent LDS that don't have it all tried to get their food at once? Or if the news reported about the serious global food shortages we are experiencing (i.e. 27 days worth of wheat left in the U.S. by July) and they mentioned that you can get a month's supply of food for $18.69 from LDS church canneries or $25.95 www.lds.org (http://www.lds.org/) delivered to you. How long could the church sell these before the grain was gone?
I do not mean to create feelings of discomfort, but hope for a sense of urgency in our members and neighbors. I just think it might be a little too late for some if they don't start storing now... I hope, pray and believe that many if not most who are seriously committed and prayerful about getting their "long-term storage" will be blessed to be able to "gather in" what they will need.
As we take and store our long-term storage at home, it allows the church to use their storage capacity for those that cannot have their own. Perhaps they need this space. Perhaps we will be accountable if we rely on the church to store our food for us until we need it. We have been told that our homes should be the storehouse for our family. Also, that father's have a divine responsibility to provide the necessities of life. The Boy Scouts try to "Be Prepared"... may we all be.
I wonder how much grain the church actually has for those that still need their "long-term storage."
I think about those that the church may need to provide for if the time were to come when we must use our stores:
To provide food storage for the 34,000 students at BYU would require 12,240,000 pounds of food for subsistence level eating for one year. The 13,500 students at BYU Idaho would need 4,860,000 pounds. Then there are all the other students at BYU Hawaii and other universities and colleges throughout the world. Sixty thousand missionaries would require 21 million 600 thousand pounds. The disabled of the church and their families, the unemployed and underemployed and their families and others unable to get a year supply would add hundreds of millions of pounds of food needed from the welfare system. What happens if there is a major recession or a disruption of the food supply...can the church provide for everyone? Unfortunately, most people in the church are banking on it...
An LDS family of 6 needs 300 pounds grains and 60 pounds beans and other legumes per person...that means they need 2,160 lbs of food to survive a year. (www.providentliving.org (http://www.providentliving.org/) also says "You may also want to add other items to your longer-term storage such as sugar, nonfat dry milk, salt, baking soda, and cooking oil. To meet nutritional needs, also store foods containing Vitamin C and other essential nutrients.")
If the church had 1,000,000 lbs of grains, that would be enough for 462 families. As of July 1. 2000, there were 717,748 households in Utah. To feed the people of Utah for one year at subsistence levels would have taken 808,759,080 lbs. of food, with eight years of growth since then, it could be close to a billion pounds that would be needed.
A year's worth of food at www.LDS.org (http://www.lds.org/) is $312 (12 starter kits of 2 cans wheat, 2 cans rice, 1 can oatmeal and 1 can beans) which is delivered to your door in storable boxes ($228 if you can go to the church cannery to get it yourself). For a family of 6 it would take $1,872 to have it delivered to your home with perhaps no more effort to you than charging your credit card. To just put a very basic supply of food in your own containers would cost around $30 for beans and $57 for red wheat (church cannery) or $87...or $522 for a family of six.
It is not too late to get a years worth of food at reasonable prices, but it soon could be! Prices continue to rise.
What if we were told by church leaders to get our food NOW and the 90+ percent LDS that don't have it all tried to get their food at once? Or if the news reported about the serious global food shortages we are experiencing (i.e. 27 days worth of wheat left in the U.S. by July) and they mentioned that you can get a month's supply of food for $18.69 from LDS church canneries or $25.95 www.lds.org (http://www.lds.org/) delivered to you. How long could the church sell these before the grain was gone?
I do not mean to create feelings of discomfort, but hope for a sense of urgency in our members and neighbors. I just think it might be a little too late for some if they don't start storing now... I hope, pray and believe that many if not most who are seriously committed and prayerful about getting their "long-term storage" will be blessed to be able to "gather in" what they will need.
As we take and store our long-term storage at home, it allows the church to use their storage capacity for those that cannot have their own. Perhaps they need this space. Perhaps we will be accountable if we rely on the church to store our food for us until we need it. We have been told that our homes should be the storehouse for our family. Also, that father's have a divine responsibility to provide the necessities of life. The Boy Scouts try to "Be Prepared"... may we all be.