George Monbiot

Britain’s food supply is precarious – so I’ve started stockpiling

I hate to sound like a prepper, but I feel bound to confess that I’ve been stockpiling food. I think, if you can, you should do the same. I’ve put aside 25kg of rice, 15kg of dried chickpeas, 15kg of bread flour, 7kg of chapati flour, 5kg of oats, 6 litres of vegetable oil, a slab of tinned tomatoes, some nuts and dried fruit. This, with the vegetables we grow, represents about two months’ supply for our family. I hope the chances of having to use our stockpile are small. But I see this hoarding as pro-social. Building a reserve while food is abundant reduces demand in a crisis. Community stockpiling and resilience planning would be better still. But I’m not waiting. Researching my book Regenesis, I learned about the…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 21 March 2025

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