Make friends with a farmer yesterday.

We sell our beef, pork, lamb and poultry to the people who have always supported us and no matter what happens on a national level, locally if you were on board with us before things get bad, you're still in.

Lots of people talk about supporting family farms and eating local but 99% of them are full of shit. They do it because it's faddish and makes them feel good about themselves, but in reality they buy their food at the grocery store. I have families that come up every year and buy a side of beef, or a hog and we prepare it for them exactly the way they like, smoke bacon and hams, make a variety of sausages, freeze or cure it depending on what they want and it keeps us afloat.

If you are still living in a world where you worry about government rationing you've already made a boatload of bad choices.

Get out of the city and if you can't farm yourself, find a farmer who practices the kind of husbandry and stewardship you approve of and support them by buying directly.