This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.
We are less than two weeks into the month of November, and the mainstream media is telling us that millions of Americans are “starving”. If our society is this vulnerable to a temporary disruption in food stamp benefits, what is it going to be like when global events really start hitting the fan and there is no food in our grocery stores at all? Much of the population is just a few missed meals away from going completely haywire.
For now, at least those who have not received their food stamp benefits this month can rely on local food banks. But would you be willing to line up at 2:30 in the morning just to get some free food? That is precisely what just happened in the Bronx…
In the Bronx, throngs of desperate locals lined up as early as 2:30 a.m. at food banks because of disruptions in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits caused by the shutdown.
Carmen Verona told The Post she was there for the time ever because her mom and brother had their benefits cut. Her own $459 monthly SNAP benefits aren’t enough.
“Without the food stamps, it’s a lot … and that’s not even enough because I always got to put out of pocket like $200, $300 because it’s too expensive,” said Verona, 58, as she picked up fruit, vegetables, and apple juice.
The reason why people line up so early is that there might not be enough food for everyone.
In Indianapolis, one elderly woman who thought that she had gotten in line at her local food bank early enough ended up leaving empty-handed…
On Saturday morning, bundled in a coat, hat and gloves, Alicia Engel waited in a line outside Fountain Square Church of Christ for a cart of free groceries. An hour before the city-sponsored event was scheduled to end, volunteers ran out of food — and Engel left empty-handed.
This is how badly our economy has deteriorated.
If the food stamp program permanently disappeared, millions upon millions of desperate Americans would suddenly be absolutely destitute.
At one food bank in Cleveland, hordes of hungry people lined up in the rain to get some free food. When Fox News posted footage of the line on X, it got hundreds of thousands of views…
A video of a large line outside a food bank in Cleveland has gone viral amid the ongoing freezing of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during the government shutdown.
Fox News posted footage showing long lines of people queuing outside a food bank on its X account. At the time of writing, the video had accrued 599,000 views.
You have to be really committed to stand in the rain for hours.
In other parts of the country, people are able to wait in their vehicles. For example, on one recent morning in Tallahassee, “hundreds of cars lined up outside a shopping mall for emergency food assistance”…
On a cold Saturday morning in Tallahassee, hundreds of cars lined up outside a shopping mall for emergency food assistance. Among them was Joe Elliott, a newly retired man with liver disease, whose rising medical costs and lapsed SNAP benefits left him in need, per Chronicle Online.
The food distribution, organized by Second Harvest and supported by United Way of the Big Bend and WTXL, aimed to serve 1,500 families. CEO Monique Ellsworth said calls for help have surged as nearly 100,000 residents in the region face uncertainty over food aid.
We are seeing similar scenes all over the nation.
In Northern California, demand at local food banks has absolutely exploded…
Within its service area of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, more than 168,000 people rely on CalFresh, the state of California’s version of SNAP, Bacho says.
On Monday alone, over 1,500 unique users visited the bank’s online food locator tool, which connects people to nearby food distribution sites, according to Bacho. That’s nearly double the usual volume.
Their hotline has also experienced a 200% increase in requests for referrals, she says.
I was surprised to learn that California is not even among the top 10 states that are most heavily dependent on the food stamp program.
It turns out that New Mexico, Oregon, and Louisiana lead that list…
- New Mexico -21.5 percent
- Oregon – 18.1 percent
- Louisiana – 17.5 percent
- Oklahoma – 16.9 percent
- W. Virginia – 15.5 percent
- Nevada – 15.2 percent
- Massachusetts – 15.1 percent
- Pennsylvania – 15.0 percent
- New York – 14.9 percent
- Illinois – 14.8 percent
There were a few states that began paying out full food stamp benefits last week, but the Trump administration is ordering those states to “immediately undo” what they have done…
The Trump administration has instructed states that they must “immediately undo any steps” that were taken to provide full SNAP benefits to low-income Americans, saying states were “unauthorized.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a late-night Saturday memo obtained by CBS News, also threatened to impose financial penalties on states that did not comply with the government’s new orders.
“To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized,” Patrick Penn, deputy undersecretary of Agriculture, wrote to state SNAP directors. “Accordingly, States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025.”
What a colossal mess.
And the fact that this crisis has erupted just before Thanksgiving is making a lot of recipients even more upset…
“Nothing, I didn’t get nothing this month,” Anthony Miller said.
Miller said he was supposed to see nearly $300 on his link card on November 1.
“It’s confusing and Trump don’t want to release it, and that’s why he’s taking it to court, and it don’t make no sense at all that we got to starve out here, and he did it at the time of Thanksgiving,” he said.
Did you notice that he used the word “starve”.
We are suddenly hearing that word at lot.
In fact, one female EBT recipient that claims that she is “starving” has been getting a tremendous amount of attention online…
Needless to say, that woman is not starving.
If you go without food for a few days, that is not going to hurt you.
In fact, for most of the population, going without food for a few days would actually be quite beneficial for their health.
If you have a chronic disease, fasting is one of the best things that you could possibly do for your body.
The reason why we are hearing the word “starve” so much is because the mainstream media is constantly using it, and many top Democrats are constantly using it…
“Donald Trump and his administration have made the decision to weaponize hunger, to withhold SNAP benefits from millions of people, notwithstanding the fact that two lower courts, both the district court and the court of appeals, made clear that those SNAP benefits needed to be paid immediately,” House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said on CNN Saturday, calling the actions “shameful.”
“Donald Trump is literally fighting in court to ensure Americans starve. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU,” echoed California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a potential 2028 presidential contender, on X.
Nobody in the United States is starving.
If you want to see real starvation, just look at what is happening in Africa right now.
People are literally dropping dead from a lack of food, but that hardly gets any attention from the Western media.
So let’s put all of this into perspective.
This food stamp crisis is just temporary, and the good news is that it looks like a deal to end the government shutdown may be within reach.
We shall see.
But even if this government shutdown ends, there are a couple of things that we all need to remember.
Number one, demand at U.S. food banks was at record levels even before the government shutdown started.
Number two, if there is some sort of a major emergency someday and the federal government is no longer able to feed tens of millions of Americans, things will get very bad in this country very rapidly.
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