Livestock still living was slaughtered for food till there was no more livestock. Even India’s cattle that were not to be eaten through religious beliefs disappeared. Religion took a back seat to a hungry belly. China, the United States, Canada, and a few more countries closed themselves to the world. It was now dog eat dog. We had always lived in plenty. Our dog was a little fatter and much more protected except to the south by oceans. The neighbor to the north had far less population to worry about, so typical of our country, we didn’t worry about them. The crisis for some months seemed distant, somehow surreal, and to most didn’t apply to the good old U.S. of A. The President reassured us all was well, and typical of our entitlement mentality, encouraged by successive administrations, no one got very concerned for several months. Golly gee, our country will take care of us. This time it would not happen. Those months were the critical times.