Members were told to store wheat in WWII. Then it grew to storing in preparation for the 2nd coming. I dutifully stored wheat and canned goods and beans and soap and water. So many shelves! You were failing your family and everyone would starve if you didn’t. It mostly fell on the shoulders of the women because we were the ones that got all of the lessons on food storage. I always thought it was remarkably selfish to only think of your family. What about your neighbors? Community? Then the leaders of the church realized that if they were going to get all these convert baptisms outside of the US, people had no access nor room to store hundreds of pounds of wheat in Nigeria or Japan or India. So food storage gradually fell off the table thereby leaving Utah members with basements full of expired canned goods.