Get A Pressure Cooker And Eat Your Leftovers: USDA Projecting Biggest Food Price Increases Since 1990
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 08.23.08
Reuters nails the pending food price increases in the USA with a single paragraph:
U.S. consumers should brace for the biggest increase in food prices in nearly 20 years in 2008 and even more pain next year due to surging meat and produce prices, the Agriculture Department said on Wednesday.No surprise really, given the corn-to-ethanol incentives debacle, grain yield losses due to Mid-west flooding, and fuel price increases. One more reason to modify the Grasshopper Lifestyle and get ready for winter the old fashioned way. Those cheap cuts of meat Grandma used to make in the pressure cooker will be back in fashion. Victory Gardens all around; and, no more throwing out the leftovers please!
Via::Reuters, UPDATE 1-US food prices to post biggest rise since '90:USDA
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There's over a billion bushels of corn left rotting because of lack of buyers. After all was sold to ethanol, people and livestock there was still corn left over. The price increases have to do with speculation, something that was regulated until the Republicans convinced people deregulation would lead to lower prices.
"There's over a billion bushels of corn left rotting because of lack of buyers."
weblink to substantiate your statement please.
istaboutchoice,
I have heard this meme as well. I don't know if it is true. IIRC, I heard on this science-friday podcast: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200808153
Shop at Wal-Mart and McDonald's rather than trendy multi-nationals like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. More money in your wallet, more food in your tummy, and in the case of McDonald's you can support local commerce and progressive causes like gay rights.
More people will eat at McDonalds which will in turn push up the obesity levels (people will not eat less but eat lower quality) which will have made adverse affects on the environment and health spending.
Victory gardens and cooking our own food seems like a great idea to me.
McDonald's gets flak from the environmentalist movement because its a eatery that caters to poor people. Nobody gives Starbucks any grief despite their high fat, high calorie foods because they cater to the wealthy.
Also if McDonald's is so poor quality, why does it beat out dozens of other fast food chains around the globe. No amount of advertising cant make you eat what you dislike.