#Food Prices

[dduane]

In the “It’ll Be ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Next” dep’t: “Eat cereal for dinner! With milk and fruit, it’s a meal that costs just a dollar!”

…All this being framed as “taking price pressure off the consumer.” Yeah, right. …And it’s not like that kind of end-of-the-day snack doesn’t have occasional appeal. But when you can’t afford more because you’re barely able to make rent and utilities to start with, and food prices just won’t seem to come down? The approach kind of loses its charm.

(“You don’t think there’s a chance thus might land wrong in some sectors, do you?” “No, actually, it’s landing well right now…”)

Uh huh. :/

#Youtube #yeah yeah I know perfectly well about the “brioche” thing #don’t start #food prices

[arctic-hands]

food shopping is stressful enough these days for people with functioning immune systems and digestive tracks, it's downright obscene for those of us with food intolerances and allergies

#food prices

[craftingtable-punk]

wheatpaste poster i made for southern united states pls feel free to use and put up in any publixes you can

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[ceevee5]

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#uk politics #brexit #food poverty #food prices #food

[robertreich]

Why Food Prices Are Rising Even More

Monopolies are slowly killing rural America — and driving up the price you pay for food.

Just four firms control 85% of all beef, 66% of all pork, and 54% of all poultry. This degree of monopolization is hurting farmers — and you.

Monopolists control nearly every part of the food production process, from selling feed to farmers, to packaging the meat and poultry for supermarkets. Half of all chicken farmers report having just one or two processors to sell to.

Farmers are essentially forced to buy from and sell to monopolies at whatever price the corporation wants – often taking on crushing debt to do so. They are trapped in long-term binding contracts, with no way out but losing their livelihood altogether.

Meatpackers used to compete at cattle auctions for what ranchers produced – which helped ranchers get a reasonable return on their investment. Now, with so few buyers, ranchers have no choice but to sign contracts with meatpackers, and sell their cattle for a lower price than if the market were truly competitive.

In 1980, 62 cents of every dollar consumers spent on beef went to ranchers. Today, only 37 cents do. Most of the profits are going into the pockets of the monopolists.  

And here’s the kicker: Even though farmers are getting squeezed, the ag monopolists are also charging you higher prices. During the pandemic, beef prices rose nearly 16% — and the four biggest beef companies’ profits rose more than 300 percent.

These corporations are using their monopoly power to fix prices. Just recently, beef giant JBS settled — without admitting guilt, of course — a beef price-fixing case for $52.5 million.

Monopolization is happening across the food sector. In corn, soybeans, dairy, pesticides, and farm machinery. The result is the same: lower pay to farmers, bigger profits for the monopolists, higher prices for you.

A better way to hold these monopolies accountable would be to break them up, and stop future mergers. But it won’t be easy. They flex their political muscle through powerful lobbies like the North American Meat Institute, and maintain a revolving door with regulatory agencies like the US Department of Agriculture.

Well, I say, take them on. Rural America is hurting, farmers are getting squeezed, and consumers are being shafted. Notwithstanding the power of food monopolies, taking them on is wildly popular — especially in Rural America.

But don’t just listen to me, listen to what farmers are saying about this:

“I'm here to tell the powers at be to enforce the antitrust laws for the world of agriculture.” “The laws are on the books. We have to strengthen those laws and do what Teddy Roosevelt did to break up the monopolies.” “Don't let these boys who come to Washington with pockets of money set there and bribe our congressman year after year after year.”

“Who will stand up for me if you don't?”

For the good of us all, America needs to enforce antitrust laws, and break up Big Ag.

#Big Ag #food #food prices #hunger #video #videos

[melodiouswhite]

Just came back from the grocery store and the cucumbers cost 1,89€ per piece. The fucking cucumbers, guys. More expensive than the bananas. There used to be times, when I could have bought at least 3 cucumbers for that money!

The vegetables as a whole were so expensive that I had to give up on cooking at home.

How are poor ppl supposed to live healthily, if the vegetables and fruits are luxury items?!

#what the fuck #food prices #fml fr #i just wanna be able to afford vegetables #fuck capitalism #fuck global warming

[gwydionmisha]

#Food Prices #Climate Crisis #El Nino #Russia’s War on Ukraine #Hunger #News

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"THE COST OF LIVING IS STILL SOARING," Toronto Globe. September 10, 1913. Page 7. --- AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A PRONOUNCED DROP ARE NOT VERY BRIGHT. ---- (Canadian Press Despatch.) Ottawa, Sept. 9. - The cost of living index number took another jump upwards last month from 135.9, the figures for July, to 136.2. In August, 1912, the figures were 133.3, so that there was near a three-point in. crease in August of this year compared with the same month a year ago. "And," say the officials at the Labor Department who compile the average cost of prices every month, "the prospects for any pronounced drop in the average cost of the commodities classified under the list of necessities of life are not very bright."

The cause for the advance in the average cost last month was principally due to the increase in price of potatoes, eggs, canned lobster, anthracite coal, grains and fodder. Such things as beef, lamb, butter, lake trout, whitefish, canned peas and coffee dropped a few points.

Meats are a little higher in price than they were a year ago, but grains - and fodder are lower.

#ottawa #department of labour #food prices #high cost of living #high prices #capitalism #capitalism in canada #cost of living index

[arctic-hands]

I'm not saying the outrage over the rising cost of normal food isn't warranted, but where was the outrage when people with celiac or allergies have been complaining for years about having to pay three times the cost for a third of the amount (if that!) of gluten free/hypoallergenic food. Suddenly in our cases staple foods like bread or ramen are "luxuries" that we should learn to live without and stop bitching about. Meanwhile, with the rise of food prices everywhere hypoallergenic food is even more expensive we're being priced out of eating regularly even more than healthy people, on top of the portions shrinking even more (which had been happening for years before anyway, such as Udi's frozen gf pizza bragging about their "even thinner crust!"), and unlike healthy people we can't rely on food pantries when they give out basic stuff like bread, peanut butter, milk, etc.

#food prices #food price inflation #corporate greed #ableism #celiac disease #food allergies #my ebt got cut with the pandemic relief ending AND I got docked another twenty for reasons that weren't explained #I can't afford food

[animeomelette]

Is peanut butter really cheap in the US or do Americans just eat a lot of vaguely peanut-flavoured imitation peanut butter that's actually mostly palm oil and high fructose corn syrup? I see it constantly brought up as an example of a cheap food and that always strikes me as really bizarre

#food #peanuts #peanut butter #us cuisine #usamerican cuisine #american cuisine #food prices #food price #food cost #food costs

[realjaysumlin]

US the exception to globally high egg prices through 2024 | WATTPoultry.com

"US the exception to globally high egg prices through 2024 | WATTPoultry.com" https://www.wattagnet.com/egg/article/15542996/us-the-exception-to-globally-high-egg-prices-through-2024

No one should be surprised by the increase in prices for eggs and livestock due to the hot temperatures we experienced during the summer months of 2023. Naturally there's going to be new pathogens evolving around animal life and fishes.

Earth has given us this information and patterns ever since life formed here. Our ecosystem works based on the cycle of life and the immediate effects of when something disturb our natural patterns.

#high egg prices #food prices

[what-marsha-eats]

#thanksgiving meme #food prices #food memes #hosting thanksgiving dinner

[paridoxpower]

I bought a pack of romaine lettuce, 3 “half”* bags of green beans, 4 white onions, one red onion, poppy dressing (kraft), and two small cans of mandarin oranges (store generic). Store was a Kroger

How much did I spend at the grocery store?

*the plastic bags of green beans with handles that weren’t completely full, barely half full

#food #food prices #if you win you get the sad knowledge of #how much every day normal living costs #thanksgiving

[jerseydeanne]

#joke #fun #meghan markle #tomatoes #food prices