Why is that?
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the absolutely wild thing about this is that australia is/was also complaining about a cost of living crisis, and our food is $ for $ roughly the same… as in our numeric value for food is the same - despite our currency being worth about 2/3 as much
this doesn’t mean that australia has our cost of living crisis easy… it means that americas food prices are ultra fucked
https://links.coles.com.au/hRXTKkT7aVb
Coles No Added Hormone Beef 3 Star Regular Mince: $7/500g (1lb ~= 450g)
(at time of writing, that beef in the photo costs about $10AUD/500g, or our beef mince costs $4.50USD)
Noticed a similar thing going between Canadian and US grocery stores. Roughly the same numerical cost, but with the difference in price exchange rates it is far cheaper on the Canadian side. Also, high fructose corn syrup isn’t at the top of every single ingredient list.
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People need to just stop buying what is not absolutely necessary. They will suffer a curious side effect: Weight loss, lower sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. Maybe that will force producers to call on their orange god to quit his grifting. Who oversees the tariff tax in the External Revenue Service?
I'm down 25 lbs not drinking or eating processed food
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People need to just stop buying what is not absolutely necessary. They will suffer a curious side effect: Weight loss, lower sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. Maybe that will force producers to call on their orange god to quit his grifting. Who oversees the tariff tax in the External Revenue Service?
The carnie mind does not comprehend eating anything but meat
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like some fucked up torture treadmill
Welcome to industrial animal agriculture. I stopped eating animal products 7 years ago. My only regret is not making this change earlier.
And before someone says "just buy from small local farms": I live in an urban area. Unless I burn gas driving all over fuck, the industrial animal ag products are what is in the stores. Easier for me to just go plant-based.
Just curious because you're specifically using the term plant-based: are you eating plant-based or are you vegan? If not the latter, how come?
No judgements whatsoever - just curious
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Go vegan
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Beef prices should go up, along with all meat prices, to reflect their ecosystemic toll. The problem is basic staples are also expensive.
Absolutely this. Essential food should not be expensive. Meat, especially red meat, should be quite expensive and something you only eat rarely
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Absolutely this. Essential food should not be expensive. Meat, especially red meat, should be quite expensive and something you only eat rarely
Won't this threaten your livelihood?
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Won't this threaten your livelihood?
We should all ask for things that benefit the whole even if they would be detrimental to our individual selves.
I applaud my comrade
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Because the pro-Trump media now tells people it's because of the long-lasting effects of the Biden admin. Here in Hungary, we're still being told the awful state of the healthcare system is due to the Gyurcsány-era, that was in 2010(!), although they started to mix it up with a little "the EU isn't sending us money because we made a law that labels gay people pedophiles".
Fucking EU always screwing us over. We're still waiting for our £300,000,000 a day for the NHS that the EU is feeding to brown people.. or whatever it was that we were promised
It's definitely not governments lying constantly, right?
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Go vegan
When plant meat is at the same price or cheaper, I will.
I've already worked out most of my recipes to use it.
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like some fucked up torture treadmill
Welcome to industrial animal agriculture. I stopped eating animal products 7 years ago. My only regret is not making this change earlier.
And before someone says "just buy from small local farms": I live in an urban area. Unless I burn gas driving all over fuck, the industrial animal ag products are what is in the stores. Easier for me to just go plant-based.
While plant based is the better answer, you could look up “meat csa near me”
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When plant meat is at the same price or cheaper, I will.
I've already worked out most of my recipes to use it.
Or just don't eat meat and choose one of the plenty alternatives that's not faux-meat
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Or just don't eat meat and choose one of the plenty alternatives that's not faux-meat
Tried that before, didn't enjoy it.
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I think the main difference is that people were "apoplectic" when food prices had doubled or tripled in a year or two, and now they're only going up like 10%. But also because people get used to anything, and apparently one of the things they're used to right now is food being ridiculously expensive. Thirdly, most people get sick of a subject after a while so they engage less on it. Don't want another article, don't want another comment, they just turn it off and look at memes.
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I think the main difference is that people were "apoplectic" when food prices had doubled or tripled in a year or two, and now they're only going up like 10%. But also because people get used to anything, and apparently one of the things they're used to right now is food being ridiculously expensive. Thirdly, most people get sick of a subject after a while so they engage less on it. Don't want another article, don't want another comment, they just turn it off and look at memes.
Because the conservative outrage machine stopped focusing on it. You can be 100% assured if Harris had one they'd be threatening impeachment over beef being up 11%.
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Last year, there was not a single conservative person in my "circle" that wasn't constantly griping about the cost of eggs and "Bidenflation". Poor souls could not afford to eat anymore, the only protein they supposedly lived on was eggs, but the price of those was so high they were just going without.
The moment that Trump took office, egg prices spiked again and suddenly these people understood that the president doesn't control the price of eggs and besides eggs cost so much due to the effects of bird flu. Suddenly these people who couldn't previously afford anything but eggs to eat are telling me that they're having roast beef for dinner, then pork chops, and so on. Literally nothing has changed in their lives except there's a different president and nearly everything is far more expensive, and yet all the financial woes they were complaining about this time last year no longer seem to exist.
I even mentioned the price of coffee, milk, and beef in a recent conversation. Supposedly these things were higher when Biden was president (not true), and when I refused to budge on that, suddenly it's back to "well the prices are determined by complex market conditions" and "the president has brought down the price of many other things like eggs".
It's literally impossible to have a logical and factual conversation with these types of people.
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I find it interesting you put the asterisk on the first it whereas i would have put it on the second. I wonder why that is!
The asterisk is for the footnote from "it's**". In other words, the asterisk is for the entire line.
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Just curious because you're specifically using the term plant-based: are you eating plant-based or are you vegan? If not the latter, how come?
No judgements whatsoever - just curious
I use the "plant-based" label because people get weird about the v-word, and quite frankly I'm only super-strict about meat and egg so don't think I've really earned the title. I avoid dairy, but it shows up in a lot of unexpected places so I give myself some leeway with micro-ingredients. Why? Because it's more effort than I'm willing to put in. I know that won't be a satisfactory answer to diehards, but it is an honest one.
Or perhaps you are asking if it is only about food? I don't use non-food animal products either (e.g. leather, wool, down).
My last paragraph is really more rhetorical because it's a very predictable "whatabout." While not wanting to bother with the effort certainly is true (in-line with my attitude on dairy micro-ingredients), having easier availability to small local farms wouldn't change anything in this regard. I'd still stick to a plant-based lifestyle. If anything, it's something I might have used as a crutch while phasing out animal products. But I am past that now.
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Saying this in response to a news story about rising food prices? The high food prices are still being talked about and are still a problem.
The "The Resistance" logo in the top-right makes sense as only democrats could come up with a dumb line of attack as "food prices were never actually a problem and people were just being told to be angry about this non-problem". This is the same party that boasted about saving consumers 16 cents for the 4th of July: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-boasts-cookouts-are-16-cents-cheaper-this-year-internet-isnt-impressed-1606210
Almost as if they knew of how fucked the inflation would be and tried to run in front of it. That clearly didn't work, so they tried gaslighting everyone by claiming rising prices are a non-issue. If this is the resistance then we're fucked.
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I use the "plant-based" label because people get weird about the v-word, and quite frankly I'm only super-strict about meat and egg so don't think I've really earned the title. I avoid dairy, but it shows up in a lot of unexpected places so I give myself some leeway with micro-ingredients. Why? Because it's more effort than I'm willing to put in. I know that won't be a satisfactory answer to diehards, but it is an honest one.
Or perhaps you are asking if it is only about food? I don't use non-food animal products either (e.g. leather, wool, down).
My last paragraph is really more rhetorical because it's a very predictable "whatabout." While not wanting to bother with the effort certainly is true (in-line with my attitude on dairy micro-ingredients), having easier availability to small local farms wouldn't change anything in this regard. I'd still stick to a plant-based lifestyle. If anything, it's something I might have used as a crutch while phasing out animal products. But I am past that now.
Wait, are the micro-ingredients you're referring to the traces of dairy you get with most foods you buy? Like even food that's specifically labelled as vegan? Not quite sure what else you could mean since these products would still be considered vegan since they're not made up of or consist of animal products.
But yea, it's tough to keep scanning ingredients list for potential non-vegan ingredients. It's relatively easy for food for me nowadays but stuff like soaps, face wash, laundry detergent and stuff like that that's not always explicitly labelled as vegan can be tricky to navigate around. Nail polish is easy because I found a brand that's specifically vegan and cruelty-free.
You'll get there some day (if you want that). We all start out small and it takes some effort, but it's manageable in the end.
