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The extreme rise in food prices are due mostly to agribusinesses sharing trade data through algorithmic platforms. It’s collusion and price fixing with extra steps. The ones in charge of stopping these kind of practices are currently not interested in helping.
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.
Food prices are obviously always a problem. Basic needs are always a problem if not accessible properly.
Though even as a non American I do notice that there is clearly less loud bitching, fingerpointing and blame getting tossed around. At least not in a jerk agressive way.
My guess is that it really is because those loud annoying people are trump supporters who now keep their mouths shut.
Perhaps, but we may also see it brought up again around midterms. Elections are usually when issues that people most care about are brought to the forefront.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue. Now a large chunk of us speak nothing of it.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue.
The problem is that the biden administration pretended they solved the problem while it was still getting worse, after an administration whose first two years were spent breaking every promise to the left of joe manchin.
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.
I know you know this, but I have to jump on the train here.
This is what Fox told them to say, and now they’re not. The whole thing is so obvious to anybody not in their clutches. I have a friend who, after the Jan 6 insurrection, was “done with Trump”. Guess who voted for him again and is convinced he’s doing a great job.
The eggs thing wasn’t complex market conditions, companies saw an excuse to raise prices in unison, they tripled their profits, and are slowly lowering them as sales decrease due to people buying fewer eggs. They’re still up 200%.
If you want to know what lowering food prices looks like, ask the chinese. Each city I went to had arrays of different policies, none of which started and ended with “give money to giant ag companies and the means to exploit migrant workers.” Lot of policies helping retirees start micro farms.
30 eggs for 2USD related.
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%.
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?
I’d say it’s because during Biden’s term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there’s so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.
Also, Biden was actively tackling the problem by having investigations into large grocer chains and brandnames who reported record profits and increased prices, and we talked about that whether we were on his “side” or not. He also prevented a couple of mergers/acquisitions such as the Krogers Alberstsons merger. And that was boring in most cases and in some cases ineffective.
Now that nothing is being done about any of it, theres less to talk about except “experts say this is really bad and it’s going to get much much worse. Now for the weather forecast, take it away Carl.”
“Actually, Bob, with the loss of weather monitoring funding we’re back to relying on Almanacs and to avoid liability I’ve been asked to not call it a forecast but a weather prediction.”
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
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
yeah stop the corn and soybean subsidies and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land and then the price will reflect what the real price of meat is.
and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land
That’s how we got the shit with Cliven Bundy a while back. Fucking right wingers whine when they don’t get free money for nothing and have to pay for the externalities their actions create.
Why is meat so much cheaper here in east asia anyway? I can get tenderloin for ~6USD/lb.
I mean, because the left and center are concerned more with the collapse of democracy and the rule of law and the right wants all brown people to die.
Killing all the brown people was how we were supposed to get cheap eggs. The brown people were making our eggs expensive so we had to spend $600M on an Everglades concentration camp
I mean, the eggs are cheap again so I guess it worked?
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Correlation ≠ causation
Same reason the clown is elected twice in the first place, the media in this country is completely irresponsible and run by profit driven assholes with zero ethics, a major problem in everywhere.
Because it’s* worth it seems the likely answer.
*racism, genocide, anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-health, trickle-up billionaires, misogyny, state religion, and more.
A bargain (for shitheads) at twice the price!
I think it’s less about ‘worth it’ and more about how mainstream right wing propaganda news networks assign opinions to their viewers. If their media isn’t talking about it, they don’t care. (Epstein files notwithstanding.)
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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Sorry, I’m a moron. I think the asterisk is right, but not for my dumb ass thinking there. More like “Because [supporting] racism, etc. is worth it.”
Ohhh okay, i get what you mean now. I was a little confused. lol
What’s crazy is that ground beef is practically a waste product. You can get it for under $4/lb in Houston. Hell, come by certain grocery stores at the end of the day and they’re trashing buckets of it.
$6.12 for something that’s filling up garbage cans and landfills to the tune of 429.2 million lbs in 2022 alone? Seems like Americans are getting price gouged.
536,000 cows, forced to sit in their own shit for 18 months just to be unceremoniously slaughtered and thrown right in the trash, like some fucked up torture treadmill
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 buy from small local farms,” a phrase spoken exclusively by people who do not just buy from small local farms.
7 is a good year, on average most of the cells in your body have already been replaced. You’re almost entirely made of plant material at this point lol
7 is a good year, on average most of the cells in your body have already been replaced. You’re almost entirely made of plant material at this point lol
Animals only eat plants, so they’re plants, so I’m really eating plants
/S
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.
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.
This is part of the problem with the “v-word” movement. There are so many purity tests when, in the end, it is literally impossible to avoid all suffering. Industrial agriculture kills untold gobs of animals and insects. Almond farming uses shit tons of water that would otherwise feed a healthy habitat. Having a cat or dog means participating in the animal products industry as well.
This doesn’t mean “give up”, but it does require the admission that there is no ultimate piety that can be achieved - despite what some would have you believe. They are either willfully ignorant or lying to further an agenda. All we can do in our position in modern society is try our best to minimize suffering, with the understanding that there will always be some.
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. 💚
While plant based is the better answer, you could look up “meat csa near me”
It really is incredible how much land is used, pollution created, and environmental devastation caused to create more waste for landfills, furthering the aforementioned problems. Meanwhile, folks starve next door and around the globe. Coming down from the trees was a terrible decision.
That’s capitalism for ya
Steak mince vs ground beef are different things.
One is basically offal, the other could have been a steak. Unless they’re using the term incorrectly, the price should be different.
They are just too busy winning all the time.
We still are.
True, but the news is freaking out about it a lot less, and spending a lot less time interviewing people about what percent of them might feel like it’s personally the president’s fault and he should definitely lose the next election because of it because people are hurting right now and he doesn’t care.
It is, as the man said, notable. In fact it seems like they’ve totally moved on from feeling like inflation is an important issue to pay close attention to and freak out about.
We are also exhausted by all the other things we’re supposed to be apoplectic about.
only the news stopped talking about prices
Or to put that another way, the Trump fans are not being told to freak out about this. They only freak out when their masters instruct them to.
Because media focus shifted. People will be mad with what the media tells them to be mad at.
