posted on Feb, 23 2023 @ 03:02 PM
originally posted by: litterbaux
originally posted by: loman
The real question is....why would anyone buy more than 1 cucumber when you go shopping.I still have one from 2 weeks ago still going
strong.
The root cause is an actual food shortage being masked under the guise that people are just "buying too much" and need to be limited. Biden even made
a gaff in his Ukraine speech about the "coming global food shortages".
it's interesting that he said that. i just moved back to North America after living in the Philippines just over a year ago. even before the pandemic
hit prices of food started going up, and some foods, especially imported cheeses. and rice crispies and the Tesco brand of them (Tesco products
entering the supermarkets in a big way, just before the pandemic), even the bulk ones from the bakery supply store, became all but impossible to find.
and when i left it was pretty much nightly news for months how much produce, and meat had gone up in price. and quality of especially produce was
going down.
why? what changed? while the pandemic caused transport issues, issues that should have disappeared as things opened back up.it's not like those in
the provinces, stopped farming during the lock-downs. heck except for masks, reduced traffic and visitors, rules for going to stores, and of course no
school, not much really changed for them. so where did the food go? and why was it going up in price pretty much daily?
then i get home. i have not been impressed with selection or quality, especially of supposed
fresh produce (much of which would have been
tossed in the trash 15 years ago, because of it's poor quality, and going off). and lots of missing items, out of stock, especially at walmarts. and
selection is also way down. heck, almost no lunch meats at all now, and what there still is, is out of stock a lot. and the prices are insane. at
least double the price things were a little over a decade ago (wages haven't doubled in that time). again why?
sure, fuel prices have some blame. but i don't think that is it, by a long shot. and again, it's not like farmers didn't farm during the pandemic. so
what is going on? why should a war in the Ukraine even effect food prices here? it's not like the breadbasket of North America, buys much food from
the breadbasket of eastern Europe, or vice versa, since of course we grow much of the same things ourselves. so what is going on? and it does seem to
be a world wide problem. even in countries that grow a lot of their own food, and local food quality and price is just as bad.