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Ready For The Price Of Food To More Than Double By The End Of This Decade?
zero hedge ^ | 4/20/14 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/20/2014 12:17:03 PM PDT by Nachum

It's not just beef, pork, shrimp, eggs, and orange juice...

Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,

Do you think that the price of food is high now? Just wait. If current trends continue, many of the most common food items that Americans buy will cost more than twice as much by the end of this decade. Global demand for food continues to rise steadily as crippling droughts ravage key agricultural regions all over the planet. You see, it isn't just the multi-year California drought that is affecting food prices. Down in Brazil (one of the leading exporters of food in the world), the drought has gotten so bad that 142 cities were rationing water at one point earlier this year. And outbreaks of disease are also having a significant impact on our food supply. A devastating pig virus that has never been seen in the U.S. before has already killed up to 6 million pigs. Even if nothing else bad happens (and that is a very questionable assumption to make), our food prices are going to be moving aggressively upward for the foreseeable future. But what if something does happen? In recent years, global food reserves have dipped to extremely low levels, and a single major global event (war, pandemic, terror attack, planetary natural disaster, etc.) could create an unprecedented global food crisis very rapidly.

A professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University named Timothy Richards has calculated what the drought in California is going to do to produce prices at our supermarkets in the near future. His projections are quite sobering...

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


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To: Nachum

Thankfully this doesn’t affect me, since food is no longer included in the CPI.


21 posted on 04/20/2014 12:42:20 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Nachum

No Problemo! I will live off the interest on my savings. Oh! Wait - there is zero % interest. No problemo the rate will double as well. Zero times two equals “No it won’t”.


22 posted on 04/20/2014 12:48:37 PM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Nachum
I remember when a loaf of name-brand bread was $0.25 -- I believe however that the average salary was less than $3,000/year.

So in another few years bread will be $30 / $40 a loaf and the average salary will be.. still what it is today! If the people who like that open-border, taxpayer-subsidized, cheap labor have their way.

23 posted on 04/20/2014 12:51:43 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Nachum
Well, the feds are on it. First, we'll use a large percentage of the corn crop as a lousy substitute for gasoline. Then we'll put ranchers out of business since solar panels generate so much more in profits for the DC crowd than beef ever could. And gee-gosh, how about taking that raised in the USA chicken and send it to China so it can be properly poisoned while being processed? And how about having invaders at slave wages pollute the very crops they're underpaid to grow? And just in case there's still enough food to feed everyone, destabilizing the whole world so people who used to mostly feed themselves now need handouts should put a real dent in the bottom 99% of the world's population.

Double food prices? We'll, let 'em eat half as much! We peons just don't understand, do we?

24 posted on 04/20/2014 12:54:56 PM PDT by grania
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To: scottteng

They have’t forgotten the garden. They have the laws in place to regulate the seeds you buy and the garden you grow.

How about a $500 permit for that garden?


25 posted on 04/20/2014 12:56:14 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver
How about I compost government functionaries that want me to pay a permit for the garden?

I may not win, I may be killed, but I will NOT kneel. They can only kill me once.

/johnny

26 posted on 04/20/2014 1:01:41 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
So in another few years bread will be $30 / $40 a loaf and the average salary will be

The latest government to fall over bread prices was in Egypt.

History is pretty clear what happens when governments drive up food prices.

It's never pretty for the government.

/johnny

27 posted on 04/20/2014 1:03:53 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Nah, they make lousy compost. Too much bitter dependency.

I’d recommend wild hogs or maybe alligators for those of us in Florida. Heck there’s always crabs and sharks too.


28 posted on 04/20/2014 1:06:10 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Depends on the technique. ;)

/johnny

29 posted on 04/20/2014 1:10:10 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Nachum

Grandpa sez:

I used to take two dollars to the store and come back with a loaf of bread, baking potatoes, salad makings, and steaks for dinner.

But now they got all those darned cameras in the store.


30 posted on 04/20/2014 1:13:33 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: jonrick46
"Time to stock up on those price inflated freeze dried meals."

I know they are much more expensive than what you're actually getting, BUT,
if they can be stored for ten years then the price is actually reasonable, (too expensive now, bargain in 2020).
Thoughts on this?

31 posted on 04/20/2014 1:14:21 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Nachum
There's plenty of food out there and it's been underpriced for quite a while now. As a result, we are now the most obese civilization that ever walked the Earth.

Think of this as not spending twice as much for your food so much as only eating half of what you have become used to eating. In that case, you will spend the same amount for your food and you will be able to climb a flight of stairs without huffing and puffing.

32 posted on 04/20/2014 1:16:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Nachum

We need a hydroponics revolution, but the masters of our world will never tolerate losing control of the food supply to the starving masses. All of my kids have been taught to grow their own; hunt their own; raise there own, and store their own, and it probably won’t make any difference when the SWAT teams raid and destroy food hoards and gardens.


33 posted on 04/20/2014 1:19:11 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Nachum
I'm sure this has been posted before but here is a refresher

Anyone out there think that this 
stuff isn't happening today in the U.S. ? All eight rules are
currently in play

How to create a social state by
Saul Alinsky:

There are eight levels of 
control that must be obtained before you are 
able to create a social state. The first is the 
most important.

1) Healthcare– Control healthcare and 
you control the people

2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty 
level as high as possible, poor people are 
easier to control and will not fight back if you 
are providing everything for them to live.

3) Debt – Increase the debt to an 
unsustainable level. That way you are able to 
increase taxes, and this will produce more 
poverty.

4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to 
defend themselves from the Government. That way 
you are able to create a police state.

5) Welfare – Take control of every 
aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and 
Income)

6) Education – Take control of what 
people read and listen to – take control of what 
children learn in school.

7) Religion – Remove the belief in 
the God from the Government and schools

8) Class Warfare – Divide the people 
into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause 
more discontent and it will be easier to take 
(Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.

Does any of this sound like what is 
happening to the United States ?

34 posted on 04/20/2014 1:21:50 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: SamAdams76

Well for the elderly and the poor, who don’t take food stamps, I object. I don’t think the price of food is low, in fact, I have seen it rise dramatically in the last year. Meats, fruits and some veggies as much as 30%...well no one has got a 30% raise, and you can only cut the pie so many ways.

All of us are not your vision of America. We eat right, exercise and take care of our bodies....get real.

Those on Medicare and Insurance drug plans are now paying for the insurance to meet government requirements, and now having to pay for the prescriptions as well, since like Obamacare they charge more but don’t pay as agreed!

I picked up a prescription for someone bedridden this week and it was twice what it was last time...so why don’t you help some of those elderly people, then come back and tell me that you think people are overeating and getting fat because food is so inexpensive.

The amount of food is not always the problem, it’s that what they can afford that puts on weight. For many on food stamps it’s still buying the wrong foods, however a proper diet is very expensive now.

So for people like you who have all this money to throw around...well that isn’t how it is for those over 65, or disabled....and including those with part time jobs. I have been cooking some meals for my grand children’s friends, whose familes can’t afford to eat much and they work...so I know how it is out there.

Time to volunteer and find out how the rest of America lives and not just those on welfare and food stamps.


35 posted on 04/20/2014 1:31:22 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: SamAdams76
Hunger in America: 2013 United States Hunger and Poverty Facts

Hunger Facts

Food pantries see more need as benefits drop

Food Banks Are Running Out of Food

Appalachian food bank highlights needs of hunger

Food Pantries On The Rise At College Campuses As Tuitions Increase

2014 Souper Bowl

 

36 posted on 04/20/2014 1:37:34 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Black Agnes

Gardening indeed.

And after Church today we got a very nice rain. My plants are joining me in thanking God for his blessings.

The Global Fascists would love to be able to use the food supply to subject the world.

I am doing my part to see that may family does not suffer from a shortage. My great grandfather came from Alabama with his mother during Reconstruction. They saw times that they were hungry. After that he always had a huge garden, orchard and livestock. None of his family was ever hungry as long as he drew breath. (his father-in-law was born in the Republic of TX in 1843)

You never recover from those things, especially if they are politically driven.


37 posted on 04/20/2014 1:38:47 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Kackikat
Still, the price of food is extremely low historically speaking. I'm not saying everybody is living in the lap of luxury and I'm certainly not rooting for the food prices to go up more but just putting everything in perspective. Everybody's got the big-screen TVs, the video games, the fancy cars and all those tablets, iPods and cell phones and whatnot.

People who muss and fuss about "hard times" really have no idea what they are talking about - historically speaking.

38 posted on 04/20/2014 1:39:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yep. Understand. And I can reload rifle cartridges for $.12-.15 per round using cast bullets. Have lots of lead to cast. With gas checks they work quite nicely.


39 posted on 04/20/2014 1:42:09 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Nachum
You are talking about "first world problems" here. Our welfare recipients here in the U.S. live better than 90% of the rest of the world today and 99.99% better than all humans who have ever lived.


40 posted on 04/20/2014 1:43:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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