Just as a side note, I went to the local WalMart tonight and noticed the cheapest canned veggies (store brand) has gone from 67 cents two days ago to 94 cents.
Of course their isn’t any food inflation under the messiah’s regime...
Food prices and availability would be the least of my worries.
I live in the vegetable capital of Cebu.
I go to the market each day where I see mountains of veggies from many vendors. Rice is everywhere for less then $1 per kilo.
I buy bananas, mangos, and oranges for five cents. There is abundant fresh fish, pork, and chicken.
In the US, you are dependent on a very long supply chain from farm or sea to your house. I have only one intermediary from source to my tummy.... the cute girls that weigh my selections and tell me what I owe.
Ethanol and bio-fuel mandates tie the world price of oil to the price of the grain crops involved. To a lesser extent this tie-in projects into the entire food chain that involves anywhere those crops are used and where those crops can be substituted such as in animal feed.
There is no better example than US corn production where over 40% goes to making ethanol for motor fuel use.
This is motivated by both the farm lobby in the direct benefits from higher crop prices and in leftist (er, now “progressive”) eco-dynamics because of “sustainability”.
Well in my opinion converting something that we cannot eat into fuel while using edible grain crops for food is far wiser. When we use up the ocean of coal the US is sitting on, if we don’t have yet some other high-tech energy source like LENR, then we can fall back on burning corn. But that is over 100 years in the future.
Meanwhile bone-headed policies that tie the price of food to their value as a source of motor fuels is certainly not “sustainable” given that it already was a key reason for the revolution in Egypt. And we will rue the day when the Muslim Brotherhood took over power there.
We could fix this in moments by ending the ethanol mandate, which consumes at least a third of our corn and a lot of our farmland. World grain prices would drop. (Beef and ham, too.)
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