$200 Steaks, $30 Coffee? Here's Why Some Foods Could Get Vastly More Expensive

BI ^ | 7-28-2014 | Leslie Baehr and Skye Gould

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Leslie Baehr and Skye Gould
July 28, 2014

Many factors could drive certain food costs up radically in the future. It could be as simple as soaring demand from new markets. It could be as complex as the effects of climate change rendering farm fields too hot or try or spreading plant-destroying pests to new areas.

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[Smokin' Joe]

big worry in Iowa is getting the railroad cars to carry their corn/wheat because apparently the natural gas industry is grabbing up a lot of the rail cars....

I know it gets cold out this way, but we haven't resorted to carrying natural gas in grain cars yet.

[PA Engineer]

I know it gets cold out this way, but we haven't resorted to carrying natural gas in grain cars yet.

Probably sand.

[mylife]

I grew up on Isalys,I did not know you could get it here!

Seriously its just one of them bugaboos from my childhood that makes me feel good

Where did you get it?

[miss marmelstein]

A submarine chef can always come up with good grub!

Seriously, the price of beef, even hamburger, is craaaazy. Thank God I don’t care for chocolate, honey or cereal all that much. But take away my beef and coffee and I’m a dead man!

[PA Engineer]

Giant Eagle carries it in the Pittsburgh Area. Sam’s has it but it is not the same. My cat told me that.

[mylife]

I’m just happy the trains are running again and the steel mills are making the pipe to ship, the machinist and smart guys are building equipment to do the fracking.

Beats the hell out of tearing out RR tracks to make bicycle paths.

[miss marmelstein]

Cats are weirdly fond of ham, I don’t know why.

My vet recommended canned white fish for my elderly cat to control her vomiting and general malaise. The vet had no idea what it was about white fish but she was correct. It’s a damned cat cure-all!

[mylife]

Yes they do.
One of the few places I find it is Giant Eagle.

[mylife]

Yer in a dilly of a pickle of a problem because those commoditys have skyrocketed.

And for the record yes we bubbleheads know how to cook.
We even grow radishes in the bilge tank LOL

[miss marmelstein]

What, no mushrooms?

[mylife]

Nothin special mid you, just a childhood memory.

Damn I could murder a Klondike bar!

[mylife]

Sure, thats a fast growing beasty too.

[NonValueAdded]

Take a look at post 4 and tell me if it rings any bells.

[PA Engineer]

My vet recommended canned white fish for my elderly cat to control her vomiting and general malaise. The vet had no idea what it was about white fish but she was correct. It’s a damned cat cure-all!

Thanks. I will give it a try. You would not imagine everything we have thrown away to get him to eat.

He still has a thing for beds when we are making them.



He is very fragile now. He was the one that survived feline ARDS when he was 10. We didn't know what it was when we took him to the hospital. I don't even want to think of the bill, but they assured us it was a treatment learning experience for the hospital (and our bank account). Just couldn't say no to that face.

Last year I woke up and realized we had a house full of elderly and geriatric cats.

[mylife]

my dog craves fish (and just about anything)
It is hard not to look at that face.

The Shamblin Galoot.

[PA Engineer]

I’m just happy the trains are running again and the steel mills are making the pipe to ship, the machinist and smart guys are building equipment to do the fracking.

So am I. My Daughter is doing her Junior year (PGE) paid internship with a Flowback company. The only thing that is holding back Western Pa from going full energy development is the government. They are being successful this summer in finding the Utica liquids.

[mylife]

Love the song of that train.... Wooo hooo..... Ooooh.

[mylife]

We were neighbors.
NE Ohio.

Best wishes to you and yours.

Brothers says the tracks are rolling again.
Makes me sleep well at night, sings me to sleep.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Corn and wheat don’t travel in the same kind of car as natural gas.

Solids versus a high pressure gas!

[mylife]

True but the hubub is about what cars get carried and why.