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Posted on 07/28/2014 9:06:55 PM PDT by blam
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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Good thing I heard on the news there is no inflation thanks to Obama’s rip roaring economy.
herds are at a 60 year low, and yet New Mexico enviroweenies want to set aside a million acres of “habitat” for critters that don’t even live in the state, but maybe, just maybe one day a Canadian linx might wander in so the enviros want to be ready.
Going rate on fully dressed/packed harvested deer is around $55 per deer (dressed weight varies of course). A 180 lb (carcass weight- head, hide, intestines removed) buck should yield around 72 lbs of meat— about 40% meat.
Whereas a 600 lb Angus should yield around 430 lbs of meat— 73% meat.
Pork prices are coming up as well— it is interesting that a whole hog yields 79% meat (more of the animal is used) whereas Lamb will yield 80%. The age old “pork eaters” vs. all others, religious reasons or otherwise.
How is fish doing? We catch our own so don’t know.
Saw at save-a-lot other day— chef boyardee ravioli and beefaroni a buck a can. On sale. That is pretty awful pasta really— but childhood comfort food.
So does actually growing your own veggies— what it takes to subsist farm is very educational, and it will save money if one has the time and the ability.
The dirty bastards of “globull warming” are still pushing their crap because they are positioning to make a killing on energy as well as the monopoly already possessed. Getting off the grid increasingly becoming the only way to go.
And in recent news, Gen Mills is going to further increase cereal costs by "going green with emissions from growing crops"....
As far as food becoming prices shooting through the roof, I’m a LOT MORE worried about the dollar crashing or Russia/China sinking one of our carriers and thereby losing control of trading routes than I am about Global Warming.
Sweet, sweet little cat. I wish you the best. Fancy Feast has white fish in a blue can - it’s about 77 cents. 9 Lives also has cans of white fish.
We fortunately have a 1 year supply of K cups stockpiled!
Global warming, climate change, blah blah blah
$200 steaks? Just ask the Obamas and they’ll reply “is there any other kind?”
There are quite a few solutions to this.
Stop burning grain as fuel (ethanol), and both grain and meat prices will fall immediately.
If we do have gradual global warming, the grain belt can shift north in Asia, Europe and North America without a major problem, since the long belt from China to Europe is the longest continuous climate zone in the world. Worst case scenario, Siberia and northern Canada are major grain producers.
Beef prices have a fair chance of coming down long term from cellular growth technologies where you’d grow the muscle and nothing else of the cow. Or engineering cattle to be more efficient, if not more efficient digestive bacteria.
Bees are in decline, though whether due to disease or pesticides I don’t know. But there is research to solve it an enormous impetus to fix it, so they won’t be allowed to go extinct. In the interim, a lot of “honey” for sale today is dyed corn syrup anyway.
Avocado production is under greater threat from radical environmentalists turning off water to save salmon and smelt (and drying out California’s agricultural valleys) than they are from global warming. Worst case scenario, commercials for California avocados evolve Washington and Oregon avocados.
Most chocolate is artificial flavoring, and if there is a demand for the real thing, we’ll see it in greenhouses the way orchids and other high value crops are raised.
Yet our overlords tell us there’s no inflation.
I wonder if you could have grown some on this one.(I couldn't)
They changed the way it's calculated so that in-effect Social Security is being cut without a political cost.
Without food and energy included in the calculation 'seniors' do not qualify for a COLA. (Cost of living allowance)
(Ahem) Some say that global warming will keep it from being as severe as the last one.
You think you'll escape global warming taxes just because we go into an Ice Age, eh?
I don't think the world is going to stop if the avocado crop fails.
However, chocolate and coffee are another thing.
Forget investing in gold and silver. Put a bee hive in your back yard and stockpile coffee, chocolate and Captain Crunch!
You “escape” them by not paying them— the point of several posts. The whole notion of the cooked up global warming “taxes” and everything else is an investment scheme of Goldman Sachs, structured to make them trillions in the face of not warming, but serious cooling. Hence the trumped up “science” and all else.
Pay to play is required for staying in any sort of regular business. The SHTF crowd is forting up and simplifying as best one can and still live in the real world. And there is a lot of them.
The problem with catastrophic threat is that one does not know where it will come from. And that’s no way to live.
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