It’s getting real bad.
I reported on my Chef Boyaree index years ago but it is getting out of control now.
Ground beef is like $5 to$6 dollars an Lb here in Dallas.
Thems the danged scraps!
Lost me.
I could live without steak, but coffee... Fortunately this article blames future global warming for prospective increases in the price of coffee, so I’m not too worried.
BTW I went to the store the other day and saw some chip chop ham for $1.99
I ordered a Lb
Doofus Hispanic woman is like What?
I said I want an LB of this stuff you have the red sign up saying it is on sale.
She says what?
I say this stuff that is on sale for $1.99 and call it by brand name.
She says what?
I ask again in detail.
Even made her come around the case to look at the sign.
She says point to it.
I do.
She slices up an LB and says
Oh this one is $3.68 and Lb
Damn I was livid.
Then she insults me and says its only $3.68
Hey ahole that almost double the cost of what I farking ordered!
How test-tube meat could be the future of food
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3150741/posts
Stop Eating Meat and Cheese
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3140160/posts
NASA to build ‘universal food synthesizer’ 3D printer to boldly make pizza from insects and algae!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022839/posts
Fruit Printed, not Picked, by Scientists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3160121/posts
I planted 2 avocado trees so got that covered. Really need to figure out what to do about coffee and beef though. The rest I can live without.
Trying to pin the inflation consequences of QE on globull warming.
>> “It could be as complex as the effects of climate change rendering farm fields too hot...” <<
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This is one thing we know for sure that it will not be!
Cooling has become the problem for agriculture, bringing drought and failed crops.
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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.
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.
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.
Yes it’s climate change - not the infusion of trillions of dollars not supported by economic output.
If climate change is supposedly driven by increased CO2, a natural plant food, wouldn’t plants grow better? A warmer climate would also push the breadbasket of the US further north. Heck according to Al Gore oranges should be growing in northern Minnesota by now. Could higher food prices also be caused by turning 40% of our corn crop wastefully into worthless biofuels?
LOL. High prices cure themselves. Why are you posting BI click bait?