Posted on 06/27/2021 5:28:27 AM PDT by blam
Soaring food prices aren’t just impacting financially strapped families and the working poor. They’re also affecting the mission of US food banks who are spending a lot more on food than ever before.
“We’re already spending a lot more on food than we have in years past,” said Greg Trotter, a spokesman for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a large food bank, who spoke with VOA News. “Our food purchasing budget has doubled this year.”
In the coming weeks and or months, food banks across the country may experience a surge in food demand from millions of folks who are set to have their stimmy checks expire. At least 25 states are ending federal unemployment benefits.
The perfect storm of factors (soaring food costs and unemployment benefits expiring) may stress food banks even further.
“The high prices are costing us more to feed a family in need,” said Alison Padget, development and outreach director at Food for Others. “We’ll have to rethink our purchasing decisions because economists say the prices are going to be high for at least a year.”
In Phoenix, Arizona, Jerry Brown, director of public relations at St. Mary’s Food Bank, told VOA that food banks could face severe difficulty once federal money dries up.
It seems the problem has already begun at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey, which covers a large portion of the state. Impact leader Triada Stampas said the food bank serves more people than ever because of out-of-control prices at grocery stores.
According to Father English Food Pantry officials in Paterson, New Jersey, the food bank is already experiencing financial strain.
Kelly Mott, external affairs director at the Mississippi Food Network, said, “We already see the price changes will affect us soon, adding that “we are in the process of buying turkeys for the Thanksgiving holiday in November. And since they are so expensive, we won’t be able to purchase as many as we usually do, especially for the families with children who rely on us.”
And by the way, there are still 15 million Americans on some form of government dole…
The crisis is far from over as food bank stress begins to materialize, and not everyone might be fed this year.
Soaring inflation all brought to you by the current Dimocrat administration in office today starting with Handsy ‘Pedo’ Joe.
Long past time for food banks to require folks to actually be needy. We drive an older vehicle, live in modest means and pay for our own food. Ever look at what’s in those food lines? Unfortunately we can’t trust people when it comes to free giveaways anymore.
I’d like to see a breakdown of who food banks are feeding. I suspect that there are the actual, American needy, a small percentage, and the ‘if you build it they will come’ needy.
The Federal Reserve assures us that inflation is “transitory”. So if poor and working people can just stop eating for two years, they will find that food prices have stabilized.
Beef is up $2 lb and more here in Upstate NY. I’m buying anything on sale and freezing it. I like stews, meatloaf etc etc
I read an article by an intelligence analyst that posited the Arab Spring was brought on, not by a wave of political liberalization, but by a sudden ten percent spike in the food prices paid by Muslim citizens. The bulk of these countries are sitting on the edge of starvation. A sudden change in food or energy prices causes starvation. Starvation causes riots and governments fall. His argument, filled with facts and charts, was persuasive.
To this day the media, either from ignorance or narrative control, maintains that the Arab Spring was a political awakening. What they probably fail to realize is that politics and ideology is not on the minds of the average citizen. Average citizens couldn’t care less what’s trending in the artificial virtual worlds the media inhabits. They live in the real world with real needs and real hunger.
As food prices soar, look for, as an example, Iran to either scale back its regional ambitions to subsidize food, or to collapse. The entire Middle East will either scale back their aggression, or destabilize.
folks,
we live(d) in a nice world during our lifetime, but once the food-distribution chain gets cut, then all hell will break loose faster then a hillary email scrub.
All bets are off at that point.
If the Chinks can screw with our supply chain just enough, they can bring our entire country down within a month and they wont have to fire a single shot.
remember the Rugby team plane crash in the Andes back in the 70’s? normal, civilized people who were eating human flesh within a week of the crash.......
No wonder liberals hate God.
Ive seen the same thing. But sometimes someone gets the car before they lose thier job.
I had a good job for 14years, , bought a nice truck and was let go 3 months later. Upside down on the truck. What was I to do? I learned to only borrow money on anything when you have the cash on hand to pay it off or at least make a down payment enough to put you into the black on a loan.
Chicago - The Greater Chicago Food Depository paid their five highest earners: CEO Katherine Maehr ($355,615), VP of Development Jill Zimmerman ($265,483), CFO Dennis James ($263,663), CMO Joan Chow ($242,817), and VP of Community Impact Nicole Robinson ($241,520), The organization had revenues of $122.6 million last year and 75.1% of revenues went to relief programs.
And that is just the 5 highest earners. Poverty and Charity seem like very lucrative businesses to be in.
Notice that even the grocery meat specials are featuring the 80/20 % meats.
No meat is cheap or reasonable unless you are willing to pay a premium price.
They must think that all of us are grilling outdoors.
Rickards says no.
Rickards: They’re Wrong About Inflation
"The signals are clear. The economy is slowing, labor markets are weak, disinflation and even deflation are on the horizon, rates are going down, and gold prices are at a great entry price."
Wealthy areas in NJ have food banks; who can’t buy groceries but pays $17,000 in property taxes on a home?
While they serve a noble purpose, genuinely-needed food banks obscure the fact that something is very wrong. The French and Russian revolutions were powered by starving people, and while the change brought by them was horrific the status quo wouldn’t remain.
“They must think that all of us are grilling outdoors.”
No, they know we WILL BE grilling outdoors (/s)
Have no clue who that is and don’t really care to know. These days everyone and their dog and cat has an opinion about everything.
My feminazi sis-in-law hits the foodbank regularly. She’s poor, can’t seem to work well with others, a lifetime of stupid decisions, a bitch, super-stupid lib, lived in Austrailia for 25 years, loves socialism. A Strident virago. Is 72 and is preoccupied with getting laid...
Maybe she’ll starve and die. One can only hope.
Aldi has 73/27 ground beef for $1.79 lb this week. I usually buy 80/20. I suppose for meatloaf, chili, goulash it’ll be okay.
Guess she’s not your BFF. LOL
Church down the road from me has a “food bank” every Thursday.
Those late model Lexus’s, Expeditions, and Highlanders make me wonder what the heck these people are doing with their money.
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