#UpIsDown
#Orwellian
Posted on 03/01/2023 1:58:54 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Some vegetables are currently being “rationed” by major United Kingdom supermarkets. Aldi, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have all put limits on customer purchases of peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers.
So far, the mainstream media has blamed Brexit (which makes little sense considering the bulk of the UK’s vegetables come from Morocco) or the weather. Both of these are advantageous for the public to believe regarding the plans to install a “New World Order” totalitarian slave system using “climate change” as the scapegoat.
The cost of producing, harvesting, and transporting all crops has spiked because the cost of oil and gas was deliberately inflated. The cost of growing crops has increased because there is a “shortage” of fertilizer which was likewise purposefully created. Both of these “shortages” are being blamed by the ruling classes on the war in Ukraine. However, both the energy crisis and fertilizer crisis predates the war in Ukraine (see here and here).
Speaking of Ukraine, it’s currently easier to get tomatoes in war-torn Kherson than in London. That’s the reality we’re being presented with. The best news is that a whole lot of people are figuring this out and opening their eyes.
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#UpIsDown
#Orwellian
This is climate change at work. Shortages and outrageous prices everywhere.
The government pushed and pushed practically a vegan life style eat more fruit and veg 7 a day 9 a day but — they put crap trade policies in place to make it more expensive and unavailable.
They are from the government and they are here to help.
Just let the market work. Get out of the way.
Reports are floating around the gardening and frugal-living forums, of gardeners being offered £10 ($12) for a single frozen tomato, and stores charging £73/kilo ($41.36/pound) for fresh cherry tomatoes.
All I can say is I hope we see a lot more people gardening after this!
Today, on QVC, they were trying to sell “twelve four ounce waffles” for just over $56.00... :)
Allow me to elucidate.
You have a limited amount of something to sell. It is a common item with normal demand.
You have three options.
1.) You can jack up the price. This is a stupid option because it will annoy your customers. It will also bring the media and the government down on you. You will go out of business.
2.) Sell what you have at the normal price with no limits. This is also a stupid option. Because the first few minutes you are open you are going to have a few people come in an buy out your entire stock. They will then sell it at a higher price in some other location. You will have to tell your customers you do not have the product. They will shop elsewhere. For everything. You will be out of business.
3.) You can sell at the normal price but put a per customer limit. This is the least stupid option. Your customers will find this mildly annoying but not enough to change their buying habits. You stay in business.
Rationing is imposed by a government and means you are limited to a certain number of items no matter where you shop or how often you shop.
This is not the case here. You can buy your two tomatoes and your kids can buy two tomatoes or you can buy your two tomatoes hand them to your kid to hold and go back and buy two more tomatoes or a half dozen other ways to get around the limits. And some people will do this and they will not be arrested or anything.
The cost of producing, harvesting, and transporting all crops has spiked because the cost of oil and gas was deliberately inflated.
Thanks to Biden and the green cult dream of a utopia Biden has caused a world problem with his foolish no oil scream dream.
It’s going to get a lot worse until the 2024 election buckle up stock up stay armed and alert.
My main inputs are up an average of 70% - that’s including gas, fuel for tractors and greenhouse heat, soil, plastic mulch and labor...not sure what this year will look like and it also seems we won’t have a peach crop, so that’s more good news.
I changed my strategy on shopping. I buy only vegetables I can ferment in canning jars. Easier portion control. Zero waste. Buy what's on sale or plentiful in season. I even put my apple peels, potato peels, carrots peels, beet tops, etc...into a canning jar to ferment with garlic, hot pepper, and herbs. (American Kim-Chee)
Worldwide cutting food supplies,
nothing to see here.
-fJRoberts-
So you only eat fermented vegetables? At home at least/
Boomers remember pictures of the Soviet people waiting all day standing in long lines to be allowed their family’s rations of food including rutabaga and other staples.
As kids and adolescents we were thankful to live in America.
It's really the best way to complete meals, store vegetables, and have zero waste.
The lactobacillus naturally present on plants produces lactic acid which preserves the food and is very good for you. Lactobacillus can thrive in 2% NaCl. Bad bacteria can not. I save the brine to make new batches kinda like making yogurt or sourdough bread / starter.
Rutabaga......yuck. The one root crop I never could enjoy. Sure are big though. Nasty smell. Weird flavor. I much prefer turnips and Kohlrabi over rutabaga.
If the next election results in the Dem fundamental transformation your gray uniformed government agents will offer you the insect rations or the rutabaga and parsnips ones. Your choice. And cameras will record your facial reactions to have computers analyze them.
From Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen (1988—Covid hadn’t happened yet)
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
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