[Sub-Driver]

Is all Pelosi's fault!

[Flavius]

well what the heck

there is your obesity cure

not to mention

we should have gone for 20 year low

this odd numbers are just lame

however adjusted for inflation food is actually free

[goldstategop]

Its going to get worse before it gets better. Food prices haven't risen as much here as elsewhere or else we'd be seeing riots in the streets and shaken governments trying to keep a lid on food related unrest.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[1rudeboy]

How can this be? I thought the government doesn’t keep track of food price inflation.

[Lazamataz]

Ramen noodles are up from 13 cents to 15 cents a package.

I guess I'll simply go without.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This is the result of new federal programs desighned to optimize your life. The feds want to reduce your likelihood of obesity by quadrupling food prices, reduce your chances of being in a car accident by quadrupling gas prices, etc.

[blam]

My favorite tortilla corn chips went up by 17% last week.

Eat now while you still can.

[TomGuy]

U.S. food prices rose 4% in 2007

That percentage will be much higher for 2008, and significant higher if gasoline gets near the predicted $4.00 per gallon.

Transportation costs will be added on to raw materials and to processed goods.

Many common food items have already increased double-digit percentages over what they were a year ago.

For example locally, the price of a box of crackers has jumped from $0.69 last fall to $0.99 this spring to $1.25 last week. The price of a jar of peanuts went from $1.99 to $2.15 to $2.49.

Those kinds of increases are actual and are substantially more than the 4% or so being reported.

[EBH]

WASHINGTON -- The president of the World Bank has called for immediate action to deal with mounting food prices that have caused deadly violence in several countries. Robert Zoellick says the international community has to put its money where its mouth is and act now to help hungry people. He is urging governments to rapidly carry out commitments to provide the U.N. World Food Program with $500 million in emergency aid it needs by May 1. Zoellick said Sunday after a meeting of the bank's policy-setting committee that the fall of the government in Haiti over the weekend after a wave of deadly rioting and looting over food prices underscores the importance of quick international action.

It is not just the US Food Prices. This is the direct result of cyclical fluctuations of the standard food supply and increased population demands. Mother Nature will take care of the population problem through natural means. /sarc.

[Bean Counter]

So plant a garden this Summer...that is once all of that “Global Warming” melts off...

Just sayin’...

[Will88]

There is a government measure of food costs that I used to hear all the time, but never hear about now. Not sure when I stopped hearing about it, but the Average Market Basket, or some such, was once reported frequently. It was the cost of the same grocery items and some other household items purchased at certain intervals and reported as a measure of food.

Anyone ever about the Average Market Basket these days?

[JSDude1]

No, it’s all the FED’s fault, as much as I’d like to blame Yappy Dog Chiwawa, she is partly (out of controll spending) but then so are 533-535 other Congresscritters! PRIMARILY the FED though...

[TexasRepublic]

It’s time some folks learned gardening. And I don’t mean flowers.

[mom-7]

I don’t know why people are complaining about the price of food now, because under slick willies administration, bread went from 99 cents a loaf to 1.79 cents a loaf, milk, meat, chicken, fish, everything went up and nobody complained. How come they are complaining now?????

[Thudd]

Time to get out the old WIN button.... I think I left it in the pocket of my brown polyester leisure suit.

[aruanan]

U.S. Food Inflation Worst in 17 Years

Hey, let's divert land and capital and farming operations away from producing food into producing biofuels. That won't have any real effect. More farmers who will want to produce food will just spring up to take the others' place.

[puppypusher]

Gee!was’nt it just a month ago that I read that the commerce department was reporting that inflation was low.Even at that time a drunk would have noticed the price of everything was going through the roof.

The only question I have is when will this low inflation rate retun?

[count-your-change]

Here’s the ingedients for a key lime pie that serves eight: 16 graham crackers 3 tablespoons sugar 1/4 lb. butter 4 large egg yolks 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk 12 key limes.
What’s that $6 wholesale? No pie’s worth $25 to me or $20 for that matter.

[meyer]

Well, let's see - first, we refuse to allow drilling for oil off shore near Florida, and in ANWR. Then, we refuse to build new refining capacity, thus limiting our ability to produce the energy necessary for basic transportation. These acts alone work to drastically increase the price of petrolium-based products in this country by reducing supply and increasing foreign control.

Then, in it's increased wisdom, the government diverts taxpayers' money towards subsidizing the diversion of vital agricultural resources from food production to expensive ethanol production. So as if it weren't bad enough that transportation costs were rising, the reduction of potential food supply is also having the predictable effect.

Grow your own, people, grow your own. It's not going to get any better until about 90% of the democRATS and 50% of the Republicans are run out of office.

[Tench_Coxe]

Some Revelations fun:

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."

[mc5cents]

Gee, I wonder why? Hmmmmm......