Obama can’t take all the blame for that, he isn’t God. This is a case where supply and demand is working.
Although excessive regulation has raised the price of food, the drought in the West has overshadowed those costs.
The Western US backgrounds so many calves until they go to the feedlot and they’ve had to reduce their numbers significantly. Even if we have rain it will take years to build herds again.
The Western rivers are so depleted that farmers aren’t getting their full allotment of water and are growing fewer water, labor and input intensive vegetables and in a lot of places are making more selling their water to other farmers who are desperate to keep fruit and nut trees alive.
We have a swine disease that is killing piglets and there is some kind of problem with shrimp. The price of chicken will come up because of the high cost of other meats.
And now with the forced alternative energy legislation in some states and the EPAs war on coal, pumping water is getting ever more expensive. We need the rivers running so at least the hydroelectric plants in the West can still run.
Just in our county, one of the largest, most prolific farmers is starting their year out with a 30% loss. They had a hail storm and it was too late to replant.
We still have an abundance of food in this country. We have so much new technology but technology can’t control nature and we have to rely on God.
Okay so the Pharoah brought the curses and plagues against this country and the economic policies and the regulatory environment he created heavily contributed to inlation it but he had nothing to do with any if this. Sure. Okayyy....are you Jay Carney incognito?