It really is amazing that we have a White House pushing obesity and food desert ideology, but no one can afford to eat decent food. As long as a person can eat off the McDonald’s menu for under $5 per day, why pay huge prices for the government’s centrally controlled, subsidized beef, pork, or chicken?
Seriously though, prices are through the roof for groceries. I recently started “juicing” as a way to improve my consumption of more vegetables and fruits. Juicing just the daily normal allotment of “fresh” fruits and veggies runs over $60 in my grocery cart per week. And that’s just for me, not a family of 4 or 5.
The liberals famous “food desert” is happening in middle America too as no one can afford real food. Beef shortage and pork shortage is going to be a famine for many who can’t afford to pay for their meat. The only one’s who will be buying it are the folks with EBT cards.
We see it now as we stand in line to check-out. The full grocery cart with steaks, lobster, and junk food all paid for with our tax dollars...while we buy low-end quality products. We are already seeing ‘welfare queens’ being taken better care of than those who are forced to donate to the government charity system and centralized subsidized farmers.
Fresh fruits and veggies can generally be had for about $1 a pound, maybe $3 a pound for organic.
For people eating a pound a day—not juicing through them like crazy!—that’s $7 to $21 a week.
The food stamp population has grown so much (and so quickly) that many supermarkets are completely dependent on the business; any policy changes regarding food stamps will be done with an eye towards that.
I try to up my veggies with V-8; it tastes horrible but I need them.