Price of Food

[randyandy]

Yes and there was a story about it and the reason on the news a few days ago.

Crop failures 2 years ago in Australia or somewhere started it.

[Deuce Bigolo]

His good fortune is partly a consequence of others' misfortune: drought in Australia has resulted in several years of poor harvests there.

Add on the impact of farmers planting crops for bio-fuels and not food
and its not suprising that prices are set to sky rocket

Full story here


Let us not forget how Big Business is slowly killing its competitors
in the small business sector

[andy at handiwork]

Add to that the spectacular economic rise of China over the past few years. On a non food front they are presently buying large proportions of the world's steel and cement output, thus forcing up prices. I presume they are also acquiring a large share of the world's food production as well. Time to weed the allotment and start growing our own.

[wustenfuchs666]

The farmers and supermarkets are profiteering on the back of the bad summer. The average amount of wheat in a loaf of bread costs about TWO PENCE, so even if wheat prices doubled it could only add 2p to a loaf. They're shoving it up by 10p because they can, and they're greedy fookers. It's called jumping on any old bandwagon to charge more - too wet, too dry, too warm, too cold - makes no difference, any old excuse will do.

[andy at handiwork]

I'm not usually a fan of 'Get off my land!' farmers but to accuse your average farmer of band wagon-jumping profiteering these days is a bit rich. They are increasingly beholden to the supermarkets. Thats where one's ire should be directed.

[planeterotica]

Farmer are recieving less for their produce than they were a couple of years ago, transport cost have gone up because of the rise in fuel prices but most of the price rises are down to profiteering !cool!

[kinetic]

i noticed this in sainsburys. i normally get a level 5 cheese because i like the stronger taste. used to pick up a smaller block for about ?1.70ish - now its fixed price and size for ?2.19 (or 2.29 - can't remember)

Now that's a pretty sharp increase in price and more importantly - its a bigger size and more than i need so there's waste.

(try as i might I couldn't fit in a squeeze the cheese gag)

[Nob3y]

what you mean every little doesnt help ??

lying fuckers !!!