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The Real Inflation Fear - US Food Prices Are Up 19% In 2014
We are sure the weather is to blame but what happens when pent-up demand (from a frosty east coast emerging from its hibernation) bumps up against a drought-stricken west coast unable to plant to meet that demand? The spot price (not futures speculation-driven) of US Foodstuffs is the best performing asset in 2014 - up a staggering 19%...
h/t Bloomberg's Chase van der Rhoer
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Because Obama!
And Pelosi cause she's from California!
Could leed to a much needed, yet involentary diet for obese Americans?
No, they will just switch to cheaper and cheaper filler crap in ever increasing quantities.
Like North Korea.
Sawdust, dirt, tree bark. Grass if you are lucky.
Can we get some Haitian mud cookies for dessert?
pods
Fair share motherfuckers.
I thought my local Aldi was just starting to get greedy by raising a gallon of milk to 3.09 until I see 4.50 for a gallon at Winn-Dixie.
food has the financial drawback that when you buy and hold, the later re-sale value is generally lower
sometimes even zero
long compost
With milk and the like, not so with rice, beans, wheat, etc. The foodstuffs I have may be worth more than my PM's if things go badly.
With food, you have to look for a reduction in either: Product size or product quality (almost impossible to know before buying, but one example, sausage when reduced in quality is inedible as far as I am concerned)
Only after the obvious steps of reducing product size (but not PACKAGING size) and quality does price get affected.
So... When the price goes up on top of these other two factors, you know its getting serious.
Amen.
I've really noticed this in Breyer's ice cream over the past few decades.
First their quality has steadily deteriorated.
They then reduced their packaging to 1.75 quarts from a half gallon.
Now they have reduced their packaging again to 1.5 quarts.
In used to like baskin and robbins peanut butter and chocolate untill a year or so a go, they changed their recipe. They fluffed it up with some crap to make it lighter. It became marshmallow cream like. Bottom line is that it weighed less and the new ingredient was probably much cheaper than whatever was in the original. I called bullshit and have not dropped a fiver since. I now make my own with hagen daaz and skutters crunchy PB. Turns out it is better than the original!
To back up the story, its expensive.
Should say 'drought-stricken world.'
Impacts of agw are a bitch.
Check this out
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=...
Hope you ain;t in the way of this Nor'easter...
Up to a 18" of snow and 80 knot winds...
Food Prices up 19%, that directly affects everyone... Doesn't matter income level.
The poor/ Middle class will again bear the brunt of pain.
Tough Economy - http://www.dailyjobcuts.com
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World ends. Poor, middle class, minorities and women hardest hit.
For ice cream, stick with Blue Bell. Still the same recipe, and the half-gallon is still a half-gallon.
Now then, what does this do to the 2% Inflation Big Lie?
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Gardens, Bitchez...
The best way to know the quality of the food you eat is to know who grew it.
DaddyO
If Obama gets hungry he can eat his dick
You can't fight, or be fed, by the Fed.
Fake money generating real food is a new attempted form of alchemy.
Food, the barbarous relic.
Eating food is merely a "tradition".
"Could leed to a much needed, yet involentary diet for obese Americans?"
I'm thinking more like a 20% EBT increase For....wait for it....For The Children.
"I thought my local Aldi was just starting to get greedy by raising a gallon of milk to 3.09 until I see 4.50 for a gallon at Winn-Dixie."
And yet people bitch about a gallon of gas at $4.00....sucked from several thousand feet below ground, cooked out of a larger volume of crude with considerable energy, and shipped half way around the world by boat, train, pipeline, and truck.
trans alaskan pipeline 10 miles east
refinery 12 miles west of here
close to the juice ..
Nor'easter caused by GW lols...
Who said that?
Is that Global Warming, or Bush ?
as long as it is not a cross wind we should be fine...
A Northeaster centered on the Canadian Maritime Provinces in March. Absolutely amazing; hasn't happend more than every other year for the last two hundred years. Obviously evidence of Global Warming; except, of course the actual global temperature remains unchanged. OH Well.
Hey ding-a-ling, nobody is claiming that this Nor'easter has anything to do with anything..
It was mainly a plug for some awesome graphics...
It would appear that you create strawmen in your sleep....
The impacts of heliogenic global warming are even more of a bitch.
The temperature on the surface of Mars has gone up the last few years.
One will have to strain mightily to create a theory of how shortsighted use of cars and industry on earth caused more carbon in the non-existent atmosphere of Mars and raised the temperature of the red planet.
One is left with only the sun to cite as a cause for the warming of Mars. And if the sun radiated more heat to Mars, one is left with an exceptionally difficult argument to make in trying to say that the sun has not, similarly, radiated more heat onto Earth. And then the whole AGW theory has a problem.
Quit making shit up...
Mars has not been warming because of the sun...
Changes in albedo from dust storms are responsible...
From: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-on-mars.htm
Oscar Meyer used to have a good beef hot dog - now my dog won't even eat them. Ball Park now the best.
Ok, whatever....
I all but gave up eating hotdogs years ago....
chicken is the new steak.
cat food is the new chicken
McNugget singularity.
eat more musk ox
Take hotdogs and toughen them in the sun so they'll stay on a hook. Soak them in sun rendered fish oil and use them to catch some catfish. Best use for hot dogs I know of. Bait.
Good for you; now if you'd just give up typing; there would be that much less propaganda to put up with around here.
KFC chicken here in TX is crap now. I swear they are slaughtering the birds as soon as they hatch. Lucky to get one good bite out of a drumstick. So, we quit buying from them. I'd love to raise my own but coyote packs arond here are problematic.
Dave Canterbury has a video on eating yotes. That's one animal I am hesitant to try; but in a pinch I'd do it in a heartbeat. There certainly is no shortage of them. Of course his was a prime northen speciman - not the mangy types we have down here.
Use electronet fencing. In the three years that I've had chickens and this fencing I have yet to lose a single bird (even had ducks behind it for quite a while) to coyotes even though I have plenty of coyotes around. And while no single domestic dog is a match for a pack of coyotes, they can be a deterent: my dog is a good 85 lbs and could readily deal with a single coyote; I just hope it never encounters a pack... My dog also runs off aerial predators. Not bad for a non-purebred rescue... (training, training, training...)
It's like the tip for when you go out hiking in bear country. You don't have to outrun the bear, just the person you are with. Always takes someone slower than yourself! As long as others around you have easier pickings for their chickens and whatnot then yours are likely going to be passed up.
contact your local zoo, the one that has BIG cats, and ask if they will give/sell you some of the waste. NOTHING will enter your property except birds. NOTHING.
Hey DGFI maybe your pooch got smarter as he got older? Something lots of people fail to do....
Flak:
So we are supposed to take the conclusion of another Global Warming Alarrmist as true?
Yeah, and the Little Ice Age is irrelevent in discussing the ups and downs of the Earth's temperature - another Alarmist position.
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Psst... your Little Ice Age is completely understood once you take into account the sun and C02 levels....
http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=40
Nothing mysterious about it...
Here is another take:
http://skepticalscience.com//pics/Ahmed_2013_paleo_fig4.jpg
https://www.skepticalscience.com/pages2k-confirms-hockey-stick.html
Read John D. Hammaker's Survival of Civilization. He does a great job in explaining how the glacial periods start (and why).
Jamescole
M'kay. Printing 90 billion a month of fake, dilutive currency has nothing to do with it, right? It's ... Global Warming!?
LOL
It would appear that you know even less about QE than you do about Climate Science...
those printing presses
must get prety hot..
I know what you are jiving about. I think the ingredient you are refering to is called AIR. It is much cheaper and lighter than both Peanut Butter or Milk. This ain't your Grandpa Ice Cream. Sucks
I had a fast food craving this weekend and stopped by a small, local family owned drive in. Ordered two corn dogs (large, kosher dogs & hand dipped) and a chocolate malt. Price was over $10. I did a double check to make sure the totals were right and they were. Often a milkshake alone is around $ 5 today.
Naw, there's no price inflation.
So send Breyers a message and ditch them for those that don't cut costs (and you pay more).
Cellulose fiber is the next big food item; invest in sawmills.
Talk to Taco Bell, they will be a big customer.
Hey buddy, could you spare a hundred dollar bill so a fella could buy a cuppa coffee and a handful of sawdust?
Chemical cellulose has been on the menu for decades....entire business have been built around it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcrystalline_cellulose
I thought I was getting stronger the other day when the bag of dog food seemed lighter. Turns out it has gone from 40 pounds to 37.5. The price stayed the same so that's not inflation.
That's funny. I found myself wondering how it would taste with a little gravy on it or some chili sauce.
Sirracha for everybody!
We give our little dog these treats that come 10 in a package. About a year ago I opened a package and notice that these treats (that come in stick form) were considerably shorter than before. I thought that maybe a machine got out of whack on the production line so opened another package and found the same thing. Price went up a little bit, but the doggie treats are less. Even Fido gets ripped off.
I agree, and in many foods they have already gone both those routes and it's going the way of price now. Do you truly believe everybody that Americans are ready for when their money and salaries can't buy enough for their families to eat, especially when 47 million people (white black etc. etc.) are on food stamps. We are going to go nuts and crime will skyrocket not only in black neighborhoods but all others.
Eating is highly over-rated.
There is a lot to be said for recycling fluids.
You have alternatives in the Brave NWO World.
Hmmm. Hasn't Obozo cut back the food stamp program as well? Let's see, rising food prices, more people on food stamps, gasoline and health care going up. If you can find a job, it'll be part time too. Nope I don't see any problems here.
Praise the Lord my 28 yr old son found full-time employment today with bennies! We're celebrating with a can of Progresso (2-for-1) and some saltines! It's all good.
Companies are still screwing grads with the 'intern' scam. Six months of minimal or no pay and then 'Good Luck' as they replace them with another intern. Seems to be all about 'connections' in getting anything these days - and those near the top are the ones that have them - NOT the blue collar parents that scrambled to get a kid through college. Two of our neighbors' kids spent 6 months to a year working for free on the promise of a full time spot than never came. It's illegal but people are desperate and won't protest - plenty of others willing to do anything for 'experience'.
Competition for grad school slots is intense because more people are trying for graduate degrees that offer stipends (better than NO job) but schools are also cutting back the number of slots with declining funding.
Know a top school honors degree grad who wants to be a prof - already has research projects on his CV, amazing GPI - he's done everything right, someone that SHOULD be going on to teach because they're good at it. He's hearing from PhD programs that they're reducing slots and simply don't have the money they used to. They have a spot for next year but were rejected or waitlisted by schools they would have been a sure thing for in years past. Plenty of classmates have nothing. Advisors are shocked at how bad its gotten.
America is the land of opportunity.
Keys to success:
a. motivation and determination
b. sciences college degree
c. digs in mom and dad's basement
d. bus tables and wash dishes during day
e. Russian and Mandarin language school at night
There should be a special circle in hell for people who hire workers, profit from their labor and pay them nothing. It doesn't matter if you call them "slaves" or "interns", it's the same mentality.
Interns are paid with experience, which is something low skilled workers won't get when the minimum wage is $15/hr
Great! Someone with a doctorate's will be able to intern at McDonalds! (programming robots to build hamburgers to sell to ???).
Interns are paid with experience, which is something low skilled workers won't get when the minimum wage is $15/hr
Advisors know nothing. They are so far removed from industry that the only thing they know is telling the lil' suckas which course path to take to fulfill degree requirements.
They also better shut up and maintain a 'keep calm and carry on' message, or risk getting the boot. You do know there is as much competition for advisor positions as there is for everything else.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, advise.
Excellent point!
It's no more than a sales job all the way down...
All caused by the belief that growth could be perpetual. No amount of education/knowledge/brains can correct overlooking a poor premise.
Two of our neighbors' kids spent 6 months to a year working for free on the promise of a full time spot than never came. It's illegal but people are desperate and won't protest - plenty of others willing to do anything for 'experience'.
I often wonder where it's all headed. Know someone living in a posh place in Manhattan, attending a nice ($$$$$) school and working as... yep! an intern! A 'prestigious' internship landed through connections, but an internship. Guess who's footing the bill for all this? Hint: not .gov.
I've got a pet theory that all this anti-education / cutting funding / privatizing bullshit is orchestrated because rich parents are sick of having their lazy dumbass spawn compete toe to toe with motivated less wealthy kids.
That and the simple fact there's nothing to gain for the ruling class to have a well-educated populace.
Re "I've got a pet theory that all this anti-education / cutting funding / privatizing bullshit is orchestrated because rich parents are sick of having their lazy dumbass spawn compete toe to toe with motivated less wealthy kids. " :
Agreed. I came to the same conclusion when wondering why so many courses are no longer graded but simply marked "Competent" (passed) or "Not Yet Competent" (failed). Someone in a position of power wanted little Johnny's grades to be indistinguishable from everyone else's.
The attack on real education has been going on at all levels from grade school to university for a very long time, over a century. Its is based on the producation of compliant workers/citizens who cannot really think originally or for themselves or threaten the exisiting power structure.
I am still amazed by the utter lack of appreciation for how much energy is required to provide food to for 7+ billion people.
My current crisis is a lack of bees for my orchards.
I do typically hire beekeepers to put hives on my property.
having a hard time getting my usual sources to commit in advance.
I wonder if some of the unemployed would be willing to get on ladders, collect and dry pollen
and then act like bees (like folks do in China already)?
"Winning" bitchez...
Mwahahahahaha! I stood out under one of my peach trees and all of the bees sounded like rush hour traffic in a big city. It's all free too!
(Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes.)
You would be surprised by how much even a few percent increase in "bee traffic" increases production.
more than covers the cost (yes, MATH still is important, despite what the lamestream media and "common core" tells you).
Barring a late freeze, I'm going to have to knock peaches off to stop branches from breaking. I've never had a problem with having enough pollinators. Now, retarded NM spring weather on the other hand...
i love the sangre de christo mountains. i believe of all the places i have been on earth, that is the most tranquil, beautiful place i have ever had the privilege to be.
@ el vaquero!
Feel free to box up all the peaches you want and send them fedex to me here in NYC. I'll figure out a way to pay for them if they are as good as the Texas peaches that seem to never make it up here. All we get is CA and GA amd some from NJ but none are as good as the Texas ones. Perhaps the NM strain are the same?
Sometimes when I read stuff like this I question WTF I live in NYC.
How anyone can live in NYC under the Wilhelm (aka deBlasio) administration is beyond me. Moved out a decade ago, and as of Jan 2014, I won't even visit NYC anymore.
cull the blossoms and save yourself a lot of trouble.
I love it when I see that someone knows their shit!
Can do this with lots of things, even tomatoes. Helps promote better vigor in what you get.
Jesus, who the fuck downvoted you for that? I happen to live where there is enough in the way of pollinators. Other's, not so much.
Hey, we can't be having discussions on people being self sufficient, all your food should come from Walmart.
My wife has all the beekeeping equipment from when she was in 4-H. Our orchard is fine, and we get good raw honey out of the deal, much better than the processed Wal-Mart shit you could buy if you were a sucker. Plus, there is nothing like taking a pear that is just perfect off the tree and biting into it. OK, the honeycrisp apples are close, but peaches and apricots pale in comparison. Oh, I forgot about cherries...hopefully they will do something for us this year.
Great, just finished my frozen, heated up lunch and now I'm salivating over the thought of harvest with several months I'll have to wait!
Also, I'm noticing more people trying their hands at chickens this year. Maybe some people are getting the message, even if the message comes in more expensive foodstuffs...
We had a freeze that may or may not have killed some of my plums. I'll have to wait to find out, because it hit right about the time the blossoms should have started falling off anyway. Pears, apples and peaches all started blossoming aftereward, so I know they're fine. But it's NM. It's entirely possible to have 65f-80f days for a week, then have a cold front come in that brings it down to the 20s in the middle of April. It happened last year.
Mostly agree with you, but unlike most fruit which is the best hand picked at the peak of ripeness, pears don't ripen on the tree, they get hard spots and don't sweeten up.
Chickens have been around here for quite a while, but I think you're right - folks are starting to figure things out.
You are truly fortunate El Vaq. We also have plenty of bees on our trees. However, Monsatan seems to be the primary reason why bees are disappearing. I've noticed viscious attacks from them on research pointing this out. Funny how they proposed their methods would feed the world and it is most likely be they will be the cause of famine.
Miffed;-)
LOL guess you are blessed with some African honey bees. Just be careful standing under the tree when in bloom ;)
I know you know more about bee keeping than I ever will Laws, but I took your advice and arranged weathered wood planks that were gently resting on each other with some planks horizontally in a row with more planks on top of them. I poured honey, sugar water, and clumps of hives over it that I bought from a farmer and got quite a few new bees out of it. I think the colony will grow this year. I don't mess with it other than to gently pour more sugar water on it when its been very dry. I'm not interested righrt now in harvesting the honey, I just want the bees on my property. And yes they do get drunk with certain flowers planted nearbye! Funniest thing I ever saw.
@ El Vaquero: Hey El what city do you live in, if you don't mind me asking? Or rough geographical location. Sounds like you got some fine soil where you are at, and nice growing conditions.
How is your water situation though. Do you have a well?
I am in NM, and yes, I do have a well. The water table at my location is roughly 6 feet, give or take, and the irrigation well is 32' deep. I'm going to eventually put in a pitcher pump on a 1 1/4" well that I'll need to drive. The growing conditions aren't always nice, however. Last year, I got no peaches (or any other fruit, except for strawberries) due to a late frost. Then we had the second hottest June on record with zero precipitation and brutal sun, followed up with a storm in July that literally hit with the force of a category 1 hurricane and dumped 2.5" of rain and hail in under an hour. I didn't have toads in my back yard after that, I had frogs. It almost ripped some of my squash plants out of the ground, put holes in the foliage of everything and lodged all of my corn right after it had tassled. Last year was brutal, and if it survived to go to seed, it was resiliant.
Being at 5000 feet altitude, I always have to pay attention to where the seeds originally came from. Seeds that where the producer reccomends full sun may do best here in partial sun if the seeds were produced in, say, Oregon.
LoP,
You seem to have a pretty level head about things ... do you have an opinion on the bee problem? I know hives have been collapsing, but I haven't done any real digging on the subject as I have enough irons in the fire.
This is a serious issue I think most people don't appreciate.
I kind of have a gut feel that the GMO stuff is probably killing them off, but that seems it would be pretty easy for a university team to replicate.
Just fishin for some insights ...
Regards,
Cooter
Everything I've read points to it being a multitude of things all at once. I've not studied it in depth though.
Its a combination of things, including unintended effects of fungicides
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/scientists-discover-another-c...
Here is the original research article
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.00701...
It seems that the prevalence of GMO, pesticides, fungicides, etc. is causing bees to lose much of their natural defenses to various fungi, bacteria, and mites. Nosema and Varroa are pretty problematic in my neck of FEMA region X.
People are developing hygenic strains of bees now that are able to pick the varroa mites off.
The main cause of bee die off is reduced immune system responce combined with varroa mite infestation
Queen Nuc'ing is going to be very profitable this season
Dusting them with powdered sugar will induce them to pick the mites off other adults, the real problem is varroa on the larvae. Do you do a lot with bees? I'm starting over after losing my hive.
I am unhappily surprised flak evryone knows bees are being decimated by GW even James Hansens NASA says so your losing your touch, I am starting to doubt...
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297215
Here is a nice big list of things represented in "science journals" as being casued by GW, you know so you never run short of "peer reviewed" talking points, first on the list two contenders..
Amazon dry season greener
Amazon dry season browner
Yes, it causes both...
Many of the pesticides are now known to inhibit essential functions. The pesticides are probably the biggest contributor, but other chemical contributors may be related to all kinds of other human activities.
The "mites" are not a problem. My bee keeper sprinkles powdered sugar on his bees from time-to time and as they clean themselves off, they pick off the mites, which fall out of the bottom of his screened hives.
Most other bee keepers I know use oxalic acid and simply except a certain colony loss.
Colony collapse is rampant here in GA. UGA has entire labs working on it. As go the bees, so goes humanity.
Well, not all is lost, as there are quite a few pollinators out there. It's just the that the honeybee is extensively used in commerical operations.
That chart of Food Prices is an Exponential Growth Chart.
In any adiabatic system Exponential Growth leads to an Exponential Collapse.
If the chart is due to speculation then the Price will collapse as the investor/speculator realizes that it cannot continue. (The article states that this is not the case.)
If the chart is due to an actual shortage of supplies then the price will collapse due to mass starvation which will lower the demand for food.
Either way you can expect that the price of food will collapse at some point as Exponential Growth is unsustainable.
The simple version...WE ARE SO FUCKED.
Yes, either way, unless the population (which has and is growing exponentially) drops significantly, either scenario leads to starvation. People need to eat, so as long as the population continues as it has, there will be plenty of real demand.
Economies of scale in reverse. Prices are relative, it's margins that matter and economies of scale in reverse will really screw with margins. Margin loss will eventually wipe out many companies, then entire industries...
Laws, you are not being complete in your assessment of how much energy is required to provide food for 7+ billion people. I wrote this before for knuckles, focussing only on meat
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correct. knukles is again at that old thing about consumption, the finite planet and so on. a fine point wielded like a club
consumption is relative. and overconsumption is... cultural. have a look here at those meat consumption statistics
the average American consumes 31 kg of pork, 49 kg of chicken and 45 kg of beef in one year (total: 125 kg)
the average Briton consumes 25 kg of pork, 28 kg of chicken and 19 kg of beef in one year (total: 72 kg)
the average German consumes 58 kg of pork, 15 kg of chicken and 15 kg of beef in one year (total: 88 kg)
and this goes down, down, down to countries where people live a healthy life, have good food, and yet their total meat consumption per year is... around 10 kg
and then even further down
now if you know how much food/energy is necessary to produce meat instead of other edible things, and how different the types of meat are in this calculation... you start to realize that it's a problem due to a mix of a quantity, quality and culture
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in short, if we would all become vegetarians... then this planet would have space for way more people (you farm nuts, don't you? long nuts)
yet this would also apply if we would eat a... sensible amount of meat (not as the 3 examples above)
of course, the energy discussion... is even more complex
why does US agrobiz want us europeans to eat unlabeled GMO food, btw? which has to be shipped over? it's not as if we would not have lots and lots of food production here
I've noticed the US media hasn't been saying much about Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, now confirmed in 27 states with as many as 5 million hogs dead in the past year.
Good find, I've seen it mentioned on an ag forum I visit.
Long pork
Malthus would be proud.
Your analysis ignores the energy required by natural cycles (that we manipulate) to simply get elements in the correct oxidation state in order to be utilized by plants...
"in short, if we would all become vegetarians... then this planet would have space for way more people (you farm nuts, don't you? long nuts)"
Do you not understand why humans are omnivores? Try selling this notion to folks in the polar regions.
There are plenty of places where growing crops just doesn't work very well and that growing animals does.
Lots of places that grow grains for animals wouldn't necessarily be that great for growing other stuff. Not that I'm a big fan of grain-fed, but this is just the facts.
At one point there wasn't any concern with producing meat. Now there is. To say that the same woudn't happen to producing vegetables/crops is at odds with logic.
and to riff off of seer's point, if there were a large scale adoption of Savory/Salatin-style pasture rotation, the same amount of beef could be raised on a fraction of the land and inputs and have healthier happier animals, leading to healthier happier people.
perhaps it's not what we eat ghordy, it's how it's raised/grown/treated/cultivated...
I am omnivore too, even with a meat consumption five times smaller than the average American and four times smaller than the average Briton or German
I'm not trying to bring Malthus in the mix or saying we have to become all vegetarians, just trying to state facts. and it's a fact that the average Westerner eats way too much meat for his health. as you said, we are omnivores. not carnivores
and eating this kind of amounts of meat does require multiples of resources. it's a question of balance
@LoP
I have family that is in the bee business. They have reduced their hive count down 20% to 8k and are not planning on replacing the hives, but are planning on doing more with wax filtering. So I wonder who / what is going to pick up the shortfall of those collapsed hives? Sad times are coming. On the brighter side I'm getting my first nuc this summer.
cool
bytches be eating too much anyhow..
Yes a person wouldn't even need water stored for SHTF survival purposes if they adopted urine usage. I have a feeling most could go at least a few months consuming nothing but. Might even get much healthier....Make a 20oz (weight, not fluid capacity, although it could be both) cup of gold to piss in and you are perfectly portable if the situation would actually ever present itself.....Maybe that's your holy grail right there; urine out of your golden chalice. Body and finances both protected and free to roam.
Sign on septic tank truck: Yesterday's Meals on Wheels.
Voters are gonna love this shit come November, and whether Democrats are responsible or not won't matter; they will be blamed.
Voting? Democrats? Republicans?
Children do love their games, don't they.
The Socialist Semite Democrat media does a great job convincing idiots that both parties are the same.
They do a great job convincing you your vote matters. Congratulations, citizen, you get to choose which brand of psycho will administrate the war.
Here's a sticker to show what a good citizen you are. Now get back to work.
They are indeed different. One is red, the other is blue.
Give a people their choice of death and they will happily ride to hell rejoicing.
This is why you can switch sides in all of the death = more points video games. Once you have killed a few hundred thousand of your favorite video enemy you are ready to command a drone center in Pakistan.
Nature needs more human compost apparently.
Silly poster. Come September a gallon of gas will be hovering around the $3 mark and the prices on consumables will be drastically slashed ... allowing for the "hey, it's not sooo bad" to sink in b4 November.
And as far as the "Givs me dat" voting block, well, as long as they have them stamps and phones and other reparations ...
Huh? Everyone knows it's the fault of the greedy supermarket chains. They're raping us!
I remember in 2008 talking to my neighbor about food inflation coming. He said, "Talk to me when milk hits $5." Looks like we will be having that conversation again.
It's really bad if you give your kids organic. Almost five bucks for a HALF gallon.
Needless to say they don't drink as much as most kids do, and if it stays in the glass after supper it goes right back in the fridge for later.
Organic foods are for the mentally challenged
Hold on, could someone please define "organic". I know or many extremely toxic/cacenogenic chemicals that are produced by non-GMO plants, all complete "organic", all completely guarranteed to fuck you up.
Preach it, Laws! The only thing you know for sure is organic is the food you grew and harvested. Around here in the Great Republic of Maryland 'organic' means someone put a lable saying "Organic" on their food and charging a hella lot more. No one bothers to check if its really organic or not.
We do raw milk rather than any organic pasteurized stuff. And it's amazing to drink real milk after you have had that plastic tasting crap for so long. Then you go someplace and get the plastic milk again and say, "Nevermore."
$7.50 per gallon (with a cowshare to get around Monsanto BS) here in flyover country and worth it completely.
"The only thing you know for sure is organic is the food you grew and harvested." - sure, so long as you have a complete and acurrate chemical analysis of all the compounds that are in the soil, air, and water...
I seem to remember seeing a study showing that even native people in remote areas have a substantial amount of plasticizers in their blood...
So your great grandparents were retarded?
I have changed my take on GMO ,I like them you see they get rid of stupid people because they are the only ones stupid enough to eat them.
I'm paying $11/gal for raw milk at the farm.
Try raw Jersey milk. Generally $8/qt. my mother in law nearly pissed herself when she saw this at our local natural food store. She used to siphon milk out of bulk tank on her Jersey farm for $3/gal in the late 70s. Food Inflation? Nah.
Miffed;-)
Just stay away from Russian cheese: http://rt.com/news/russia-media-scandal-cheesemakers-449/
YIKES! So funny how idiots can't resist the temptation to take pictures of themselves doing this sort of thing. I guess you just can't fix stoopid. Tx for the laugh.
Miffed;-)
Is raw milk that much better in taste and quality? I remember as a kid going to my great aunt's farm and hating the stuff, mostly because it was warm. <shudder> I know a few in the CrossFit community swear by the stuff, but what say you?
Much better but you must get a good quality source. When my husband first tasted commercial pasteurized milk he spat it out. Said it tasted horribly rotten with a chemical after taste. I really didn't know what he meant until now. We don't have much dairy in our diets but occasionally buy a qt of raw jersey milk and some raw cheese. I can see how a good grass fed raw milk would appeal to the Crossfit community.
Miffed;-)
then you have to wait til milk hits $10 dollars for him to give a crap
Hormones ain't cheap!
Hate to break it to ya, but what aldi sells should hardly be considered "food".
Very true! Know a guy and his brother who bought some Aldi's "hamburger" this past year to use at their deer camp (trailer). Tried to fry it up, the shit just kept cooking down, cooking down, smaller and smaller. They did not heed the warnings and ate it anyways. Next morning, younger brother was doubled up, laying on the ground when he tried to run back to camp to take a dump, the pain was so bad.
They must have used some fucking amatia mushrooms as filler in that shit...