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What Food Inflation?
Oh, this food inflation.
Incidentally, the last time food prices spiked by this much in one month, the resulting Arab Spring wave of revolutions tumbled governments across north Africa and the middle east.
Keep a close eye on those who are not exactly participating in the global central bank cartel's "wealth transfer effect" , and suddenly find they can't afford food again.
Source: BLS
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Shit hits the fan when people are hungry.
Shit is scarce when people are hungry.
I have only this to say about food inflation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Nn_FCYFSI
Now you have a better reason than Spahn and Sain to pray for rain?
Craig
Isn't there supposed to be an "Operation American Spring" in a few days? Hmmmm...
My wife finally noticed that a half gallon of orange juice is not a half gallon anymore. Just one of many hidden price increases.
State is increase Chocolate ration from 5g per day to 20g per week. Much is happiness.
But sometime chocolate is not only chocolate
Do not defecate near high velocity rotational air pressure gradient generator.
a.k.a. he wont be de-turd (sp)
Thanks for the obscure reference...brings back great memories of my father.
I'm from Milwaukee and I oughtta know...
Craig
I'll eat that...
Defecake. The new name in snack foods. (repeated from an earlier story)
Life is like a shit sandwich...The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.
lol. you eat the same amount of shit, regardless of whether it is a smaller percentage of your total intake.
Or doesn't, as the case may be with starvation.
Growing your own food is like printing your own money.
tax free investment! costs some time and sweat equity....but the quality is the best.
Boris is recommend as not to store home growing food in same refrigeration unit as home enrich radioactive isotope.
Fukashima-Free Painted Mountain Corn Seed:
rockymountaincorn.com
Fukashima-Free Painted Mountain Corn Seed:
rockymountaincorn.com
Sorry for the double - fat finger.
Fish + Growing Food = Less sweat
;)
https://www.google.nl/search?q=aquaponic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org....
Yep. Seems to be the wake up pill for the sheep.
What happened? Bahhhhh.
Could you spare me some of your mamas milk?
There arent as many noodles in my instant ramen as there was before. and i thought my eating predicament was bad enough as it is.
well...
people go to McDonalds when they're hungry...
and than their shit hits the fan.
Your body is torn through
whithered in every place
Yeah but all these price increases are from sick animals and climate change don't you know. I'm sure that massive dollar devaluation has NOTHINGGGG to do with this at all...
It's going to be a triple whammy here. Much of that QE money hasn't leaked out yet, you have drought that has been and will be affecting food supplies, and expensive oil means expensive food. We're so fucked.
BLS = cookbook of the month club
Boars head turkey. On sale for $5.99. Its all good
I won't eat anything else, but god damn $10/pound of turkey? My memory might be off but that has to have doubled from like $4.99/pound in the last 5 years.
Boars head products are a bit pricy, But they are good. The oven gold turkey is outstanding
Gotta' buy the sales. We paid $0.69/lb for whole turkeys last time we bought - got 3 and froze 2; just finished off the last one last week. Push comes to shove, we've got game all around and our sights are zeroed.
Yeah well that game will last about a week when SHTF. If you're lucky. I suggest reading one second after for a look at how long wild game will last and this is in a rural NC area. What wild game there is will last about 30 minutes in a suburban area when SHTF. Even squirrels will disappear overnight.
j0nx,
yes if that book doesn't pucker you up nothing will.
ONE SECOND AFTER
that is.
Haven't read it, but I've heard about it. After the rabbits are gone, there's always slugs and grasshoppers.
Inflation - Wall Streets most insidious tax!
We have to raise the minimum wage in order to help the folks says the connected... (As long as we can preserve our margins..)
Never do they say we have to look under the hood of this diabolical, peverse, and unconstitutional institution otherwise known as the Federal Reserve...
What inflation? I'm paying the same price for my 12oz bag of coffee that I paid for my 16oz bag last year. There is no inflation. More propaganda trying to make our benevolent loving government look bad. You do know everything they do is for the children don't you?
"You do know everything they do is for the children don't you?"
It's part of the, "No child left, behind" program.
Craig
rolmao
Too true, Doc. Those 16 oz cans are coming up 15 oz more and more - what's that, 6.25%? Downsizing.
Even if these bullshit numbers come in at a realized annual rate of 20 plus percent....people gottah start waking the fuck up....no?
wkate th fuck up? Maybe. But what are they going to do about it?
...apparently stumble into a ditch and take a dirt nap.
I am talking to our old friend from this site right now. He is considering shorting commodities here.
Without wage inflation we just keep smashing our heads into the same wall. The amazing thing to me is if the stock market manages to grind higher with the consumer eating itself alive and the fed withdrawing liquidity. I mean the earnings have exposed a lot of the rot, and no one gives a shit. Amazing.
Interesting take on that short. The guy is fucking bright..I will have to give that the thought it desrves. Pass on my regards to him.
will do. I don't know where this goes but Iam pretty sure it is just a matter of minutes until we see a thread on here comparing gold/food prices in 2011 to gold/food prices today. I just think things are so bad now that the commodity inflation can't sustain itself without wages going up. So I tend to agree with him. Although the drought stuff may throw a curve ball to it all.
There may not be wage inflation, but there is plenty of people inflation, and they all want what we have.... You know stuff like food and energy. Scarcity is a bitch.
What People Inflation?
There is no drought. There is no Cow and Pig virus. There is no climate change. There is only dollar devaluation to blame for these price increases. All the other excuses are bullshit that they force the MSM to parrot in order to keep the plebs unaware.
...not sure if serious...
it most certainly is a bleak combination of drought, plague, irradiation and devaluation.
4 Horsemen...
One would think, but the nature of price increases and the printting maching that creates it is not yet undersstood by the masses.
"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." Keynes
My favorite is from Henry Ford, "It is well enought that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for it they did, I believe there would a be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
@Fonz,
Shorting commodities would be very very risky at this point, your friend is basing an investing decision on a fundamental (wage stagnation) that has very little to do with the futures price of, say, corn. Just do a simple correlation analysis, it doesn't even come close to adding up. Supply/demand of the actual product has some influence, but so does the supply/demand of the currency in which the product is being transacted.
Not until it hits Readers Digest. By then, though, it's already baked in the cake. Half cake. Quarter cake. 4-pack of minis. (I can't get strikethrough to stick for the life of me.)
#forthechildren
Reduction in the powdered "cheese" package in KD sets off revolution?
You're telling us a gallon of milk & beef has remained stable since last year?
They're even messing with the dog food. Same size bag, now 48 lbs., not 50, since last month. Same price but still 20% higher than last year. I'm going to start shooting hogs just to feed to my dog...
they mess with the ingredients first, sourcing lesser quality, more filler. . . this has been ongoing for years.
vets profit - same system for the "human pets". . .
Yeah, since when did 'modified corn starch' become the main ingredient in Horseradish? Mustard? Yoghurt? etc etc
mmm....pets...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H833o5lnB2E&feature=kp
Are you sure that's milk you are drinking, or beef that you are eating?
You can get a food cost lecture from my wife, she knows. I give her credit, she has purchasing food down to a science. For example; Saturday morning, we hit the seafood market docks. All freshly caught fish. No middleman.
Engali, don't forget 'conspiracy theory'
Yes, but just like laundry soap, I'm sure that coffee is now 2x stronger, so you're coming out ahead.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
Starbucks is at least twice as strong
Starbucks. The crematorium of coffee.
for some reason I like the extra roastyness. since I dont have a wife to slap me when I wake up, I have my coffee do the job.
As is Dunkin' Donut's for donuts. Not worthy of the name.
Dr. E did you check out the walmart swicheroo...coffe was packed 39.9 ouces, and they shifted to 33.3, and of course the same price. Musta been the container....
I bought some the other day at Target, and it was in a 10 oz. bag, down from 12 oz. Same low price.
What's the big deal?
In a week or 10 days without food, they die.
Problem solved.
Craig
$12 for grapes at Albertson's in Chandler AZ yesterday
That better be a lot of fucking grapes!
;)
unfortunately, same amount that $5 bought a few weeks ago
Somewhere around the house is a picture that I took at a market in Japan, of an average sized Italian Canteloupe selling for a mere 10000 Yen ($100). Granted it was the most perfect looking canteloupe I have ever seen, came with it's own crate and was packed in that fake grass used in Easter Baskets.
Shit just skip the grapes and go straight to the bottles of wine. Trust me it works.
You americans and your love of processed foods, and yeast excrement.
And the drought in CA. and the rest of the West is hardly mentioned in the idiot MSM. Wait till the effect of no rain for 9 months in central CA. takes hold. What will happen to food prices then? Only 36 million people in CA. No big deal. But at least the presidential type golf courses are totally green. They never stop watering the greens. Gotta play golf. Revolution or not.
Horseshit. Cali has droughts all the time and food doesn't skyrocket like this since they have other sources of water. Dollar devaluation is the first and only reason for these price increases. Leave the horseshit to the political liars.
As a socal resident I believe the drought issue is being puposely manipulated to steal farmland from people after .gov dries it out (see Delta Smelt issue). I can't for the life of me find out wht we haven't started bulding aquaducts from Oregon. Place has more water than they know what to do with and we can't move it a couple of hundred miles south???
$4 Trillion Plus in new dollars since the crash and we can't fix the roads, get coast to coast broadband or water our nations largest food providing region. But Bernanke said QE was cone to help the average American... (seething with rage)
pwning the weather.
easy, no one looks up any more. . .pre-occupied.
Wally Hickel old Alaskan governor
wanted to build a water pipeline
down to the lower 48
40 yrs ago....
good at ya Wally
Someone here a few months back said a Detroit renaissance could be becoming a water distribution hub for the west. Now that the land can be bought for a song someone would make a killing. Gentrification on a state wide scale.
Is it really capitalistic "creative destruction" if you cause the destruction on one end and profit on the other?
Maybe, another word for it is 'carpetbagging'
CA is too busy wasting money on EIR's in the High Speed Choo Choo cluster fuck. We don't need no stinkin' water.
There's simple not enough food related investment vehicles, so everyone can participate in this “growth” market and offset the rise in their personal food expenditures.
My food investment vehicle is a raised bed garden.
Terrorist
True enough.
I'm still kicking myself for missing the goldrush in Romainian horsemeat that was so popular last year.
I loved the fact that the UK media went from total outrage about horse meat in packaged foods to then running stories on how horse meat might actually be better for people.
Piers Morgan is a cunt.
Whenever someone mentions UK media I get the urge to remind people :-)
Not to worry!
The food will be hedonically adjusted....I'm sure it's somehow "new and improved".
Presto!......no inflation here!
GMO. That means it's actually deflation!
Craig
Monsanto would say that it has improved.
$10.99/lb grass fed ground beef at Whole Foods
I might buy out my neighbours freezer. He charges $5.50 a pound and his cows graze right next door.
If I had a neighbor grazing his cows next door and selling the beef, I sure as hell wouldn't be buying any anywhere else.
Midnight cow tipping.
"$10.99/lb grass fed ground beef at Whole Foods"
There's your problem.
"Grass fed" parallels "all natural" exceptionally so at Whole Paycheck.
OG(organic) ground beef $8.99 lb @ local natural food store from instate beef, 25 miles fro store.
Probably because this state has fastest growing population of small farms.
With 1.2 million people and a crapload of land, we will become the food basket of the north east again.
To bad those to our south will be FEMA'd. Loss of market in my opinion.
Oh well, cheaper OG here then.
This was inevitable.
Food !?
We don't need no stinkin' FOOD !
Hasn't the pharma pill solution been found for hunger yet ?
if the useless eaters would stop eating, problem solved...
You do mean government employees, right?
$39.80 for a 5lb beef steaks at costco.
Fuck this shit and the lying Feds with it.
It's hard to find normal size steaks at my local GiantFood. They slice them in half and call them "thin cut" steaks. They look like minute steaks to me. I guess the masses can't afford real steaks anymore.
Same here. Giant Foods is more like a $$ vacuum than anything. Especially on meats and vegetables.
Soon they will be selling individual Steakumms as ultra thin healthy cuts for around $8.00 each.
And, with new technology they keep finding more places on a cow that qualifies as steak, chuck steak, petite steak, charcoal sleak, flank steak, and you wonder why you can't chew it. Note: Stay away from the sphincter steak its waaaay to chewy.
"Rrrrrrrubber Sphincter!
Bow, bow, bow."
You just have not adapted like the Feds want you to. When the price of steak rises from $8 a pound to $10 a pound, and hamburger from $4 a pound to $5 a pound you are supposed to switch from steak to hamburger. Then your cost of living drops by 37.5%. (see COL adjustments for details)Then next year when hamburger goes from $5 to $7 a pound you switch to dog food at $4 a pound. Another cost of living decline! Better print some more money and stop this deflation in it's tracks.
If this trend keeps up it is going to be the summer of discontent.
People are stretched. And the FSA is not used to making due with beans, rice, and chicken broth.
If that EBT won't by some fast food, look out.
pods
No. The FSA will continue to eat lobster and fillet mignon while the working class stiff has to eat tuna in a can.
You can afford tuna!?! Wow, I'm jealous...
Even Tuna's been going up steeply. Taxes are also going up.
Use coffee substitues (Postum). Many people are dumping the sodas because they increased the n price and localities tax soft drinks. Also soda drinks are not exactly healthy.
If people don't make alternate choices then they will get desperate. Seems like people were able to deal with hardships a lot better during the last great depression.
I don't know what the shit is they pack in oil, but it sure ain't tuna. I won't even taste it, as it smells repulsive.
Kroger tuna packed in water is about the best cheap tuna I can find.
It's probably a good thing that the post office loaded up with hollow points for target practice. We wouldn't want our steady flow of credit card offers disrupted.
We need Mike Obama to declare eight ounces is the new pound. Problem solved.
This would have all been solved if we had heeded the Jimie Carter and gone metric...
colorado weed sellers
dance around the cash register...
My Aldis store has started to slowly raise prices. The shit is getting real now. Time to make my garden a little bit bigger.
here in wisconsin, real spring is late....still, got 200+ onions in and the first round of potatoes (35 yukon gold and 35 reds). Adding another 5 fruit trees (have 25 or so that survived this brutal winter). Put in 75 peashrubs (nitrogen fixing hedgerow that provides food for chickens). more projects than time right now....
we're all smart enough to read ZH and see what's going on, hedge accordingly. get planting!
Iowa farmland proces just jumped on the news...more corporate buyers
Used to get out of the grocery store on a quick, weekend run for around 35 bucks - milk, cereal, coffee, fruit, etc... starting to see that same run over 60 bucks. That kind of budget crunch affects people, start looking for a real distraction. More real distractions. Puppet theatre.
You guys are a bunch of whiners. Here's a little econ 101; "Substitution Effect". Meaning that as food becomes more and more expensive, people will shift their diets to NON-Food items, like grass and cardboard. And if the grass and cardboard runs out, well then, there's ALWAYS going to be plenty of Dirt...we'll NEVER run out of dirt.
"there's ALWAYS going to be plenty of Dirt...we'll NEVER run out of dirt.:
Don't count on that:
The Coming World Soil Shortagehttp://www.recycledminds.com/2010/04/coming-world-soil-shortage.html
I'm on a river bluff overlooking a 300 ac. field that doubles as a wetlands when flooding threatens the remainder of the bottoms (a couple of 16" pumps sit on a creek levee bordering the field). When I moved in 4 years ago, it was full of native plants up to 6' tall (other than the times it was flooded).
When it became obvious last Spring that the drought had eliminated the possiblity of flooding, they planted soybeans there. Today, there is nothing growing in that field other than wild mustard in the low spots, while the remainder is bare dirt (and we're already at 10" of rain for the year). Meanwhile, my neighbors are losing their honey bees.
Thanks Monsanto! It seems there's nothing you can't kill.
i hear you...
And guess what is being torn up to gain access to frack sand in Wisconsin and Minnesota??
If you guessed farm land, you guessed right.
<note, I am not necessarily against fracking, but when I saw some of these pits first hand when traveling through the area, and thought back to what the farm land once looked like, and then thought about how long it will take to make this viable farm land again, the mathematics are not good. Then again, the mathematics as to why we are doing this in the the first place may be worse.>
Dirt cookies! Yum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3337cj4sJQ
Made from dirt, butter and salt.
This is a true story (to be revised next month):
A rich man was riding in the back of his limousine when he saw a man eating grass by the roadside.
He ordered his driver to stop and he got out to investigate. "Why are you eating grass?", he asked the man.
"I don't have any money for food,", the poor man replied.
"Oh, please - you must come to my house and eat"
"But sir, I have a wife and four children..."
"Bring them along!", the rich man said.
They all climbed into the limousine. As they were going, the poor fellow said: "Sir, you are too kind. Thank you for taking all of us in!."
The man replied, " Why it's no problem - the grass at my house is two feet tall; it will be enough for all of you".
And air, we will never run out of air. France taxes it, they call it the FREE Air tax, I think it is coming canned to a store near you.
A nice can of Perri-Air a la spaceballs. Or, mountain air a la China.
good one. "Perri-Air" ha ha ha
Finally we're getting to the pointy end. Civil unrest, here we come...
Unfortunately, I think this frog is on a slow boil.
mmmmmmm
frog soup..
Not to worry.
Tim Cook is going to announce an APP for that, next quarter.
How then do we reconcile the fact that most of the poor are overweight, obese, and cardiac exercise challenged, with a paucity of food?
"There's something rotten out back in the woodshed, robert post's child".
If your question is genuine, the answer is that the poor go for the 'cheap calories.' That is the least healthy food, with too much sugar, too much fat, and too much sodium, which results in their poor health. And, they have sugar highs and lows, resulting in little energy, resulting in little exercise. Together these factors cause them to get fat, and become cardiac challenged.
But, not to worry. They have a 72" 3-D HDTV to distract them!
Craig
Obesity is happening all over the world and it is by design. I am not taking away the aspect of personal responsibility but YUM brands et al have polluted what food is for so long that people are forgetting what real food is like.
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/eating-disorders/binge-eating-disorde...
Domesticated livestock are easier to manage than sentient creatures.
This is a signal that war in Ukraine is coming, IMO.
Vlad being a badass and Barry being Barry means war is coming. Deep State wants/needs a distraction so they can do what it is that they have planned for the next phases of the consolidation of power and wealth and the reduction and/or elimination of rights of all kinds. Tyrany wins, it looks like.
If war comes to Ukrane, the problem will be containing it to that locale, and keeping it "conventional."
Any bets on this one?
Two choices - 1) move to the Arctic or the Steppes and die slowly; or, 2) move to a target and die fast.
Craig
Remain calm!!! All is well!!!
I liked the beans and rice instructional from the other day. Rabbit with beans and rice on Sundays.