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"Surviving Or Thriving" - What Canada's 40% Surge In Meat Prices Means For Ordinary People

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On the surface, Canada's 1.2% inflation is negligible, and barely enough to keep up with the pace of overall growth as mandated by a few central bank academics. It is below the surface, however, that one finds the scary truth. Because when stripping away the sliding energy prices (which at the recent pace of short covering among oil speculators are about to surge) some scary numbers emerge, such as a 3.8% monthly jump in food prices, primarily as a result of a whopping 30-40% increase in select meat prices in the last 8 months.

How do ordinary people - which excludes those who work in central banks and have taxpayers fund their everyday purchases, which allows them to fully ignore soaring food and rent costs - survive in an environment of soaring food prices?

As the following brief documentary by CBC's The National reveals, food inflation means people have no choice but to eat "far less beef" than they used to, "or chicken." Others are ok with the runaway food inflation: "it doesn't matter to me, I buy the meat at the price it is and that's fine with me" say a gentleman who likely works for a hedge fund and BTFD for a living. 

It is not just meat: prices of Canadian fruits and vegetables have also surged, driven almost entirely by the plunge and the loss of purchasing power of the Canadian dollar.

And, as a vendor of meat observes: "there doesn't seem to be an end to it."

So soaring food prices, flat wages, tumbling currency, and a generally deteriorating standard of living. In short: something Japan's prime minister Abe would call a smashing success.

Full CBC documentary below:

 

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Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:46 | 6008991 random999
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oh.. and there you have it! Its actually deflation!

Print moar !!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:39 | 6008974 crashguru
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....  less prostate and breast cancer

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:39 | 6008975 crashguru
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....  less prostate and breast cancer

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:41 | 6008979 random999
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How is the meat price doing in gold?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:42 | 6008982 Chuck Knoblauch
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Can anyone remember when they had a grass-fed cow beef steak?

Everyone is so used to eating shit.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:14 | 6009097 Weaponized Innocense
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Last one mamas syblings got together to buy one off my grandpas ranch. Though a bad butcher once ruined his meat one time when the other one went on vacation .... Yup I was spoiled w grandpas meat.... His poodles in a pillow farms of brangus....
yea mama was a great cook but once we got off grandpas meat .... The meat sucked. Now I can fancy up some yummy meat and then BBQ it to blow ur mind. And Austin's real Renaissance so I get good stuff all mom and pop down here.... I haven't cooked in a while..... Got foodie friends before there ever was the word.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:18 | 6009108 Weaponized Innocense
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Mama always complained about modern chicken his it had no flavor as she like that good old fashioned stuff some peeps call the flavor wild ... Even if not wild.
The Asians can get me to eat chicken though I'm spicy and if its velvet I want thia chilis... Madam Mams has been getting me to do chicken a lot lately.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:26 | 6009128 Weaponized Innocense
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I have some friends raised in the country twit mmmm mmm mmm bring me good sausages twit aren't like other sausages u get and turn me on to all kinds of good meat and they only do the natural stuff.... Young but have that old fashioned shit up their butts.... Lots of Austin is twit but not all ... Amd the world moves here every day and well we need floods to fill our lakes and w need to actually remove some islands if not graveyard point... To quench the thirst coming ... U know since DARPA don't share their make water out of air (ie:condensation) even though they built it off our minds up their butts.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:30 | 6009140 Weaponized Innocense
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That water from air thing they got it up to doing water from desert air and pulls up like an 18 wheeler... But they won't share... They wouldn't in the south east a few years back.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:35 | 6009157 Weaponized Innocense
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They got from a survival trick of collecting water in a desert... U dig a hole down ...keeping opening narrow enough for plastic... Put cup at bottom put plastic on top held with rocks around the hole to hold it. And in the center of the plastic u put a pebble so that condisation collected will drip from the cine shaped plastic into u cup below overnight .... Or do several.... It will make u water for the next day

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:56 | 6009204 Weaponized Innocense
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Chi'lantro has good spicy chicken pops and their sirloin burger is really good though it's not a patty burger patty.
I'm kind of wussy w burgers after the times when I was making killer burgers....
But theirs is good.
There is a chain here that does good steak capital grill... I hear its not as good elsewhere.
Oh yea and u can do Friday discount day for the pork chop over at what's it called up there about 8 th street west of congress Perry's ...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:03 | 6009214 Weaponized Innocense
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Several good places but nope nothing like grandpas meat. Happy to be raised second place to a cow! Yea cows came first before all of us! His pillow poodles were spoiled and I loved them too. They loved me too other that time me and my cousins waked through a herd of them and realized there was mama on one side and baby in other .ll mama didn't kick our ass!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:53 | 6009438 northern vigor
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I up voted you...just cus I figured no body else would and I thought you made a good point about  "pillow poodles" 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:47 | 6008993 TalkToLind
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Y'all Canucks got central bankers there right? Then listen up: meat is a barbarous relic, it serves no purpose.  If you consume meat then you are an insect...a MeatBug!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:10 | 6009085 Niall Of The Ni...
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Yes we do. Ours is called Steve Poloz and he's an embarrassment even by the low standards of central bankers. He can't even fake competence convincingly.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:10 | 6009225 TalkToLind
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...and he's an embarrassment even by the low standards of central bankers.

 

You've earned a big +1203 from me for recognizing what vermin central bankers are.  No wait, 1203 is the price of gold in USD...for CAD it is 1473.  1473...wow that Poloz guy really does suck.  Not that our guy Yellen is any better.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:47 | 6008994 kchrisc
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The banksters don't just steal, they decide who eats and who starves.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

Well armed sheep produce little fleece, and no meat.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:47 | 6008995 saldulilem
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I recently learned that wheat (bread, pasta, and yes ramen) has 11% protein, not that different from eggs (14%). As an adult you can safely dispense with meat and get adequate protein from other sources.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:54 | 6009019 kchrisc
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"Let 'em eat spaghetti."

The banksters need to repay us.

 

"My guillotine will have the bankster, please. Medium."

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:59 | 6009050 umdesch4
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But eggs are not meat. Eg. Lean ground beef has about 27% protein. You're going to be eating a lot of lentils and peanut butter (2 of the only meat alternatives that go above 25% ) to match that.I know several vegans, and I know it takes a lot of work, and I've also seen how easy it is to screw it up and become unhealthy. Certainly, it can be done, but sadly a lot of people are misled about how easy it is, when it really isn't.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:47 | 6009428 northern vigor
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Peanuts and lentils are both legumes and are high in lysine. To balance a diet a human will need other essential amino acids such as methionine from the grass family such as rice, oats. The grasses are lower protein than the legumes, but are needed to balance the diet. 

Buckwheat is the closest food source to meat meal in the plant kingdom. It has an array of essential amino acids, even though it has  a lower protein percent than legumes...but it doesn't sound like you're a vegetarian so enjoy that steak.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:37 | 6009858 umdesch4
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Correct. I'm an omnivore, but I'm cool with people choosing to be vegetarians, vegans or whatever. I just get concerned when I see people making these types of dietary choices without doing the research to make sure they stay healthy. Vigor, you sound like one of the well-informed people, so I hope you've been successful in spreading that knowlege.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:04 | 6009927 northern vigor
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They taught us this stuff in Ag college 40 years ago. I've had cows for 50 years, but have marketed gluten free flour to urbanites for twenty. 

...it's a living, but we try to help people make good choices to suit them, even if we don't sell anything to them.

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:35 | 6009117 northern vigor
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The percentage of protein doesn't mean everything...it depends on the amino acid make up as to the quality of the protein. 

Feather meal is 89% protein and none is available for digestion, because it is the wrong amino acid makeup.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 04:00 | 6010360 kareninca
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All that's needed is a chemistry lab.  Our dog (who has IBD) eats a variety of Royal Canin that is made out of chicken feathers  -  broken down to peptide level.  Voila  -  a new source of tasty protein!!!!!!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:33 | 6009397 bilejones
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Quinoa

 

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:40 | 6009868 RichardParker
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Actually the protein in wheat is diffferent. It is not balanced (does not contain all essential amino acids). 

See also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3887888

Eggs are one of the best protein sources on the planet.

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:51 | 6008997 logical-different
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This is PM Harpers (The puppet) way to punish the people for not liking his Bill C-51 (Spying Bill) and for his popularity slipping in the polls for this falls election.  It is said that 71 percent of the people oppose this spying bill.   Also, he had a hand in demolishing Lybia and currently is in Syria bombing the hell out of anything that moves on behalf of freedom.   Don't believe this guy because he is a daily liar.

Perhaps, he'll be arrested for war crimes and we can be rid of this war junky forever.  First, he's going to tie our hands by involving us in another project that will enslave us all.   This is the Trans Pacific (TPP) agreement with all the countries bordering the pacific and will virtually assure us that any corporation will have authority over a country and have the ability to sue us if they don't get their way.

Now you know why this jack ass has no regard for the people in Canada.   His little empire is about to crumble and why not ensure prices go up and squeeze the hell of the little guy by depriving him of food.   I have no use for this liar and more Canadians should feel this way.

 

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:57 | 6009038 kchrisc
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"This is PM Harpers (The puppet) way to punish the people for not liking his Bill C-51 (Spying Bill)"

Only a criminal government need spy on the people.

The banksters need to repay us.

 

If the DC US is spying on the people, and Canada is spying on the people, who are they spying on the people for?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:50 | 6009000 tony wilson and...
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canada and its meat

poland and its freedumb apples

decay you inbred rabbi cocksucking fuckers.

just sayin

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:21 | 6009253 tarabel
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You forgot to include England and its inbred kooks on your list.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:57 | 6009005 Chuck Knoblauch
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If you're over 50, don't get a CT scan of your abdomen.

You're not going to be happy with what they find growing on your organs.

The medical examiner will write heart disease, stroke, or cancer on your certificate.

Do you really think they have time to spend looking for a root cause of death?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:51 | 6009008 tony wilson and...
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if yer donte eat yer meat

how can yer have yer kosher pudding

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:58 | 6009045 kchrisc
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Awesome.

The banksters need to repay us.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:54 | 6009017 Inthemix96
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1988, smashing year, smashing music, and I say this with a tear in my eye reminiscing about being a child and very innocent at that mind, thank fuck for youtube eh peeps?

Bros, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yu0T9n5uos

Beware my hated fucking banking and political friends, the scales are beginning to turn, and even fucking Bros knew?

Hows that for a right fucking turn around then you cunts? 

;-)

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:01 | 6009061 kchrisc
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The banksters need to repay us.

 

And these guys knew a thing or two as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiX7GTelTPM

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:09 | 6009083 DLux
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WTF was that shit?? I like your message ITM96, but you have shitty taste in music. 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:18 | 6009110 Inthemix96
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Be fair mate, I was only 11 when that song came out.

I thought it was fucking mint?  Never mind, back to the drawing board, how about this then, the best dance song of the nineties bar none.

Faithless, Insomnia,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD6An7tKfAw  enjoy that one with a smile, but only if you went clubbing when we did.

;-)

Take care anyhow fella

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:52 | 6009178 DLux
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OK, that was better than that last video. It still can't hold a candle to The Chemical Brothers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtL9YeYT924

or The Crystal Method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWSLhMLVas4

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 15:55 | 6009026 Maxter
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I guess the food price will comeback to normal once our dollar goes back up.  Which mean oil must go up first.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:01 | 6009056 Bumbu Sauce
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http://www.theprovince.com/life/cost+your+meat+will+rise+another+five+ce...

The reasons for the higher costs include constrained supply and high grain prices for cattle feed. Livestock prices for cattle and hogs are also at their highest in at least two decades.

For pork, outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) in the U.S. and Eastern Canada have depleted herds and pushed pork prices up in the summer when bacon prices jumped 25 per cent and pork chops 18 per cent.

White meat remains less expensive than red meat, but poultry prices have also increased. One Vancouver butcher said the avian flu outbreak in the Fraser Valley hasn’t affected prices over Christmas, but might be reflected when birds go on sale for Easter.

Vegetarians and pescetarians aren’t spared price hikes either. The Food Price Report predicted that the cost for fish, seafood and vegetables will rise by three to five per cent in 2015.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:04 | 6009067 Bumbu Sauce
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/shoppers-should-brace-...

The weak Canadian dollar is playing a role in driving up prices for imported food at the grocery checkout. Canada imports some $40-million worth of food in a year, a total that has risen as the loonie has weakened and food plants have closed.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:19 | 6009244 tarabel
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While I concur in the economic theory, that statistic equates to every Canadian citizen spending about $1.30 a year on imported foodstuffs. Probably fancy cheeses and suchlike things, but hardly filling up their shopping cart with imported comestibles every week.

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:50 | 6009895 fasTTcar
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That number is wrong.  Stats Canada shows $21 Billion CDN of foodstuffs coming in from the US - http://www.ats-sea.agr.gc.ca/stats/5222-eng.htm

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:12 | 6010098 Pareto
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Aren't commodities priced in $USD, so that it don't much matter the relative value of the currency.  It is like oil.  Just because there is a rig pumping it 50 feet from the yard doesn't mean i get it any cheaper than the guy 500 miles away - its about market price.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:56 | 6010294 tarabel
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That's sounds far more likely. No OJ trees in Canada.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:03 | 6009066 yogibear
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But those central banksters love those increasing asset prices, attempting to convice the muppets that deflation is bad, inflation is good.

You Cunucks and those in the US will have understand that the central bankster is the real terrorist.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:07 | 6009075 Niall Of The Ni...
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As if Steve Poloz gave a rat's ass. When was the last time he bought groceries with his own money?

Steve was actually happy the loonie went through the floor, thinking it the perfect way of promoting non-energy exports, including of Canadian agricultural products. To put it another way, Canadians are to eat Kraft mac and cheese Dinner so New York banksters can eat top-quality Alberta steak at bargain prices. 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:12 | 6009091 benb
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Attention Useless Feeders! - Agenda 21 in action.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:18 | 6009103 Crazed Smoker
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It takes 13 pounds of grain to create 1 pound of meat.  70% of all grain created is fed to animals in NA.  It takes 11x more fossil fuel to make 1 calorie from meat versus 1 calorie from grain.  Eat less meat and live longer and don't let the BTFD policy makers get u down.  

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:18 | 6009107 Bumbu Sauce
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Live your life and leave me alone.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:26 | 6009129 Niall Of The Ni...
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If the BTFD policy makers had their way proles would be living on 1500 calories of starch a day---potatoes, rice, black bread---while they got steak for dinner with organic strawberries and cream for dessert every night.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:38 | 6009164 Monetas
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Yeah, live longer .... so you can enjoy more .... bulgur wheat ! Do you have any more bad ideas ? LOL

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:18 | 6009111 JohnFrodo
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Dear Leader plans to change Canada, he will elimiate socialized medicine and replace it with a meat free diet. We are all getting a free Copy of the Kim Ill Jong cookbook.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:19 | 6009116 Free_Spirit
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Get out of Canada Harper.... 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:22 | 6009120 Kreditanstalt
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"Not enough price inflation", says The Regime.

What about: food, taxes, gas, electricity, college, housing, rent...?

What are they measuring? I-gadgets?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:29 | 6009144 northern vigor
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The packers and retailers have screwed cattlemen in Canada so bad since 2003, it is only catch up time now.

 The price was 50% too cheap for  years and now it has only gone up 40%.

The farm gate live price has doubled, but the retailer only put it up 40%...that shows how much the midddlemen have been gouging the farmer and consumer for 12 years.

In 2004 I sent out a D cow that today would bring a $2000 cheque ...in 2004 the sales barn sent me a bill for $46 to cover the commission, and trucking cost.

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:16 | 6010259 MEAN BUSINESS
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mad cow disease circa 2003 right? You know what they say - never let a "good" crisis go to waste. Suddenly the mega-packers were in total control. As if the equipment guys, the input suppliers, the municipalities, and the bankers weren't already squeezing the shit out of small farmers. I was 'cutting' as described above at that time. 

And they wonder why the average age of farmers is close to 60!

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 08:33 | 6010503 northern vigor
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I keep thinking everyone knows the significance of the 2003 BSE crash...I'll have to start putting the full description into my comments from now on. 

 

Tue, 04/21/2015 - 02:26 | 6013686 MEAN BUSINESS
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Dumb farmers (yuk yuk) buy high, sell low, and pay the trucking both ways. - multi-millionaire dairy guy I used to visit.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:34 | 6009153 Monetas
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You are paying for Halaal certfication .... try eating more bulgur wheat .... and pretend you're a Russian soldier ! Sarcumcision !

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:35 | 6009156 Kreditanstalt
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Life in Equatorial Guinea...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:40 | 6009169 InanimateCarbonRod
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It's those bastages at the Council Vegetarians and the Pork Producers conspiring to drive red meat prices up.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:46 | 6009176 Monetas
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This is how I do it .... you get the cast iron skillet good and hot .... throw in a little veggie oil .... throw in the steak .... after you have flipped the steak and it's just about ready .... you move it to one side .... throw in a big pad of butter .... followed by two or three eggs .... turn off the heat .... flip the eggs .... a little worstershire sauce, maybe .... throw the skillet on a board .... eat while posting your BS .... if the skillet gets cold .... throw it back on the fire a minute or two .... no toast, no potatoes .... just steak and eggs !

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:53 | 6009198 umdesch4
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Amen, except instead of butter, I cook up some bacon first, and use that grease. I'm healthy enough for an old fucker who's been doing this for decades, thanks everyone for your misplaced concern.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:55 | 6009203 Monetas
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Your deviation is approved ! LOL

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:57 | 6009201 Monetas
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When you're finished .... let Fido clean the skillet .... if you do it right .... you won't even have to wash the skillet .... like a wok .... well, if you're a pussy .... steel wool it and rinse with water .... no soap !

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:52 | 6009332 Shitgum Suicide
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No offense but skillet, steak outside of searing, is kinda brutal. Crock pot however is a great way to do large meat and make it moist . Same with pork shoulder or some chili.

It's funny I knew a girl who hated two words; moist and panties. My sentence above made me remember her all to well and I lol. Love ya shawna.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:07 | 6010086 Pareto
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No way SS.  Really hot cast iron - especially for blade steaks - toss some onions in and the eggs (and you dont care if they break) - is fucking awesome man!!

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:51 | 6009195 logical-different
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Price inflation is the only way todays economy can work.  The more inflation there is the better it is for the debt ridden governments to pay the previous years debt via inflated dollars.

However, it is not working as planned.  Actually, the economies of the world are more geared towards a deflationary cycle.  The central banks of each country desire not to have this occur.   They want inflation.   The workers have not kept up with inflation by sallary increases over the years and they are more than likely waiting for price decreases.  It is a battle of government against the people.   Interest rates are kept low and lower to encourage the people not to save.

I recomend that everyone save because it is always best to go the opposite route of the establishment and not spend when they tell you to spend.  

In Europe some countries are currently paying customers to borrow money.   The governments are resisting a deflationary cycle when in fact a cycle such as this is not to be condemmed but encouraged.   It is part of the process of ridding the economy of companies that don't deserve to be in business.   Other companies will purchase them and run them better without always requiring handouts.

Todays economy is basically run on hot air and is completely fake.  It will end badly and that may be soon.

Keep some cash under the pillow as it will likely mean a bank holiday in the states and a depletion of your savings and chequing account of up to 20 percent.

Good luck!!

 

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 16:54 | 6009199 RichardParker
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Back in 2010, I could get lean eye round roast on sale for $1.99/lb about once every six weeks in the northeast.  God, those were the days...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:18 | 6009243 rodocostarica
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Beef here sucks (tough but the pressure cooker is the way to beat that) . Any pork or chicken is great and a good value.The pressure cooker juices make a great soup stock.

I check prices Costa Rica versus CUB foods every week and we usually beat US prices. Have to buy on promotions but is less than US.

Our vegatable and fruit prices can not be beat. Farmers market every Friday/saturday.

Why people live in N. America I do not know. No cops or reserve forces patrolling the  streets either HERE.

Have not worn long pants in 10 years.

No heating bills, no air cond. bills. Always springtime.

Best of luck to all fighting wal mart lines.

 

Pura Vida de Costa Rica

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:20 | 6009826 Buster Cherry
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I hear CR is very nice.and the people real mellow.

 

I'm glad to see someone talk up their country without being a dick about it.

There's a boy in The Netherlands would could learn some manners from you4

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:30 | 6009270 foodstampbarry
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Average house price = $433,000. And Canadians are in shock when food prices go up? I'm surprised its not worse.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:36 | 6009286 Duc888
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....it means poke flied lice and beef flied lice for me here in USSA.

 

How to stretch a meal.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 17:57 | 6009340 Karaio
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I have worked with Canadians and Australians.

To me are great sons of bitches!

Pensan as European and act like Americans.

Think with the Queen of England in the bag, we think they are, do not have any independence.

Bunch of idiots!

Sorry for the outburst.

: - /

Chinese, Japanese, Russian, German, even if you know the Arabs distinction between Sunni and Shia are more ancient cultures, decent people in treatment.

Always trust them, the talk is done.

Also dealt with German and Dutch (who do not speak, bark), but are sincere.

Italians are good people but need to put on paper what they say they will do.

French costly, very expensive, talk too much and work less.

Latinos in general are good people but always need to hear those above them, sucks! A lot of politics involved.

Never dealt with Africans.

Oh, I forgot the Jews, forget it.

Very bad people in the commercial tract.

hehe.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:16 | 6009371 Karaio
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Every Israeli think you are North American, they consider their country like Havay or Alaska.

: - /

Fuck bidder "-" I am talking about personal experience at work.

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:04 | 6009355 dondonsurvelo
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The Loonie is worth .82 to the dollar.  If Canada gets its meat from the US then yes the price has gone up at least 20% in just the currency exchange.  If the Canadians get their grain to feed cows from the US it is the same currency problem.  Top that with US food prices going up and it is easy to see why meat in Canada is 40% higher.

I buy organic ground beef from Costco in the three pack.  Not long ago it was 18.00 for the three pack.  It is now $23 and this is in the US.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:04 | 6009357 StrawberryBlonde
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Q - "So how do ordinary people survive in an environment of soaring food prices?"

A - We (ordinary Canadians) eat less.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:06 | 6009358 unicorn
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for whom it might really interest, why prices in food rise, go to

https://www.evb.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Shop/EvB_Agropoly_DE_Neuauf...

go to page 9 (picture)

and then know: monsanto has in its patents that the animals fed with their patented seeds belong to them too, as the bacon, or eggs etc

control the food, and you control the people.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:27 | 6009390 bilejones
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Nah, this has been coming for a few years

Back in 2011

"As far as livestock numbers, total cow numbers in the county, we're down 50% of what we were. That number may go up," said Crispen Skinner, Texas Agrilife Agent. "

http://www.ktre.com/story/15311157/prices-in-hay-rise-due-to-drought

 

Partially because less acerage was devoted to hay and more to corn because of the govt subsidies.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:28 | 6009391 Urban Redneck
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and for those who can't Sprechen sie Deutsch? - there's an English version at:

https://www.bernedeclaration.ch/fileadmin/files/documents/Lebensmittelin...

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:42 | 6009873 squid
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This is funny...."why food prices rise?".

 

Its simple and reading this site you should already know.

We use paper fiat money which the governemnts and commercial banks basically issue at will. The funny money supply increases while the REAL-STUFF that you try and exchange the funny money for does not hence the real-stuff has to rise in price. This is econ 101. If you increase the supply of the first and fix the supply for the second, you need to supply more of the first to get the second...its not even math, its arithmetic.

 

Once again, you want to end inflation, bind the money to gold. Fix the money supply to something that CANNOT be printed and infaltion stops immediately.

 

 

Squid

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 18:57 | 6009441 Monetas
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Shitgum Suicide .... your girlfriend Shawna (is she black ?) .... prolly not .... she doesn't like "moist and panties" in the same sentence .... why use two words .... when one will say it better .... CUNT .... a word white girls don't care for ! LOL

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 19:01 | 6009453 northern vigor
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Those  lactose intolerant mammas with the $200 hairdos and driving  BMWs... pushing shopping carts at Whole Foods in Toronto, are going  to have a little freak out when California almond growers get cut off water. That almond milk is going to get pricey. 

The kids may need to go back to breast feeding.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 19:48 | 6009545 SmedleyButlersGhost
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Never thought of that - thank god I'm not lactose intolerant.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 19:13 | 6009474 Salsipuedes
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Less beef? Bigger buns! NWO! NWO! NWO!

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 19:24 | 6009501 q99x2
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Its a cow market.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 19:24 | 6009504 Herdee
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Wait till Iran comes on.You'll see what happens to oil and CAD.Their mining sector has been dessimated.Slowdown in China means coal and forestry also roll over.The majority of oil coming out of Canada is high cost tar sands.Iron ore sector just laid off thousands.The Harper Government wants to balance the budget but just added on 150 billion to the overall deficit.The truth is that Canadians along with the feds are in debt up to their eyeballs after throwing tens of billions at Afghanistan and now Iraq.Throw in a decade of basically free daycare in Quebec and you end up like Sweden.Here's the Canadian debt clock in real time closing in on a TRILLION.Harper and his gang of liars and thieves can suck this one up bigtime,he's no different than his bum buddy Obuma.

http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/canada

These are complete and utter Keynesian morons that sold off their gold at record lows like the idiot Gordon Brown did in England.They both were good at picking bottoms.Well done China for getting the gold that easily off of stupid ,mindless politicians.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:35 | 6009855 squid
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"Harper and his gang of liars and thieves can suck this one up bigtime,he's no different than his bum buddy Obuma."

I don't get this kind of talk. Deficit spending became policy-dejure in Canada under Trudeau, you remember him, don't you? He was the PM for my entire school life and the the spending wasn't linear friend, it was VERTICAL. Mulroney slowed it and the Creiten basically just carried on.

 

Harper's thieves? Please....

Any different from Creiten's, Mulroney's or Trudeau's thieves?

 

You want to end inflation in Canada, you REALLY want to end inflation? Its very simple.

Bind the Canadian dollar to gold. Go ahead and do it tomorrow.....of course it means that Canadian government will have to buy back all the gold the Crieten government sold and then some but, if you make the paper money immediately exchangeable to a quantity of gold inflation ends immediately.

 

Of course, if you do this banking regs have to be overhauled....like for example, no more fractional reserve lending, no more deficit financing at the federal, provincial or municipal level. Unbacked consumer credit will disappear, no more financing automobiles, snowmobiles, boats, ATVs, motorhomes... etc...

 

And when you inform people that their entire lifestyles, which are of course a financed lie, will have to be lowered dramatically all to eliminate inflation and their taxes will have to go WAY up to pay for all the lollie pops they want from their governments.....they will vote for keeping things as they are. Money for nothing and your chicks for free, what could go wrong?

 

Harper's Thieves......Paaaalease.

 

It won't change until it crashes because the people don't know any better, they should but they don't.

 

Squid



Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:51 | 6010047 Pareto
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+100 Best answer yet.  Canaidians can and will bitch all they want but the alternative of sucking it up - stewarding their currency, reducing debt, and so on - will never happen via a vote.  Change will not come until it crashes because the people don't know any better and worse don't want to know any better. 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 20:16 | 6009624 directaction
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Rising meat prices.

Who cares? I mean, what kind of a sick and twisted bastard would stick bits of dead animals in their mouth?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 20:53 | 6009763 Dan The Man
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You mean, like...a man?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 20:20 | 6009638 The Ingenious G...
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Not just beef. In Canada, lettuce is up 40% year on year. Veggies overall up 8.4% year on year and expected to rise another 7.5% this year.

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 20:52 | 6009757 Dan The Man
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We canuckleheads are not stupid.  We could just give a shit.  

Our nazi party takes good care of us and tells us all the time, how awesome we are.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 00:26 | 6010211 ucde
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hahahaha

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 21:16 | 6009816 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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I have had to double my normal intake of turkey due to the over priced beef in CANADA. Given the antibiotics in beef it's probably healthier to eat turkey. Frankly, I am an expert food shopper and it's getting tough to find deals nowadays. CANADA is definately charging too much for food, gasoline, and all necessary products people buy daily. The only thing that has gone down in price over the years are my contraband aboriginal smokes.

 

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 22:46 | 6010026 Village-idiot
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Why are Canadians complaining about all this and then refuse to grow their own veggies?

What does it take to wake you people up?

Sun, 04/19/2015 - 23:16 | 6010065 Radical Marijuana
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http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/04/17/Liberate-Bank-of-Canada/

Liberate the Bank of Canada

"... Committee for Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) ... have been steadily winning court battles initiated in 2011 that would oblige the Bank of Canada to return to its pre-1974 practice of lending the government money virtually interest free. But the mainstream media has boycotted the story. ... The good folks at COMER have for years -- decades, actually -- been trying to get people to pay attention to what is far and away the biggest, most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people. I am speaking here of the fact that instead of the Canadian government borrowing money from its own bank, our bank -- the Bank of Canada -- it has, since 1974 chosen instead to borrow exclusively from private international and domestic financial institutions providing them with enormous, absolutely risk free profits for almost four decades. ... if you think conspiracy theories are unappealing, then you'll have to come up a compelling argument for a coincidence theory that explains why a nation would deliberately impoverish itself in the interests of international finance capital."

Of course, the actual history of those developments has been just as well documented in Canada as it has been in the USA. There is no reasonable doubt that the FUNDING OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL PROCESSES created vicious spirals, which are automatically getting worse, faster ... Despite Canada still materially being one of the relatively best off countries in the world, Canada is on the same tragic trajectory of being dominated by ENFORCED FRAUDS as everywhere else. Furthermore, Canadians are still way more colonial in their mental attitudes than Americans, and the average Canadian is even more of an overall incompetent political idiot than the average American.

I have been working on the problems regarding the FUNDING OF POLITICS in Canada for a few decades, and continue to do so through Canadian Electoral District Associations. However, the main thing that I have discovered and demonstrated is that there is no reasonable doubt that the vast majority of North Americans act like Zombie Sheeple, who are being fleeced to exhaustion. While the COMER case is theoretically interesting, I see no good reasons to believe that anything sufficiently significant could happen as long as the overwhelming vast majority of North American taxpayers continue to deliberately act like Zombie Sheeple.

Tue, 04/21/2015 - 01:31 | 6013645 logical-different
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Finally someone writes something that is factual and the truth.  It is great that this writer understands the problems with the way government is borrowing money and in the process is creating a cancer from within.  

It is so completely unecessary to borrow from the banking community when in fact the banks do not possess the money in the first place.   It is created out of thin air and as a people we accept this hoax.   We have been sold out.   Just think about it.   If the money did not exist in the first place we have a right to extinguish this debt and tell the banks to just lend from depositor money.   If the banks require cash the government can lend them money and the people will get paid a nominal interest from these banks.

Other than that the banks are really of no use.

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 01:19 | 6010263 FIAT CON
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The common denominator here is that everyone talks a about how much fony/fiat paper it takes to buy some meat.

 Belief in fiat is what gives it value!

 When will people connect the dots to fiat! and realize with a fiat currency system the .gov/bankers can steal your wealth/purchasing power, meanwhile you think the price of beef is going up, but really fiat is collapsing.

Get rid of the Fiat! Sound money will bring stable prices.

Bankers and .gov siphon the purchasing power while your all blinded!

 

Mon, 04/20/2015 - 12:21 | 6011074 Thalamus
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Simple solution, start raising your own cows!

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:03 | 6023945 SweetDoug
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'So they start with the fucking exchange rate smoke-up-your-ass again.

And where were the prices going down when the CDN dollar was $1.12 US?

Shit President's Choice Gigantico burgers, $8.99 3 years ago, are now $13.99.

People are going to start screaming.

 

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