Yes, the price of Everything is skyrocketing. Show us some examples of what you noticed has increased dramatically in price recently.
Milk, which I remember being 79cents a gallon, is up to almost $5.00, and bread is over $4.00 a loaf from .50 cents. Not to mention gasoline, which used to sell for .39 a gallon!
Sure seems like prices have doubled in the last few years. Maybe more on some items... How much can one cut back?
The avian flu is to blame for the culling of hundreds of millions of birds just in the US, as well as egg prices skyrocketing.
I would ask the same @wilsjane and of course they did not laugh. Sad situation for all. If there was ever a need for more home gardening and local food sourcing this is it. Depending on global supply chains for basically everything and the basics... is not sustainable and will eventually fall apart as all systems do. Meanwhile, we pay, pay, and pay some more, every day. We have a lot to learn about resilience from people like @sureño down in Argentina.
The whole situation is a joke.... The manufacturers are doing all the laughing. Jersey cows milk contains around 10% fat. Arla, who process almost all milk in the UK, sell it to us at 4% First they remove all the fat, then replace it t the standardised quantity, but they are very sheepish when I ask them whether they use the original butter fat, or vegetable oil. Then they homogenise it, to break the fat chains so small that we cannot taste them. So small that the milk cannot curdle, increasing its shelf life from 2 to 12 days. What a strange coincidence. Cows produce different quantities of milk seasonally, so do Arla freeze dry and reconstitute it. Again no answers. Our milk is now so sterile, that even the bacteria run for the hills and our cat turns his nose up when we offer him some. Perhaps we should use it for cleaning the toilet and drink the lavatory cleaner. At least it would have some taste.
You are correct about the reconstituted mail in off season. Sounds as if off-season may be permanent in the UK for awhile. Also you are correct about the manufacturers and distributors laughing their way to the bank. It is deplorable. I think a certain Hillary was correct to call out and identify the 'basket of deplorables.'
We have jut hit a problem importing goods from China. While the transport cost of a container from China to our docks is around £1,000. The road or rail costs of getting it 40 miles from the docks to the customer is roughly the same.
That IS a problem. A local problem. Time to grow your own if you can. Buying everything from China or somewhere else is not the answer. If you can't produce it locally why live there?
China has bought farm land and processing plants here in the Mid-West USA. I no longer buy pork with that label. But you don't know if that plant also supplies other brands.
