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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 24559753 Portugal 09/28/2012 07:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Santiago, Chile Last summer, two researchers from the New England Complex Systems Institute published a short paper examining the correlation between rising food prices and civil unrest. It was a timely analysis, to say the least. A number of food riots were occurring throughout the world, not to mention waves of revolution sparked by the high cost of food. This is nothing new; throughout history whenever people have struggled to put food on the table for their families, social unrest has been a common consequence. The French Revolution is a classic example; after decades of unsustainable fiscal and monetary practices that wrecked the French economy, the harvest season and subsequent winter of 1788 were particularly harsh. People went hungry, and it ultimately started the revolution. The researchers’ analysis went a step further, though; they modeled the relationship between food prices and social unrest to reach a simple conclusion– whenever the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)’s global food price index climbs above 210, conditions ripen for social unrest. Today, the FAO’s food index is at 213… and rising. Netherlands-based Rabobank recently published its own analysis, forecasting further rises in food prices well into the 3rd quarter of 2013. There are so many factors driving food prices higher. From a demand perspective, world population is growing at an extraordinary rate… plus the rise of billions of people from developing countries (especially in Asia) into the middle class is quickening demand for resource-intensive foods like beef. From a supply perspective, drought, soil erosion, and reduction of available farmland all put significant pressure on global agricultural output. And finally, from a monetary perspective, the enormous amount of paper currency being printed in the world is finding its way into agricultural commodities. Read more: [link to www.sovereignman.com] |
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Lady Jane Smith Forum Administrator User ID: 19147018 United States 09/28/2012 07:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Fate whispers to the warrior "You cannot withstand the storm" the warrior whispers back "I am the storm" INTJ-A |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 24559753 Portugal 09/28/2012 07:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Link is bogus in 2nd post, here is fix: [link to www.businessinsider.com] Quoting: Face Palmer Thank you so much! |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 24559753 Portugal 09/28/2012 07:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Thank you! To grow our oun vegetables or animals are the best choices... Jane grow moringa too! |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24564224 United States 09/28/2012 08:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Thank you! To grow our oun vegetables or animals are the best choices... Jane grow moringa too! do u do that? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24564917 Portugal 09/28/2012 08:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Thank you! To grow our oun vegetables or animals are the best choices... Jane grow moringa too! do u do that? Yes i'm starting to grow moringa, and if everything goes fine, as the resistence to winter, i will plant how much moringas i can! I have allready 100 plants growing! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24564917 Portugal 09/28/2012 09:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Thank you! To grow our oun vegetables or animals are the best choices... Jane grow moringa too! do u do that? Yes i'm starting to grow moringa, and if everything goes fine, as the resistence to winter, i will plant how much moringas i can! I have allready 100 plants growing! I just drink my cofee with moringa powder and it's so so delicious that you don't imagine! |
Phennommennonn Forum Administrator 09/28/2012 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | dude i just went shopping up north yesterday in amish territory bc out by me - the prices are an ass rape. political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. |
TheBiss User ID: 1501937 United States 09/28/2012 09:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.grainmill.coop] - Bulk foods, long term storage solutions [link to www.CatawbaCoops.com] - Unique A-Frame chicken coop plans |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 09/28/2012 09:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Yes yes yes yes. We're also expanding our garden beds for next year. We get a harsh winter so no winter planting for us. We just preserve what we grew to stockpile for the winter. We're also turning the previously neglected front yard flower beds (flowers are just not my thing..) into veggie/fruit gardens. What is nice about the community I live in.. very few people don't have a garden in their yard. The farmer's market here is extremely cheap to help fill a few gaps too. Just another suggestion for you. If you don't already have them, look into water barrels. I hate watering my garden with city water. I can't control what is in the rain really, but I know there's all kinds of crap in the city's water plus its expensive. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 09/28/2012 09:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Mmmmmm walleye. Store bought fish will never compare to fresh walleye. Everyone concerned about prepping fish because it will smell.. fresh fish hardly smells at all. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 09/28/2012 09:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in rural PA and prices are lower than I've ever seen them when I used to live in the city. I think this problem is more about greed than about scarcity. Quoting: DigitalGoodtime Not starting a fight, just calling it as i see it. I can see that. Prices are still somewhat reasonable in my area. Then again, I might just see it that way because I don't buy much. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 24418900 United States 09/28/2012 09:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. We have done the same and we even have a community garden that all the kids tend to with the help of other adults. I live in a small community in Michigan and a lot of people are struggling but instead of social unrest I think it has drawn the community closer together. Furthermore, the food shortages of the Great Depression didn't end in complete social chaos instead like our small community it brought people closer together. Not everything has to end in social madness; have some faith in your fellow man. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 24564917 Portugal 09/28/2012 10:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I live here in North Central,PA and it has been raining for a week allready....The ground is soaked and if it keeps up will destroy the winter harvest too......WE ARE SCREWED! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24567549 You have to grow things in wood big boxes, covered by transparent plastic... then you can put the whater you want. The bottom is in plastic too, but with holes for the whater pass |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 14392840 United States 09/28/2012 10:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in rural PA and prices are lower than I've ever seen them when I used to live in the city. I think this problem is more about greed than about scarcity. Quoting: DigitalGoodtime Not starting a fight, just calling it as i see it. I can see that. Prices are still somewhat reasonable in my area. Then again, I might just see it that way because I don't buy much. Me too. Safeway had milk 1.97 a gallon.. Bread, still one dollar.. Buncha stuff only one dollar during those dollar sales.. We find out cause I actualy get a NEWSPAPER. Theres sales. She has good eyes to spot em |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 09/28/2012 10:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. We have done the same and we even have a community garden that all the kids tend to with the help of other adults. I live in a small community in Michigan and a lot of people are struggling but instead of social unrest I think it has drawn the community closer together. Furthermore, the food shortages of the Great Depression didn't end in complete social chaos instead like our small community it brought people closer together. Not everything has to end in social madness; have some faith in your fellow man. I think you have a point. The community I'm in now is already heavy on gardening. The one my husband and I moved from wasn't. We visited family there not too long ago and found that now when the city tears down a condemned house they're building community plots in their place. It seemed like most neighborhoods had them and they were all planted and well tended. It was nice to see. Previously all they had was a very large community plot where they could rent space and the new plots are free. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 821124 Canada 09/28/2012 10:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | #1 Combo at Whataburger with cheese, Texas Toast instead of bun, onion rings instead of fried: all whatasized with a large ice tea is nearly ten bucks! Used to be two bucks and change! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 821124 Go to Del Taco instead.. Three Tacos for one dollar on Taco Night.. Dont have them round here. Anyways I'm on a diet, still food prices are ridiculous. |
The Governor User ID: 24564176 United States 09/28/2012 10:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Food prices are terrible. Either the prices keep increasing or the package size keeps decreasing. Quoting: Lady Jane Smith Meat is set to skyrocket with the impact of the droughts on animal feed costs for farmers. I just finished increasing the size of two of my vegetable beds and am considering building another. If people can, they need to garden & teach neighbors to do so as well. Many of my neighbors are increasing their gardens & the others are starting to ask us for advice on how to build their own. Yup. And the $40 BILLION/month Bernanke hyper inflation pump just started as well. Hunger is going to be the new black. |
Caelen User ID: 24419775 United States 09/28/2012 10:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in rural PA and prices are lower than I've ever seen them when I used to live in the city. I think this problem is more about greed than about scarcity. Quoting: DigitalGoodtime Not starting a fight, just calling it as i see it. I can see that. Prices are still somewhat reasonable in my area. Then again, I might just see it that way because I don't buy much. Me too. Safeway had milk 1.97 a gallon.. Bread, still one dollar.. Buncha stuff only one dollar during those dollar sales.. We find out cause I actualy get a NEWSPAPER. Theres sales. She has good eyes to spot em We don't drink cows milk, every last one of us in this house is lactose intolerant. I want to say that last time I happened to catch a glimpse a gallon of milk was almost $3 here if you bought a brand name and about $2 if you bought the store brand. We buy Almond milk from time to time though and that runs about 1.97 a carton. That's the stuff I usually have coupons for and stock up on a bit when its on sale. I make all of our bread but flour has gotten a bit ridiculous. If I don't catch it on sale (when I'm not stocked up, I usually am through a local mill) I'll spend about three bucks for a 5lb bag. Yeast has gotten stupid expensive too. One of those tiny jars of yeast is about $7.00. I refuse to buy that. I bought a 2 lb pack of yeast through a local bakery for about $10 about six months ago. Barely put a dent in it despite using it all the time. I get most of my stocking up done through newspaper sales too. :). Our local store puts out some pretty awesome flyers if you check the mail and bother to look. Knowing their policies helps too. I know my store will take one store coupon and one manufacturer's coupon. Makes for some really cheap stuff and you'd be surprised to find that many fresh food companies do put out coupons. “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” -Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2994748 United States 09/28/2012 10:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | #1 Combo at Whataburger with cheese, Texas Toast instead of bun, onion rings instead of fried: all whatasized with a large ice tea is nearly ten bucks! Used to be two bucks and change! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 821124 Go to Del Taco instead.. Three Tacos for one dollar on Taco Night.. made out of what rats and stray animals ? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 14392840 United States 09/28/2012 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm in rural PA and prices are lower than I've ever seen them when I used to live in the city. I think this problem is more about greed than about scarcity. Quoting: DigitalGoodtime Not starting a fight, just calling it as i see it. I can see that. Prices are still somewhat reasonable in my area. Then again, I might just see it that way because I don't buy much. Me too. Safeway had milk 1.97 a gallon.. Bread, still one dollar.. Buncha stuff only one dollar during those dollar sales.. We find out cause I actualy get a NEWSPAPER. Theres sales. She has good eyes to spot em We don't drink cows milk, every last one of us in this house is lactose intolerant. I want to say that last time I happened to catch a glimpse a gallon of milk was almost $3 here if you bought a brand name and about $2 if you bought the store brand. We buy Almond milk from time to time though and that runs about 1.97 a carton. That's the stuff I usually have coupons for and stock up on a bit when its on sale. I make all of our bread but flour has gotten a bit ridiculous. If I don't catch it on sale (when I'm not stocked up, I usually am through a local mill) I'll spend about three bucks for a 5lb bag. Yeast has gotten stupid expensive too. One of those tiny jars of yeast is about $7.00. I refuse to buy that. I bought a 2 lb pack of yeast through a local bakery for about $10 about six months ago. Barely put a dent in it despite using it all the time. I get most of my stocking up done through newspaper sales too. :). Our local store puts out some pretty awesome flyers if you check the mail and bother to look. Knowing their policies helps too. I know my store will take one store coupon and one manufacturer's coupon. Makes for some really cheap stuff and you'd be surprised to find that many fresh food companies do put out coupons. Caelan, yes its awesome everything youve done ! I was speaking to everyone in general about the newspaper cause it has value savings, esp local. It gives us heads up on events in our town and I like to go out . The fliers have been cheaper then Walmart. The hunt is fun. Ive added a new freezer and fridge and we stock up.. I like the Almond milk too For everyone that has a King Soopers. You can get Poweraids and Vitamin Waters for 67 cents on their value days... BTW, I talk food and sales cause I majored in Marketing and I write product reviews... I can talk food prices, ravioli, snack chips all day long.. |