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RussiaBernd2023-09-29 12:27:22 · 3yNo. 289684reply
Why is food so expensive and going up
Like I know that russia is doing all it can to destroy its economy but people from le wect argue that the food prices are getting out of hand too
 
If we as humanity are so good at food production, why high prices? Why no free food? Didn't we pro level master agriculture by this point???
 
Explain how food works pls
SloveniaBernd2023-09-29 13:28:06 · 3yNo. 289687reply
Look at how few people own food production, and the heavy regulation with the excuse of hygiene standards and environment or some bullshit. In some Anglo countries (New Zealand, I think a lot of places in US too) it's actually illegal to garden, even for own consumption! It should be obvious that agricultural elites are deliberately creating scarcity to maximize profits.
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 14:29:06 · 3yNo. 289695reply
Evil capitalism
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 16:52:22 · 3yNo. 289711reply
60 percent of the food is currently sold without profits.
>https://www.fruitnet.com/main-navigation/less-than-half-fresh-produce-sold-globally-makes-any-profit/256025.article
>Those increases, the report says, were driven by costs of fertiliser (up 60 per cent worldwide), construction (+48 per cent), fuel and gas (+41 per cent), shipping rates (+40 per cent), and electricity (+40 percent).
Fertilizer requires natural gas to be produced. So all in all the price for food is mostly driven by rising energy prices. I doubt that droughts brought by climate change and overexploitation of natural water resources are very beneficial either.
 
Also even if you manage to exponentially increase the amount of food you can produce nothing changes if the human population rises exponentially as well.
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 17:02:14 · 3yNo. 289714reply
food should be ten times more expensive so all the poor people just starve to death lmao
SloveniaBernd2023-09-29 17:31:45 · 3yNo. 289715reply
Regulations are the important thing here
It is extremely cheap to grow food yourself, so they ban it through regulations
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 17:37:38 · 3yNo. 289717reply
I doubt that many cunts ban growing your own food.
 
But it's just not feasible. Even for a single person you need huge amounts of land with all different kinds of crops so you can nourish yourself through the year. Gardening yourself might be a fun hobby but it just doesn't make sense to get completely independent with it. Better produce food on an industrial scale with massive amount of automation.
MexicoBernd2023-09-29 17:43:30 · 3yNo. 289720reply
Capitalism. And the war that is caused because of said capitalism.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/why-is-one-third-of-food-wasted-worldwide
RussiaBernd2023-09-29 17:50:21 · 3yNo. 289721reply
Not the worst opinion to be honest
RussiaBernd2023-09-29 17:55:14 · 3yNo. 289723reply
> 60 percent of the food is currently sold without profits.
Sold to store chains or consumers? Big difference if you try to calculate how much ends up thrown away.
SloveniaBernd2023-09-29 18:01:22 · 3yNo. 289725reply
You'll be short on meat, but if you don't live in the city you can easily grow more vegetables and fruit than you can consume.
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 18:03:07 · 3yNo. 289726reply
Maybe during summer. But not all year around.
RussiaBernd2023-09-29 18:04:57 · 3yNo. 289727reply
How about eggs? B12 can be substituted from eggs.
SloveniaBernd2023-09-29 18:27:39 · 3yNo. 289730reply
>he doesn't know about ozimnica
 
it's not just B12, it's also iron, zinc, and arachidonic acid
MexicoBernd2023-09-29 18:47:29 · 3yNo. 289736reply
Maybe keeping the ultrarich from hoarding wealth beyond any measure seen in modern times would help stave off the monopolistic practices that fuck all economies, big and small?
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 18:54:39 · 3yNo. 289738reply
Why don't you live from your land if it so great?
HungaryBernd2023-09-29 18:58:47 · 3yNo. 289741reply
I partially agree. But regulations are also demanded by the people, and they get increasingly hostile towards neighbours in case of keeping animals for example (calling the police because pigs screaming in the morning when they get their feed - not to mention when they get butchered). And people also get lazy.
In my childhood in the neighbourhood people had poultry, rabbits, pigs, goats, cows. Now, nothing. I found a data in an article: in 2010 about 250K households raised animals, in 2020 it's 117K.
There are way less gardens with patch of veggies or fruit trees. It's work, and people rather earn money with their day jobs and just buy stuff instead of tending the garden. (Even if the crap they buy is worse in quality. My fav example is the store bought pumped up strawberries which are nice and big and red, but chewy and tastes like water - and people think this is normal!)
I really should read up on regulations on the Hungary. There ought to be some, for nothing else but the EU at least.
AzerbaijanBernd2023-09-29 19:01:11 · 3yNo. 289742reply
RussiaBernd2023-09-29 19:46:43 · 3yNo. 289755reply
Potatoes and onions are rich in those btw! Except for the acid thing, I don't even know what that is.
FinlandBernd2023-09-29 20:03:16 · 3yNo. 289761reply
Because the Western world has neglected to invest in hydroponic farming
NetherlandsBernd2023-09-29 20:43:50 · 3yNo. 289766reply
Any ideas how to keep them from hoarding wealth that do not lead to simply switching them for other ultrarich?
GermanyBernd2023-09-29 20:45:48 · 3yNo. 289767reply
of course it wörks. the universe is constantly expanding, so why should constant growth be unsustainable?
FinlandBernd2023-09-29 20:57:20 · 3yNo. 289768reply
The expansion of the universe goes to waste because the space thus added just gets pushed over the edge of the observable universe
MexicoBernd2023-09-29 21:08:45 · 3yNo. 289770reply
Based.
United StatesBernd2023-09-30 01:48:00 · 3yNo. 289806reply
i eat well at $50/month
idk why people fail to read prices and purchase the cheap food
HungaryBernd2023-09-30 07:50:07 · 3yNo. 289835reply
aquaponics > hydroponics
NetherlandsBernd2023-09-30 11:46:50 · 3yNo. 289844reply
I don't need to observe food, just eating it would be enough, thank you.
AzerbaijanBernd2023-09-30 16:47:07 · 3yNo. 289892reply
>so why should constant growth be unsustainable?
question is why constant growth doesnt affect salaries.
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 16:50:57 · 3yNo. 289893reply
Inflation.
AzerbaijanBernd2023-09-30 16:54:13 · 3yNo. 289896reply
it was rather rhetorical.
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 17:14:54 · 3yNo. 289902reply
I can expect anything from you after your unironical confession that you're a stalinist. I mean, anything.
MexicoBernd2023-09-30 17:30:37 · 3yNo. 289903reply
>Private capital raises prices.
>Private capital doesn't rise salaries.
>Private capital spends billions in lobbying so gov legislate for private capital.
Simple as.
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 17:35:16 · 3yNo. 289904reply
It's an extremely retarded victim-syndromed tankie simplification that harms both realistic socialist perception of things AND your survival skills for as long as capitalism has to be tolerated and survived within's.
t. legit socialist unlike u and bo
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 19:23:30 · 3yNo. 289913reply
>destroy food with bulldozers
>destroy hohol ports full of grain
Why food expensive?
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 19:37:22 · 3yNo. 289914reply
The prices were rising even before both covid and invasion. It's a never-ending process, the further we go on timeline the higher is the price.
Explan.
GermanyBernd2023-09-30 20:01:00 · 3yNo. 289915reply
Inflation.
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 20:09:30 · 3yNo. 289917reply
Well you cannot simply not buy food, you need food, so you'll buy it anyway, enjoy your cuckpitalism.
UruguayBernd2023-09-30 20:48:22 · 3yNo. 289920reply
 
I think its easier for me to get my wage and buy food, rather than hunt or recolect..
 
If we want free food we need to wait until technology is more than enough, we will all be neets in 2060 maybe, with state drones giving us food for free
SloveniaBernd2023-09-30 20:50:06 · 3yNo. 289922reply
I will simply go to a conference or something every day, they have free food.
Problems weren't.
RussiaBernd2023-09-30 21:14:27 · 3yNo. 289924reply
Tacobell settis?
United StatesBernd2023-10-01 00:42:02 · 3yNo. 289941reply
I get $291 per month from the government to buy food
 
t. poorfrogs
United StatesBernd2023-10-01 00:51:53 · 3yNo. 289942reply
just for food? that is garch-tier
United StatesBernd2023-10-01 03:35:20 · 3yNo. 289946reply
yeah. food stamps is the easiest welfare to get in america
United StatesBernd2023-10-01 14:06:04 · 3yNo. 289971reply
HUNGRY AF
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