Food Prices Are About To Go Through The Roof
According to this article from csmonitor:
"Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it."
It goes on to claim that two main reasons are to blame for this - more acreage going into growing crops for biofuels and the growing demand for meat in previously dirt poor nations with booming economies like China and India. The article looks at a global overview but in this country there's going to be a third major reason why food is probably going to double and triple in price - the dollar is sinking like a brick and it's going to take a lot more of them to put food on your family.
The rush to biofuels and switching to a carnivore diet appear to be based on the same premise, using precious land to grow grain crops for reasons other than human ingestion. The whole push for this is a phony, feel good scam dedicated to increasing profits for a few bloodsuckers while the rest of us and the environment suffer. It seems it takes more energy to create biofuel than you get from the finished product, the rush to clear land in the in the tropics to plant for it is savaging the rain forests and there are problems with emissions. But corporate welfare queen Archer Daniels Midland is ecstatic. When the Bushistas demanded almost $100 billion for farm subsidies over the next few years to move more towards biofuel production you can now say good bye to over the counter cheap, wholesome bread.
Personally we made a few changes. Over the years Mrs Lipstick and I liked to buy our bread from the Great Harvest chain, which keeps it's loaves simple and nutritious, but far too expensive after the price went up to $4.50. In the past we owned a bread maker that worked but only could handle balloon bread consistencies. So we invested in an industrial strength mixer that can handle two loaves of good, dense dough and it works great. Couple that with a manual grain grinder and (still) inexpensive wheat berries in bulk and we're enjoying truly delicious bread, pasta and you name it without going broke.
"Food prices worldwide hit record highs in 2006, and all the signs are that they will go on rising this year, and for the foreseeable future. The era of cheap food, the experts say, is over and we are going to have to get used to it."
It goes on to claim that two main reasons are to blame for this - more acreage going into growing crops for biofuels and the growing demand for meat in previously dirt poor nations with booming economies like China and India. The article looks at a global overview but in this country there's going to be a third major reason why food is probably going to double and triple in price - the dollar is sinking like a brick and it's going to take a lot more of them to put food on your family.
The rush to biofuels and switching to a carnivore diet appear to be based on the same premise, using precious land to grow grain crops for reasons other than human ingestion. The whole push for this is a phony, feel good scam dedicated to increasing profits for a few bloodsuckers while the rest of us and the environment suffer. It seems it takes more energy to create biofuel than you get from the finished product, the rush to clear land in the in the tropics to plant for it is savaging the rain forests and there are problems with emissions. But corporate welfare queen Archer Daniels Midland is ecstatic. When the Bushistas demanded almost $100 billion for farm subsidies over the next few years to move more towards biofuel production you can now say good bye to over the counter cheap, wholesome bread.
Personally we made a few changes. Over the years Mrs Lipstick and I liked to buy our bread from the Great Harvest chain, which keeps it's loaves simple and nutritious, but far too expensive after the price went up to $4.50. In the past we owned a bread maker that worked but only could handle balloon bread consistencies. So we invested in an industrial strength mixer that can handle two loaves of good, dense dough and it works great. Couple that with a manual grain grinder and (still) inexpensive wheat berries in bulk and we're enjoying truly delicious bread, pasta and you name it without going broke.
posted by nolocontendere at 6:08 AM
2 Comments:
I make my own bread, kneading it by hand. No machine necessary other than an oven. It's not too hard to do once you get the hang of it.
The tried and true method!
I've made hundreds of loaves for decades like that, chris, but the Mrs and I differ 'bout the consistency. You know who wins out in a situation like that:) Plus she's queen of Kitchen Pasta.
It's good to be fully prepared to go the johnny cake and quick bread route when we'll have to though.
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