☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to [email protected]English • 1 year ago54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their financeswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1173cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareDolores [love/loves]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year ago I mean it’s a global system of trade the US is extremely manipulative in the food markets, so i’d hesitate to use such a simple arithmetic.
minus-squareDyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoyeah but manipulating the market so that food is cheap for the average person? that would require foresight and self preservation
minus-squareDolores [love/loves]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agonothing so naive—but US firms rely on US produce for their profits, so the gouging could be happening further up the chain where absence/presence of Ukrainian grain is less of a factor is all i’m speculating.
the US is extremely manipulative in the food markets, so i’d hesitate to use such a simple arithmetic.
yeah but manipulating the market so that food is cheap for the average person? that would require foresight and self preservation
nothing so naive—but US firms rely on US produce for their profits, so the gouging could be happening further up the chain where absence/presence of Ukrainian grain is less of a factor is all i’m speculating.