With a nudge from our site director, Becky Striepe, and network founder / publisher, David Anderson, I've decided to cover the complicated but important topic of
rising food prices today.
Not exact matches
But 10 jars for $ 7.00 is still a good deal with
today's
rising food prices.
There are already plenty of farms that would be viable
today without subsidies, and if subsidies would disappear only a few farms would need to close down before bulk
food prices would
rise to the level that others become profitable as well.
Two in three Canadians (63 %) said
rising food prices hadn't been receiving enough attention from Canada's elected leaders, and 53 % said the issue was «one of the most important» facing the country
today.
Yields continue to
rise faster than population, weather continues to matter less and less because of technology and trade (in the 1690s, when it was cheaper to move people than
food, 15 % of France's population starved because of a failed harvest that
today would register as a small
price blip), and famine continues to reflect more and more political, not ecological causes.
As corn crops wither and
food prices rise, this has resulted in a steady string of visits to Iowa and other sun - baked states by politicians, including both Rep. Paul Ryan and President Obama
today.