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Why is food so expensive?

Why is food so expensive?

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Because 42 million people get it for free? Maybe?

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Labor shortage
Tariffs

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The north Sonoran desert doesn't seem to be the best place to be when transport and food harvesting breaks down. I could probably go to the farms and pick my own food here in CA. I guess you're too old for that anyway.

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@AThousandYoung said
Labor shortage
Tariffs
Tariffs?
USA grows all we need and pays farmers NOT to grow too much.
F,,CU^K you are stoopit.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Tariffs?
USA grows all we need and pays farmers NOT to grow too much.
F,,CU^K you are stoopit.
Not where you live. Tariffs are hitting the supply chain especially trucking.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Tariffs?
USA grows all we need and pays farmers NOT to grow too much.
F,,CU^K you are stoopit.
And it rots in the fields because no Mexicans and white boys and blacks are too lazy

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Cuts in SNAP and tariffs on China have cut demand for food. This means a loss of efficiency as it's proportionally cheaper to produce large amounts than small amounts of products b/c economies of scale.

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@AThousandYoung said
And it rots in the fields because no Mexicans and white boys and blacks are too lazy
And yet all we need gets to market and we still sell more overseas or just give it away to other countries..
Kinda makes you feel useless, doesn' it?

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@AThousandYoung said
And it rots in the fields because no Mexicans and white boys and blacks are too lazy
Or because illegal labor has dropped the wages to the point where it’s not worth it.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
And yet all we need gets to market and we still sell more overseas or just give it away to other countries..
Kinda makes you feel useless, doesn' it?
Yep, at higher prices.

Nah I'm extremely useful. I am educated in the hard sciences. This is something that is getting more and more valuable as time goes on and the supply for people with this knowledge withers. And unlike, say, history majors, you need my knowledge to do a lot of things like make those pills you old farts take by the handful, agriculture, engineering etc.

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
Tariffs?
USA grows all we need and pays farmers NOT to grow too much.
F,,CU^K you are stoopit.
Olive oil?
Coffee?

Not grown here.

Meats going up because ICE raided the packing plants and now there's no one left who knows how to process the food.

Most Americans now shop at chains like dollar general and Walmart which source food from overseas, a capitalist- driven change that took decades and will take decades to reverse with increased government regulations.

Among other things. SNAPs got nothing to do with it. 4 in 10 of those 42 million people are children. 7 in 10 either work full time or have a parent who does. The rest are mostly temporarily on food stamps because they're going through a rough stretch. Of course there's fraud but not nearly as much as your media personalities want you to think.

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@mike69 said
Or because illegal labor has dropped the wages to the point where it’s not worth it.
Spin it how you want it has caused the price of food to go up which is the answer to the question.

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@mike69 said
Or because illegal labor has dropped the wages to the point where it’s not worth it.
Maybe not the point you think you're making.

Unless you're trying to say that food prices had been artificially low before trump due to depressed wages and now what we're seeing is the true price of food driven up by Trump administration policies?

Is that your point?