Food Prices

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2186936/U-S--drought-Food-prices-set-soar-corn-farmers-abandon-fields-size-Belgium-Luxembourg.html

[ys]

so how does high price of gmo corn concern us?

[eveheart]

The drought affects grasslands as well as corn fields.

[raw-al]

We are starting to get rain and cooler weather. Was a very hot summer.

So hot the birds were using potholders to pull out worms.

[PaleoPhil]

so how does high price of gmo corn concern us?

In addition to the grassland drought, there's also an indirect effect--the price of corn-fed meat goes up, which then will likely enable grassfed meat producers to also raise their prices, as they are in business, like everyone else, to make a profit, and if their competitors' prices go up, they can raise their prices without any loss of business. We'll see, I do expect that the price increases of all meats in the USA will accelerate, or at least continue. I'm amazed by how rapidly they've been rising in my area as it is, and wild fish prices have been rising even faster. Whatever your view, it's in your interest to expect and prepare for the worst as best you can, even while hoping for the best.

[PaleoPhil]

"Price gap between more and less healthy foods grows"

"A new study, published today in the journal PLOS One, tracked the price of 94 key food and beverage items from 2002 to 2012. Its findings show that more healthy foods were consistently more expensive than less healthy foods, and have risen more sharply in price over time." - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/price-gap-between-more-and-less-healthy-foods-grows#sthash.nvQ4ri4O.dpuf

[TylerDurden]

What is great is that , judging from this study and others,  the foods that scientists view as being healthy are nowhere near our rawpaleodiet foods. I mean, semi-skimmed milk, baked beans, tinned tomatoes.....?

So do what I do whenever possible, buy raw organ-meats and other raw foods that foolish SMD-eaters routinely avoid and RVAFers  will be fine.

[PaleoPhil]

I have managed to cut my food budget somewhat, despite the rising prices, though not all in ways that you would likely approve of. Even the prices of grassfed organ meats have risen significantly in my area, and they have become scarcer for some reason. Bones and bony meats are also increasingly scarce, strangely enough, though still enough to meat my minimal needs. You'd think people would use more cheaper bony foods in times of rising food prices, rather than less, but the general trend toward boneless meats appears to be overriding that.

[TylerDurden]

I was always annoyed in the UK at how many farmers would whine to me  about not being able to sell raw organ-meats. They claimed that they would have to pay the vet inspectors  more in order to inspect the organ-meats as well as that would take longer, and that was not worth it since organ-meats were so cheap that they got little profit from it. So they just threw the stuff away. I subsequently read in Private Eye magazine that the stupid British government, after the insane BSE crisis, had not only forced strict government inspections by a vet, but had moronically allowed the EU to impose an additional unnecessary inspection on each animal, all of which the blasted farmer has to pay for.

Here in Austria, I can easily get hold of raw organ-meats. They are not officially 100% grassfed but taste fine and I have heard that most domesticated animals in Austria are raised mostly on grass, so I am not too worried, plus I have easy access to very cheap raw wild game muscle-meat. On the other hand, raw wildcaught seafood is insanely expensive, to the point where they start charging per 100g not per kg, so that 1kg of a particular fish can  easily cost 40-50 euros!