Comments on: Bulging Grocery Bills Fed By Global Forces

Higher Grain Prices, Packaging And Fuel Costs Add To Rise In Food Prices

[cfin5]

Don''t blame us workers! We''ve been down here keeping the treadmill turning while the demopubliCONS been selling us down the economic river just so they could make more money than they already needed. Free trade sure hasn''t been Fair trade now has it? They railed and belittled anyone for years if they were anywhere near an isolationist viewpoint. But my memory hasn''t forgot that we lived a much more affluent and peaceful life with those policies than we are now.......Guess I had better grow a bigger garden next year before THAT even becomes illegal too!

[nyckate]

Factor in inflation and the fact that it already reflects a non-raise to the working American and we''re really screwed.

But hey - Bush got the top 1% a tremendous tax cut and that''s all that counts.

[slim1h2o]

jn122736 ,,

And it''s only going to get worse,......

[jn122736]

%u201CNationwide, milk prices are up 18 percent since the start of the year, while eggs cost 35 percent more than they did a year ago.%u201D
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I have been using nonfat dry milk the past several years because of my dietary routine and because I can buy enough at one time to last for months, saving extra trips to the market (miles from my home).

7 months ago I I paid $7.99 per 20-quart box. Yesterday the same milk cost $12.99 per box., that%u2019s a 61.5% increase.

I checked the price for dry milk online and the $12.99 price here, was actually lower than any I found online.

One year ago I bought eggs for 79 cents per dozen (2 dozen for $1 on sale), yesterday they were $1.49 per dozen, a 188% increase.

[tnt1954]

that''s right neobrian, smart dude you are.
millions of city dwellers march in protest
against mother nature, demand food grow faster,
cause they''re getting hungrier and have no money
to buy it with. and the farmers have decided
not to ship to you in the cities, but to the
starving in africa. where they can get diamonds
and gold for the food, not food stamps.

[slim1h2o]

***,, I meant to say, "the Gov''t don''t care about us"

[slim1h2o]

rudy654;;

The illegals, "ARE", just one of the problems, they came here, and lowered our wages, and there fore, lowered our standard of living. Its corporate greed, that''s a problem, which is another reason that we''re in this situation. This Gov''t don''t about us, just money!

[rudy654-2009]

I liked it when just a couple of weeks ago they reported that consumer spending was up! Oh, but the market just bounced with that good news! And I thought, of course it''s up, we have to spend more to eat. LOL!

[rudy654-2009]

Let''s just turn all our corn and other foods into biofuels, because it''s more important to drive our cars than it is to eat. How many fields were dedicated to biofuels this year? And don''t forget, with the crackdown on illegals out in the fields, produce is rotting there we speak. Good job everyone! Hey, but we still have our cable television and can watch the reality shows.

[slim1h2o]

bsteve2u,

I agree,,,I saw this coming two yrs ago, or longer, but when gas prices went up, I knew the economy was going to tank. It was just a matter of time!

The middle class can''t support the world, thanks Bushitt!

[neobrian-2009]

Snideass,..You Are Such An Idiot,..Your degree is in " Too Much Time ",...Why don`t you devote some time helping instead of whining & trying to look intelligent...Get a life!

[missingamerica]

"It''s the worst bout of food inflation since 1990, but not yet worrisome to the economy"...

My, how quickly we forget those people who are attempting to balance on the knife edge as they struggle with ballooning mortgage payments.

And health care costs, and gasoline and heating fuel prices.

Food prices that are in fact just another chisel chipping away at the hollow core of the credit-fueled American economy...

[tnt1954]

don''t forget union greed too, grocery strikes.
if i had the money, buy a farm, to grow food
for yourselves and feed others if you can.
it ought to be mandatory to grow food in your
home or apt. by hydroponics. people in south
of the u.s.a. have lived with the fear of famine
since the civil war, they always have corn
growing in their front yards. decorative plants
are fine looking, but ya can''t eat them. it
takes a long time to grow a potato, only a few
seconds to eat it. gee i wish i had a degree
in agriculture. a very difficult major. the
hardest job in the world is being a farmer.
has the longest hours and the oftentimes the
lowest pay. and here comes a war machine
to destroy you and eat all your crops.
peasants know. they remember. peasants happily
tilling the land as feudal barons tax them out
of house and home. their motto, you make, we take.
and then here comes army one, riding over your
fields, peasants run like heck, then here comes
army two in pursuit of army one, running over your
fields, run again and hide, then army three in
pursuit of armies one and two, eating all the crops
and pillaging raping robbing and burning. the life
of a peasant is a vale of tears, from birth to
death. piers plowman. peasant revolts are usually
always failures.

[truthspeake2]

The only global forces at work here is Corporate greed!

[hypnotoad72]

Given something up to 95% of people of Chinese descent are lactose intolerant, that can''t be the reason for the hike in milk costs. (But as cows eat grain, and most people of any biological make-up are not allergic to grains, those are obvious reason for the hike.)

Biofuels are also a waste of edible products; why can''t we burn waste instead?

[wogerwabbit]

The shame of it all is that ethenol costs more energy to produce than it saves, resuting in a net loss. Who''s the idiot that came up with pushing this idea? Oh yeah, Bush.