Posts Tagged ‘meat’
Crisis on a table
In previous months prices have started to jump like crazy. In this very moment I’m not concerned about a prices of the traffic, nor the electricity, but the price of the food, and especially the price of the meat.
Vegetarian people can say whatever they want, but I LOVE meat. I need it, it gives me a lot more energy then vegetables and it’s so, so tasty. Meat prices already began to rise before the drought really settled in this summer. The price tag on sirloin steak jumped more than 15% from June 2011 to June 2012, according to the BLS. The price of ground beef rose more than 8% and chicken prices jumped more than 6% during the same period. The supply of beef hasn’t really dropped yet, so consumers should expect the prices at grocery stores to rise more over the long term. This is going to affect a budget of every family for sure, that some of my friends started to wonder: “Is it a good idea to live in a village, and have your own food produced?”
I hope that in order to keep prices as low as possible, nobody will try to sell a unhealthy animals. There is a lot of regulations and tests that shouldn’t be able to trick anyone, but still, in this crazy year, who knows whats possible?