Posted on 09/11/2021 6:36:24 AM PDT by blam
Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school.
Food prices rose a full percentage point in August, up from six-tenths of a point in July, defying predictions that inflation would cool off, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. Compared with a year ago, food prices are up 12.7 percent, outpacing the overall increase of 8.3 percent in the Producer Price Index.
On an annual basis, that is the highest level of food inflation in records that go back to 2010. The monthly figure is the third-highest on record, following May 2020’s pantry-raid that emptied many grocery store shelves and February 2011.
Prices of some staples have been driven sky-high. Some of the truly startling annual numbers from Friday’s Producer Price Index:
•Beef and Veal: +59.2 percent
•Pork: +34.1 percent
•Chickens: +32 percent
•Fish: +18 percent
•Turkey: +41.4 percent
•Fresh eggs: +31.7 percent
Shortening and cooking oils are up a jaw dropping 43.5 percent.
Not all food prices are up, of course. Dairy prices are down. Fresh fruits and vegetable prices have fallen (although canned fruits and vegetable prices are up).
Grain prices are up an incredible 98 percent...
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According to The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dan Ackroyd, lips and a*******.
Must be why I saw grass fed organic ground beef for the same price as regular feed lot ground beef yesterday.
Too bad Thomas Massie’s PRIME Act never went through. We could all be buying individual cuts of grass fed beef from small custom slaughterhouses instead of being stuck with Tyson/Cargill/JBS/National feed lot beef.
Sausage is even more ‘varied’.
Trucking costs for fuel are another item.
LOL.... Close your eyes..... ummmm good.
Unforgivable, half the population thinks government money is free.
My old neighbor used to love those Red Hot Mamas. Mini, spicy, bright red hot dogs until I picked up the package and read “pig lips” off the list of ingredients.
Grain prices have gone through the roof. Even though none of us eat corn, I keep growing a small patch and saving seeds. Next year I may till an acre just for corn for chicken scratch!
A relative of mine raises a few head of cattle, more or less as a hobby. He can’t find anyone to butcher a few for his personal use. From other sources I’ve heard, I don’t believe there is a shortage of meat and other staples but rather a lack of processing plants, transportation (truckers), etc.
I watched the “How It’s Made” video for liverwurst. I still love the stuff, though.
In my condominium, renters cannot vote on building matters. Wouldn’t it be nice if people who accept welfare would not be able to vote. I like to dream.
Local small deer processing plants may be willing to do it.
now i’m motivated to reduce the squirrel population on my property...
Sausage is even more ‘varied’.
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Most people wouldn’t eat meat if they knew the
process from birth to final product. JMO
Scrapple is big up here in DE/PA.
There’s a local butcher shop that makes the best scrapple, IMHO. I also frequent the Polish store for kishka. Great with dippy eggs.
I started a meat goat herd last year. Bought them with a stimulus check ironically. I figured I might as well use that ‘free money’ to prepare for the potential collapse from fedgov giving away ‘free money’.
Small pigs are next.
Lips, tongue, esophagus and the attached fat not to exceed 20% by weight.
Sounds good.
I’ve been hitting the Amish Market by me.
Their bacon is awesome.
Do you know what kind of rodent to use to make hamburger?
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