Posted on 02/26/2023 7:46:59 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The two things easiest to grow in a garden where I live in Central kentucky are tomatoes and peppers. In fact, we have chickens that drop seeds all over the place and we end up with so many volunteer plants we really don’t need to raise any.
The two things easiest to grow in a garden where I live in Central kentucky are tomatoes and peppers. In fact, we have chickens that drop seeds all over the place and we end up with so many volunteer plants we really don’t need to raise any.
From the video page (youtube.com) :
" 'They’re rationing tomatoes in the supermarkets.
We’re told it’s about supply chains, bad weather and the price of heating,
but right now, in terms of the messaging, I suspect it’s more about pushing the word – rationing.' "
Things look like they could get really "good".
I had volunteer tomatoes last fall from damaged ones I threw into the compost pile. Some seeds sprouted and I planted them to see how they would do in central Florida over the winter. I have so many tomatoes. I picked 11 just this morning.
Calling things what they are not is part of what gets us into trouble.
The stores (holy private businesses) are looking at the limited amount of goods they have in certain categories and asking themselves, how can we distribute these in a way that will lose us the least number of customers.
They could hike the prices but that would bring the government down on them. And it would tick off customers.
Selling them at the normal price would keep the government off their backs but some people would buy out all their produce and re-sell it someplace else at a profit. That would mean they would have nothing to sell most people. And that would tick off customers.
By keeping the price normal but restricting the number of units people may buy they are keeping the maximum number of customers at "mildly annoyed but not enough to change their shopping habits". And as a bonus you do not have the government on your back.
MtnClimber : "Things look like they could get really "good"."
This coincides with the elimination of SNAP (Supplemental Foods) additional benefits issued during the pandemic
and those benefits are set to expire March 1.
This will increase the demand nationwide on regional food pantries,
so those pantry food lines will be even longer.
The amount of SNAP benefits vary, but may mean as much as a 1/3 reduction, or more, in assistance monies for food for low income families.
YMMV
Sounds about right.
This is 3rd-hand information, so take it with a grain of salt:
A friend of mine mentioned that another friend of hers, who lives in the UK and grows all her own produce, has had people offering £10 (roughly $12) for a single frozen tomato!!
LOL! My chickens do the same. And the volunteers they plant always come up stronger than the ones I plant on purpose!
Dh went to town (very small but has two food stores, Grocery Outlet and one other, small local chain) and pickings were VERY thin, prices twice as high as not long ago. Compounded because of heavy snow in CA preventing trucks from getting here. He was buying milk (well stocked) and produce (very thin).
You’re also a lot easier to exterminate when you’re all bunched up.
Well, he cut right to the heart of the matter........
This has never happened till obama and Biden were installed.
They were helped by Bushs and Clintons and all the other socialists. Over in England and other countries they have similar problems with socialists.
“Rationing” Is the New Globalist Buzzword as They Normalize Scarcity Ahead of Manufactured Collapses
https://discernreport.com/rationing-is-the-new-globalist-buzzword-as-they-normalize-scarcity-ahead-of-manufactured-collapses/
“And build your own furnace to burn your own natural gas from your own well in the back yard.” I’m already doing that. I have to keep my gas range useable.
“Well, he cut right to the heart of the matter........”
Oliver is very good at that. He is excellent.
I rather enjoyed that.
It’s very refreshing to see that kind of lack of pretense.
I’m good
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