Originally Posted By: eljefino
Originally Posted By: dlundblad
If expenses go up by 100%, wouldn't it make sense that their prices would too? Like a gallon of milk going from $3.50 to $7?
That's a bad example, too.
Milk already sees tons of subsidies, protections, and price floors.
Maybe boneless chicken thighs would be a better one. They're mostly processed stateside, mostly by folks making under $10/hr (as I read in an "Arkansas miracle" op-ed piece), and AFAIK they don't see super huge tax breaks and manipulation. Boneless thighs have been available to me on sale for $2/lb since I started buying my own food in the 1990s.
This seems low, eg, efficient. I keep a few egg laying chickens and when they need slaughter due to old age, I just put them in a hefty bag and send them to the town dump. It's not even worth it to me to pluck and process the things, and I'm so cheap I jump over the electric eye in my garage door to keep the light off.
I just used the most generic grocery store example. What do people seem to always need? Milk, eggs and bread. Lol.
Very interesting about the price of chicken being the same price for so long though. Its about double+ that here at its normal price. Even then its not worth butchering a few chickens IMO. Lol.