It's seems to be going up. Dried beans cost several times what they used to. Going to a yuppie markets doesn't help. They have good produce, but they get you on staples. I suppose this is why we go to several markets. Speaking of produce, my chili called for green peppers, which are decidedly not in season during December in Minneapolis. And that's why we eat root vegetables in the winter, or break out the tomatoes that were froze during the harvest time.
The battle between corn farmers, GMO companies, Ethanol producers and consumers will come to a head some day. I don't see why organic food should cost twice as much. True, there is more labour, but there is less expense for chemicals and the like. I think it's a matter of scale. As support for real food grows, the price will come down. Who know, maybe supermarkets will switch to all organic natural food.
While we complain about food prices, food expense as a percentage of income is historically low in the US. People in the 1800s spent much of their income on food, and it wasn't gourmet either. While we can lower our expense by buying seasonally and consuming staples such as rice and beans and potatoes, I feel for the third world people who live on a dollar a day. For them, a doubling of food prices means a halving of how much they get to eat. This is the true tragedy of our Ethanol policy.
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animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era
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