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my immediate reaction was to blame food prices (and gender roles), so i was surprised to read that food prices in ohio have risen less than other products. i a
by andrewcooke 14y ago
my immediate reaction was to blame food prices (and gender roles), so i was surprised to read that food prices in ohio have risen less than other products. i am pretty sure that's not the case here in chile, and i thought that it was a global effect (there have been various "scares" related to poor harvests over the last few years). see, for example, http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/rising-food-prices http://www.ft.com/intl/indepth/rising-food-prices
so how come food prices are so stable in ohio?
- sethg 14y agoThe US Federal government subsidizes agriculture to a certain extent, using price supports to keep prices above a certain floor, and the US is also a net exporter of food, so that may be blunting the impact of rising food prices.