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I'm not certain how recently you were in the grocery store but it's getting pretty serious in developed countries as well - not famine levels, for sure, but mea
by munk-a 4mo ago
I'm not certain how recently you were in the grocery store but it's getting pretty serious in developed countries as well - not famine levels, for sure, but meat prices in Canada are going crazy right now and we're just feeling the first wave of the supply shocks - this will get a lot worse before it gets better.
- Sabinus 4mo agoNot one, but two responses from vegans telling you to just stop eating meat. A bit of a classic.
- ornornor 4mo agoPerfect time to explore alternatives to eating meat.
- munk-a 4mo agoIf your pitch to the general American electorate to solve the affordability crisis is to become vegetarian good luck getting elected. I actually cook extensively with non-animal proteins but I enjoy the choice to do otherwise and, if it's going to be curtailed, I'd prefer it happen for a reason more meaningful that some idiotic international blunder.
- Neywiny 4mo agoI've seen tofu go down in price in recent years. It's incredible. I think my local store is doing a block of extra firm for under $1.50? It used to be $2
- smallerize 4mo agoAmerica is also having a whey protein shortage, but that's mostly because it's very popular right now and we're eating the available supply of whey powder.
- dgellow 4mo agoI do not eat meat so I couldn’t say. I haven’t yet seen large increases in Germany for what I buy but I wouldn’t be surprised if the overall prices have been trending up. Not yet to the Covid era, where I could see the rice increase in price every time I would do groceries — and it still hasn’t come down :(
- munk-a 4mo agoI have found it most dramatic in meat prices but the gluten-free baking flours my partner needs to use have also noticeably increased and I think those (and legumes, especially lentils) are likely to be some of the hardest hit in the long run. Chickpeas, lentils and green peas are sort of the unsung heroes of gluten free baking.
- dgellow 4mo agoThat sucks :( Hopefully you can stock them in large quantity before the price increase too much
- walrus01 4mo agoI have personally seen considerable increases in grocery ingredient expenses for everything I buy which isn't meat. Yes, buying beef or chicken breast is more expensive now as well, but not eating meat would not have a significant impact in my family's much greater annual grocery expenses vs. the same number of people and for the same calendar period of time in 2022 or 2023.
- dgellow 4mo agoI mentioned meat because the person I responded to mentioned it. I really don’t know the price of meat given I do not consume any of it, I wasn’t trying to say going vegetarian would save you from inflation
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