return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 4 months ago54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their financeswww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoYou didn’t mention meat. In Australia good beef has gone from about $30/kg up to anywhere from $45 to $60 and higher. Chicken used to be cheap. Not anymore. Lamb is now basically a rich person’s food. Good luck buying quality lamb. Our supermarkets now have rfid chips on expensive cuts of meat, as they’re so expensive. $18 a steak. RFID that thing.
minus-squareS_204@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI’m in Canada, we grow beef locally and I’m paying that price for good steak. The other week I was grabbing protein for dinner, and beef was not much more than chicken which blew my mind.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agobird flu was the reason for chicken prices rising so rapidly
You didn’t mention meat. In Australia good beef has gone from about $30/kg up to anywhere from $45 to $60 and higher.
Chicken used to be cheap. Not anymore.
Lamb is now basically a rich person’s food. Good luck buying quality lamb.
Our supermarkets now have rfid chips on expensive cuts of meat, as they’re so expensive. $18 a steak. RFID that thing.
I’m in Canada, we grow beef locally and I’m paying that price for good steak. The other week I was grabbing protein for dinner, and beef was not much more than chicken which blew my mind.
bird flu was the reason for chicken prices rising so rapidly