Springtime is planting season which is the most important time for farmers. Without access to fertilizer, or best case scenario with higher prices for fertilizer, you’re looking at decreased yields lower production amounts shortages and astronomically higher prices.
And that’s all before any price manipulation by big agricultural corporations. We should’ve learned by now that any opportunity that corporations can take to raise prices and blame it on some external factor just leads to price gouging inflation shrink inflation and all the other wonderful flavors of fucking over the consumer.
For the last two maybe three generations the entirety of society has been moving farther and farther away from working the land or even having the basic skills to know how to maintain or raise even a small garden.
I mean Gen Z thinks that food comes from the freezer at the 7-Eleven. What do you think happen when there’s food shortages?
I’ve been thinking of this too.
Don’t doubt for one second that the consumer will foot the difference, every time.
Springtime is planting season which is the most important time for farmers. Without access to fertilizer, or best case scenario with higher prices for fertilizer, you’re looking at decreased yields lower production amounts shortages and astronomically higher prices.
And that’s all before any price manipulation by big agricultural corporations. We should’ve learned by now that any opportunity that corporations can take to raise prices and blame it on some external factor just leads to price gouging inflation shrink inflation and all the other wonderful flavors of fucking over the consumer.
For the last two maybe three generations the entirety of society has been moving farther and farther away from working the land or even having the basic skills to know how to maintain or raise even a small garden.
I mean Gen Z thinks that food comes from the freezer at the 7-Eleven. What do you think happen when there’s food shortages?