Is there an impending food shortage coming?

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Wonder where we can get people who would be willing to do this work? Oh wait

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been buying an extra box of pasta and I got meat at Costco to freeze.

Yeah everyone is doing that… and that’s how we get shortage.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

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Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to rent a cow for the year. Getting hard to find milk in the grocery store.

Where are you shopping? I have not encountered a shortage of milk anywhere in NOVA.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it will be very helpful for most people if they can learn how to cook things from scratch. There will not be a huge food shortage because food is also a big industry. However, people who rely on premade food from restaurants are likely to feel the pinch.

Yes, food prices are going up. I am not worried about food though because I am a good cook (from scratch) as well as I have the set up at home to store food.

This is a very elitist statement, grocery tans across the board have gone up significantly due to inflation. The price of butter, oil, sugar, spices and produce have sky rocketed and the impact on families will not be ameliorated by simply cooking from scratch (which by the way most families are already doing).

Grocery stores are hiring - get a part time job at one for a discount if you're that impacted.

This comment wasn’t clever enough to post in one thread, let alone two.

It's not meant to be clever, it's meant to be serious. But I suspect most of the women complaining are SAHM's who really aren't that affected by "skyrocketing" grocery prices and just want something else to complain about.

Everyone is impacted by grocery store prices, except those living in ivory towers bragging about their cooking skills and telling the commoners to get a job.

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Groceries are the new TP.

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Relax. No one is going to starve. 70% of people are overweight and we waste heaps and heaps of food daily.

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Anonymous wrote:Relax. No one is going to starve. 70% of people are overweight and we waste heaps and heaps of food daily.

Your village called.

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Anonymous wrote:I think I'm going to rent a cow for the year. Getting hard to find milk in the grocery store.

Plenty of milk at every grocery store I’ve been to in the last 2 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Look for prices to continue to be inflationary. My experience is with the poultry industry several hours away from DC. There is no shortage of farmers willing to raise the baby chicks into mature chickens. There is no shortage of chicken being raised. The shortages are in the following labor categories: CDL drivers to transport the mature chickens to the chicken processing plants. "Packers" to pack the mature chickens into trucks for transport to the chicken processing plants. Finally, chicken processing factory workers. Back in the 80's it was not uncommon for white middle aged ladies to do this work. White middle aged ladies and African Americans no longer want to work in chicken processing plants. Typically it is Haitian workers living in lower Delaware, the eastern shore of Maryland and the eastern shore of Virginia who work in the poultry plants now. There is a shortage of Haitian workers.

Yep immigration is way down. A lot of the shortages are in area where immigration use to provide labor.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

That just becomes more inflationary. Vicious cycle when the work force is stretched. I am all for a living wage, but it won’t change the food shortage. We need more workers. From other countries and from the US who are not sick.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

That just becomes more inflationary. Vicious cycle when the work force is stretched. I am all for a living wage, but it won’t change the food shortage. We need more workers. From other countries and from the US who are not sick.

Yes. American easy access to cheap food is based on immigrants being paid less than Americans are willing to work for.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

That just becomes more inflationary. Vicious cycle when the work force is stretched. I am all for a living wage, but it won’t change the food shortage. We need more workers. From other countries and from the US who are not sick.

You say we need more workers, but you don't think paying them a living wage will change things?

Where do you think food comes from, a magic wand?

The chain is broken, because people are sick of being paid peanuts with bad/no benefits, for backbreaking work. The entire chain is broken - from the pickers to the grocery workers. Treat them better, and the workers will come. But hey CEO's, might need to dial back on your yacht or summer home.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

That just becomes more inflationary. Vicious cycle when the work force is stretched. I am all for a living wage, but it won’t change the food shortage. We need more workers. From other countries and from the US who are not sick.

You say we need more workers, but you don't think paying them a living wage will change things?

Where do you think food comes from, a magic wand?

The chain is broken, because people are sick of being paid peanuts with bad/no benefits, for backbreaking work. The entire chain is broken - from the pickers to the grocery workers. Treat them better, and the workers will come. But hey CEO's, might need to dial back on your yacht or summer home.

We do not have enough workers in the US. We need immigrants. And we need people who aren’t sick.

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Anonymous wrote:We really screwed up immigration and Covid and now things are coming home to roost.

I support immigration, and my parents were immigrants. But take it up with the CEO's who don't want to pay Americans a living wage.

That just becomes more inflationary. Vicious cycle when the work force is stretched. I am all for a living wage, but it won’t change the food shortage. We need more workers. From other countries and from the US who are not sick.

You say we need more workers, but you don't think paying them a living wage will change things?

Where do you think food comes from, a magic wand?

The chain is broken, because people are sick of being paid peanuts with bad/no benefits, for backbreaking work. The entire chain is broken - from the pickers to the grocery workers. Treat them better, and the workers will come. But hey CEO's, might need to dial back on your yacht or summer home.

We do not have enough workers in the US. We need immigrants. And we need people who aren’t sick.

And on a micro-level, I went to scream at these businesses to pay more. If their pay is higher than next door, they will get workers. But on a macro-level we need more workers. And the only place we can get them is from immigration. We are a country of immigrants. We need them.