> From: "Bluestem Associates" <bluestem@webserf.net>
>
> Super Center on a Saturday afternoon and you will see that Larry
> Lunchbucket, Joe Sixpack, and Mr. & Mrs. Frontporch are quite content
> with the food system as it is currently structured. Their food costs
> them less and less (at the till, and as a percentage of their
> disposable income), and it's more and more convenient for them, every
> year.
>
Althought Bluestem mentions *university in the '60s* my guess is he or
she didn't do much shopping. Anyone who things food is less expensive
now than even ten years ago must not spend much time or money in a
grocery store. I am recalling George Bush's exclamation at a bar-code
reader (What's that thing?), showing he didn't spend much time shopping
for food either!
Goodness, run out and buy some fish ($$$ more than in the '60s, '70s,
'80s, and even early '90s as most is now raised on fish ranches as
natural stock dies out in our pesticide-laden lakes, rivers, and bays)
or vegetables (I just paid $1.39 for a head of lettuce, locally grown in
season).
Sometimes the media can make things seem so real--like the *no
inflation* story that's making the rounds right now, or the finagling of
numbers so you can say *food is a smaller percentage of disposable
income*---now, just what does that mean to you?
It means to me that you aren't alarmed about the cost of food and that
means you just aren't paying attention.
I would encourage people who do shop to remark (if only to themselves)
on how much of their budget goes to food.
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From: "Bluestem Associates" <bluestem@webserf.net>
Super Center on a Saturday afternoon and you will see that Larry Lunchbucket, Joe Sixpack, and Mr. & Mrs. Frontporch are quite content with the food system as it is currently structured. Their food costs them less and less (at the till, and as a percentage of their disposable income), and it's more and more convenient for them, every year.
Althought Bluestem mentions *university in the '60s* my guess is he or she didn't do much shopping. Anyone who things food is less expensive now than even ten years ago must not spend much time or money in a grocery store. I am recalling George Bush's exclamation at a bar-code reader (What's that thing?), showing he didn't spend much time shopping for food either!
Goodness, run out and buy some fish ($$$ more than in the '60s, '70s, '80s, and even early '90s as most is now raised on fish ranches as natural stock dies out in our pesticide-laden lakes, rivers, and bays) or vegetables (I just paid $1.39 for a head of lettuce, locally grown in season).
Sometimes the media can make things seem so real--like the *no inflation* story that's making the rounds right now, or the finagling of numbers so you can say *food is a smaller percentage of disposable income*---now, just what does that mean to you?
It means to me that you aren't alarmed about the cost of food and that means you just aren't paying attention.
I would encourage people who do shop to remark (if only to themselves) on how much of their budget goes to food. --------------2BC293DE16060A98142EFE09-- To Unsubscribe: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "unsubscribe sanet-mg". To Subscribe to Digest: Email majordomo@ces.ncsu.edu with the command "subscribe sanet-mg-digest". All messages to sanet-mg are archived at: http://www.sare.org/htdocs/hypermail