“Days of Cheap Food Are Over”
September 8th, 2007Via: Guardian:
Supermarket pledges to drive down the price of staple goods and help cash-strapped shoppers looked increasingly vulnerable last night after Britain’s biggest food manufacturer insisted even the largest superstore groups would have to stomach higher prices from suppliers that are struggling with steep rises in ingredient costs.
Research Credit: Becky
I guess a lot of us have worked and wished for a degree of food self-sufficiency because we were doomers, expecting eventual widespread catastrophe. Or because that’s the only way we could get vegetables that were fit to eat.
Saving money on food has hardly entered into the equation until now.
My mother grew a garden in the 50s, when green beans cost ten cents a can. My father thought she was making more work for herself needlessly.
Now you too can tell your grandchidren how cheap food used to be–so cheap that it didn’t make sense to grow a garden.
I decided to print up flyers for my planned “organic gardening club” and begin distributing them at the library. I still don’t know if anyone is interested–even in this little country town with its big, empty yards.
It may also be that, when someone decides to plant a garden, their first impulse is not neccessarily to join an organic gardening club.
But I’m excited about getting this thing going.