Comments on: Change Your Wording http://www.sarahjoyalbrecht.com/2008/09/22/change-your-wording/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=change-your-wording Licking Life's Plate Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:31:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Karen http://www.sarahjoyalbrecht.com/2008/09/22/change-your-wording/comment-page-1/#comment-1601 Karen Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:24:56 +0000 http://www.sarahjoyalbrecht.com/?p=280#comment-1601 http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10252015 http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ap http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10252015

http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=ap

http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

]]> By: Karen http://www.sarahjoyalbrecht.com/2008/09/22/change-your-wording/comment-page-1/#comment-1600 Karen Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:17:01 +0000 http://www.sarahjoyalbrecht.com/?p=280#comment-1600 But yet the prices of the raw materials for FOOD in particular, especially grains, have gone up relative to other things. We had been acustomed to extremely inexpensive food supply comparied to even recent generations of americans - the average family had to spend a higher percentage of their household income to buy groceries in other decades. The 90s and 00s had seen very cheap food prices. Ethanol has a lot to do with this, as farmers switched to growing more corn (over wheat, soy and other field staples) and the corn itself is no longer dirt cheap for animal feed, additives into processed foods, sweetener, etc. Unless the price of EVERYTHING is going up, it might have less to do with inflation that just the price of food really going up! But yet the prices of the raw materials for FOOD in particular, especially grains, have gone up relative to other things. We had been acustomed to extremely inexpensive food supply comparied to even recent generations of americans – the average family had to spend a higher percentage of their household income to buy groceries in other decades. The 90s and 00s had seen very cheap food prices.

Ethanol has a lot to do with this, as farmers switched to growing more corn (over wheat, soy and other field staples) and the corn itself is no longer dirt cheap for animal feed, additives into processed foods, sweetener, etc.

Unless the price of EVERYTHING is going up, it might have less to do with inflation that just the price of food really going up!

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