Food price inflation

[organicguy]

Interestingly two books I have read recently state that exercise has very little impact on body weight, if you take more exercise the body becomes more efficient in its use of calories and/or reduces the calories it burns doing other things. Calorie intake has to be reduced to loose weight!!

 

[Macsky]

There are more calories consumed than expended in many cases too.

Absolutely, much of the calories consumed from processed foods are neither useful nor satisfying....I’d go as far to say that they infact have been designed to be so (lots of salt), creating a craving for more. It’s amazing how little you actually need to eat when you eat real proper food, we’re actually quite efficient creations when fed with what we were intended to consume.

 

[Macsky]

Interestingly two books I have read recently state that exercise has very little impact on body weight, if you take more exercise the body becomes more efficient in its use of calories and/or reduces the calories it burns doing other things. Calorie intake has to be reduced to loose weight!!

You are what you eat

You can’t outrun a bad diet.

Health goes in at the mouth.

 

[Yale]

These people still only spend <20% of their income on food. The UK national average is around 8%. Go to the developing world and the % of household income spent on food is far higher. Food price riots will not be in Europe at first.

Why is there a bull run on commodities? I can't see a reason for it other than a drawdown on grain stocks & Chinese buying resources again. The FTSE 100 is still only at 2017 levels though climbing. The DAX is about level with late 2019. The Dow Jones & Nikkei are above the pre Covid levels.

Maybe it’s because the way the 3bn Chinese have stealthily become relatively more affluent and if they all decide to have one more lamb chop,use an extra gallon of fuel or buy a consumer good it becomes a seriously large market.

 

[Hindsight]

I think you need to move your decimal point to the right to get a £50 increase,but I wouldn't rule that out by this time next year

Ah yes, maybe I was a tad optimistic! But, hey, one never knows!

 

[milkloss]

Look out

Lebanon on brink of chaos

BEIRUT: A Lebanese protester shot by police died on Tuesday amid violent clashes as people ignored curfews and took to the streets again in anger at the currency collapse and a surge in food prices. Dozens of protesters attacked banks and set an army vehicle ablaze as street demonstrations in...

www.arabnews.com

 

[Brisel]

Look out

Lebanon on brink of chaos

BEIRUT: A Lebanese protester shot by police died on Tuesday amid violent clashes as people ignored curfews and took to the streets again in anger at the currency collapse and a surge in food prices. Dozens of protesters attacked banks and set an army vehicle ablaze as street demonstrations in...

www.arabnews.com

Having had a % of their grain stocks and import handling facilities destroyed in the Beirut AN explosion last year won't have helped.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Interestingly two books I have read recently state that exercise has very little impact on body weight, if you take more exercise the body becomes more efficient in its use of calories and/or reduces the calories it burns doing other things. Calorie intake has to be reduced to loose weight!!

Well, yes and no. Calories are an incredibly crude method to try to work out what's going on with digestion. So crude as to be virtually meaningless. Just google Sam Feltham for a stark illustration of that.

Fats are not the problem, it's carbs. People have heard nothing but fats make them fat for the last few decades so it's gonna take a long time to reverse the nonsense. Having said that, I suspect the people Brisel is on about do actually eat far too much of everything and aren't prone to wanting to do anything else.

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Indeed, It would be interesting to know from Morrisons category manager the rationale and break down of the components of the 8 pence increase. A bag of oats is the least processed form to buy oats (I know pretty obvious statement), so similar to milk, but it does allow one to assess the 'value' placed on the raw material by the supermarket sales staff. A 0.5pence per 1kg pack equates to £50 tonne at farm gate, And if you were offered £50 tonne more I expect you would be ecstatic.

I make it £5 a tonne, where did you get the other 45 quid

 

[Macsky]

Here’s some quite literal food price inflation for you!!

Dirty cheating Cadbury’s have filled my dairy milk with air bubbles!

It’s like an Aero bar now!

 

[wrenbird]

Proper sheep farmer’s thumb

 

[Macsky]

Proper sheep farmer’s thumb

The blue is from where I self medicated after being bitten trying to administer ketosaid to a ewe with pneumonia figured I got a fair dose of whatever was pouring out her nose so on with the Terramycin, never had a cut heal so fast