Another Likely Food Cost Rise on the Way

[LuluBlakey1]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/30/eu-food-importers-say-post-brexit-checks-could-increase-their-costs-by-60?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I am so sick of the government and food retailers finding excuses for raising food costs while they increase their own profits at our expense.

But they’ve incurred extra expenses via our idiotic referendum. What did the public expect?

Yup. Scaremongering and then profiteering. Notice how things have come down in price. Now going back up again. Anyone else notice how petrol/diesel now goes up in price over bank holidays/school holidays? Fill up your tank now before “Gaza” makes petrol more expensive 👀. Shame on them. Vote with your ..erm…vote

I hadn’t noticed the increased cost of fuel being linked to holidays but you’re right when I think hunk about it. It’s just gone up this last week

Things never really fall in price. Once they jump up significantly, reasons are always found to at least keep them near that level- all at cost to the consumer and profit to the owners.

it is a very complicated picture.

food production has been hit massively with extreme weather this year; uk farms are full of failed winter crops due to incessant rain. tractors can’t even get onto the fields in a lot of places and it is getting to the point where it is too late to plant another crop now to make up for it anyway. so our domestic food production is right down.

animals can’t get out to graze as the land is saturated, meaning higher feed costs as they are being kept indoors for way longer than usual so the prices going up there for meat and milk.

listen to farming today on radio 4 to get a bit of insight - it is sobering and shocking.

this mean more imports, which have also been hugely affected by extreme weather, both rain and drought (in spain, morocco etc). combine this with ukrainian agricultural production also being decimated on top of that.

so, there is a lot less food to go round than normal, which means it costs more.

we are also used to being able to buy blueberries in january, and expect them to be on the shelves of supermarkets whenever we fancy them.

add in the inevitable costs of brexit regulation and red tape, and voila. we are where we are…...