Hail the Daily Mail, the workers friend! Just kidding.
A piece in the MailOnline joyously proclaims how, following their ‘experts’ advice, a family was able to cut their food bill by a third. That’s now down to approximately six thousand pounds a year down from nine thousand pounds a year
The piece does give examples from various supermarkets of the hardly believable increases in some of their commodities.. Three items the Mail highlights have had a price increase of 175, 143, and 120 per cent.
Instead of editorializing about the the iniquities of a social system that promotes such greedflation the Mail prefers to pat itself on the back by offering advice on how to spend an inordinate amount of time in developing ‘new shopping skills’. Apologies, forgot that the Daily Mail is owned by Jonathan Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere.
Look out for the next article on how to save on Champagne, caviar and minions who do all the heavy graft.
The family in the article do note that before taking part in this experiment their food bill had increased by seventy per cent despite already being careful shoppers.
Chicken is a versatile food that can provide a number of varied meals.
Even non-animal activists are probably aware that the supermarket cost is lower than a that of a chicken bought from a local butcher because of intensive factory farming.
Vegans and vegetarians are likely to point a ‘told you so’ finger at the news that now even chicken may not be safe to eat.
‘A major meat supplier to UK supermarkets is sourcing chickens dosed with antibiotics linked to the spread of deadly superbugs, raising the risk of future outbreaks of life-threatening disease, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.
The Polish meat giant SuperDrob is sourcing chicken from factory farms that use medicines classified as “critically important” to human health, despite the grave risk this poses to consumers. SuperDrob sells frozen poultry products to Lidl, Asda and Iceland.
The company was linked to a fatal salmonella outbreak in 2020 – which TBIJ, the Guardian and ITV can now reveal involved bacteria resistant to multiple drugs – and there were at least 15 salmonella contaminations linked to SuperDrob poultry in the 18 months that followed.
Bacteria such as salmonella can easily spread on poultry farms, particularly where there are unhygienic or overcrowded conditions. The use of antibiotics on farms can enable potentially lethal bacteria to develop resistance, meaning the drugs will no longer work to treat infections. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria – known as “superbugs” – are a growing threat to human health, leading to an estimated 1.2 million deaths globally in 2019.
To reduce the risk of superbug outbreaks, EU legislation tightened up the use of antibiotics on farms as of last year. Yet the use of drugs critical for human health on farms in Poland, Europe’s biggest producer of poultry meat, has soared in recent years.
The country has accounted for more than half of serious salmonella contaminations involving meat originating in the EU since 2020. SuperDrob is one of Poland’s leading poultry producers and more than 50% of its revenue is from exports.
In recent years, sales of a class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones, which are often used to treat serious salmonella infections, have increased by more than 70% in the country. Data shows even larger increases in the sales of colistin, a last-resort drug used to treat serious infections that have not responded to other medicines. Both are classified by the World Health Organization as critically important for human health.
More at link.
For socialists the solution to the problem of more and more expensive food, putting many necessities out of the reach of many, is a straightforward one.
It is the replacement of capitalism, a profit-based social system by socialism, a money-free social system where food , and other life essentials, is produced for use, not profit. How hungry are you for that?
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