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Redress10 wrote:Seeing a photo circulating on facebook with a single chocolate digestive costing $3.00. If that is real then that is absolute madness and men like Lok Jack really taking the piss now.
Food producers/manufacturers have a duty to the citizena to keep food affordable and reasonable or the government has to step in at some point?
hover11 wrote:Trinis will froth and beat up for a week and focus on sum new next week, food prices been raising , no one can regulate such. Is either you buy it or leave it basically. You the consumer has the power, just a side note Devon is 3 dollars an apple is 5 dollars , take the healthier optionRedress10 wrote:Seeing a photo circulating on facebook with a single chocolate digestive costing $3.00. If that is real then that is absolute madness and men like Lok Jack really taking the piss now.
Food producers/manufacturers have a duty to the citizena to keep food affordable and reasonable or the government has to step in at some point?
Redress10 wrote:hover11 wrote:Trinis will froth and beat up for a week and focus on sum new next week, food prices been raising , no one can regulate such. Is either you buy it or leave it basically. You the consumer has the power, just a side note Devon is 3 dollars an apple is 5 dollars , take the healthier optionRedress10 wrote:Seeing a photo circulating on facebook with a single chocolate digestive costing $3.00. If that is real then that is absolute madness and men like Lok Jack really taking the piss now.
Food producers/manufacturers have a duty to the citizena to keep food affordable and reasonable or the government has to step in at some point?
I think this is a sh*t post. Where are the substitutes for trinis to leave it on the shelves? You really feel manufactuwrs will drop the price if it not selling? They will simply produce something else.
All over the world government regulate food prices. I was just in the UK food prices not rising there. A pack of chocolate digestives in the UK cost the same as a single digestive here in TT?
hover11 wrote:You comparing us to a first world country, don't do that....you will be surely disappointed. As you can see we have nothing even remotely close to price control and consumer affairs is a toothless bulldog, the power is always in the hands of the consumer, similar to when doubles rose to 5 dollars and ppl beat up and make noise now it is accepted.....I believe it is in Trinis nature to beat up and then acceptRedress10 wrote:hover11 wrote:Trinis will froth and beat up for a week and focus on sum new next week, food prices been raising , no one can regulate such. Is either you buy it or leave it basically. You the consumer has the power, just a side note Devon is 3 dollars an apple is 5 dollars , take the healthier optionRedress10 wrote:Seeing a photo circulating on facebook with a single chocolate digestive costing $3.00. If that is real then that is absolute madness and men like Lok Jack really taking the piss now.
Food producers/manufacturers have a duty to the citizena to keep food affordable and reasonable or the government has to step in at some point?
I think this is a sh*t post. Where are the substitutes for trinis to leave it on the shelves? You really feel manufactuwrs will drop the price if it not selling? They will simply produce something else.
All over the world government regulate food prices. I was just in the UK food prices not rising there. A pack of chocolate digestives in the UK cost the same as a single digestive here in TT?
Redress10 wrote:All over the world government regulate food prices. I was just in the UK food prices not rising there. A pack of chocolate digestives in the UK cost the same as a single digestive here in TT? Madness
Habit7 wrote:Redress10 wrote:All over the world government regulate food prices. I was just in the UK food prices not rising there. A pack of chocolate digestives in the UK cost the same as a single digestive here in TT? Madness
Wait wat?
The govts that regulate food prices do so unsuccessfully, it creates black markets, worsens poverty and it is not capitalistic. Venezuela is the best example of that. The UK, like the rest of the world, is dealing with soaring food prices due to the pandemic https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/20 ... n-3-years/ Supply chains have been disrupted, countries are hoarding and ppl are not going out to work because of spikes in cases.
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Like allyuh didnt see the prices of oil and sugar....now and then
daring dragoon wrote:By middle october world prices will increase especially transport where a container used to cost $1700 usd not cost about $30000 usd. So expect unhealthy foreign sheit to increase. Allyuh go beat up a digestive is $3.00 an still buy it but refuse to but ah orange for the same $3.00.complain kfc gone up an still buy but refuse to but fresh fish at $22 a lb for king mackrel.
Habit7 wrote:Some of you all need to learn to think beyond your limited sphere
Redress10 wrote:Habit7 wrote:Some of you all need to learn to think beyond your limited sphere
So idiot. If food prices continually rising globally, shouldn't the gov't of TT look into improving local food production to counter these "global" conditions. Also if food prices are rising all over developed countries then where are the protests and riots etc? Or is it that these prices are really only affecting the poorer countries?
Which is it exactly? What exactly is your point you are trying to prove?
Redress10 wrote:So idiot. If food prices continually rising globally, shouldn't the gov't of TT look into improving local food production to counter these "global" conditions. Also if food prices are rising all over developed countries then where are the protests and riots etc? Or is it that these prices are really only affecting the poorer countries?
Which is it exactly? What exactly is your point you are trying to prove?
Redress10 wrote:I would like Habit to tell us exactly wtf the GOVTT does when the day comes because it seems that they never are supposed to do anything.
They have the easiest job in the world apparently.
meccalli wrote:Yess, Lets protest against the sun, it's way too hot these days.
Most people these days really are too comfortable and insulated from the reality of an ever changing physical world. A generation that never had to face the realities of famines. ..Finally getting a taste of disease and everyone's losing their minds and thinking med/ tech will save our current way of life while others have been experiencing such realities on a constant basis.
Growing populations, climatic pressures and greedy/wasteful corps and people in power. We live in a world with finite resources, just in case anybody doesn't realise.
Habit7 wrote:Redress10 wrote:So idiot. If food prices continually rising globally, shouldn't the gov't of TT look into improving local food production to counter these "global" conditions. Also if food prices are rising all over developed countries then where are the protests and riots etc? Or is it that these prices are really only affecting the poorer countries?
Which is it exactly? What exactly is your point you are trying to prove?
Yes Capt Vague, lets improve food local production.
Are we going to improve local wheat production? Since that is a staple for a lot of our food. Do we have enough land to grow sufficient rice? How about sugar, we haven't had success with that since colonial days. Are we going to increase poultry and livestock production? But wait, we need feed to do that and the prices internationally are increasing and countries are hoarding.
And we doing all this while global shipping prices are skyrocketing too?
It is easy to be cynical and act like everybody is dotish except you. You are woefully uninformed about the subject therefore your solutions are pedestrian.
Redress10 wrote:meccalli wrote:Yess, Lets protest against the sun, it's way too hot these days.
Most people these days really are too comfortable and insulated from the reality of an ever changing physical world. A generation that never had to face the realities of famines. ..Finally getting a taste of disease and everyone's losing their minds and thinking med/ tech will save our current way of life while others have been experiencing such realities on a constant basis.
Growing populations, climatic pressures and greedy/wasteful corps and people in power. We live in a world with finite resources, just in case anybody doesn't realise.
Except food isn't a finite resource. You can simply grow more food once you have access to land. It is not rocket science. When Americans experienced hunger and famine they simply improved the technology and practices that they use to improve food production. It has been done before.
Habit7 wrote:Redress10 wrote:So idiot. If food prices continually rising globally, shouldn't the gov't of TT look into improving local food production to counter these "global" conditions. Also if food prices are rising all over developed countries then where are the protests and riots etc? Or is it that these prices are really only affecting the poorer countries?
Which is it exactly? What exactly is your point you are trying to prove?
Yes Capt Vague, lets improve food local production.
Are we going to improve local wheat production? Since that is a staple for a lot of our food. Do we have enough land to grow sufficient rice? How about sugar, we haven't had success with that since colonial days. Are we going to increase poultry and livestock production? But wait, we need feed to do that and the prices internationally are increasing and countries are hoarding.
And we doing all this while global shipping prices are skyrocketing too?
It is easy to be cynical and act like everybody is dotish except you. You are woefully uninformed about the subject therefore your solutions are pedestrian.
meccalli wrote:Redress10 wrote:meccalli wrote:Yess, Lets protest against the sun, it's way too hot these days.
Most people these days really are too comfortable and insulated from the reality of an ever changing physical world. A generation that never had to face the realities of famines. ..Finally getting a taste of disease and everyone's losing their minds and thinking med/ tech will save our current way of life while others have been experiencing such realities on a constant basis.
Growing populations, climatic pressures and greedy/wasteful corps and people in power. We live in a world with finite resources, just in case anybody doesn't realise.
Except food isn't a finite resource. You can simply grow more food once you have access to land. It is not rocket science. When Americans experienced hunger and famine they simply improved the technology and practices that they use to improve food production. It has been done before.
Land itself is a finite resource. We are reaching a tipping point for multiple factors of physical inputs required for food production. Some of which I'm sure most people aren't even aware of. Here's just one.
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